Toronto-Berlin-Groningen Workshop on Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

This workshop brings together graduate students and scholars who work on medieval and early modern philosophy. It is the third event in a continuous series of workshops, jointly organized by faculty members from Toronto, Berlin and Groningen, and kindly supported by the Nicolaas Mulerius Foundation. All welcome!

Programme Thursday, Dec 5, Van Swinderen Huys

12:30-13:00    Welcome and Introduction  

13:00-14:30  Matthew Siebert (Toronto): “Aquinas's Social Epistemology” Martin Lenz (Groningen): Commentary Discussion

14:30-15:00    Break  

15:00-16:30  Bianca Bosman (Groningen): “Formal and material consequences in Buridan” Stephan Schmid (Berlin): Commentary Discussion

16:30-17:00    Break  

17:00-18:30  Martin Klein (Berlin/Groningen): “John Buridan in Favour of Abstractionism”  Martin Pickavé (Toronto): Commentary Discussion  

Friday, Dec 6, Van Swinderen Huys

09:00-10:30  Ariane Schneck (Berlin): “Freedom as the reign of reason? Descartes' theory of judgment”  Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen): Commentary Discussion

10:30-11:00    Break  

11:00-12:30  Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Groningen): “Modern Problems, scholastic solutions? – Cartesianism and the scholastic heritage in the philosophy of Robert Desgabets” Dominik Perler (Berlin): Commentary Discussion

12:30-14:00    Lunch  

14:00-15:30  Hugh Hunter (Toronto): “Berkeley on Free Will”   Lodi Nauta (Groningen): Commentary Discussion

15:30-16:00    Break  

16:00-17:30  Adam Harmer (Toronto): “Pre-established Harmony and Mind-Body Union” Christian Barth (Berlin): Commentary Discussion

17:30-18:00    Break  

18:00-19:30  Evening Lecture Marleen Rozemond (Toronto): “Consciousness and the Early Modern Mind-Body Problem” Discussion

Saturday, Dec 7, Faculty of Philosophy, Room Omega

09:00-10:30  Sebastian Bender (Berlin): “Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason – Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR” Brian Embry (Toronto): Commentary Discussion

10:30-11:00    Break  

11:00-12:30  Job de Grefte (Groningen): “Pragmatic Justification in the Treatise: Providing a Modern Framework for Conceiving Hume’s Views on the Justification of Induction” Donald Ainslie (Toronto): Commentary Discussion

Contact: Martin Lenz ([email protected])