Sextus' Logic in Context
Methods of Logic and Scepticism in Imperial Rome
Online workshop series, 2021-2022
Sextus Empiricus' two discussions of logic (Book II of his Outlines of Pyrrhonism and the two books of his Against the Logicians) are among the most significant sources for logic, broadly construed, in the Graeco-Roman world between Aristotle and Late Antiquity. Up to now, scholarly literature on Sextus Empiricus has considered these texts almost exclusively as sources for the theories of Sextus' dogmatic interlocutors, most notably Stoics and Epicureans, or as providing additional information relevant for the general interpretation of the Pyrrhonian sceptical position. The main goal of the conference is to remedy this situation by taking a fresh look at the relevant texts, treating them on their own terms, and examining their potential contributions to logical theory as such.
Originally scheduled to take place in 2020 (with financial support from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany and the University of Geneva, Switzerland), the conference has been rescheduled and turned into an online workshop series. If you wish to attend the meetings, pleaseuse the registration form below.
Organizing committe: Prof. Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Prof. Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva/Athens), Dr Justin Vlasits (Chicago), and Dr Máté Veres (Toronto).
Originally scheduled to take place in 2020 (with financial support from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany and the University of Geneva, Switzerland), the conference has been rescheduled and turned into an online workshop series. If you wish to attend the meetings, pleaseuse the registration form below.
Organizing committe: Prof. Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Prof. Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva/Athens), Dr Justin Vlasits (Chicago), and Dr Máté Veres (Toronto).
PROGRAM
!!! All times indicated are Eastern time (i.e. Toronto time).!!!
(1) Friday, 15 October 2021, 14:00-16:10 (Toronto time)
Chair: Máté Veres (University of Toronto)
14:00-15:00 James Allen (University of Toronto)
'Sextus Empiricus on the lekton'
15:10-16:10 Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois-Chicago)
'Skeptical uses of dogmatic logical methods'
(2) Thursday, 11 November 2021, 12:00-14:10
Chair: Johanna Schmitt (University of Stuttgart)
12:00-13:00 Alexandra Zinke (University of Stuttgart)
'Pyrrhonian epochē in the light of recent theories of suspension'
13:10-14:10 Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
'Sextus and Galen on the Third Unproved'
(3) Friday, 17 December 2021, 12:00-14:10
Chair: Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois-Chicago)
12:00-13:00 Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Geneva / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
'Sextus on simple and non-simple indemonstrables'
13:10-14:10 Johanna Schmitt (University of Stuttgart)
'Sextus against Galen on sophisms and logic'
(4) Friday, 18 February 2022, 10:00-12:10
Chair: Matyáš Havrda (Czech Academy of Sciences)
10:00-11:00 Lorenzo Corti (University of Lorraine)
'Sextus, Forms, and numbers'
11:10-12:10 Paolo Crivelli (University of Geneva)
Stoic predicate logic in Sextus Empiricus
(5) Thursday, 31 March 2022, 12:00-14:10
Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Geneva / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
12:00-13:00 Anna Tigani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
'The Pyrrhonian strategy over different senses of the 'criterion''
13:10-14:10 Susanne Bobzien (University of Oxford)
'Sextus on Peripatetic logic'
(6) Friday, 27 May 2022, 10:00-12:10
Chair: Máté Veres (University of Toronto)
10:00-11:00 Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia University)
'The Flaw of Generics'
11:10-12:10 Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
'Epicurus on Perception as Criterion for Judgements'
(7) October 2022.
Chair: Colin Guthrie King (Providence College)
12:00-13:00 Laura Castelli (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
'Scepticism and Peripatetic dialectic'
13:10-14:10 Máté Veres (University of Toronto)
'Sign and proof in Sextus Empiricus'