THE MIDWEST SEMINAR IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
 
 

Marquette University Faculty Participants: Owen Goldin (Ancient), Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics), John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism), James South (Late Medieval & Renaissance), Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology), Richard C. Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic), Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion), David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas) and others from Marquette and other regional universities.


Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute), Alfred Ivry (New York University), Thomas Williams (University of Iowa), Eugene Garver (Saint John's University), Patricia Curd (Purdue University), Cristina D'Ancona (Università di Padova), John Sisko (College of William and Mary), Jeffrey E. Brower (Purdue University), Mary J. Sirridge (Lousiana State University), Richard Tierney (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Kenneth Seeskin (Northwestern University), Ruth Glassner (Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem), Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan University), Ray Weiss (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Hye-Kyung Kim (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay), Lorraine Pangle (University of Texas at Austin), Josep Puig Montada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University), Helen Lang (Villanova University), Andrew Payne, Universityof St. Joseph, Daniel Frank, Purdue University, Andreas Speer, Thomas Institut, Cologne, Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University, Sarah Pessin, University of Denver, and others.


DIRECTIONS AND MAPS:

- For directions to the Marquette Campus, see http://www.marquette.edu/contact/directions/

- For information on the Raynor Library and nearby parking see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/raynor.shtml.

- For information on the Alumni Memorial Union (AMU) and its location, see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/union.shtml

- For information on Cudahy Hall and its location, see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/cudahy.shtml

- For a map of the Marquette University campus, see http://www.marquette.edu/contact/CampusMap.pdf

- For a map of downtown Milwaukee, see

http://www.wisconline.com/counties/milwaukee/map-downtown.html


Send requests for information to:

Richard C. Taylor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University

Email: mistertea@mac.com or Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.

Telephone: (414)-288-5649, Fax: (414)288-3010


SOME VALUABLE LINKS


Aquinas and the Arabs: A Project in Medieval Philosophy:

http://web.mac.com/mistertea/iWeb/Aquinas%20&%20the%20Arabs/Aquinas%20&%20the%20Arabs.html


Marquette University Philosophy Department: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/

 

           Alumni Memorial Union                 John P. Raynor, S.J., Library                   Marquette Hall



The Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy


Sponsored by the Marquette University Department of Philosophy

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

St Joan of Arc Chapel


Video Recorded Lectures


2016-17 Academic Year


Dr Nicola Polloni

University of Durham, UK

presenting

“Gundissalinus, Avicenna and the Road to Paris”

3:30-5:00 pm Wednesday 2 November 2016

Raynor Library room 330b

Video presentation, link forthcoming


Prof. Fouad Ben Ahmed

Dar El-Hadith el-Hassania Institute

Rabat, Morocco

presenting

“The Arabic Reception of Averroes’ Thought”

3:30-5:00 pm Thursday, 15 September 2016

Location: Raynor Library, third floor, room 330b
Video presentation, click HERE.





2015-16 Academic Year


Dr Katja Krause

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Berlin

presenting

“Transforming Aristotelian Philosophy:  Alexander of Aphrodisias in Aquinas’ Early Anthropology and Escatology”

4:50-6:00 pm Thursday, 4 Febraury 2016

Webpage with link to video recording


Prof. Jason Rheins

Department of Philosophy

Loyola University of Chicago

presenting

“Plato on the Necessity of Panpsychism for

Intelligent Design Arguments”

3:00-5:00 pm Friday, 4 December 2015

Webpage with link to video recording


Prof. Dr. Gerd Van Riel

De Wulf-Manson Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

presenting

“Augustine’s Wisdom. From Philosophy to Scripture”

3:30-5:30 pm Tuesday 20 October 2015

Webpage with link to video recording


Prof. James G. Lennox

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Pittsburgh

presenting

“Experience, Expertise and Induction: Aristotle

on the Domain Specificity of Inquiry”

3:00-5:00 pm Friday 2 October 2015

Webpage with link to video recording


2014-15 Academic Year


Gregory Salmieri

Rutgers University & Stevens Institute of Technology

“Aristotle’s Conception of Universality”

3:00-5:00 pm Thursday 15 January 2015

Webpage with link to video recording



Jon McGinnis

University of Missouri at St Louis

St Louis, Missouri

“Intellectual Humility in Medieval Islam”

3:00-5:00 pm 30 October 2014

Location: Raynor Library 330B

Webpage with link to video recording


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2013-14 Academic Year


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”

3:30 - 5:00 pm 21 November 2013

Location: Raynor Library 330B

Webpage with link to video recording