Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology
(Bradley Lectures in Medieval Philosophy)
Sponsored
by the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Boston College, with the support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation until spring 2006.
Contact:
Prof. Stephen Brown, Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, tel.: 617-552-0436, email: brownst@bc.edu
2007-2008 Schedule
All lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m.
Cushing Auditorium, Cushing 001, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Buffet dinner and discussion to follow all lectures
in McElroy Faculty Dining Room
Friday, October 5, 2007
Giulio Silano
St Michael's College, University of Toronto
"Peter Lombard's Sentences: Are they original? Does it matter?"
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Charles Butterworth
Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
"Alfarabi's Goal: Political Philosophy, not Political Theology"
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2006-2007 Schedule
Friday, November 17, 2006
Constant Mews
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University (Australia)
"Peter Abelard, Hugh of St.-Victor and the Chartrians:
Communities of Learning in the Twelfth Century"
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Richard Taylor
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
"Averroes' Mature Doctrine of Separate Intellects:
The Function of Insights from Themistius"
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2005-2006 Schedule
Friday, October 28, 2005
Claude Panaccio
Professor of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal
“Ockham and Locke on Mental Language”
Respondent: André Goddu, Stonehill College
Friday, November 18, 2005
Denys Turner
The Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology
Yale Divinity School
“Faith, Reason and the Eucharist: Music
as a Model for their Harmony”
Respondent: Bruce Morrill, S.J., Boston College
Friday, January 20, 2006
Joseph Wawrykow
Associate Professor of Theology
University of Notre Dame
“Christ and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit According to Aquinas”
Discussant: Boyd Taylor Coolman, Boston College
Monday, February 6, 2006
Alain de Libera
Professor of Philosophy, University of Geneva
“Aquinas on Mind: the Averroistic Turn”
All lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m.
Cushing Auditorium, Cushing 001, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Buffet dinner and discussion to follow all lectures
in McElroy Faculty Dining Room
Archives 1998-2005
Fall 1998
Friday, September 18, 1998
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Professor of Italian Languages and Literature
Yale University
“The Language of Fraud: Inferno XXXI-XXXIII”
Friday, October 2, 1998
Michael Clanchy
Research Fellow
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
“Struggling for the Soul of Western Culture-
Abelard, Heloise and St. Bernard”
Friday, November 13, 1998
Stephen Gersh
Professor of Medieval Studies
Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
“The Neoplatonic Sources of Late Medieval Mysticism”
Spring 1999
Friday, February 12, 1999
Pier Beatrice
Professor of Patristics, Università di Padova
Joseph Chair Professor of Patristic Theology, Boston College
“An Introduction to the Theosophy”
Friday, March 26, 1999
Richard Frank
Professor of Semitics, The Catholic University of America
“The Language of Kalâm (Theology)”
Friday, April 23, 1999
Br. Ansgar Santogrossi, o.s.b.
Professor of Philosophy, Mount Angel Abbey
“The ‘Integralism’ of Thomas Aquinas:
Is it Philosophically Coherent?”
Fall 1999
Friday, September 24, 1999
Stephen Dumont
Associate Professor, Centre for Mediaeval Studies and Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
“Did Duns Scotus Change his Mind on the Will?”
Saturday, October 30, 1999
Students’ First Fruits
Michael Harrington
Department of Philosophy, Boston College
“Bringing the Apophatic into the Soul: Dionysius, Maximus, Eriugena”
Matthew Levering
Department of Theology, Boston College
“Israel and the Shape of Thomas Aquinas's Soteriology”
Michael Miller
Department of Philosophy, Boston College
“The Nature and Will of a Servant”
Monday, December 6, 1999
Enrico Berti
Professor of Philosophy, University of Padua
Spring 2000
Friday, February 18, 2000
Richard Schenk
Director, Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research and
Vice-Chancellor of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, at Berkeley
“Robert Grosseteste’s Attitude towards Judaism”
Friday, March 17, 2000
Colloquium on Medieval Encounters between the Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Theology”
Stephen F. Brown,
Professor of Theology, Boston College
Kent Emery
Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame
Andreas Speer
Associate Professor, Thomas-Institut, Köln
Friday, March 31, 2000
Theo Kobusch
Professor of Systematic Theology, Institute for Philosophy and Theology, University of Bochum
“Peter Aureol’s Rehabilitation of Intentional Being”
Fall 2000
Wednesday, November 1, 2000
James McEvoy
Dean of Philosophy, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
“The Second Reception of Greek Apophaticism by the Latins, 1220-1250”
Spring 2001
Friday, March 23, 2001
Anthony J. Celano
Professor of Philosophy, Stonehill College
“From Priam to the Good Thief: The Significance of a Single Event in Greek Thought and Medieval Moral Teaching”
Friday, April 20, 2001
Giorgio Pini
Faculty of Philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
“Scotus on Concepts”
Fall 2001
Monday, October 1, 2001
Jan P. Beckmann
Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Philosophy, Fern University, Hagen
“Necessity, Contingency, Freedom: Reception and Transformation of Ancient Philosophy by the Medievals and its Influence on the Formation of Modern Thought”
Friday, October 26, 2001
Carlos Steel
Professor of Philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy
Director, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven
“Abraham and Ulysses: Christian and Neoplatonic Eschatology”
Spring 2002
Friday, February 1, 2002
Steven Marrone
Professor of History, Tufts University
“Science and the Sciences in Medieval Scholasticism”
Fall 2002
Friday, November 1, 2002
James F. Ross
Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania
“Faith and Theology: Chasing the Wind (Eccl. 1.17)”
Friday, December 6, 2002
Fergus Kerr
Regent of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford
Honorary Senior Lecturer, New College, University of Edinburgh
Randall Distinguished Professor of Christian Culture, Providence College
“Entity or Event? Thomas Aquinas’s God”
Spring 2003
Friday, February 7, 2003
Peter Augustine Lawler
Dana Professor of Government, Berry College
“The Utopian Eugenics of Our Time”
Friday, March 21, 2003
Rev. George H. Tavard, A.A.
Professor Emeritus of Theology, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
“Did Pope Alexander IV Condone a Heresy?”
Fall 2003
Friday, September 12, 2003
Michael Gorman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
“Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Christ’s Human Nature”
Friday, October 17, 2003
Robert Miner
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
“Augustinian Recollection”
Spring 2004
Friday, February 13, 2004
John F. Wippel
Theodore Basselin Professor of Philosophy
School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
“Thomas Aquinas on the Separated Soul’s Natural Knowledge”
Friday, April 30, 2004
Rev. Juvenal Merriell
Oratorian Fathers, Toronto
“Augustine and Aquinas on the Image of the Trinity”
Fall 2004
Friday, October 2004
Marcia Colish
Lecture of History, Yale University
“Ambrose of Milan on Chastity”
Friday, November 12, 2004
Jack Zupo
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
“What is the Place of Logic in the Arts Curriculum? Some Fourteenth-Century Views on the ‘Arts of Arts’”
Spring 2005
January 28, 2005
Herbert Kessler
Professor of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
“Christ’s Dazzling Black Face in Medieval Art”
April 15, 2005
Jean-Luc Solère
Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
“Cartesian and Medieval Ethics”