Video Library

Pre-Scholastic Philosophy

Emma Gannagé, Al-Kindi on Body, Three-Dimensionality, and Matter
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Giulio Navarra, Nature as a Principle in Kindī-Circle’s Translation of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ On Providence
Workshop: Glimpses of the Invisible: Visualising the Principles of Nature Before the Rise of Modernity.

Nicholas Oschman, Translating Truth into Images in al-Fārābī’s Polis
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Jon McGinnis, A Matter of Priorities: Avicenna’s Solution to Meno’s Paradox and Its Implications for the Sciences
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Tommaso Alpina, “…secundum quod habet comparationem ad materiam et ad motum”: How Physical is Avicenna’s Investigation of the Soul?
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings II.

Stephen Ogden, Reconsidering Avicenna and Averroes on Abstraction
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings II.

Federico Dal Bo, The “Sacrifice of Isaac” as God’s Self-Testing in the XIII Century Spanish Kabbalah
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Steven Harvey, The Place of Observation and Experience in the Quest for True Knowledge among Jewish Aristotelians in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Yehuda Halper, Ecce Homo: Charting Human and Divine, Substance and Property, in Contradictory Syllogisms in a Short, Anonymous Text in Three Manuscripts
Workshop: Glimpses of the Invisible: Visualising the Principles of Nature Before the Rise of Modernity.

Vincenzo Carlotta, Alchemical Matter: Ingredients, Elements and Their Substrate
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Clelia Crialesi, Two Different Approaches to Prime Matter at Chartres: Thierry of Chartres and William of Conches
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China (find out more).

Magdalena Bieniak, Universal Hylomorphism and Material Ideas? Gilbert of Poitiers on Matter
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Charles Burnett, The Theory of Elements at the Interface of Arabic and Latin in the 12th Century
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Nicola Polloni, The Toledan Translation Movement
Research Seminar: The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition.

Nicola Polloni, Universalizing Hylomorphism: Gundissalinus’s Ontology
Research Seminar: The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition.

Nicola Polloni, Hylomorphic Souls: Gundissalinus’s Psychology
Research Seminar: The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition.

Nicola Polloni, Dividing the Sciences: Gundissalinus’s Epistemology
Research Seminar: The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition.

Nicola Polloni, Medieval Translations, Accommodations, and Condemnations
Research Seminar: The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition.

Nicola Polloni, Traducción y circulación del conocimiento árabe a finales del siglo XII
Conference: Oriente próximo y la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Fe, creencia y transmisión textual entre lo canónico y lo apócrifo.

Nicola Polloni, Gundissalinus’s Philosophy: From Toledo to Paris
Popularising Philosophy on YouTube