Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity

Truth Attending Persuasion.- Gorgias and the Weakness of Logos.- Reasoning without Reasons - Gorgias, Isocrates and Plato's Concept of Reasoning and Argumentation.- Argumentation and Persuasion in Classical Chinese Literature.- beta Gamma : Sophistic, Platonic, Aristotelian.- The Trouble of Hosting a Debate: Callicles' Anger and Socrates' Lack of Manners.- Dialectic and Argumentation in Plato's Dialogues.- What a god of refutation knows: Elegchos and dialektike in Plato's Sophist.- The Prospects of Rhetoric in the Late Platonic Dialogues.- Platonic Epag g  and the 'Purification' of the Method of Collection.- Evaluation and Truth in Topics 8.11.- Endoxa and Epistemology in Aristotle.- Sextus on Argumentation: Dialectic, Therapy and Inquiry.- Seneca's Epistemological Critique of Zeno's Dialectic.- Was Aristotle a Virtue Argumentation Theorist?.- Aristotelian Dialectic and Formal Dialogue Systems for Argumentation.