LUW May 10 - Revising the Elenchus via Belief Revision - by Ekaterina Kubyshkina and Mattia Petrolo

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The next session of the Logica Universalis Webinar (LUW) will be Wednesday May 10 at 4pm CET 

Speakers:  Ekaterina Kubyshkina and Mattia Petrolo 

Title: Revising the Elenchus via Belief Revision 

Abstract:  Vlastos’ famous characterization of the Socratic elenchus focuses on two main aspects of this method: its epistemic roots and its  dialogical nature. Our aim is to lay the groundwork to formally capture  this characterization. To do so, first, we outline an epistemic framework in which the elenchus can be inscribed. More precisely, we focus our analysis on the passage from unconscious ignorance to conscious (or Socratic)  ignorance and provide new insights about the epistemic outcome of an elenctic argument. Secondly, from a logical perspective, we consider the  elenchus as a dynamic exchange allowing Socrates’ respondents to revise  their beliefs, on pain of inconsistency. By stressing this point, we represent this method as a process of belief revision in dynamic epistemic logic  and provide a new logical solution to what Vlastos called the problem of the elenchus.

https://link.springer.com/journal/11787/online-first

Associate Organization:  LUCI (Logic, Uncertainty,  Computation and Information Group), University of Milan, Italy

https://luci.unimi.it/

presented by Giuseppe Primiero 

Chair: Ioannis Vandoulakis 

Vice-President of the Logica Universalis Association

http://www.logica-universalis.org/LUAD

Everyone is welcome to attend. Access here:

https://cassyni.com/s/logica-universalis

Jean-Yves Beziau

Editor-in-Chief Logica Universalis and LUW Organizer 

http://www.jyb-logic.org/

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Para quem não conhece o elenchus, recomendo o seguinte artigo introdutório de Aldo Lopes Dinucci
O ELENCHUS COMO O PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTO DA PEDAGOGIA SOCRÁTICA
https://ri.ufs.br/bitstream/riufs/758/1/ElenchusPedagogiaSocratica.pdf

JYB