Time, Tense, and Modality

XXIII European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy, June 27-29, 2022


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Programme


Day 1 (Monday, June 27)

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-10:15

Welcome

Stephen Read: Simo Knuuttila in memoriam (online)

10:15-11:00

Session 1 (Mon-1)

chair: Costantino Marmo

Calvin Normore: Unrealizable Possibilities: Scotus, Auriol, Ockham (and Bradwardine)?

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:45

Session 1 (Mon-1)

chair: Costantino Marmo

Luisa Valente: Gilbert of Poitiers’ Analysis of the Category of Time in His Commentary on Boethius’ De Trinitate

Mark Thakkar: Tensed Modals and the Necessity of the Past in the Damianic Tradition

12:45-15:00

Lunch

15:00-16:30

Session 2 (Mon-2)

chair: Luisa Valente

Caterina Tarlazzi: Modes and Minds in the Time of William of Champeaux and Peter Abelard

Wojciech Wciórka: Future-Oriented Terms and Successive Beings around 1200

16:30-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:15

Session 2 (Mon-2)

chair: Luisa Valente

Heine Hansen, Enrico Donato: The Albricani on Time and Tense

Day 2 (Tuesday, June 28)

9:30-11:00

Session 3 (Tue-1)

chair: Paul Thom

Allan Bäck: Avicenna on Modal and Temporal Propositions

Harm Goris: Thomas Aquinas on Tenses and the Workings of the Human Intellect

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:45

Session 3 (Tue-1)

chair: Paul Thom

Jon Bornholdt: Aquinas, Maimonides, and the Tertia Via: Source, Structure, and Context

Fabrizio Amerini: Thomas Aquinas on the Omnitemporal Truth of Enuntiabilia

12:45-15:00

Lunch

15:00-16:30

Session 4 (Tue-2)

chair: Elżbieta Jung

Paul Thom: Gersonides’ Logic of Substantial and Accidental Change

Martyna Koszkało: Synchronic Contingency and the Problem of Predestination. John Duns Scotus' View

16:30-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:15

Session 4 (Tue-2)

chair: Elżbieta Jung

John Marenbon: Timeless Eternity as a Defence of Contingency. Aquinas and His Critics (online)

Luca Gili: De Dicto and De Re Modalities in Averroes' and Aquinas’ Arguments for and against the Eternity of Time (online)

Day 3 (Wednesday, June 29)

9:30-11:00

Session 5 (Wed-1)

chair: Krystyna Krauze-Błachowicz

Stephen Read: “Everything True Will Be False”: Paul of Venice’s Two Solutions to Insolubles (online)

Costantino Marmo: Time as Continuous Quantity in Brito's Philosophy

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:45

Session 5 (Wed-1)

chair: Krystyna Krauze-Błachowicz

Elżbieta Jung: Are Past Events Necessary? Richard Kilvington's Reflection on Time and Contingency

Davide Falessi: Ockham on Formal Contingency

12:45-15:00

Lunch

15:00-17:15

Session 6 (Wed-2)

chair: Marcin Trepczyński

Graziana Ciola: Ad impossibilia nemo tenetur? On Absolutely Impossible Referents in Mid-14th-Century 'Nominalist' Semantics

Boaz Schuman: What are Modals About?

Irene Binini: Medieval Theories on the Conceivability of the Impossible: A Survey of Impossible Positio in Ars Obligatioria During the 13th–14th Centuries