Διάλεξη της Zoe McConaughey (Πανεπιστήμιο της Lille), «From the Topics to the “pons asinorum”

ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ

Το Κέντρον Ερεύνης της Ελληνικής Φιλοσοφίας της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών

σας προσκαλεί στο πλαίσιο του Μηνιαίου Σεμιναρίου Φιλοσοφίας

στη διάλεξη της Zoe McConaughey (Πανεπιστήμιο της Lille),

που θα διεξαχθεί παρουσία της ομιλήτριας

την Τετάρτη 12 Ιουνίου 2024, 16:00-18:00

στη Φιλοσοφική Βιβλιοθήκη “Έλλη Λαμπρίδη” (Υψηλάντου 9, Αθήνα).

Θέμα: «From the Topics to the “pons asinorum” (APr. I 27-31)».

Το Σεμινάριο θα προβληθεί και διαδικτυακά

στον ακόλουθο σύνδεσμο Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9147464241?pwd=Tyt3VGIrS3FFN1h6UVZIVmRjbEdYZz09

Meeting ID: 914 746 4241

Passcode: 621567

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INVITATION

The Research Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens

Invites you in the course of the Monthly Philosophy Seminar

to the lecture by Zoe McConaughey (University of Lille),

which will be held in the presence of the speaker

on Wednesday 12 June 2024, 16:00-20:00 (ATH, GR time zone)

at the “Elli Lambridis” Philosophical Library (9 Hypsilantou str., Athens).

Topic: «From the Topics to the “pons asinorum” (APr. I 27-31)».

The Seminar will also be broadcast live via Zoom

at the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9147464241?pwd=Tyt3VGIrS3FFN1h6UVZIVmRjbEdYZz09

Meeting ID: 914 746 4241

Passcode: 621567

ABSTRACT
My talk aims at showing how the various elements characteristic of the pons asinorum (APr. I 27-31), namely building lists, a problem-solving approach, the 4 predication types (a-e-i-o, which are linked to “syntactic” universality), extensionality, division, are all present in the Topics. In this fashion, the Topics had all the ingredients for producing the machinery of the pons asinorum which, as I suggest, provided the right conditions for the theory of syllogistic to emerge. A continuity between the Topics and the pons asinorum can thus be drawn.
From the point of view of syllogistic, the Topics tried to account for too much at once, giving for instance a lot of weight to intention (essence and definition, in a way linked to “semantic” universality), or including suboptimal contexts (eristic or obtuse partners, plurivocity of terms). But from the point of view of the Topics, the narrow focus of the pons asinorum would seem extremely narrow, not to say uninteresting, if syllogistic had not come out of it.

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