Programma
Monday, October 17th
09.45 Welcome
10.00 PETER KING (University of Toronto): “The Enterprise of Medieval Logic”
10.45 SILVIA DI VINCENZO (IMT Lucca): “Like another God, or like the Phoenix: The role of modalities in the classification of universals in late medieval post-Avicennian Arabic logic (13th-14th century CE)”
11.30 Coffee Break
12.15 JULIE BRUMBERG (CNRS): “A newly-identified sophisma ‘Omnis homo de necessitate est animal’ (OHNEA) and Robert Kilwardby’s ‘approriation rule’ as a solution to the problem of the ‘two Barbaras’: consequences from universal to singular propositions in medieval logic”
13.00-14.30 lunch break
14.30 SUF AMICHAY (Cambridge University): “The Modal Argument ‘if God possibly is, God Necessarily is’ in 14th Century Europe”
15.15 Break
15.45 GUIDO ALT (Stockholm University): “Eternality and Modal Necessity”
Tuesday, October 18th
09.30 STEPHEN READ (University of St. Andrews): “Consequence and Signification in Fourteenth-Century Logic”
10.15 BOAZ SCHUMAN (University of Copenhagen): “Necessary Inferences As-of-Now (ut nunc)”
11.00 Coffee Break
11.45 ALESSANDRO CONTI (Università dell’Aquila): Bradwardine and the problem of future contingents
12.30 Lunch
14.00 DAVIDE FALESSI (Universität Luzern): “Ockham and Buridan’s reduction of accidental being and per se being to modal propositions”
14.45 CESAR REIGOSA (University of Gröningen): “Truth, Meaning and Future Contingents”
15.30 Coffee Break
16.15 BARBARA BARTOCCI and LAURENT CESALLI (University of Geneva): “An introduction to Richard Brinkley’s view on signification, truth and paradoxes”
Wednesday, October 19th
10.00 CHRISTOPHER J. MARTIN (University of Auckland): “Impossible Positio and the Foundations of Metaphysics”
10.45 MONIKA MICHAŁOWSKA (Medical University of Łódź): “At the Intersections of Ethics and Logic: Richard Kilvington on the Will”
11.30 Coffee Break
12.15 SYLVAIN ROUDAUT (University of Stockholm): “Studying nature through thought experiments: William Heytesbury and Richard Swineshead on types of impossibilities and valid inferences”
13.00 Lunch
14.30 GRAZIANA CIOLA (Radboud University Nijmegen): “Hic et Nunc: Points, Instants and the Usefulness of Impossible Tools in “Nominalist” Logic After Buridan”
15.15 Break
15.45 MASSIMO MUGNAI (Scuola Normale Superiore): “Gerolamo Saccheri on consequence and modalities”
16.30 End of works
