Truth, Falsehood and Deception in Ancient Philosophy
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DB
United Kingdom
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The philosophers of the ancient world were fixated on the notions of truth, falsehood and the presentation of falsehood as truth. Many thinkers challenged the distinction between truth and falsehood, while other defended it. Such debates helped lay the foundations of logic, metaphysics and epistemology.
Similarly, deception was a topic that exercised philosophers. When is it right to deceive, ethically or politically? What content should a deception have?
This conference will explore the ancient thought about the semantic and moral notions of truth, falsehood and deception.
Programme
Friday 20th
10.00am-1.30pm: Registration
2.00-3.15pm: Astrid Exner, ‘The next best thing to truth: Logos and Doxa in Gorgias of Leontinoi's Encomium of Helen’ (University of Vienna)
Response by Benjamin Harriman (University of Cambridge)
3.15-4.30pm: Yumi Suzuki, ‘The Underlying Paradox of Plato’s Meno, 80d5-e5: A conflict between Gorgias’ rhetoric and Socratic dialectic’ (University of Durham)
Response by Naoya Iwata (University of Cambridge)
4.30-5.00pm: Tea break
5.00-6.15pm: Carrie Swanson, 'Aristotle on the Fallacy of Ignoratio Elenchi' (Indiana University (Bloomington))
Response by Matthew Duncombe (University of Cambridge)
6.15-7.30pm: Keynote Paper, Nick Denyer (University of Cambridge). Title to be announced.
8.00pm Dinner
Saturday 21st
9.00-10.15am: Rusty Jones, ‘True Falsehoods in the Republic’ (Harvard University)
Respondent to be announced
10.15-10.45am: Tea break
10.45am-12.00pm: Pavle Stojanovic, 'Zeno of Citium versus Plato on perceptual truth and falsehood in Cicero'sAcademica 1.30-42' (Johns Hopkins University)
Response by Christina Hoenig (University of Cambridge)
12.00-1.15pm: Anna Tigani, 'A new answer to an old puzzle about the investigation for truth'.
Response by Tamer Nawar (University of Cambridge)
1.15-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-3.45pm: Jacob Greenstine, 'Aristotle's Psychology of Error and Falsehood' (Duquesne University)
Response by Siyi Chen (University of Cambridge)
3.45-5.00pm: Keynote Paper, Fiona Leigh (University College, London) ‘Plato’s Falsemakers: Sophist 256-263’.
Registration is £10 and covers the cost of lunch and tea and coffee.
Please email questions to Matthew Duncombe, [email protected] or Tamer Narwar, [email protected]
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