Special Events at International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2023

Philosophical Entanglements in the Middle Ages: Nature and Science

International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2023

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PROGRAMME

NATURAL ENTANGLEMENTS I: C0NFUSED PERCEPTIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

04 JULY 2023 11.15-12.15     STAGE@LEEDS: STAGE 2

Sponsor: Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy (GPHNP)

VÉRONIQUE DECAIX, 'Stuff, as dreams are made on': Medieval Philosophers on Delusional Dreams
NICOLA POLLONI, The Sound of Silence: Using Confused Perceptions to Conceive Metaphysical Principies
YAEL KEDAR, Natural, lntentional, Physical, or Spiritual?: The Being of 'Species' and Fluctuating Categories in Medieval Thought

Moderator: GRÉGORY CLESSE

NATURAL ENTANGLEMENTS II: NEGLECTED VOICES IN PRE-M0DERN SCIENCES

04 JULY 2023 14.15-15.45     STAGE@LEEDS: STAGE 2

Sponsor: Centre d'études sur le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, UCLouvain

ANTONELLA SANNINO, The Sense of Nature and Divination: William of Auvergne, Cornelius Agrippa, and Tommaso Campanella
ROBERT PODKOŃSKI, Non-Standard Conditions in the Description of Local Motion in Richard Swineshead's 'Liber calculationum'
ELŻBIETA JUNG, Richard Kilvington's Methodology of Natural Science

Moderator: GRÉGORY CLESSE

NATURAL ENTANGLEMENTS III: CROSSING LITERATURE, NATURAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHICAL FICTION IN MEDIEVAL WRITING

04 JULY 2023 16.30-18.00     STAGE@LEEDS: STAGE 2

Sponsor: Centre d'études sur le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, UCLouvain

JONATHAN MORTON, Questions of Form in the Poetic Philosophy of the 'Romance of the Rose'
KELLIE ROBERTSON, Great Pieces of Turf
MICHELE CAMPOPIANO, Empire and Nature: Texts on Alexander the Great, Variety, and the Order of the Cosmos in Southern ltaly, 10th-13th Cenfuries

Moderator: ANTONELLA SCIANCALEPORE

WHAT DID MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY DO FOR US? CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENTANGLEMENTS. A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

04 JULY 2023 19.00-20.00     ESTHER SIMPSON BUILDING: 2.11

Sponsor: IPM Monthly

What is the point of studying medieval philosophy? At first sight, its direct impact on other disciplines seems to be negligable. lndeed, how can the clarification of abstruse interpretative frameworks written centuries ago contribute to historical reconstructions of the post or even contemporary philosophical debate? This round table discussion will discuss the interdisciplinary value of medieval philosophy for contemporary scholarship as mirrored by the structural entanglement on which the notion of philosophia was grounded. By contrasting how disciplines like cultural history, history of science, and literature deal with medieval philosophical theories, the round table will shed light on and deconstruct long-lasting biases against medieval philosophy and its supposed uselessness.

Participants: GRÉGORY CLESSE, MÁRIO JOÃO CORREIA, YAEL KEDAR, JONATHAN MORTON, PAULA OLIVEIRA E SILVA, AND NICOLA POLLONI.

Moderator: MARIA EDUARDA MACHADO

MAPPING THE ORIGINS OF THE 'MIDDLE KNOWLEDGE' DOCTRINE: DISENTANGLING THE NOTIONS OF NECESSITY, CONTINGENCY, AND DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE, I

Sponsor: Project 'Does God Know the Contingents? The Origin in the 16th Century of the Middle Knowledge Doctrine', Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto

05 JULY 2023 09.00-10.30     MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING: LG.15

VERA RODRIGUES, Aux origines de la doctrine de la scientia media chez Pedro da Fonseca: nécéssité et conséquence du Commentaire au Liv. VI de la Metaphysique d'Aristote' aux 'lnstitutionum dialecticarum'
MARIA EDUARDA MACHADO, Caetano's Reading of Aquinas on the Compatibility between Divine Knowledge through Ideas and lntuitive Divine Knowledge
PAULA OLIVEIRA E SILVA, Is There Room for Contingency in Divine Knowledge? Alphonsus Vargas de Toledo and Alphonsus Mendonza's Answers

Moderator: JOÃO REBALDE

MAPPING THE ORIGINS OF THE 'MIDDLE KNOWLEDGE' DOCTRINE: DISENTANGLING THE NOTIONS OF NECESSITY, CONTINGENCY, AND DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE, II

Sponsor: Project 'Does God Know the Contingents? The Origin in the 16th Century of the Middle Knowledge Doctrine', Instituto de Filosofla, Universidade do Porto

05 JULY 2023 11.15-12.45     MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING: LG.15

DAVID TORRIJOS-CASTRILLEJO, The Modification of the Medieval Notion of Divine Foreknowledge in Luis de Molina's Middle Knowledge
JOÃO REBALDE, Alfonso Mendoza's Middle Knowledge Doctrine
MÁRIO JOÃO CORREIA, The Consequences of Pedro Luis' Molinism for His Christology
Moderator: PAULA OLIVEIRA E SILVA

Organisation

Nicola Polloni (KULeuven), Paula Oliveira e Silva (IF-UPorto), Antonella Sciancalepore (UCLouvain), João Rebalde (IF-UPorto)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven — Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve — Universidade do Porto (Instituto de Filosofia)