“The Metaphysics of Sophistry: Protagoras, Nāgārjuna, Antilogos”

Robin Reames, Culbertson Chair of Writing, Department of English, Indiana University

“Ideas-Men” (Gnômotupoi Andres)

Christopher Moore, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University

“Antilogies in Ancient Athens: An Inventory and Appraisal”

Livio Rossetti, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Education, University of Perugia (presented by Michael MacDonald)

“Sophistry and Law: The Antilogial Pattern of Judicial Debate”

Stefania Giombini, Professor, Department of Public Law and Historical and Legal Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona

“The Cosmopolitanism of the Early Sophists: The Case of Hippias and Antiphon”

Giovanni Giorgini, Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna

“Socrates and the Sophists: Reconsidering the History of Criticisms of the Sophists”

Noburu Notomi, Dean, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Tokyo

“Is Critias a Sophist?”

Eric MacPhail, Professor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University

“What Performative Contradiction Reveals: Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias on Sophistry”

Robert Metcalf, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado Denver

“A Site-Perspective on the Second Sophistic of the Near East and Its Impact on the History of Rhetoric: An Overview”

Richard Leo Enos, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Texas Christian University

“Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics”

Clare Lapraik Guest, Independent Scholar

“The Fourth Sophistic? Diplomacy, Political Communication, and Culture as ‘Soft Power’ in Late Fourteenth Century Byzantium”

Luigi Robuschi, Associate Professor, Department of Italian Studies, University of Witwatersrand

“The Ancient Greek Sophists in Emanuele Tesauro’s Il cannocchiale aristotelico (1670): Thrasymachus and Gorgias”

Teodoro Katinis, Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University

“Sophistic Practices in French Humanistic Education and L’esprit Français”

Jonathan Doering, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cape Breton University

“The Phantom Philosopher: The Figure of the Sophist in Modern Continental Philosophy”

Michael MacDonald, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo

“Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists”

Selmer Bringsjord, Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Department of Philosophy, Department of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Micah H. Clark, Research Professor and Senior Scientist, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University

Closing Remarks