American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, January 3-6, 2018
Thursday January 4, 12:00-2:00
Title: Medieval Theories of Perception
Chair: Luis X. López-Farjeat
Speakers:
– Deni Gamboa (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico), “The intension and remission of visions according to William of Ockham and Adam of Wodeham”
– Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame), “The Origin of the (Intelligible) Species? Cognitive Assimilation in Aquinas”
– Peter King (University of Toronto), “Perception in Action: Medieval Problems with Attention”
Thursday January 4, 5:15-7:15
Title: The origin of language in Islamic and Jewish traditions
Chair: Luis X. López-Farjeat
– Thérèse-Anne Druart (The Catholic University of America), “The origin of language in the Islamic tradition”
– Yehuda Halper (Bar-Ilan University), “The Divine Origins of Hebrew vs. the Aristotelian Origins of Logic: Creating a Hebrew Logical Language in Commentaries on the Organon“
– Stephen Ogden (Johns Hopkins University), SMRP Founder’s Award recipient: “The Unity Argument in Averroes”
