Immateriality, Thinking and the Self in the Long Middle Ages

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy

This conference is being given with the support of the British Academy,
Peking University, The Philosophy Faculty of the University of Cambridge and
Trinity College, Cambridge.

All who are interested are welcome to attend any of the sessions.

 

Tuesday 14 July

9.00  Huw Price, Welcome to the Cambridge Philosophy Faculty

9.15 John Marenbon, Introduction: Immateriality, Thinking and the Self in
the Long Middle Ages

9.45 Tianyue Wu, Aquinas on the Individuation of Thinking  [Respondent: John
Marenbon]

11.00   Coffee break

11.20  Martin Klein, Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and the Immaterial Nature of
the Human Intellect

12.20  Lunch  (A sandwich lunch in the Allhusen Room, Trinity College is
provided for all participants in the conference)

1.45 Elena Baltuta, Three Accounts of Form and Matter in the Thirteenth
Century: Aquinas, Kilwardby and Olivi

2.45 Daniel de Haan, Under the Conditions of Matter: Thomas Aquinas on the
Quasi-Immateriality of Cogitative Thinking 

 

3.45  Coffee break

 

4.00  Anselm Oelze, Material Souls, Material Thoughts? Some Medieval Views
on Rational Operations in Non-Rational Animals

 

Wednesday 15 July

9.00   Qilin Li, Safety and the Lottery Puzzle: a case study for the
distinction between epistemic safety and probability [Respondent: tba]

 

10.00  Jane Heal, Metaphysical atomism and the attraction of materialism

10.45  Coffee

11.00  Craig French, The Argument from Illusion and Immateriality

12.00  Chris Meyns, Extended Souls

1.00    Lunch

2.30   Zhe Liu, Merleau-Ponty's Structuralist Naturalism: a radical form of
Cartesianism  - [Respondent: TBA]

 

3.45 Jari Kaukua, [on immateriality and the self in the Islamic Long Middle
Ages] - respondent: Ayman Shihadeh

5.00  Coffee break

5.20   Discussion  Medieval and contemporary views of the distinction
between material and immaterial things  [Special participants: Sophie
Connell, Natalja Deng, Caterina Tarlazzi, Derek Matravers]

6.20  End of conference

 

Abstracts of the papers are attached and will be posted on the Faculty of
Philosophy website. Enquiries to [email protected]

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