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The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

Sponsored by the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Boston College.
Contact: Prof. Stephen Brown, Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology
tel.: 617-552-0436, email: brownst@bc.edu


2007-2008 Schedule

Thursday, September 6, 2007
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 521

Nadja Germann
Assistant Lecturer and Researcher, University of Freiburg

"Philosophizing without Philosophy:
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan (the Self-Taught Philosopher) in Context"

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Monday, October 15, 2007
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 321

Antonie Vos Jaczn
Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Utrecht

"Scotus Can Speak for Himself: His Personal Defense of Freedom"

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Monday, December 3, 2007
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 321

Bernd Goehring
Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame

"Henry of Ghent on Human Knowledge and Its Limits"

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Monday, 25 February, 2008
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 321

Dallas G. Denery II
(Bowdoin College)

"Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention of   Epistemological Relativism"

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Monday, 10 March, 2008
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 321

Sarah Coakley
(Harvard University)

"In Persona Christi: Desire, Gender and The Eucharist"

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Wednesday, 2 April, 2008
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 521

Charles H. Manekin
(University of Maryland)

"The Ambiguous Impact of Scholastic Philosophy on Medieval Jewish Philosophy"

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2006-2007 Schedule

Monday, September 25, 2006
7:30 p.m., Fulton 110

Scott MacDonald
Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell University

"The Paradox of Inquiry in Augustine's Confessions"

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
7:30 p.m., McGuinn, Fifth Floor Lounge (521)

Martin Stone
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

“Adam of Utrecht and the Transformation of Moral Thought in Fifteenth-Century Louvain”

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Friday, April 20, 2007
4:00 p.m., Cushing 001

Richard C. Taylor
Associate Professor, Marquette University

"Averroes' Mature Doctrine of Separate Intellects: The Function of Insights from Themistius."

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2005-2006 Schedule

All lectures will be held at 7:30 P.M,.

at Boston College, McGuinn, Fifth Floor Lounge (521)

Monday, September 12, 2005

Arthur Madigan, S.J.

Professor of Philosophy, Boston College

 “What Happened to Aristotle’s Teleology in the 20th Century?”

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Monday, October 17, 2005

Reinhard Hütter
Associate Professor of Theology
The Divinity School, Duke University

 “Grace and Freedom in the ‘initium fidei’ in St. Augustine and St. Thomas”

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Monday, November 7, 2005

Theo Kobusch
Universitätsprofessor of Philosophy
University of Bonn

 “Categories of Freedom:
Stages in an Historical Development: Pufendorf, Kant, Chalybaeus”

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Simo Knuuttila
Professor of Theological Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
University of Helsinki

    “John Duns Scotus on Emotions”    

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Monday, April 3, 2006

Jeanne Heffernan
Professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions
Villanova University

 “A Vindication of Particular Loves: Friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas”