SUMMER 2024
35TH MEETING
FRIDAY 19 JULY 2024
11:30 - 12:30: Pree Jareonsettasin (King's College London)
"Bradwardinian Compatibilism: Defending Bradwardine's Account of Human Freedom"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Victoria Gross (Oxford University)
"Beyond Substance Dualism: Distinguishing between Body and Soul According to Time and Tendency in the De Trinitate"
15:00 - 16:00: Mor Segev (University of South Florida)
"Maimonides' Torah-based Response to Aristotle on Cosmic Eternity and Perfection"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Henrik Lagerlund (Stockholm University)
"Blasius of Parma on Artifacts and the Mechanization of Nature"
17:00: End
SPRING 2024
34TH MEETING
TUESDAY 19 MARCH 2024
11:00 - 12:00: Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe (University of Navarra)
"John Duns Scotus on a False Dilemma: Utrum verbum 'est' sit tantum copula vel sit praedicatum"
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 14:30: Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden (Jagiellonian University)
"The Late Ancient and Medieval Appeals to Know Human Dignity"
14:30 - 15:30: Bob Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Aquinas's Holistic Eudaimonism"
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00: Manhua Li (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
"Embodied Immortality in Medieval Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Perspective"
17:00: End
WINTER 2023
33RD MEETING
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER 2023
11:30 - 12:30: Rostislav Tkachencko (Cambridge University)
"A System of Methodological Coordinates for a Historiographer of Medieval Philosophy: An Explanatory Tool"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 16:00: Symposium on Aims and Methods for History of Philosophy
Anna Marmodoro (Durham University/Oxford University)
John Marenbon (Cambridge University)
Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Andy Arlig (CUNY)
"Animals Saved: Some Medieval and an Early Modern Views on Animal Afterlives"
17:30: End
SUMMER 2023
32ND MEETING
WEDNESDAY 5 JULY 2023
11:30 - 12:30: Francesco Banfi (Oxford University)
"Aquinas on the Definition of Sensible Substances"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Sam Pell (University of Notre Dame)
"Aristotelian Visual Perception and Contemporary Functionalism"
15:00 - 16:00: Jordan Lavender (Purdue University)
"Could an Angel See Your Thoughts? Adam Wodeham, and Hugolino of Orvieto on the Privacy of Intentionality"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Johannes Wagner (Cambridge University)
"Orthodoxy and Innovation in Spinoza's notion of beatitude"
17:30: End
SPRING 2023
31ST MEETING
MONDAY 13 MARCH 2023
11:30 - 12:30: Rodrigo Ballon-Villanueva (Durham University)
"Being and God. Eriugena's Influence on Aquinas?"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Tom Anger (Cape Town University)
"Making Sense of Aquinas on 'Natural Inclinations'"
15:00 - 16:00: Zita Toth (King's College London)
"Divine Concurrence with Sinful Acts in Aufredo Gonteri Brito"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Suf Amichay (Cambridge University)
"Avicennian Influence on Richard of St Victor"
17:30: End
WINTER 2022
3OTH MEETING
MONDAY 5 DECEMBER 2022
11:00 - 12:00: Micky Engel (Hamburg University)
"Ens or Corpus? I'll Have Both! Johannes Cottunius Lax Attiude towards Terminological Distinctions"
12:00 - 13:00: Laura Busetto (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes & Collegio San Carlo)
"Dialectic as vera rerum contemplatio and the Problem of ea quae non sunt in Eriugena's Periphyseon"
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch
14:30 - 15:30: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
"Elements and Matter at the Interface of Arabic and Latin"
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00: Kamil Majcherek (Cambridge University)
"Can an Accident Inhere in More than One Subject? A Problem for Medieval Realism about Numbers"
17:00 - 17:30: Tea/Coffee break
17:30 - 18:30: Lydia Schumacher (King's College London)
"Divine Power and Possible Worlds in Early Franciscan Thought. A Study in the Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics"
18:30: End
SPRING/SUMMER 2022
29TH MEETING
WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2022
12:00 - 13:00: Jeff Brower (Purdue University)
"Medieval Views about External Relations - A Case Study"
13:00 - 13:30: Break
13:30 - 14:30: Tianyi Zhang (Cambridge University)
"Avicenna on Human Intellectual Understanding: The Carpenter Apprentice Analogy"
14:30 - 15:30: Daniel King (Cardiff University)
"Why was Greek Logic Translated into Syriac?"
15:30 - 16:00: Break
16:00 - 17:00: Sten Ebbesen (University of Copenhagen)
"British Masters, 1280-1310, on Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations and on Fallacies"
17:00: End
WINTER 2022
28TH MEETING
WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY 2022
12:00 - 13:00: Facundo Rodríguez (Cambridge University)
"Francisco Suarez on Voluntarism and Naturalism"
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Zhenyu Cai (Cambridge University)
"Revisiting Avicenna's Conception of Ma'nā"
15:00 - 16:00: John Marenbon (Cambridge University)
"Against 'Renaissance Philosophy"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Gloria Frost (University of St Thomas)
"Aquinas on Final Causation in Nature: What Role Does God Play?"
17:30: End
SUMMER 2021
27TH MEETING
MONDAY 21 JUNE 2021
12:00 - 13:00: Nadja German (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
"al-Fārābī's Philosophy of Language in Context"
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Suf Amichay (Cambridge University)
"New Theory of Medieval Modalities"
15:00 - 16:00: Anna Marmodoro (Durham University)
"Successors of Aristotle's Stripping Away Argument in the IV century"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Thérèse Cory (University of Notre Dame)
"A Very Determined Intellect: The Case of Albert the Great"
17:30: End
SPRING 2021
26TH MEETING
FRIDAY 26 MARCH 2021
11:00 - 12:00: Tianyue Wu (Peking University)
"Aquinas on Human Personhood and Dignity"
12:00 - 13:00: Dominik Perler (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
"Suarez's Compositional Account of Substance"
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Rodrigo Ballon-Villanueva (Università della Svizzera italiana)
"Eriugena Against the Standard Account of Relations in the Middle Ages"
15:00 - 16:00: Roxane Nöel (Cambridge University)
"John of Salisbury's Nominalism and the Virtuous Quest for Happiness "
16:00: End
SPRING 2020
24TH MEETING
MONDAY 23 MARCH 2020
14:00 - 14:50: Richard Sorabji (Oxford University)
"Medieval Intentional Objects"
14:50 - 15:00: Coffee break
15:00 - 15:50: Véronique Decaix (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
"Back to things. Memory as an Intentional Act in Albert the Great"
15:50 - 16:10: Coffee break
16:10 - 17:00: Keqi Chen (Cambridge University)
"Revisiting Anselm's Ontological Argument from the Perspective of Modality"
17:00: End
AUTUMN 2019
23RD MEETING
WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2020
11:00 - 12:30: José Filipe Pereira da Silva (University of Helsinki)
"Incidental Perception and the Unity of Perceptual Experience in Francisco Suárez"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:30: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder & Institut d'Etudes Avancees de Paris)
"Medieval Modal Spaces"
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30: Magdalena Bieniak (University of Warsaw)
"Stephen Langton on the Antinomies of Faith"
17:30: End
SUMMER 2019
22ND MEETING
MONDAY 24 JUNE 2019
11:30 - 12:30: Jeffrey Brower (University of Purdue)
"Platonism about Goodness - Anselm's Proof in the Monologion"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Spencer Johnston (Cambridge University)
"Temporality and Modality in Buridan's Questions on Generation and Corruption"
15:00 - 16:00: John Marenbon (Cambridge University)
"Relations in Medieval Philosophy. Against the Standard Account"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Feriel Bouhafa (Cambridge University)
"Revisiting Farabi's Philosophy of Religion: A Philosophy of Communities of Meaning"
17:30: End
SPRING 2019
21ST MEETING
TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2019
11:30 - 12:30: Tom Pink (King's College London)
"Final Causation in Early Modern Jesuit Thought: Finality in Nature and Normative Power"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Stephen Read (University of St Andrews)
"The Rule of Contradictory Pairs, Insolubles and Validity"
15:00 - 16:00: Lily King (University of South Florida)
"Reevaluating the Kantian Appraisal of Abelard's Ethics"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Simon Hewitt (University of Leeds)
"Unravelling Stump's Non-Apophatic Aquinas"
17:30: End
SPRING 2019
21ST MEETING
TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2019
11:30 - 12:30: Tom Pink (King's College London)
"Final Causation in Early Modern Jesuit Thought: Finality in Nature and Normative Power"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Stephen Read (University of St Andrews)
"The Rule of Contradictory Pairs, Insolubles and Validity"
15:00 - 16:00: Lily King (University of South Florida)
"Reevaluating the Kantian Appraisal of Abelard's Ethics"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Simon Hewitt (University of Leeds)
"Unravelling Stump's Non-Apophatic Aquinas"
17:30: End
SPRING 2019
21ST MEETING
TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2019
11:30 - 12:30: Tom Pink (King's College London)
"Final Causation in Early Modern Jesuit Thought: Finality in Nature and Normative Power"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Stephen Read (University of St Andrews)
"The Rule of Contradictory Pairs, Insolubles and Validity"
15:00 - 16:00: Lily King (University of South Florida)
"Reevaluating the Kantian Appraisal of Abelard's Ethics"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Simon Hewitt (University of Leeds)
"Unravelling Stump's Non-Apophatic Aquinas"
17:30: End
AUTUMN 2018
20TH MEETING
WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2018
11:30 - 12:30: Christophe Erismann (University of Vienna)
"Aristotle, the Perpetuation of Species and Some Byzantine Views on Providence"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Micky Engel (University of Hamburg)
"Averroes' Paraphrase of the De anima and the Problem of Universals in the Works of Medieval Jewish Aristotelians"
15:00 - 16:00: Dragos Calma (University College Dublin)
"Metaphysics as a Way of Life: A 15th-Century Model"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Damiano Costa (University of Italian Switzerland)
"Was Bonaventure a Four-dimensionalist?"
17:30: End
SUMMER 2018
19TH MEETING
TUESDAY 03 JULY 2018
11:30 - 12:30: Antonia Fitzpatrick ( Oxford University)
"Proper Matter and Material Causation in the Thought of Aquinas and the Early 'Tomists'"
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
"Virtue, Value, and the Law in al-Ghazali's Ethics"
15:00 - 16:00: Tianyi Zhang (Cambridge University)
"Suhrawardī on Light Metaphysics"
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30: Kamil Majcherek (Cambridge University)
"Ockham's Theory of Artifacts and its Critics"
17:30: End
SPRING 2018
18TH MEETING
MONDAY 12 MARCH 2018
11:45 - 12:45: Barbara Bartocci (University of St Andrews)
"Should we, or should we not, trust Socrates? Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic"
12:45 - 14:15: Lunch
14:15 - 15:15: Lydia Schumacher (King's College London)
"The Early Franciscan Doctrine of the Hypostatic Union: A Key Intervention in Medieval Debates about the Metaphysics of the Incarnation"
15:15 - 16:15: Brian Embry (University of Groningen)
"Carving the Beast of Reality. Francisco Suárez on Categorizing Modes and Other Substances"
16:15: End
AUTUMN 2017
17TH MEETING
THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2017
11:30 - 13:00: William Simpson (Cambridge University)
"What's the Matter? Power, Entanglement and the Dappled World"
Commentator: Daniel De Haan (Cambridge University)
13:00 - 14:15: Lunch
14:15 - 15:15: Giovanni Catapano (University of Padua)
"Augustine on the Existence of Ideas of Individuals"
15:15 - 16:15: Andreea-Maria Carrez (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
"From Immaterial Essences to Material Cosmos: The Case of Planetary Gods in Iamblichus's Metaphysics"
16:15 - 16:45: Coffee break
16:45 - 17:45: Jonathan Morton (King's College London)
"Why should philosophers care about allegory? The Romance of the Rose as Philosophical Poetry"
17:45: End