Medieval scholastic philosophers at the universities of Paris and Oxford, from 1200 to 1350, engaged in complex discussions about the nature of conscious experience. This conference aims to connect insights and arguments from medieval texts to contemporary philosophical discussions on consciousness.
The first conference took place in August 2024 at Loyola University, Chicago. A copy of the program is available here
The follow-up conference will be held from March 11-13, 2025, at the University of Würzburg, Germany. It will feature lectures and discussions based on pre-circulated papers.
The venue is the Institute of Philosophy at the Würzburg Residenz, located on the third floor of the south wing (Residenzplatz 2, 97070 Würzburg). Access is via Residenzplatz through the gate on the right; the entrance to the building is situated in the second inner courtyard of the south wing.
Registration is required. Please send an email to medievalconsciousness2024@gmail.com.
Participants:
Magdalena Bieniak (University of Warsaw): Self-Reflexivity and Philosophical Psychology
Susan Brower-Toland (St.-Louis University): Mind’s Reflexivity: Self-Knowledge & Consciousness in Later Medieval Philosophy
Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame): TBA
Lydia Deni Gamboa (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla): The First-Person Perspective in Ockham’s and Chatton’s Theories of Consciousness
Peter Hartman (Loyola University Chicago): Non-Representational Theories of State Consciousness
Peter King (University of Toronto): Why the Mind-Body Problem Still Isn’t Medieval
Martin Klein (University of Würzburg): Self-Consciousness and Memory
Jordan Lavender (Texas A&M University): Color, Qualia, and Subjectivity in Fourteenth-Century Scholasticism
André Martin (Charles University Prague): Consciousness and Cognitive Activity: Olivi and Auriol on the Soul’s Spiritual and Vital ActsCollege Station
Dominik Perler (Humboldt University Berlin): What Is It Like to Be in Pain? Medieval Debates about Phenomenal Consciousness
Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto): Self-Knowledge and Self-Presence of the Soul and Its Acts in late 13th-Century Philosophy
Christian Rode (University of Bonn): Higher-Order or Same-Order Theory? Peter of John Olivi on Self-Knowledge and Self-Experience
Sonja Schierbaum (Universität Würzburg): Consciousness and Virtuous Acts in Ockham
Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg University): First Personal Reflexive Knowledge about Oneself
Mark Textor (King’s College London): Self-Representationalism – Now with Feeling
© 2024, 2025 Peter Hartman, Martin Klein, Jordan Lavender