2005 Summer Colloquium

Participants

Andrew Arlig, Ohio State University

E. J. Ashworth, University of Waterloo

Deborah L. Black, University of Toronto

John Boler, University of Washington

Susan Brower-Toland, St. Louis University

Blake Dutton, Loyola University, Chicago

Peter Eardley , University of Guelph

Kent Emery, University of Notre Dame

Bernd Goehring, Cornell University

Jeffrey Hause, Creighton University

Max Herrera, Marquette University

Peter King, University of Toronto

Christian Lickfett, Cornell University

Scott MacDonald, Cornell University

John Marenbon, Cambridge University

Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado

Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto

Jean Porter, University of Notre Dame

Paul Symington, State University of New York, Buffalo

Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University

Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College

Kate Waidler, Cornell University

Thomas Williams, University of Iowa

Schedule

Thursday, June 2

[1:00-2:30 Lunch (for those present and willing)]

2:30–2:45 Announcements

2:45–4:00 Session 1

Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College

Robert (Grosseteste) Redux

4:00–4:30 Break

4:30–5:45 Session 2

Jeffrey Hause, Creighton University

Striving for Merit: Abelard on the Battle Credit Model

[7:30 Pizza at Scott MacDonald’s House

(130 Sunset Drive)]

Friday, June 3

9:00–10:15 Session 3

Richard C. Taylor & Max Herrera, Marquette University

The Epistemology of Aquinas

with Special Reference to Arabic Sources

10:15–10:45 Break

10:45–12:00 Session 4

Deborah L. Black, University of Toronto

Avicenna’s Accounts of Self-awareness and Self-knowledge

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:45 Session 5

Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado

Medieval Scientia: Two or Three Things Scott Never Told You

2:45-3:00 Short break

3:00-4:15 Session 6

Blake Dutton, Loyola University, Chicago

Augustine on the Misery of the Skeptic

4:15-4:45 Break

4:45-6:00 Session 7

John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge

Writing a History of Medieval Philosophy

[7:15 Picnic at Stewart Park]

Saturday, June 4

9:00-10:15 Session 8

Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Idea of an Infused Virtue

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Session 9

Jean Porter, University of Notre Dame

Theories of Sin, Virtue and Human Action

in the Early Scholastic Period

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:45 Session 10

Andrew Arlig, The Ohio State University

The Impermanence of Everyday Objects:

Abelard on Increase and Mereological Constancy

2:45-3:00 Short break

3:00-4:15 Session 11

Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto

Henry of Ghent on the Categories

4:15-4:45 Break

4:45-6:00 Session 12

Thomas Williams, University of Iowa

The Doctrine of Univocity Is True and Salutary

[7:00 Dinner at Hai Hong Restaurant (602 W. State St.—corner of State and Meadow)]