8-11 May 2017 International Conference on Scepticism Scepticism from Antiquity to Modern Times The First International Conference on Scepticism at the University of Hamburg, organised by the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in close co-operation with the Department of Philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome, addresses the main elements, strategies, and definitions of scepticism with a focus on ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy. A group of established professors and young scholars working on PhDs and post-docs will lecture on the main questions of sceptical philosophy, such as the criteria for defining and distinguishing ancient scepticism from modern scepticism and the debates on the existence and meaning of a Jewish (anti-) scepticism. JEWISH SCEPTICISM Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES Ariel Malachi Máté Veres Benjamin Wilck (EARLY) MODERN TIMES Sébastien Charles Gideon Freudenthal Yitzhak Melamed Stephan Schmid CONVENORS Emidio Spinelli Giuseppe Veltri The event is open to the public, with advance registration via e-mail. ANTIQUITY Carlos Lévy Diego Machuca Stéphane Marchand Jan Opsomer Charles Snyder Emidio Spinelli Gisela Striker Katja Vogt MIDDLE AGES Heidrun Eichner Warren Zev Harvey Henrik Lagerlund Josef Stern Keynote Giuseppe Veltri ROUNDTABLEs of Junior Scholars (EARLY) MODERN TIMES Nancy Abigail Nuñez Ville Paukkonen José María Sánchez de León Serrano MAIMONIDES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Seminar Room 5060 Schlüterstraße 51 20146 Hamburg Programme and Information: www.maimonides-centre.uni-hamburg.de Contact: [email protected] Images: Codex Levy 0115 (0185r/0186v) reproduced by kind permission of the Hamburg State and University Library; Moses Maimonides © Blaisio Ugolino (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maimonides-2.jpg) CC BY-NC-SA 2.; Plotinus © Unknown (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plotinus.jpg) + Statue of a seated old man © Marcus Cyron (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_a_seated_old_man,_Chrysippus,_a_Greek_Stoic_philosopher,_2nd_century_AD,_Louvre_Museum_(7462801344).jpg) CC-PD-BY-NC-SA 2.0; Sextus © Unknown (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sextus.jpg) CC-PD-BY-NC-SA 2.0; Portrait of David Hume © Allan Ramsay (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/David_Hume.jpg) CC-PD-Art-BY-NC-SA 2.0; Portrait of Baruch de Spinoza © Unknown (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spinoza.jpg) CC-PD-BY-NC-SA 2.0; René Descartes © Unknown (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V37_D740_Rene_Descartes.jpg) CC-PD-BY-NC-SA 2.0; Editing: Benjamin Rogler