Conference on Academic Skepticism

Here's the program for the conference on Academic skepticism that will take place in Cyprus next week (thanks to Stéphane Marchand for sending me the information):

“Academic Skepticism: Philosophical Reflections on Knowledge and Rhetoric”

University of Nicosia

July 3rd, 14:00-17:00 – Room A009

(Chair: Sébastien Charles)

14:00: Opening of the Conference.

14:15-15:00: Ramón Román-Alcalá (Universidad de Córdoba), “The Demise of Plato’s Academy: Murder or Natural Causes?” 

15:00-15:45: Renata Zieminska (University of Szczecin), “Approval as weak assertion. The fallibilist and non-dialectical interpretation of Carneades’ skepticism.”

15:45-16:15: Coffee break.

July 4th, 9:00-12:30 – Room A009

(Chair: Sébastien Charles)

9:00-9:45 : Stéphane Marchand (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), "Scepticisme et rhétorique, le cas de la Nouvelle Académie à partir du corpus cicéronien."

9:45-10:30: Marie-Dominique Couzinet (Université de Paris I), "Cicéron academicus dans l’œuvre de Pierre de La Ramée et Omer Talon."

10:30-11:00: Coffee break.

11:00-11:45: Nicolas Correard (Université de Nantes), "Le dialogue “more academicorum” en Espagne au XVIe siècle."

11:45-12:30: Gregor Kroupa (University of Ljublana), "Early Modern Encyclopedia and the Ordering of Knowledge."

July 4th, 14:00-17:30 – Room A009

(Chair: Nicolas Correard)

14:00-14h45: Joël Boudreault (Université de Sherbrooke), "Le passage du doute à la science: les Dissertations de 1693 de Simon Foucher."

14:45-15:30: Sébastien Charles (Université de Sherbrooke), "Les bornes du scepticisme académique: la question morale dans l’œuvre de Simon Foucher."

15:30-16:00: Coffee break.

16:00-16:45: Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania), “Pyrrhonism or Academic Skepticism? Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ in the Commentatio de Pyrrhonismo Historico (1724).”

16:45-17:15: Round table and end of the Conference.