Aristotle's Methods of Philosophical Inquiry

Organisation: Nevim Borçin, Béatrice Lienemann

For registration contact nevim.borcin@unifr.ch

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Location: Espace Güggi-MIS 08 0101, University of Fribourg

09:15 – 09:30

Béatrice Lienemann (University of Fribourg)

Welcome & Introduction

09:30 –10:30

Nevim Borçin (University of Fribourg)

Aristotle on Philosophising with Aporiai 

10:30 – 11:30

Joseph Bjelde (Humboldt University Berlin)

The puzzle of Topics 8.3 & The task of 8.5

11:50 – 12:50

Giulio Di Basilio (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Ethical Enquiry in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics: Argument &  Observation

14:30 – 15:30

Christof Rapp (LMU Munich)

Eleven Shades of Dialectic. On the Variety of Non-Demonstrative Methods in Aristotle

15:30 – 16:30

Ronja Hildebrandt (TU Dortmund)

Ethics and Rhetoric in Aristotle’s Protrepticus

16:50 – 17:50

Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University)

The puzzling nature of Nicomachean Ethics Book 5

Location: Laure Dupraz MIS 11 2 102 24.05, University of Fribourg

09:00 – 10:00

Dorothea Frede (University of Hamburg)

All Teaching and All Learning Proceeds From Preexisting Knowledge

10:00 – 11:00

Giulia Bonasio (Durham University)

Aristotle on Protagoras’ dictum: a case study of the endoxic method

11:20 – 12:20

Lucas Angioni (University of Campas)

Commensurate Universality in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (what ties Book I and Book II together)

14:30 – 15:30

Paolo Crivelli (University of Notre Dame)

Aristotle's Strategy for a Defense of the Principle of Non-Contradiction

15:50 – 16:50

Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (University of Hamburg)

Aristotle's Scientific Methodology: Explanation by Composition from Principles