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DCAMP goes to IMC Leeds!

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DCAMP is very pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring not one, not two, not three, but FOUR sessions on medieval philosophy at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2019! Here are the details of the four sessions:

Session 1035: What Is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?, I: The Matter of Logic

Wednesday July 3, 9-10:30.

This is the first of four panels on ‘What Is the
Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?’, bringing
together papers addressing the subject matter of
medieval philosophy, including how subfields of
philosophy were demarcated; how philosophy was
separated from other disciplines; how medieval
philosophy is separated from (and continuous with!)
ancient and early modern philosophy. This panel on
the subject matter of logic brings together three
papers on medieval accounts of the subject matter
of logic; the use of the notion of ‘verificare’ in
medieval logic, semantics, and epistemology; and the
role of logic in theology and philosophy.

  • Jacob Archambault, “Dialectically Situating Medieval Accounts of the Subject Matter of Logic”
  • Anastasia Kopylova, “The Role of Verificatur in W. Ockham, J. Buridan, and W. Chatton’s Semantics”
  • Claudia Appolloni, “Mundana and Sermocinali Philosophia in Peter John Olivi’s Writings”

Session 1135: What Is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?, II: The Matter of Metaphysics

Wednesday July 3, 11:15-12:45.

This is the second of four panels on ‘What Is the
Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?’, bringing
together papers addressing the subject matter of
medieval philosophy, including how subfields of
philosophy were demarcated; how philosophy was
separated from other disciplines; how medieval
philosophy is separated from (and continuous with)
ancient and early modern philosophy. This panel on
metaphysics brings together three papers on
Suarez and the real essence of objects; Suarez on
natural distinctions in metaphysical philosophy; and
the substance of artifacts in Aquinas.

  • Stephen Boulter, “What Philosophers Used to Know about Distinctions”
  • Jack Robert Coopey, “Francisco Suárez and Heidegger’s Modernity of Metaphysics: A Baroque Contribution to the Downfall of Scholastic Thought”
  • Sean M. Costello, “Substantializing Aquinas’s Artifacts: A Path to
    Substancehood for Chemically-Constituted Artifacts in
    the Thought of Thomas Aquinas”

Session 1235: What Is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?, III: The Matter of the Mind and Soul

Wednesday July 3, 14:15-15:45.

This is the third of four panels on ‘What Is the
Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?’, bringing
together papers addressing the subject matter of
medieval philosophy, including how subfields of
philosophy were demarcated; how philosophy was
separated from other disciplines; how medieval
philosophy is separated from (and continuous with)
ancient and early modern philosophy. This panel on
philosophy of mind (including the soul) brings
together three papers on the nature of the soul
and its experience of pain; the role of reason in
personal responsibility; the faculties of the
soul.

  • Elena Baltuta, “Ouch!: On Pain and Its Intentional Character in Robert Kilwardby”
  • Jordan McFadden, “The Scope of Responsibility for Aquinas: Does Ought
    Imply Can?”
  • Lydia Deni Gamboa López, “Ockham on the Acts and Faculties of the Sensitive Soul”

Session 1335: What Is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?, IV:
The Reception, Transmission, and Teaching of Medieval
Philosophy

Wednesday July 3, 16:30-18:00.

This is the fourth and final panel in a series on
‘What Is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?’,
bringing together papers addressing the subject
matter of medieval philosophy, including how
subfields of philosophy were demarcated; how
philosophy was separated from other disciplines; how
medieval philosophy is separated from (and continuous
with) ancient and early modern philosophy. This panel
focuses on what medieval philosophy is, what it
received from ancient philosophy and what it
transmitted to post-medieval philosophy, and what
role medieval philosophy has in the present day
classroom.

  • Daniel Contreras: “Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on the Proper
    Object of the Intellect and the Distinction between
    Philosophy and Theology”
  • Tommaso Manzon, “The Serpent’s Body: St John Bonaventure and St
    Gregory Palamas on Philosophy and Theology, with
    Particular Rreference to On the Reduction of the
    Arts to Theology     and the First Triad”
  • Martin Lenz, “Predate the Scientific Revolution!: Highlighting
    (Strategic) Continuities between Medieval and Modern
    Philosophy”

Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 1-4, 2019

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What is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?

Call for paper proposals in the area of medieval philosophy for one or more sessions to be submitted to the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 1-4, 2019

Sponsored by the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is Europe’s largest gathering of medievalists, with the 25th anniversary edition (2018) featuring more than 600 papers on all aspects of the Middle Ages. The theme for 2019 is “materialities” and in keeping with this theme, we are looking for paper proposals to put together a strand of sessions on the topic of “What is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?” We aim to address both questions on the content and nature of philosophy in the Middle Ages, as well as questions about the content and nature of the study of medieval philosophy in the early 21st century. The following topics are representative, not exhaustive of possible paper topics:

  • How is philosophy defined in the Middle Ages?
  • What is philosophy’s relationship to other disciplines in the Middle Ages?
  • Medieval philosophy outside of Europe: What is the ‘matter’ of philosophy in the medieval periods of non-European cultures?
  • Why is medieval philosophy underrepresented in today’s curriculum — and what can we do to change this?
  • What matters in medieval philosophy?

In addition to papers on broad topics like these, we also welcome paper proposals on individual “matters” of philosophy. If it’s medieval philosophy, and it matters, we want it!

The deadline for paper proposals is September 15, 2018. To propose a paper, send the following information to Dr. Sara L. Uckelman (Durham University) at [email protected]:

  • Paper title
  • Brief abstract (100-200 words)
  • Language of delivery
  • Speaker’s full name and time
  • Speaker’s affiliation, including mailing address, email, and telephone

Speakers will be notified of whether their papers will be included in the session proposal(s) to the IMC by September 25, 2018.

Any questions should be directed to Dr. Uckelman.