Medieval Theories of Consciousness (Chicago, 2024)

Conference Schedule

Monday, August 19
 
09:15 AM - Welcome
Chair: Therese Cory (Notre Dame)
09:30 – 10:45 AM - Dominik Perler (HU Berlin): What Is It Like to Be in Pain? Medieval Debates about Phenomenal Consciousness
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM - Peter King (Toronto): Why the Mind-Body Problem Still Isn't Medieval
Lunch
Chair: Seyed N Mousavian (LUC)
02:15 – 03:30 PM - Lydia Deni Gamboa (Puebla): The First-Person Perspective in Chatton's Theory of Consciousness
04:00 – 05:15 PM - Jordan Lavender (Purdue): Color, Qualia, and Subjectivity in Fourteenth-Century Scholasticism
Dinner
Tuesday, August 20
 
Chair: Jeff Brower (Purdue)
09:30 – 10:45 AM - Martin Pickavé (Toronto): Henry of Ghent on Self-Knowledge and Self-Presence
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM - Christian Rode (Bonn): Higher-Order or Same-Order Theory: Peter of John Olivi on Self-Knowledge and Self-Experience
Lunch
Chair: Kristen Irwin (LUC)
02:15 – 03:30 PM - Martin Klein (Würzburg): Episodic Memory and State Consciousness in Scotus and Others
04:00 – 05:15 PM - Susan Brower-Toland (Saint Louis): Mind's Reflexivity: Self-Knowledge & Consciousness in Later Medieval Philosophy
Dinner
Wednesday, August 21
 
Chair: TBA
09:30 – 10:45 AM - André Martin (Prague): Consciousness and Vital Acts in Medieval Cognitive Theory
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM - Peter Hartman (LUC): Non-Representational Theories of Consciousness