Program
February 17, 2012
(Location: "Anfiteatro VI", 3rd floor)
09:30 Opening of the International Colloquium by the academic authorities.
09:45 Christof Rapp
• Aristotle’s ‘Topics’ and ‘Rhetoric’ as Building Blocks of a Unified Argumentation Theory?
10:45 Tim Wagner
• Is Aristotle's theory of argumentation (part of) a general theory of persuasion?
11:45 Frans H. Van Eemeren
• In what Sense do Modern Argumentation Theories relate to Aristotle? The Case of Pragma-dialectics.
12: 45 Lunch
14:30 António Pedro Mesquita
• Aristotle on Dialectics and First Principles.
15:30 Pieter Sjoerd Hasper
• The Ingrediants of Aristotelian Dialectic.
16:30 Erik C. W. Krabbe
• Topical Roots of Formal Dialectic.
17 :30 Conclusions (debate).
18 :00 Closing of the International Colloquium. Port wine.