MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
14:00 – 14:15 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS
Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg) and Emidio Spinelli (Sapienza Università di Roma)
14:15 – 15:15 ANTIQUITY I (Chair: Giuseppe Veltri, Universität Hamburg)
Dialectic and Sophisms: the Sceptical Dissolution of Dogmatic Logic
Emidio Spinelli (Sapienza Università di Roma)
15:45 – 17:45 ANTIQUITY II (Chair: Benjamin Schnieder, Universität Hamburg)
Ancient Scepticism and its Interlocutors
Katja Vogt (Columbia University New York, via web conferencing)
Academic Scepticism and the Teachability of Practical Ethics
Charles Snyder (Universität Hamburg)
18:15 – 18:30 WELCOMING REMARKS
Susanne Rupp (Vice-President, Universität Hamburg)
Benjamin Schnieder (Chair, Philosophy Department, Universität Hamburg)
18:30 – 19:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Enquiring into (Jewish) Scepticism
Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg)
TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
10:00 – 12:00 ANTIQUITY III (Chair: Emidio Spinelli, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Sextus Εmpiricus’ Use of δύναμις
Stéphane Marchand (ENS de Lyon)
Agrippan Pyrrhonism, Questionable Assumptions, and the Epistemic Challenge of Disagreement
Diego Machuca (CONICET Buenos Aires)
13:00 – 15:00 ANTIQUITY IV (Chair: Christian Brockmann, Universität Hamburg)
Plotinus and Scepticism
Jan Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Scepticism and Monotheism. A Specific Relation?
Charlos Lévy (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
15:30 – 17:30 ROUNDTABLE JUNIOR RESEARCHERS I:
ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES (Chair: Zev Harvey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sextus Empiricus’ Criticism of the Foundations of Ancient Mathematics
Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Lapsarian Scepticism in Cicero's De Natura Deorum
Máté Veres (Universität Hamburg)
When Scepticism Turns Against the Sceptic: The Use of Scepticism by Medieval Religious Thinkers – The Case of Al-Ghazali, Halevi and Maimonides
Ariel Malachi (Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan)
WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
09:30 – 10:30 ANTIQUITY V (Chair: Dorothea Frede, Universität Hamburg)
Ancient vs. Early Modern Scepticism: Was There a Cartesian Revolution?
Gisela Striker (Harvard University)
11:00 – 13:00 MIDDLE AGES I (Chair: Racheli Haliva, Universität Hamburg)
What is Maimonidean Scepticism?
Josef Stern (University of Chicago)
The Problem of Many Gods in Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, and Crescas
Zev Harvey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
14:00 – 16:00 MIDDLE AGES II (Chair: Sonja Schierbaum, Universität Hamburg)
The Sources of Medieval Scepticism and the Origin of Divine Deception
Henrik Lagerlund (University of Western Ontario)
Reason and Revelation – Fighting Scepticism in the Context of Islamic Theological Manuals
Heidrun Eichner (Universität Tübingen)
16:30 – 18:30 ROUNDTABLE JUNIOR RESEARCHERS II:
(EARLY) MODERN TIMES (Chair: Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University)
The Role of Sceptical Doubt in Spinoza’s Naturalism
José María Sánchez de León Serrano (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Scepticism concerning Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy: the Case of George Berkeley
Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki/ Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
Narrowing Process and the Context-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attribution Sentences
Nancy Abigail Nuñez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
10:00 – 12:00 (EARLY) MODERN TIMES I (Chair: Dirk Westerkamp, Universität Kiel)
Scepticism in Modern Times
Sébastien Charles (Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières)
Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism
Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg)
13:00 – 15:00 (EARLY) MODERN TIMES II (Chair: Stephan Schmid, Universität Hamburg)
The Road not Taken: Why was Spinoza not a Sceptic?
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University)
Salomon Maimon:Scepticism of the First and Second Order
Gideon Freudenthal (Tel Aviv University)
15:30 – 16:30 FINAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
Giuseppe Veltri, Emidio Spinelli, Stephan Schmid
and Racheli Haliva