Conference: The Powers of the Soul in Medieval (Franciscan) Thought (London, 27-28 May 2022)
ERC Project, ‘Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought’
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Program:
Friday 27 May
3:00 Arrivals, tea, coffee, pastries
3:15 Welcome with ERC Team members Lydia Schumacher & Riccardo Saccenti and Linda Woodhead, Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London
3:45 Krijn Pansters (Tilburg University, Franciscan Study Centre): The Powers of the Soul in David of Augsburg’s De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione
[Paper will be delivered on Zoom]
4:30 Coffee, tea, biscuits
5:00 Rega Wood (Professor of Philosophy emerita, Stanford University) and Calvin Normore (Professor of Philosophy, UCLA): Turning Metaphysics into Logic: Richard Rufus on Self-Reference
[Paper will be delivered on Zoom]
6:00 Drinks reception (weather permitting, outdoors)
6:30 Dinner buffet
Saturday 28 May
9:00 Arrivals and welcome
9:15 Marcia Colish (Visiting Fellow in History, Yale University): Stoic Ethics à la mode: Seneca in Roger Bacon’s Moralis philosophia
10:00 Jordan Lavender (PhD, Notre Dame): Some Fourteenth-Century Franciscans on the Immateriality of Sensation: Chatton, Wodeham, and Ripa on the View that Powers of Sensation are Not Really Distinct from the Intellectual Soul
10:45 Tea, coffee break
11:15 Nena Bobnovik (PhD, Leuven University): Ockham’s ‘Flying Soul’: The Identity Theory Between the Arabic and Latin Traditions
12:00 Filipe da Silva (Professor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki): Powers of the Soul in Late Franciscan Thought.
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Robert Pasnau (Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder): The Search for Liberum arbitrium
2:45 Martin Pickavé (Professor in Medieval Philosophy, University of Toronto): The Will in Early Franciscan Thought
3:30 Tea and coffee break
4:00 Richard Cross (Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame): Compatibilism in Scotus and the Scotist Tradition
[Paper will be delivered on Zoom]
4:45 Zita Toth (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leuven University): Angelic Mental Acts and Universal Hylomorphism in Some Early 14th Century Franciscans
5:30 Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Associate Professor of Medieval Thought, Durham University): Herp [Harphius] and Benet of Canfield in dialogue with Jan van Ruusbroec on the powers of the soul and spiritual union
6:15 Drinks reception