70th Session of Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance

Dear all,

have you ever wondered about self-defense in the most general of ways?  Or how to, at least, neutralize sophistic opinions?

To celebrate the 70^th session of the Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance (Room 5.16, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, from 6-8pm), we will look at septuagenarian wisdom of argumentation.

Specifically, we will read and comment on a little article found by Rezi entitled, “Beyond the Basics: Seventy-Five Defenses Securities Litigators Need to Know,” by Jonathan Eisenberg, 62 Bus Law 1281 (2007), available at:  https://www.copyright.com/ccc/basicSearch.do?&operation=go&searchType=0&lastSearch=simple&all=on&titleOrStdNo=0007-6899.

As the basis for our analysis we will refer to Aristotle’s material fallacies found in his De Sophisticis Elenchis available at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.html, comprising accident, affirming the consequent, converse accident, irrelevant conclusion, begging the question, false cause and fallacy of many questions.

Post facto, we will wander over to a new Lebanese restaurant to be announced in class.

Regards,

Joe and Rezi

70th Session of Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance