​All are welcome at this conference on the philosophy and reception and later influence of the Early Franciscan intellectual tradition at Paris (until c. 1245).
 
Registration (by 8 September 2019)
Please register on Eventbrite for the individual days that you would like to attend. Please cancel your booking before 22 September if you are no longer able to attend.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-summa-halensis-philosophy-and-reception-tickets-59571159943
 
Lunch
Conference lunches are available in Trinity College at a subsidized rate. Please book and pay for lunches by 8 September using the link below. Please cancel before 22 September for a full refund if you are no longer able to attend.
https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-theology-and-religious-studies/lunch-for-the-summa-halensis-conference
 
Bursaries
A small number of bursaries are available for individuals not resident in Oxford who would like to attend the entire conference. The bursary covers accommodation, lunches, and the conference dinner. To apply for a bursary, please write to Lydia Schumacher lydia.schumacher@kcl.ac.uk by 30 June 2019 indicating your need for the bursary and the reasons for your interest in the conference.
 
Conference Description
In the second quarter of the thirteenth century, early Franciscan theologians at the University of Paris, above all, Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle, worked together to lay down a distinctly Franciscan intellectual tradition for the first time. The product of their efforts was one of the first great Summae of the period, the so-called Summa Halensis. This and other early Franciscan texts have often been regarded as mere attempts to codify the longstanding ‘Augustinian’ tradition of the earlier middle ages. However, four European Research Council workshops held in 2018 on the sources (Greek, Arabic, Latin), methods, context, and doctrinal contents of the Summa have helped to establish this text as the source of many innovations that are often more closely associated with the later Franciscan school. The purpose of the 2019 conference is to explore the philosophical material of the Summa in greater depth and to trace the later reception and development of its innovations. How did ideas laid down initially in the Summa influence and evolve from the generation of Duns Scotus onwards? Speakers include Richard Cross, Volker Leppin, Dominik Perler, Alexander Fidora, Oleg Bychkov, Oliver Davies, William Short, William Courtenay, Nicola Polloni, Jenny E. Pelletier, Russell Friedman, Mary Beth Ingham, Cecilia Trifogli, Riccardo Saccenti, Lesley Smith, Drew Rosato, Magdalena Bieniak, Tiziana Suarez-Nani, and Maarten Hoenen.

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III Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy
University of Minho
Braga, Portugal

1-2 February 2018

Theme: Radicalism and Compromise

For more information, see: http://bragacolloquium.weebly.com/

Workshop: Berlin, November 20, 2015 to November 21, 2015

How does change work? If a thing moves from one state to another, when does it exactly start being in its new state, and when does it cease being in its former one? Should one consider that there is an instant at which change takes place? And if one does, in what state should the thing be at that moment: the former one, the new one, neither, both? The first two options seem arbitrary; the third goes against the law of excluded middle; the forth against that of contradiction. And if one doesn’t, if there is no moment of change, how can there be change? What is sometimes called the “limit decision problem” has its roots in Aristotle and has been intensely debated by late medieval philosophers, who explored the four options. It became popular again in the second half of the twentieth-century when, once more, each option was considered – as well as the possibility that there is no such thing as a moment of change.

The workshop will provide the occasion of a dialogue between medieval and contemporary perspectives and shall result in a volume on the instant of change in medieval and contemporary philosophy.

Further information here.

Durham Day of Medieval Thought, 5 July 2015, full details here. 

Conference at The Warburg Institute, 23 January 2015. For full details download the poster below. 

A two-day workshop on 'Wyclif and the Realist Tradition in 14th-Century Logic' will be held at the University of St Andrews on 16-17 May 2015.  Proposals should be submitted by 12 January.

Historians of logic have known for decades that the 14th century was a tremendously productive period in the Latin West.  As far as the relationship between logic and metaphysics is concerned, however, research has tended to focus on the nominalist tradition associated with Ockham and Buridan.  The aim of this workshop is to redress the balance a little by focussing instead on the realist tradition that spans the 14th century.  We have singled out for special mention the influential figure of John Wyclif, whose Logic is currently being re-edited here at St Andrews, but we welcome contributions involving other figures from Walter Burley to Paul of Venice.

Each accepted paper will standardly be allocated an hour including time for discussion.  Authors of accepted papers will be provided with meals during the conference and overnight accommodation for three nights.  Please submit abstracts of around 250 words to the organizers Mark Thakkar (mnat@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Stephen Read by Monday 12 January 2015.  We will notify you of the outcome by the end of January.

The list of participants currently includes Jenny Ashworth, Laurent Cesalli, Alessandro Conti, and Sara Uckelman.  Further details will be made available in due course on the website:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/events/event?id=866

St Thomas Aquinas Society of Ireland/Cairde Thomáis Naofa
Saturday 29th November 2014
St Catherine’s Dominican Convent
33 Dominic St
Newry, Co., Down
Northern Ireland
BT35 8BN

Timetable
1.15 Registration
1.30 Welcome address
1.35 Donald Collins – ‘A Noteworthy Revision in the Metaphysical Thought of Étienne Gilson’
2.30 Fr Terence Crotty OP – ‘Aquinas as Poet of the Eucharist’
3.30 Tea/coffee – Cairde AGM
3.50 Br Kevin O’Reilly OP – ‘The Theological Hermeneutics of Thomas Aquinas and Benedict XVI’
5.00 Holy Mass

Registration fee:
£5 / €6 (Non-student)
£3 / € 4 (Student)

All are welcome

Medieval Theories of Relations, University of Cambridge, 12-16 June 2014. 

Full details here. 

The study of relations, in the history and philosophy of logic, plays an important role in the shift from the traditional paradigm of Aristotelian logic, primarily centred around an idea of analysis of language in terms of the subject-predicate distinction, to the new conceptual framework emerging at the end of the XIXth and at the beginning of the XXth century with the progressive mathematisation of logic. 

Innovation, however, did not occur all at once in this process. Late ancient and medieval interpreters, writing in Greek, Latin, and Arabic over a span of more than ten centuries - from the 5th to the 15th - already offered a broad array of theoretical options, some of which were later on to be rediscovered and given rigorous formal treatment by moderns. For instance, the  study of the validity of inferences involving polyadic terms, albeit practically absent in Aristotle, was quite elaborate in medieval logic both in the Latin and in the Arabic tradition, well before attracting the attention of early contemporary logicians in a more systematic way. 

The purpose of this conference is to contribute to a deeper, multi-disciplinary, understanding of how this process developed over time, by bringing together specialists with a diversified range of competencies in logic, analytic philosophy, linguistics, history of science, philology, medieval Latin and Arabic-Islamic studies. Although the core of the conference will be made of papers focused on logic and semantics, it will also explore how these logical discussions were linked to wider philosophical concerns, and the participants will be encouraged to keep the similarities to and differences from logic today constantly in view. 

[Information and further details from here.]

Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship in the History of Ideas, 2013/14 ‘A Shaky Hold on Reality: Lectures on the History of our Epistemic Ideals'

Professor Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado) will deliver the Isaiah Berlin Lectures on Tuesdays of weeks 3-8 of Trinity Term at 5 pm on the following days, venue to be confirmed.

Lecture 1 (13th May)
Lecture 2 (20th May)
Lecture 3 (27th May)
Lecture 4 (3rd June)
Lecture 5 (10th June)
Lecture 6 (17th June)

Abstract: Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modernity, our conception of knowledge underwent a series of dramatic transformations, changing the way we think about philosophy, science, perception, and reality. With the decline of Aristotelianism came radically new perspectives on the prospects for certainty, our grasp of underlying causes, and the reliability of the senses. These transformations were in fact so central to our changing worldview in the seventeenth century that that might plausibly be thought to define the beginnings of the modern era. Ranging over the whole history of philosophy, but focusing especially on the transition from the later Middle Ages into the seventeenth century, these lectures will trace the rise of a new way of thinking about our cognitive aspirations and achievements. 

Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, 
St Andrews 12-13 May 2014


Provisional schedule:

Monday 12 May

09.30 Tea/Coffee

10.00 Stephen Read, ‘Richard Kilvington and the Theory of Obligations’

11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.30 visit to MUSA

12.30 Lunch 

14.00 Cecilia Trifogli, ‘Geoffrey of Aspall on Composite Substances’

15.00 Tea/Coffee

15.30 John Marenbon, 'Abelard on dicta'

16.30 Tea/Coffee

17.00 Anna Marmodoro, ‘Emerging and Descendent Wholes in Aquinas’

18.00 Finish

19.00 Dinner 

Tuesday 13 May

09.30 Tea/Coffee

10.00 Spencer Johnston, ‘Essence and Modality in Robert Kilwardby’

11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.30 Catarina Dutilh Novaes, 'Validity, formality, and evidence in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequence and his questions on the Prior Analytics'

12.30 Lunch 

14.15 visit to Chapel

15.00 Mark Thakkar, 'Towards a New Edition of Wyclif's Logic'

16.00 Tea/Coffee

16.30 Rega Wood, ‘The Formal Distinction and the Razor: Rufus, Scotus and Ockham’

17.45 Finish

For further details, see: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/events/event?id=745.