Divergent Scholasticism

Philosophical Thought and Scholastic Tradition Between Europe and the Americas, 1500-1700

Cycle of conferences, KU Leuven (BE) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (CL). From 11 March to 2 December 2022. A very common narrative in the history of both philosophy and science reconstructs the dawn of early-modern thought as a clean break from the dusk of Scholasticism and its Aristotelian roots. The workshop Divergent Scholasticism: Philosophical Thought and Scholastic Tradition between Europe and the Americas, 1500-1700 focuses on a different story. It is a story made of continuities and ruptures within late Scholasticism and nourished by refined theoretical elaboration and wide transmission of knowledge between the two shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Expanding from Europe (Leuven, Salamanca, and Coimbra) to Latin America and Asia, Second Scholasticism has received growing attention from scholarship only in recent decades. Organised by Abel Aravena Zamora, Christophe Geudens, and Nicola Polloni, the aim of Divergent Scholasticism is to foster a collaborative global network of interested scholars to better understand the specificities of such long-neglected debate.

Given the goal of Divergent Scholasticism, the workshop hosts experts on a varied set of philosophical and scientific domains delving into a diverse series of topics. Such interdisciplinary approach is aimed at reconstructing the plural dimension of Second Scholasticism, particularly concerning its American developments. Consequently, the workshop will dive into a multiplicity of themes linked together by two main strands:

(1) The formation of the Latin American philosophical tradition in the virreinatos of New Spain and Peru, in particular concerning logic, metaphysics, and natural philosophy.

(2) The reception and application of philosophical and scientific thought elaborated in ancient, medieval, and early-modern Europe with specific attention paid on medicine, theology, pedagogy, and law.

Divergent Scholasticism will unfold remotely (on Zoom) with six sessions (one every 5 weeks, approximately) dedicated to specific aspects of the debate. Starting in March 2022, the workshop will bring together scholars from Europe and Latin America, blending their unique expertise into an overreaching discussion of theories, problems, and methods adopted by Second Scholasticism. Session attendance will be open to anyone interested in the discussion, free of charge.

Organisers: Abel Aravena Zamora, Christophe Geudens, and Nicola Polloni

Participants: Erik Åkerlund (Newman Institute Uppsala), Guido Alt (University of Stockholm), Carlos Arturo Arias (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Virginia Aspe Armella (Universidad Panamericana), Mário Carvalho (Universidade de Coimbra), Francisco Castilla Urbano (Universidad de Alcalá), Mário João Correia (Universidade do Porto), Simone Guidi (CNR), Miroslav Hanke (Akademie věd České republiky), Roberto Hofmeister Pich (PUC Rio Grande do Sul), Manuel Lázaro Pulido (UI de La Rioja), Roberto Marconi (Universidad San Sebastián), Germán Morong (Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins), Álvaro Ojalvo (Universidad Finis Terrae), Milko Pretell García (UNM San Marcos), Sylvain Roudaut (University of Stockholm), Jacob Schmutz (UC Louvain), Anna Tropia (Univerzita Karlova Praha).

PROGRAMME

11 March 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 12 noon (Santiago del Chile)

Erik Åkerlund, The King’s Power and the Power of the People: On a Conundrum in Suarez’s Political Philosophy

Anna Tropia, Seeking for Jesuit Psychology: Mapping Manuscripts and Common Places from the College de Clermont (1564-1580)

Roberto Hofmeister Pich, The Teaching of Logic in Latin American Scholasticism: Jeronimo Valera O.F.M. (1568-1625) and the Logic ad mentem Scoti

21 April 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 10 am (Santiago del Chile)

Virginia Aspe Armella, La fundación de la Real Universidad de México: su currículo y análisis de un caso

Germán Morong, Flemáticos y sanguíneos; los indios y la circulación del saber médico en la Historia del Nuevo Mundo de Bernabé Cobo (1651)

Mario Carvalho, How Divergent Was Latin-American Scholasticism? A still unanswerable question. Brazil, and Maranhão as a Methodological Case-Study

27 May 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 10 am (Santiago del Chile

Francisco Castilla Urbano, La revisión gnoseológica del escolasticismo por el jesuita José de Acosta

Álvaro Ojalvo, La circulación del cuerpo masculino hispano e indígena entre los saberes médicos, teológicos y jurídicos (España y América, siglos XVI y XVII)

Roberto Marconi, Libertad académica y tradición en filosofía: Miguel de Viñas S.J., filósofo en Chile del siglo XVIII

7 October 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 11 am (Santiago del Chile)

Manuel Lázaro Pulido, Las razones del compartir. Fundamentos teológicos y filosóficos de la transmisión de conocimiento de los franciscanos a América

Carlos Arturo Arias, Dictados sobre la justicia y el derecho: aulas y manuscritos neogranadinos

Milko Pretell García, Logica Scholastica Barroca Peruviana: La recepción de la lógica y su desarrollo en la Academia limensis

24 November 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 12 noon (Santiago del Chile)

Jacob Schmutz, Seeing Clearly in a Confused Environment: Carmelite Philosophers in the Amazonian Forest

Guido Alt, Logical Form and Consequence: John Mair and Domingo de Soto

Miroslav Hanke, Termini naturales and Libelli sophistarum. British Physics Textbooks from around 1500

2 December 2022

4 pm (Brussels) | 12 noon (Santiago del Chile)

Sylvain Roudaut, Pedro da Fonseca’s Theory of Modes: Its Sources and Influence

Mário João Correia, Pedro Luis (1538-1602): A Forgotten Advocate of scientia media

Simone Guidi, The Angelic Knowledge of the Future Singulars: Suárez and Poinsot