2009 Colloquium
Schedule
All sessions in 144 Goldwin Smith Hall
Thursday, May 28
1:15–1:30 Announcements
Session 1 (1:30–2:45)
Scott MacDonald, Cornell University
Augustine’s Philosophical Reading of Scripture
2:45-3:00 Short break
Session 2 (3:00–4:15)
Rachel Lu, Cornell University
Virtue in Heaven
4:15–4:45 Break
Session 3 (4:45-6:00)
Thomas Williams, University of South Florida
Scotus’s Action Theory
6:30 Pizza at the A.D. White House (on campus)
Friday, May 29
Session 4 (9:00–10:15)
Peter Eardley, University of Guelph
Some Sources for Scotus’s Theory of the Will as a Rational Potency
10:15–10:45 Break
Session 5 (10:45–12:00)
David Bradshaw, University of Kentucky
The Concept of the Divine Energies
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session 6 (1:30-2:45)
Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Augustine and Avicenna on Souls in the Afterlife
2:45-3:00 Short break
Session 7 (3:00-4:15)
Deborah Black, University of Toronto
Some Thing in Avicenna
4:15-4:45 Break
Session 8 (4:45-6:00)
Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
Making and Making Be in Avicenna and Descartes
7:30 Dinner
Saturday, May 30
Session 9 (9:00-10:15)
Jeff Hause, Creighton University
Aquinas on Weakness, Fear, and Voluntariness
10:15-10:45 Break
Session 10 (10:45-12:00)
Matthew Klemm, Ithaca College
Philosophical Psychology and Medicine in Peter of Abano and Others
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session 11 (1:30-2:45)
Mary Sirridge, Louisiana State University
Supposition and the Fallacy of Figure of speech in the Abstractiones
2:45-3:00 Short break
Session 12 (3:00-4:15)
Andrew Arlig, Brooklyn College
Abelard on Material Constitution
4:15-4:30 Break
Session 13 (4:30-5:45)
Sydney Penner, Cornell University
Free and Rational: Suárez on the Will
6:30 Dinner
Participants

*Andrew Arlig, Brooklyn College
*Deborah Black, University of Toronto
*David Bradshaw, Univ. of Kentucky
Nate Bulthuis, Cornell University
Jed Delahoussaye, Southern Illinois Univ.
*Peter Eardley, University of Guelph
*Jeffrey Hause, Creighton University
Erik Kenyon, Cornell University
*Matthew Klemm, Ithaca College
Stephen Krogh, Duquesne University
*Rachel Lu, Univ. of St Thomas/Cornell
*Scott MacDonald, Cornell University
*Gareth Matthews, UMass, Amherst
Stephen Ogden, Yale/Notre Dame
*Sydney Penner, Cornell University
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto
*Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
Michael Siebert, University of Toronto
*Mary Sirridge, Louisiana State Univ.
Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College
Kate Waidler, Wheaton College
*Thomas Williams, Univ. of South Florida
David Zettel, Cornell University