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"
*
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"
*
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"
*
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"
*
Monday, 10 March, 2008
7:30 p.m., McGuinn 321
Sarah Coakley
(Harvard University)
"In Persona Christi: Desire, Gender and The Eucharist"
*
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"
*
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”
*
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?”
*
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”
*
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
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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”