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Junior Scholar Workshop
PERCEPTION, KNOWLEDGE, AND ASSIMILATION
Monday, June 12, 2017
University of Helsinki
Auditorium IV (main building), Fabianinkatu 33
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.00 Registration & Welcome
MORNING SESSION (Chair: ANSELM OELZE, University of Helsinki)
10.00-11.00 MATTHIEU MOULLEC (Sorbonne, Paris): “Learning Outside the World. Assimilation of Knowledge in Plotinus’ Work”
11.00-12.00 DAVLAT DADIKHUDA (LMU, Munich): “Avicenna Keeping it Real. Sense Perception in The Healing; al-Nafs II.2”
12.00-13.30 LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION (Chair: ANNEMIEKE VERBOON, University of Helsinki)
13.30-14.30 PALOMA HERNÁNDEZ RUBIO (UAM, Mexico City): “De re praedicatur.
Intentiones and forma totius according to Albertus Magnus”
14.30-15.30 PETER WEST (Trinity College, Dublin): “Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism
As a Grounds for the Likeness Principle”
15.30-16.00 COFFEE
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Chair: JOSÉ FILIPE SILVA, University of Helsinki)
16.00-17.00 PAOLO RUBINI (University of Helsinki): “Accidental Perception and Cogitative Power in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun”
19.00 DINNER
The workshop is organised and funded by the European Research Council project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550. It is part of the Nordic Network for the History of Philosophy workshop series.
Conferences:
Knowledge as Assimilation, 9-11 June 2017, Helsinki
Organised in Cooperation with the project Representation and Reality. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition http://representationandreality.gu.se
Associated Events:
Helsinki History of Philosophy Research Seminar (https://helsinkihistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com)
Reading Group on Perception: (please contact the team members to join)
Nordic Network History of Philosophy (https://nhpnordic.wordpress.com)
Team Meetings:
September 12 (10-15)
October 12 (10-12)
November 15 (10-15)
Participation of team members:
PI:
# Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Finland, Helsinki, April 2015: On Perceiving
# Research Seminar, Tours, May 2015: How Modular are Medieval Theories of Mind: An Augustinian Perspective
# Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year of the University of Helsinki, August 2015: The Future is Amorphous but can it be fair?
# Theoretical Philosophy Research Seminar, Helsinki, September 2015: What is the matter with the species?
# Conference Anima e corpo nella filosofia medievale, Catania, October 2015: Vitality: Perception and the soul-body relation in medieval dualism
# Meeting of the Glossa Society, Helsinki, October 2015: What do I know? Some medieval strategies on knowledge
# Research Seminar, Turku, November 2015: An alternative dualist account of perception
# History of Philosophy Research Seminar, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon: Assimilação e dualism na experiência perceptiva
# NY/NJ Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, New York, February 2016: Objects as Occasions: Medieval Perspectives for Early Modern Suggestions
# Moody Workshop in Medieval Philosophy, UCLA, February 2016: Metaphysics of Sense Perception in the Conimbricensis de Anima
# Two lectures at the University of Lecce, May 2016
# Conference The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition, Gothenburg, June 2016
# Summer School Intention and Intention, University of Würzburg, July 2016
Forthcoming:
# PI:
Augustinianism-Averroisant’ and the activity in perception
Issues of Perception between Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Ostrava (Czech Republic), 6th–7th October 2016
http://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/kfi/problematika-en.pdf
Medieval Augustinian Desire
Reason and Desire in Ancient and Medieval Thought
WORKSHOP IN UPPSALA: Nordic Network for the History of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
Thurday, September 29, 2016
# Anselm:
conference title: 40. Kölner Mediaevistentagung
date: 13.-16.9. (entire conference); 14.9.
place: Köln (Cologne)
title of paper: “Können Tiere irren?” (“Can Animals Err?”)
# Annemieke:
conference title: Bücher und Identitäten. Literarische Reproduktionskulturen der Vormoderne
date: 14 – 17 Sept. 2016
place: Fribourg (Switzerland)
title of paper: Student books: late 15th century compilations produced at the Leipzig University
# Paolo:
Conference title: Theatrum naturae et artium Leibniz und die Schauplätze der Aufklärung
Internationale Konferenz
Organisers: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and Universität Leipzig
Place and date: Leipzig, 28–30 September 2016
Title of paper: De detrimento motus Leibniz über das Phänomen der Reibung
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Conference title: Guericke-Tage 2016
Organiser: Otto-von-Guericke-Gesellschaft Magdeburg
Place and date: Magdeburg (Germany), 19 November 2016
Title of the paper: Leibniz und die “Experimenta nova” Überlieferung und Erschließung seiner Exzerpte