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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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