Schedule 2025

Venue: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture – 269 4th Avenue, Brooklyn

All times are New York time (EDT; UTC/GMT-4); Sessions begin promptly at the scheduled time

Handouts are available on the Materials page (password protected) near the time of the session

Wednesday – June 4

Session 1 (10:30-10:55)

Coffee & Cornetti

10:55 Welcome & Announcements

Session 2 (11:00–12:15)

Joseph Stenberg, Colgate University

Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness

12:15–14:15 Midday break

Session 3 (14:15–15:30)

Can Laurens Löwe, St Louis University

Aquinas on the Scope and Limits of the Will: The Case of the Perceptual Powers

15:30-15:45 Short break

Session 4 (15:45-17:00)

Jordan Lavender, Texas A&M University

Some Medieval Scholastics on Why Perceiving an Object is Like Looking at a Picture

Dinner (18:00)

Hilltop Tavern – 256 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn NY

Thursday – June 5

9:10 Welcome & announcements

Session 5 (9:15–10:30)

Dominic Dold, University of Notre Dame

Albert the Great on Definitions in Demonstrations

10:30-11:00 Break

Session 6 (11:00–12:15)

Andrew Van Arlig, Brooklyn College

Do All Good Dogs Go to Heaven?

12:15–14:15 Midday break

Session 7 (14:15–15:30)

Deni Gamboa, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

William of Ockham and Walter Chatton’s discussion on judgements and reflexivity

15:30-15:45 Short break

Session 8 (15:45-17:00)

Susan Brower-Toland, St Louis University

Physics and Ontology in Ockham

Dinner (18:00)

Bricolage – 162 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY – Menu

Friday – June 6

9:10 Welcome & announcements

Session 9 (9:15–10:30)

Nate Bulthuis, St Joseph’s University

Walter Burley on Propositional Content

10:30-11:00 Break

Session 10 (11:00–12:15)

Peter Hartman, Loyola University, Chicago

Wicked Minimalism: Anti-Affectionism and Anti-Representationalism in the High Middle Ages

12:15–14:15 Midday break

Session 11 (14:15–15:30)

Vikram Kumar, Purdue University

Using Logic to Read Scripture: Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana

15:30-15:45 Short break

Session 12 (15:45-17:00)

Scott MacDonald, Cornell University

Augustine on God’s Presence in Creation

Dinner (18:00)

Wild – 148 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY