University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2018

Friday, September 21 – Saturday, September 22, 2018

Conference Schedule

Friday, September 21

Session I (4:30 – 6:30)

Chair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)

Christopher Martin (University of Auckland): “Only God Can Make A Tree: Abaelard on Wholes and Parts and Some Evidence of His Later Thinking About Them.”

Commentator: Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)

Saturday, September 22

Session II (10:00 – 12:00)

Chair: Kara Richardson (Syracuse University)

Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University): “Avicenna’s Account of Conditionals and the Logic of Scientific Discourse”

Commentator: Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley)

Session III (2:00 – 4:00)

Chair: Matthieu Remacle (University of Toronto)

Michael Fatigati (University of Toronto): “Avicenna on Uniquely Human Emotions”

Daniel Simpson (St. Louis University): “Naturally Apt For One Another: Ockham on the Nature of Causal Linkage”

Aline Medeiros Ramos (Université du Québéc à Montréal/Université du Québéc à Trois-Rivières): “The Status of Prudence in Buridan’s Ethics”

Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)

Chair: Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Irène Rosier-Catach (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): “The ‘Linguistic Turn’ of Medieval Logic in the Early XIIth Century”

Commentator: Andrew Arlig (Brooklyn College)

All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building.

Organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.