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).
