Program
Tuesday 12th June
10:00-10:15
Alain de Libera (Université de Genève – EPHE, Paris):
Opening of the symposium
I. Formal Semantics
I.1 Semantic issues and formal strategies
10:15-11:00
Terence Parsons (University of California, Los Angeles):
"Medieval Logic is Comparable to Contemporary (Philosophical) Logic"
Café
11:30-12:15
Leone Gazziero (Université de Genève):
“Utrum figura dictionis sit fallacia in dictione. Et quod non videtur. How Medieval Logicians Came to Account for an odd Question by an Impossible Answer”
Lunch
13:45-14:30
Ana Maria Morá-Marquez (Københavns Universitet):
“13th Century Masters of Arts on Equivocation”
14:30-15:15
Harald Berger (Universität Graz):
“Sortes differt ab omni homine: A Tension in Albert of Saxony’s Concept of Merely Confused Supposition”
Café
15:45-16:30
Luca Sbordone (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa):
“Semantics and Pragmatics of Reference. Elements of a contemporary theory of supposition”
Dinner
Wednesday 13th June
I.2 Semantics of Natural or Ideal Language?
09:00-09:45
Allan Bäck (Kutztown University):
“Aristotelian Protocol Languages”
09:45-10:30
Raina Kirchhof (Universität Düsseldorf) / Christoph Kann (Universität Düsseldorf):
“Formal Elements in Natural Language - Sherwood's Syncategoremata revisited"
Café
11:00-11:45
Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal):
“Ockham on Synonymy and Mental Language”
11:45-12:30
Ernesto Perini Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais):
“The underdetermination of the structure of mental language in Ockham and Buridan”
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Joël Biard (Université de Tours):
“Le langage ordinaire de Jean Buridan”
14:45-15:30
Stephen Read (University of St Andrews):
“Non-Normal Propositions in Buridan’s Logic”
Café
16:00-16:45
Jennifer Ashworth (University of Waterloo):
“How Natural is Natural Language? Some Post-medieval Discussions”
16:45-17:30
Irène Rosier-Catach (CNRS-EPHE, Paris)
"Logique et theologie à Port Royal: le sens 'ordinaire' et 'catholique' de 'hoc est corpus meum' "
Thursday 14th June
Free morning, walk on the Salève for those interested
II. Formal Logic – Hylomorphism and Formal Validity
14:00-14:45
Yukio Iwakuma (Fukui Prefectural University):
“On Medium, a type of argumentation in the early 12th century”
14:45-15:30
John MacFarlane (University of Berkeley):
“The Origins of Logical Hylomorphism”
Café
15:30-16:15
Christopher Martin (University of Auckland):
“Abelard’s Notion of Formality”
16:15-17:00
Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS, Paris):
“Forme et matière dans l'analyse des raisonnements sophistiques”
Friday 15th June
09:00-09:45
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen):
“The Form of a Syllogism – Figure or Mood?”
09:45-10:30
Paul Thom (University of Sydney):
“Reduction to syllogistic form”
Café
11:00-11:45
Sara Uckelman (Tilburg University):
“More than formality: The role of dialectical contexts in medieval logic”
11:45-12:30
Joke Spruyt (Maastricht University):
“John Wyclif on the Formal Nature of Inference”
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Riccardo Strobino (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):
"Formaliter sequi. A discussion of logical consequence in the late XIVth century”
14:45-15:30
Mikko Yrjönsuuri (Jyväskylän Yiliopisto):
“Consequentia formaliter formalis in Paul of Venice and other kinds of formal validity”
Café
16:00-16:45
Paloma Perez-Ilzarbe (Universidad de Navarra):
“Aristotelian syllogistic meets terminist logic: on the formality of the expository syllogism”
Aperopause
17:15-18:45
Round Table: How Formal is Medieval Logic?
With the participation of: Jennifer Ashworth, Allan Bäck, Harald Berger, Joël Biard, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Fabrice Correia, Paolo Crivelli, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Sten Ebbesen, Leone Gazziero, Yukio Iwakuma, Christoph Kann, Raina Kirchhoff, Simo Knuuttila, Alain de Libera, John MacFarlane, Costantino Marmo, Ana Maria Morá-Marquez, Kevin Mulligan, Christopher Martin, Terence Parsons, Paloma Perez-Ilzarbe, Ernesto Perini Santos, Shahid Rahman, Stephen Read, Irène Rosier-Catach, Luca Sbordone, Joke Spruyt, Riccardo Strobino, Paul Thom, Sara Uckelman, Mikko Yrjönsuuri.
Dinner
Saturday 16th June
III. Medieval and Contemporary Conceptions of Formal Approaches
10:15-11:00
Sten Ebbesen (Københavns Universitet):
“Habitudines locales and Logic as a Formal Discipline”
Café
11:30-12:15
Simo Knuuttila (Helsingin Yiliopisto):
“Duns Scotus on the Propositionality of Infinite Knowledge”
12:15
Alain de Libera
Conclusion of the Symposium and futura contingentia