International conference "Illegitimate Argumentation in Western Intellectual Culture from St. Anselm to Isaac Newton"
Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities
(National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Cultural Center “Pokrovskije Vorota”
International conference
Illegitimate Argumentation in Western Intellectual Culture
from St. Anselm to Isaac Newton
2011
September 5 - 8
Working languages: Russian, English, French
Program
September 5
Morning Session
Chair: Elena Lisanyuk
10:00 – 11:30 Stephen Read, Spencer Johnston (St. Andrews, St. Andrews University). 'This is Socrates': Some Mertonian Sophisms about Signification
11:30 – 12:00 coffee-break
12:00 – 13:00 Sten Ebbesen (SAXO-Institute of Kopenhagen University). Medieval Interpretations of Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations
13:00 – 13:30 Alexandra Pavlova (Saint Petersburg State University). Hamblin’s Formal Dialectic and Medieval Logical Disputation
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Sten Ebbesen
14:30 - 15:00 Elena Dragalina-Сhernaya (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics). Fruitful Tautologies in Medieval Logic: Performativity, Pretended Reference and Prototypic Effects
15:00 – 15:30 Elena Lisanyuk (Saint Petersburg State University). Sophistic: Dialogue Type, Task Solution Method or Discussion Style?
15:30 – 16:00 Evgeniya Zhuravleva (Kaliningrad, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University). Consistency, Completeness and Solvability according to Medieval Logic
16:00 – 16:30 coffee-break
16:30 – 17:00 Vitalij Dolgorukov (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics). Disputations de obligationibus as Logical and Semantic Games: Semantics and Pragmatics of a Counterfactual Assumption
17:00 – 18:00 Discussions. Chair: Elena Lisanyuk, Sten Ebbesen
September 6
Morning Session
Chair: Oleg Voskoboynikov
10:00 – 11:00 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London University). Hermann the Slav, an Arabic-Latin Translator and Scholar of the mid Twelfth Century
11:00 – 11:30 Dirk Grupe (Warburg Institute, London University). Arguments for a New Cosmological Knowledge in the 12th Century Europe: the 'Liber Mamonis' as an Early Commentary on Ptolemaic Astronomy
11:30 - 12:00 coffee-break
12:00 – 13:00 Nicolas Weill-Parot (Université Paris-XII). Une hypothèse refoulée dans la physique médiévale: l'animation de l'aimant
13:00 – 13:30 Dmitrij Bayuk (Moscow, Institute of Natural Sciences and Techniques History, National State University Higher School of Economics). Legitimacy of Appealing to Laws in Galileo's Reasoning about Nature
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Maud Pérez-Simon
14.30 – 15.30 Pavel Sokolov (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics) , Anastasiya Kopylova (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics). Potestas sophistica: Prolegomena to John Wycliffe’s Political Semantics
15:30 – 16:30 Julia Ivanova (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics), Angelina Bukharova (Moscow, National State University Higher School of Economics). Paradoxes of the Political Language of Cinquecento.
16:30 – 17:00 coffee-break
17:00 – 18:00 Discussions. Chair: Vanessa Obry, Pavel Sokolov
September 7
Visit of the museum "Kolomenskoe"
September 8
Morning Session
Chair: Roberto Poma
10:00 – 11:00 Oleg Voskoboynikov (Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics), Maria Sorokina (Moscow State University). Astrology in 13th Century: Arguments pro and contra
11:00 – 12:00 Maud Pérez-Simon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3). De la légitimité de l'argument étymologique au Moyen Âge
12:00 – 12:30 Vanessa Obry (Université de Nantes). Représenter les discours (il)légitimes: réflexions sur les paroles rapportées en ancien français
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Charles Burnett
13:30 – 14:30 Vasilij Dolgopolov (Moscow, Institute of General History). Illegitimate Argumentation in Christian anti-Jewish Polemic: the Evidence of the Unedited "Triumphus" by Jacob Civeroso (14th Century)
14:30 – 15:30 Roberto Poma (Université Paris 12). La légitimité et l'illégitimité de la médecine magnétique aux XVI et XVII siècles15:30 – 16:00 coffee-break
16:00 – 16:30 Sandro Passavanti (Università di Pisa). Levinus Lemnius et la légitimité de l'Occulte
16:30 – 17:00 Alexandr Markov (Moscow State University). Political Implications of the Scripture Controversy in the Late Byzantium
17:00 – 18:00 Final discussions. Chair: Charles Burnett, Oleg Voskoboynikov.
Close of conference
18:00 Closing reception
See also: Materials of the Conference