With our conference less than a week ahead, I can finally announce the final version of the program. A pdf version of the booklet is available here.
The conference will take place in the premises of the English Park Campus' Centre for the Humanities (Thunbergsvägen 3). For a map of the Centre, please consult this link.
By far the easiest way of getting to Uppsala from the Arlanda airport is the Upptåget, a commuter train that stops at all terminals. For further information, please consult this link.
Barring the possibility that I've forgotten something crucial, this will be the final post in this blog. Looking forward to meet everyone in Uppsala.
Subjectivity, Selfhood and Agency
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
The conference program
Subjectivity, Selfhood and Agency in the
Arabic and Latin Traditions
University of Uppsala, August 15-18, 2012
Jointly organized by
Subjectivity and Selfhood in the Arabic and Latin Traditions (ERC) and
Understanding Agency (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
Wednesday, August 15
15.30 Registration
17 Opening
address (Taneli Kukkonen & Tomas Ekenberg)
17.15-18.15 Keynote lecture: Taneli Kukkonen, TBA
19 Cocktail
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Thursday, August 16
9.30-10.30 Keynote lecture: Calvin Normore, 'Causa sui': Awareness and Choice in the Constitution of the Self
10.45-12.15 Panels
1 Aristotle transformed
Valérie Aucouturier, Aristotle after Descartes. Revisiting the
Issue of Intentionality in Action
Peter Lautner, Intellection as Reversion. Interpretations
of Aristotle’s Notion of the Intellect in actu in the Commentary Tradition in
Late Antiquity
Mika Perälä, Perceiving and Living Together with a
Friend: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 9.9
2 Self and self-awareness in Arabic philosophy
Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Avicenna on Non-Conceptual Content and
Self-awareness in Non-Human Animals
Joonas Maristo, Criticism of Avicennan concept of
self-awareness in Tahâfut al-Falâsifa of Abu Hâmid al-Ghazâlî
Inka Nokso-Koivisto, Human Archetype and the microcosm-macrocosm
analogy
Lunch
14-15.30 Panels
3 Plotinus
László Bene, Transmigration, self-constitution and moral
responsibility in Plotinus
Sara Magrin, Common sense transformed: Plotinus’ account
of the “conscious center”
Panayiota Vassilopoulou, The Interior Gaze: Plotinus on the
Individuation of Soul
4 Agency in Arabic and Latin philosophy
Janne Mattila, The Position of Philosophical Practice in
the Thought of al-Fârâbî and Avicenna
Traci Philipson, Averroes and Aquinas on Human Agency and
Personhood
Mostafa Younesie, Ta autou prattein/suum agere: Exploring
Political Agency in Avicenna?
16-17.30 Panels
5 The Augustinian tradition
Ekenberg, Tomas, Practical Rationality and the Wills of
Augustine’s Confessions 8
Tamer Nawar, Varieties of Self-Knowledge in Augustine
José Filipe Silva, Awareness, Intentionality and Perception in
Medieval Augustinianism
6 Selfhood and rationality: Greek, Arabic, Latin
Pauliina Remes, Phronesis in Neoplatonism
Richard Taylor, The Development of Averroes’s Conception of
the Self
Mikko Yrjönsuuri, Universality of Reason and the Individual
Self
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Friday, August 17
9.30-10.30 Keynote: Udo Thiel, TBA
10.45-12.15 Panels
6 Self-awareness in medieval Latin philosophy
Therese Scarpelli Cory, Self-Awareness and the Duality of Consciousness in Aquinas
Daniel De Haan, “Hic homo intelligit”: Deborah
Black, Bernard Lonergan, and Aquinas’s critique of Averroes
Sonja Schierbaum, What do I refer to when I say “I”? The
construction of the Self according to William of Ockham
7 Leibniz II: Cognition and Agency
Sebastian Bender, Reflection and Rationality in Leibniz
Peter Myrdal, Leibniz on Force and Agency
Markku Roinila, Leibniz on Apperception, Memory and
Attention
Lunch
14-15.30 Panels
8 Human and non-human subjects in medieval philosophy
Vesa Hirvonen, Children’s mind in Ockham’s philosophy
Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, Albert the Great on animal agency
Juhana Toivanen, Beasts, Human Beings, or Gods? Freedom and
Human Subjectivity in Medieval Political Philosophy
9 The early modern subject
Véronique Decaix, On the Genealogy of Modern Subjectivity:
Augustine, Dietrich of Freiberg, Descartes
Colin Chamberlain, The Cartesian Experience of Embodiment
Vili Lähteenmäki &
Christian Barth, Descartes and Knowledge
of the Self
16.00-17.30 Panels
10 Leibniz II: Subjectivity
Julia Borcherding, The Bounds of Reason: The Role of
Subjectivity in Leibniz and Spinoza
Kelley Schiffman, Perfection and Limitation in the Absolutely Perfect Being
11 Revisions of antiquity and modernity
Ina Nalivaika, Constructing the Self: The Self and Power in
Ancient Greece
Timothy Riggs, Evaluating Heidegger’s History of
Metaphysics: Proclus and Leibniz on the Structure of the Soul
12 Self in practical concerns in early modern thought
Ruth Boeker, Locke’s forensic term ‘person’ and his
account of personal identity in terms of consciousness
Christopher Edelman, Belonging to Oneself: Montaigne on Moral
Autonomy
Ilmari Karimies, Human self as the subject of communicatio
idiomatum in Martin Luther’s thought
19 Conference
dinner
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Saturday, August 18
10.15-11.15 Keynote lecture: Lilli Alanen, TBA
11.30-12.15 Open discussion / Final address (Taneli Kukkonen & Tomas Ekenberg)
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In all practical concerns, please
get in touch with Jari Kaukua (jari.kaukua@jyu.fi).
Monday, April 23, 2012
This blog is intended to provide the most up to date information concerning the conference Subjectivity, Selfhood and Agency in the Medieval and Arabic Traditions, to be held in August 15-18 in the University of Uppsala, Sweden. The conference program will be posted in June and updated until the conference dates. In the meantime, below is the call for papers for your information.
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CALL
FOR PAPERS
Subjectivity, selfhood and
agency in the Arabic and Latin Traditions
An international conference
on the history of philosophical psychology and moral psychology
August 15-18, 2012, Uppsala,
Sweden
Subjectivity,
consciousness, self-awareness, and the intentional aspects of perception and
apprehension are popular topics in the contemporary philosophy of mind. A
common thread amongst the various approaches to them has been dissatisfaction
with the Cartesian paradigm of a self-constituted subject that is perfectly
free in its volitions and epistemically transparent to itself, typically
presented as standard for the modern age. Working from the opposite end,
historians of philosophy and ethicists have noted that ancient and medieval ethics
operated in a strikingly different understanding of self. Far from subscribing
to the Cartesian notion, pre-modern moral philosophy generally took its cue
from the assumption that human selfhood is socially construed. Our instinctive
apprehension and evaluation of reality has as much to do with our upbringing as
it does with our conscious acts of cognition and evaluation.
It is in
the Middle Ages that these two lines of thought converge. Historians of philosophy
have noted that Descartes’ understanding of subjectivity did not develop in a
vacuum; rather, it represents the culmination of medieval debates, which in
turn build on ancient precedents. At the same time, the virtue ethics tradition
underwent significant transformations, thanks in part to pressures arising from
religious and legal considerations. These include a preoccupation with the
freedom of choice and one’s culpability for the character one acquires.
The present
conference invites abstracts for submissions relating to these issues in
Antiquity, the Latin and Arabic Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period. Relevant
questions to consider are, for example: descriptions and explanations of
consciousness and self-consciousness; degrees of self-consciousness; the
conceptual shift from soul as the form of the human body to human self; human
selves and the divine self; techniques of the self, constructability of the
self; social conditioning of human selfhood; and the dual concept of microcosm
and macrocosm.
The submissions will be
allotted 30 minutes for presentation and discussion. An abstract of max. 300
words should be sent for evaluation by January 31st, 2012, to
jari.kaukua@jyu.fi. At present, confirmed keynote speakers include Calvin
Normore and Udo Thiel.
Uppsala
is located about 70km north of Stockholm (20-30 minutes from Arlanda airport).
The fourth largest city in Sweden, Uppsala is an historical treasure with
beautifully preserved monuments from both the pre-Christian and the Christian
era. Uppsala University is the oldest in Scandinavia and presently a leading
international centre of higher learning and research.
The conference is jointly
financed by the University of Jyväskylä and Uppsala University, and organized
by two research groups, SSALT (Subjectivity and Selfhood in the Arabic and
Latin Traditions) in Jyväskylä and Understanding Agency in Uppsala.
For all further
enquiries, please consult jari.kaukua@jyu.fi.
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