Full poster is here.
Thursday, 18 October
1:00 - 2:30 Margaret Cameron (University of Victoria, Canada):
‘Semantic Modality: Some Twelfth-Century Debates’
3:30 - 5:00 Calvin Normore (University of California in Los Angeles, America):
‘Ockham, Time, and Modality’
Friday, 19 October
9:00 - 10:30 Paul Thom (University of Sydney, Australia): ‘Modal Semantics based on the Relation between
Intentions: the cases of Avicenna and Kilwardby’
11:00 - 12:30 Simo Knuuttila (University of Helsinki, Finland):
‘Unrealized Possibilities in Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy’
2:00 - 3:30 GRAD STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:
Jared Richards (Western University, Canada): ‘Jean Buridan’s Modal Logic’
Sarah Hogarth Rossiter (Western University, Canada):
‘The Modal Logic of Thomas Bradwardine and the Problems of Formalism’
Garrett Smith (University of Notre Dame, America):
‘A Scotistic Criticism of Duns Scotus’ Theory of the Possibles’
3:30 - 5:00 Gloria Frost (University of St. Thomas, America):
‘Aquinas and Scotus on the Causal Origin of Contingency in the Created World’
Saturday, 20 October
9:00 - 10:30 Mikko Yrjönsuuri (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
‘Conceivability in Fourteenth-Century Modal Theory’
11:00 - 12:30 Asad Ahmed (University of California in Berkeley, America):
‘The Modal Strengths of Legal Judgments in Islamic Law’
2:00 - 3:30 Sara Uckelman (Tilburg University, Netherlands): ‘Epistemic
Modalities in Fourteenth-Century Obligationes"
“Modality and Modal Logic in Medieval Philosophy” is organized by Sarah Hogarth Rossiter
([email protected]) and Henrik Lagerlund ([email protected]) in the Department of Philosophy at
Western University. All inquiries should be directed to the organizers. We wish to thank the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of Philosophy and the Office
of the Dean of Arts and Humanities at Western for their generous financial support. This is the seventh
annual Western Ontario Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy