FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) José Filipe Silva (University of Helsinki): “Perceptual Rationality” Commentator: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University) Meryem Sebti (CNRS, Paris): “Why does Avicenna use the concept of fitra in his […]
Peter Adamson will be giving a talk at the CSAMP Proseminar on September 26: “Why Teach Alcibiades? Iamblichus and Proclus on Pointless Providence”. Please note the change of room! We will be in LI 220 - same floor, but around the corner from the usual Proseminar room (LI 205).
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) is giving this year's Etienne Gilson Lecture at PIMS: Avicennan Scholasticism It is a familiar fact that philosophy of the Islamic world had an enormous impact on philosophy in Latin Christendom, especially on the scholastic tradition represented by such figures as Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. Less familiar is the fact that, […]
