2014-15 Academic Year Schedule
================================================
Profs. Sarah Pessin (University of Denver) &
Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University)
“A Conversation on Philosophical and Religious Issues in the Work of Averroes and Maimonides”
================================================
Prof. Gregory Salmieri
presenting
“Aristotle’s Conception of Universality”
3:00-5:00 pm Thursday 15 January 2015
Raynor Library 320a
================================================
Dr. Daniel Novotý, St. John’s College,
Svatý Jan p. Skalou, Czech Republic
presenting
“Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations and their Aftermath”
3:00-4:45 pm Thursday 13 November 2014
Location: Raynor 320A
================================================
30 October 2014
“Intellectual Humility in Medieval Islam”
Prof. Jon McGinnis
University of Missouri, St Louis
When: 3:00-5:00 pm Thursday 30 October
Where: Raynor Library 330b
==================================
Seminar 29 August 2014
On the Important Roles Islamic Philosophy Played
in the Development of European Philosophy
Sponsored by the Midwest Seminar in Ancient & Medieval Philosophy
and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group, Marquette University Graduate Student Chapter
When: 8:30 am - 11:30 am, Friday 29 August 2014
Where: Raynor Library 320a
8:30-9:50 am
Ms Tracy Wietecha*
“On Method in Reading the De Ente et Essentia:
An Analysis of Joseph Owens, John Wippel and R. E. Houser”
Abstract
In this paper I explore methodological approaches to Aquinas' argument for a real distinction between essence and existence in creatures in De Ente et Essentia. Joseph Owens and John Wippel examine the text through three stages which, they conclude, result in a demonstration for the real distinction. I contrast this approach with R.E. Houser, who argues that Aquinas' text, which proceeds dialectically, must be understood within the context of its sources, namely Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing and The Intentions of the Philosophers by al-Ghazali. I will come to two adjudications: first I will offer an evaluative judgment on Owen's and Wippel's disagreement on which stage Aquinas demonstrates a real distinction; second I will offer an evaluative judgment on the nature of the treatise as a whole, ultimately arguing for the methodology of source based contextualism which studies a text within the context of the sources used to produce the text.
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Mr Nathan Blackerby*
“The Avicennian Nature of Aquinas’s ‘Aristotelian’ Hylomorphism”
Abstract
Throughout his career, Thomas Aquinas follows Avicenna in distinguishing essence and form in sensible substances. Since essence is the principle that determines substances to be the kinds of things they are, and since sensible substances are hylomorphic composites, the essence of any sensible substance includes both form and matter. By contrast, the form of any sensible substance is the principle that determines its matter to be actual. On this view, sensible substances are a combination of essence and supposit in addition to hylomorphic composition. I argue that this modified conception of hylomorphism is crucial to Aquinas's view that human beings possess souls that are both subsistent and substantial forms.
*Both of these papers have been accepted for presentation at the 10-12 October 2014 meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in Washington, DC, through a competitive blind evaluation procedure.
******
2013-14 Academic Year Schedule
For video recordings of lectures, see below.
Mario Meliadò
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Frieburg im Breisgau, Germany
“Metaphysics as Axiomatic Discipline:
Boethius’ De hebdomadibus and the Liber de causis in Late Albertism”
3:30 - 5:00 pm 11 April 2014
Location: Raynor Library 330B
Webpage with link to video recording
Andreas Lammer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
“Matter and Form in Avicenna’s Physics:
On the Commonality of Internal Principles”
3:30 - 5:00 pm 21 March 2014
Location: Raynor Library 330B
Webpage with link to video recording
Prof. Marcus Plested,
Theology Dept., Marquette University
“The Eastern Aquinas: Reflections on the Reception of Thomas in the Orthodox Christian World”
1:30-3:30 pm 28 February 2014
Location: Alumni Memorial Union rm 252
Webpage with link to video recording
Prof. Emily Fletcher
Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin Madison
“Plato on the Heterogeneity of Pleasure”
3:30 - 5:00 pm 7 March 2014
Location: Raynor Library 330B
Webpage with link to video recording
Prof. Martin Picavé, University of Toronto, Canada
“Peter Auriol and a Medieval Debate
about the Nature of Cognition”
21 November 2013
Webpage with link to video recording
2012-13 Academic Year Schedule
Prof. Andrea Robiglio, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
"The Problem of Testimony in Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy"
4 pm April 9, 2013
Prof. Henrik Lagerlund, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
"Some Conceptions of Body in the 14th Century"
Thursday, April 4, 2013. 1:30 pm
Prof. Constance Meinwald, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago
"Who are Plato's Lovers of Sights and Sounds and What Are They Thinking?: Pseudo-Philosophers and the Realm of Opinion in the Republic."
Friday, March 22, 2013
Ms Katja Krause, Department of Philosophy, King's College London
"The Spirituality of Beatitude in Aquinas"
4 pm Tuesday 23 October, 2012
Prof. Richard Taylor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
"Averroes's Philosophical Account of Prophecy"
3:30-5:30 pm Wednesday Oct. 17, 2012
Prof. Eyjólfur Emilsson, University of Oslo, Norway
“Is Neoplatonism a Form of Idealism?”
Friday, September 28th 2012 - 3:30pm
2011-12 Academic Year Schedule
Spring 2012
Dr. Paula Gottlieb
Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Classics,
University of Wisconsin
“The Ethical Basis of Aristotelian Akrasia”
3:30 - 5:30 pm, April 10, 2011
Marquette Alumni Memorial Union 227
Fall 2011
Prof. Melissa Shew,
Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
“Helikian Insights”
10:30 am Wednesday 2 November 2011
location: AMU 252
* * * * *
Dr. Jules Janssens,
De Wulf Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
“Avicenna’s Insistence on the Necessity
of a Fully Metaphysical Proof for
the Existence of God”
4:00-6:00 pm Tuesday 15 November, 2011
Memorial Library Conference Center Rm C
* * * * *
Prof. David Roochnik,
Department of Philosophy, Boston University
“Reading Aristotle’s Writing”
1:00-3:00 pm, Tuesday 20 September 2011
location: Alumni Memorial Union 227
* * * * *
2010-11 Academic Year Schedule
2011 Summer Conference
click here
PAST EVENTS
Dr. James Lennox
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
“Aristotle on Norms of Inquiry”
3:30-5:30 pm Thursday April 7, 2011
Location: Emery Clark 111
*****
Ms Rosa E. Vargas
Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
“Thomas Aquinas and Peter of Spain on the Modes of Signification”
3:30-5:30 pm Wednesday February 16, 2011
Henke Lounge, Alumni Memorial Union
*****
Dr. Kevin Guilfoy
Department of Philosophy
Carroll University
“The Origins of Nominalism: What Abelard learned from
Roscelin of Compiègne and from William of Champeaux”
3:30-5:30 pm Thursday January 27, 2011
Beaumier Conference Center A
Marquette University Campus
*****
Ms. Robin Weiss
Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
“A New Understanding of Some Old Forms
of Asceticism: Self-formation in Stoicism”
3:30-5:30 pm Thursday March 3, 2011
Alumni Memorial Union
Henke Lounge
* * * * *
Recent past seminars
Dr. Owen Goldin
Department of Philosophy
Marquette University
“Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in Plato and the Stoics”
3:00-5:00 pm Thursday December 2, 2010
Wehr Physics room 154
*****
Seminar
Dr. Tobias Hoffmann
Catholic University of America
“Duns Scotus on Why Ethical Knowledge
is Untainted by Bad Habits.”
3:00-5:00 pm, Thursday October 28, 2010
Alumni Memorial Union 380
Marquette University Campus
Dr. Hoffmann will also present a public lecture entitled
“Peter Auriol on Free Decision”
3:30-5:30 pm Friday October 29, 2010
Beaumier Conference Center A
Raynor Memorial Library
Marquette University Campus
*****
2009-2010 Academic Year Schedule
Thursday February 11, 2010
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Dr. Marije Martijn
Vrije University Amsterdam
“A Neoplatonic Revaluation of mimesis: semiosis and reversion”
Alumni Memorial Union 380
Marije Martijn, Ph.D. (2008) in Philosophy, Leiden University, is Universitair Docent at Vrije University Amsterdam. She has published on different aspects of Proclus' work and is currently working on the metaphysical foundations of his scientific aesthetics. She is the author of a number of articles and Proclus on Nature: Philosophy of Nature and Its Methods in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (Brill: Leiden, 2009) and, with M. Leunissen and F. de Haas, edited the forthcoming volume Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period. She is currently collaborating with Owen Goldin on translating Philoponus, Commentary of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics I, vol 3 for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series.
****************************************
October 30, 2009
Dr. Barry Kogan,
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
“Theophany and Philosophy:
Judah Halevi’s Account of the Origins
of the Religion of Israel in the Kitab al-Khazari”
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Raynor Library Beaumier Conference Center Room A
****************************************
September 10, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Raynor Library Beaumier Conference Center Room A
“Porphyry on the Cognitive Process”
Dr. Michael Chase
Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris
****************************************
2008-9 Academic Year Schedule
Spring 2009
Upcoming Seminars
“Is Good Tragedy Possible? The Argument of Gorgias 502b-503b”
Dr. Franco Trivigno, Marquette University
2:00-3:30 pm Friday, March 20, 2009
Location: Raynor Library, Conference Center, Room A
-------------------------
Recent Seminars
“Plato on Physis: A Critique and Defense”
Dr. Julie Ward, Loyola University of Chicago
2:00-3:30 pm February 12, 2009
Location: Alumni Memorial Union, Room 254
“Aristotle’s Second Sailing”
Abstract:
The topic of this paper is the relationship of aitia and logos in
Aristotle’s Physics with recourse to some passages in Plato’s Phaedo.
Dr. Melissa Shew, Marquette University
2-3:30 pm January 15, 2009
Location: Raynor Memorial Library,
Beaumier Conference Center, Study Room D
Fall 2008 Aquinas and the Arabs Research Seminar Conference:
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 11-12, 2008
Organized by
the Marquette Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and
the Aquinas and the Arabs Project
(http://web.mac.com/mistertea/Aquinas_%26_the_Arabs/Aquinas_%26_the_Arabs.html)
with financial support from
the Klinger College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette
and the Departments of Theology and Philosophy
Aquinas and the Arabs:
A Research Seminar Conference on the Role of Arabic Philosophy in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Sentences.
Location: Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library
Beaumier Conference Center
For further information see
http://web.mac.com/mistertea/Aquinas_%26_the_Arabs/Research_Seminar_Conferences_2008-9.html
=================================================================
Dr. Adriano Oliva, O.P.
President, Commissio Leonina
Paris, France
“Philosophy in the Teaching of Theology
by Thomas Aquinas”
Monday October 13, 2008, 4:00 pm
Beaumier Conference Center,
Raynor Memorial Library
Reception to follow
Sponsored by the Departments of Theology and Philosophy
in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
