Monday, March 27
10.00 Arrival of the participants
10.15-10.30 Opening, Greetings:
- Prof. Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, Rector NKUA
- Prof. Antonis Hatzimoysis, Chairman of the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science
- Prof. Panagiotis Thanassas, Co-organizer of the Conference
Session 1. Chair: Christoph Horn
10.30-11.15 Rainer Schäfer (Bonn): Being and Nothingness in Parmenides
11.15-12.00 Panagiotis Thanassas (Athens): Does Non-Being belong to the Way of Truth in Parmenides?
Coffee Break
12.30-13.15 Vasiliki Vergouli (Patras/Thessaloniki): What kind of Νon-Βeing is Democritus’ void?
Session 2. Chair: George Steiris
17.30-18.15 Denis Walter (Bonn): Non-Being in Plato’s Parmenides
18.15-19.00 David Meißner (Bonn): Negation, Non-Being, and Negative Forms in Plato’s Sophist (and Statesman)
Coffee Break
19.30-20.15 Michalis Sialaros (Athens): Non-being in Greek Mathematical Texts: A ‘Pointless’ Overview
Tuesday, March 28
Session 3. Chair: Rainer Schäfer
10.30-11.15 Christoph Horn (Bonn): Aristotle on Non-Being in Metaphysics Lambda 2
11.15-12.00 Simon Weber (Bonn): Parmenides’ False Dilemma: Being and Not-Being in Physics I.8
Coffee Break
12.30-13.15 Maria Liatsi (Thessaloniki): The Dualism of Being and Non-Being in Ancient Greek and Christian Thought
Session 4. Chair: Panagiotis Thanassas
17.30-18.15 Pantelis Golitsis (Thessaloniki): Damascius on 'Nothingness'
18.15-19.00 George Steiris (Athens): "God is said to be both being and non being”: Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor on Non-being
Coffee Break
19.30-20.15 Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos (Patras): Evil as Non-being in Anselm of Canterbury
20.15-20.30 Some Conclusions
The sessions schedule will be followed strictly.
