UTCMP 2013
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The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2013
Friday, September 20
Session I (4:30 – 6:30)
Chair: Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis): “A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima Naturalia”
Commentator: Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University)
Saturday, September 21
Session II (10:00 – 12:00)
Chair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)
Speaker: Christopher Martin (University of Auckland): “Abelard on Modality and its Logics”
Commentator: Kevin Guilfoy (Carroll University)
Session III (2:00 – 4:00)
Chair: Ian Drummond (University of Toronto)
Joseph Stenberg (University of Colorado, Boulder): “Happiness in Aquinas: an Analysis of its Core”
Stephen Ogden (Yale University): “Averroes’s Argument from Universals for a Separate Material Intellect”
Simona Vucu (University of Toronto): “Henry of Ghent on Causal Powers”
Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)
Chair: Henrik Lagerlund (Western University)
Speaker: Gloria Frost (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul): “Three Medieval Models of Primary and Secondary Causation: Aquinas, Scotus, and Auriol”
Commentator: Kara Richardson (Syracuse University)
All sessions will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street).
All sessions are free and open to the public.
Registration and inquiries: medieval_dot_philosophy_at_utoronto_dot_ca
The colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Organizers: Deborah Black, Peter King, Martin Pickavé