RODRIGO SPONCHIADO UEMURA

This research project has as its main focus the so-called “foul play” (adikomachia) of ancient philosophical argumentation in the inquiry initiated by Aristotle in his work On Sophistical Refutations. Through an analysis of this treatise and of the list of sophistical refutations that Aristotle presented, we aim to deal with the question of the cause of deception (apate) that apparent arguments provoke in the answerer and in private reasoning. In detail, the question of the notion of deception will be based fundamentally on Aristotle’s considerations in his psychological works, such as De Anima, and the Rhetoric, encompassing also the notion of persuasion.