CONFERENCE
ARISTOTLE’S METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
23-24 MAY 2025
Organisation:
- Nevim Borçin
- Béatrice Lienemann
FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025:
Location: Espace Güggi-MIS 08 0101, University of Fribourg
08:45 – 09:15: Registration
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
11:30 – 11:50: Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:50: Giulio Di Basilio (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Ethical Enquiry in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics: Argument & Observation
12:50 – 14:30: Lunch Break
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
16:30 – 16:50: Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:50: Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University)
The puzzling nature of Nicomachean Ethics Book 5
19:30 – 22:00: Conference Dinner
SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2025
Location: Laure Dupraz MIS 11 2 102 24.05, University of Fribourg
09:00– 10:00: Dorothea Frede (University of Hamburg)
Keynote Address: 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
11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:20: Lucas Angioni (University of Campas)
Commensurate Universality in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (what ties Book I and Book II together)
12:20 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30: Paolo Crivelli (University of Notre Dame)
Aristotle’s Strategy for a Defense of the Principle of Non-Contradiction
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:50: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (University of Hamburg)
Aristotle’s Scientific Methodology: Explanation by Composition from Principles