Medieval Philosophical Gatherings II

Colloquium, HU Berlin (DE).
Winter Semester 2019.

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Talking about medieval philosophy

Following the great success of the previous edition of the Medieval Philosophical Gatherings, this second instalment of the colloquium engages once again with some of the most difficult topics of medieval philosophy with young scholars from all over the world. The colloquium takes place on a weekly basis (with some exceptions) at the Institute of Philosophy of HU Berlin. Attendance is free and all are more than welcome!

Organisation

Organiser: Nicola Polloni

Participants

Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Universiteit Groningen

Tommaso Alpina
LMU Munich

Elena Baltuta
HU Berlin

Sebastian Bender
HU Berlin

Dominic Dold
MPIWG Berlin

Katja Krause
MPIWG Berlin

Joshua Mendelsohn
Loyola University Chicago

Gerd Micheluzzi
Universität Wien

Stephen Ogden
Catholic University of America

Programme

Friday, 18 October 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Elena Baltuta, Cluj
Was Pain Intentional in the 13th Century? Robert Kilwardby’s Answer.

Friday, 25 October 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Stephen Ogden, Catholic University of America
Reconsidering Avicenna and Averroes on Abstraction.

Friday, 1 November 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Dominic Dold, MPIWG
Walter Burley on definitions and formal aspects.

Friday, 8 November 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Joshua Mendelsohn, Loyola University Chicago
Aristotle on why we only understand necessities.

Friday, 15 November 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Han Thomas Adriaenssen, University of Groeningen
Suárez on Individuation. Can the Same Thing Exist Twice?
POSTPONED TO 29 NOV 2019

Friday, 29 November 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Katja Krause, MPIWG and TU Berlin
POSTPONED TO SUMMER SEMESTER 2020

Friday, 6 December 2019, Invalidenstr. 110, room 231
Tommaso Alpina, LMU Munich
“…secundum quod habet comparationem ad materiam et ad motum”: How physical is Avicenna’s investigation of the soul?

Thursday, 12 December 2019, Unter den Linden 6, room 3071
Sebastian Bender, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Anne Conway on Essences, Species and Radical Mutability.

Thursday, 19 December 2019, Unter den Linden 6, room 1007 Lichthof Ost
Gerd Micheluzzi, Universität Wien
“To see more, in this the mind declines”? Dante Alighieri and Cecco d’Ascoli on Shadows