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Keeling Colloquium 2013

The 10th S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

November 4-6, 2013, University College London

Method in Ancient Philosophy

Monday 4th November

Galton Lecture Theatre (Room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL, London WC1E 7HB)

  • 1.30 - 1.40: Welcome by Jenny Bryan (UCL)
  • 1.40-2.40: Hugh Benson (Oklahoma) 'Dialectic in the Cave'
  • 2.40-3.40: Response to Benson by David Lee (Oxford) and discussion time

Session chair: MM McCabe (KCL)

3.40-4.10: Tea and coffee

  • 4.10-5.10: David Sedley (Cambridge) 'Epicurus on Dialectic'
  • 5.10-6.10: Response to Sedley by Fiona Leigh (UCL) and discussion time

Session chair: Tamsin De Waal (UCL)

6.30-8.30: Reception 

  • All Welcome
  • Seminar Room, First Floor, Department of Philosophy, 19 Gordon Square, London WC1H

Tuesday 5th November

Galton Lecture Theatre (Room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL, London WC1E 7HB)

10.30-11: Tea and coffee

  • 11-12: Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) 'Dreaming and skepticism in Plato'
  • 12-1: Response to Aufderheide by David Sedley (Cambridge) and discussion time

Session chair: Jenny Bryan (UCL)

1-2.30 Lunch break

  • 2.30-3.30: Valentina Di Lascio (Paris) 'Sophistical vs merely apparent arguments. An analysis of Sophistical Refutations 8 and 10'
  • 3.30-4.30: Response to Di Lascio by Paolo Crivelli (Geneva) and discussion time

Session chair: Raphael Woolf (KCL)


Wednesday 6th November

Lankester Lecture Theatre (Room G01, Medawar Building, UCL, London WC1E 6BT)

10.30-11: Tea and coffee

  • 11-12: Jamie Dow (Leeds) 'Socrates' challenge: why dialogue is better than speechmaking'
  • 12-1: Response to Dow by Nicholas Denyer (Cambridge) and discussion time

Session chair: Shaul Tor (KCL)

1-2.30: Lunch break

  • 2.30-3.30: Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge) 'Posidonius' "Aristotelising" method'
  • 3.30-4.30: Response to Hatzimichali by Christopher Gill (Exeter) and discussion time

Session chair: Anne Sheppard (RHUL)


Attendance is free and all are welcome, especially students; registration is not required.

  • See the UCL routefinder for help locating rooms in UCL
  • Any queries should be directed to the convenor, Jenny Bryan (UCL Greek and Latin): email