Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum

Conference: Accounts of Truth and Falsehood in Ancient Philosophy 

The conference will take place in person on Wednesday March 13th and Thursday March 14th at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center at the University of Tübingen, Germany. It is organised by Dr. Guus Eelink (researcher at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center).

If you are interested in attending, please send an email to: guus.eelink@uni-tuebingen.de. 

The whole conference can be attended online, through the following Zoom links:

Wednesday: https://zoom.us/j/98747858243

Thursday: https://zoom.us/j/95279714655

Program Overview

(still subject to change)

Wednesday, March 13th 2024

10:30 - 11:00 Reception

11:00 – 11:55 Leslie Schillen (Tübingen): The False, the Contrary and the Different – Falsity and Negation in Plato’s Sophist

12:00 – 12:55 Christopher Izgin (Humboldt): Do the Definitions of Truth and Falsehood in Metaphysics IV.7 Accommodate Existential Sentences?

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:15 Christof Rapp (Munich): Nothing is True and Everything is True in Aristotle’s Metaphysics IV.8.

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee

15:30 – 16:25 Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Hamburg): Epicurus on Truth.

16:25 – 16:45 Coffee

16:45 – 18:00 Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen): Practical Truth.

Dinner

Thursday, March 14th 2024

9:00 – 9:30 Reception

9:30 – 10:45 Marion Durand (Oxford): Time-Relative Truth and Assent in Stoicism.

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 11:55 Janine Guhler (Oxford): What Makes Mathematical Propositions True for Aristotle?

12:00 – 12:55 Naoya Iwata (Nagoya): Aristotle’s Theory of Perception and Truth.

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:55 Guus Eelink (Tübingen): Naming What is Not and Saying What is Not – An Aporia in the Sophist.

15:00 – 15:55 Sosseh Assaturian (Washington): The Stoics on Assertibility and Truth-Aptness.

15:55 – 16:15 Coffee

16:15 – 17:30 Paolo Crivelli (Geneva): The Truth Conditions of Stoic Conditionals.

Dinner