CONFERENCE | PYRRHONIZING SCEPTICISM?

De 04-06-2015 a 05-06-2015

CONFERENCE
PYRRHONIZING SCEPTICISM?
4th and 5th June 2015

Keynote Speakers

Thomas Wallgren
Professor of Philosophy
University of Helsinki

Kenneth Westphal
Professor of Philosophy
Boğaziçi University

1st Day | Thursday, 4th June

| Department of Philosophy (Tower B - Floor 1)

09h30 | Welcome address
10h00 | Thomas Wallgren (Univ. Helsinki), Wittgenstein and Socrates on the Burden and Promise of Pyrrhonian Scepticism
11h30 | Coffee-Break
12h00 | Rui B. Romão (UP - IF), Considerations on Fogelin’s Neo-Pyrrhonian Scepticism

13h00 – 15h00 | Lunch Break

| Room 118 (Tower B - Floor 0)

15h00 | Daniel Vázquez (Univ. Oxford), The Dialectical Use of the Five Modes of Pyrrhonian Scepticism
16h00 | Vítor Hirschbruch Schvartz (Univ. São Paulo), Arguing for Sextus Empiricus’ radical skepticism

2nd Day | Friday, 5th June

| Department of Philosophy (Tower B - Floor 1)

09h30 | Kenneth Westphal (Boğaziçi University), Elective Empiricism or Parsimonious Pyrrhonism? Vetting van Fraassen’s Voluntarism
11h00 | Coffee-Break
11h30 | Paulo Tunhas (UP - IF), Varieties of Scepticism

12h30 – 14h00 | Lunch Break

14h00 | Ben Martin (Univ. College of London), Using Aggripa’s Trilemma in Modern Philosophy
15h00 | José Oliveira (IF - UP), Externalist Responses to Scepticism?
16h00 | Roundtable discussion: Scepticism, Pyrrhonism and Future Challenges

Organisation:
Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge Research Group
Mind Language and Action Group (MLAG)

Projeto Estratégico - UID/FIL/00502/2013

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