Philosophy Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year
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- 3/21/06 (Tues)
"Lorenzo Valla and the Rise of Humanist Dialectic"
1:00PM
In Dodd Hall 399
In his Dialectica the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) tries to reform Aristotelian-scholastic metaphysics and dialectic. He wants to base dialectic on real language by studying argument and reasoning in context, rejecting the abstract approach of the scholastics. Common sense and linguistic practice based on a thorough knowledge of classical Latin should rule our thinking and writing about the word. In this paper Professor Nauta shall look at Valla’s program and consider its relationship to scholasticism, in particular Ockhamist nominalism. Lodi Nauta is Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is Discipline Representative in Philosophy of the Renaissance Society of America.-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 4/14/06 (Fri) through 4/15/06 (Sat)
E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop
In Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
This year's E.A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop is coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (UCLA). The program is made possible through the generous support of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Department of Philosophy, and the UCLA College of Letters and Science.Complete program to be announced. Advance Registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the Medieval Philosophy Workshop in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 6/11/06 (Sun) through 6/12/06 (Mon)
The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
"The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin"A conference at the Clark Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.
June 11-12, 2006
A conference organized by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky and Peter H. Reill, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Division of Humanities – Office of the Dean; the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Department of Philosophy; the UCLA Department of History; and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) had a long association with the Clark Library. He was Clark Professor in 1981-82 and 1997-98 and helped organize numerous lectures and conferences at the Clark Library. He and Juliet Popkin, his wife, have supported the annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy since 1999. This conference will seek to assess the legacies of the late Richard H. Popkin's work in the many fields he contributed to and helped to form: the history of philosophy and particularly the history of skepticism; Jewish studies and especially the history of Jewish-Christian interactions; the intersections of philosophical and religious thought; and the impact of millenarism.
Registration Deadline: June 5, 2006 Registration Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
To register, please visit this web site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11
Inquiries: 310-206-8552
Sunday, June 11 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA
Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA "Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy"
Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis "À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History"
Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University "Popkin’s Spinoza"
Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University "Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies"
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky "Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston"
Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University "The Third Force Revisited"
David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania "The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends"
Knox Peden, UC Berkeley "Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)"
5:00 p.m. Reception
Monday, June 12
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
10:00 a.m. Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside "Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition"
José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais "Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism"
Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale "The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context"
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories"
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University "The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field"
Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question"
David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University "Popkin and the Jews"
David N. Myers, UCLA "Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History"
-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11- 1/19/07 (Fri) through 1/21/07 (Sun)
E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop
In Dodd 399 (Friday) and Royce 306 (Saturday and Sunday)
A workshop coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA) that will consider the topic "Anselm and the Anselmian Tradition?". Participants include Professor Mary Beth Inghem (Loyola Marymount), Professor Rega Wood (Stanford), Professor Chris Martin (Auckland), Professor Peter King (Toronto), Dr. Tomas Ekenberg (Uppsala), Professor Mikko Yrjonsuuri (Helsinki), and Professor Henrik Lagerlund (University of Western Ontario). The schedule is available to download at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/moody_phil_works hop_2007.pdf.-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 11/6/07 (Tues)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Biblical Roots: Talmud, Disputation and the Torah"
4:00PM until 7:00PM
In Royce 306
Speakers to include Professors Bill Schniedewind (NELC, UCLA), Howard Wettstein (Philosophy, UCR), Eliott Dorff (American Jewish University). Reasoned debate was the core of Talmudic methodology, the Rabbinic method par excellence of discerning the Bible’s real meanings. The early Rabbis thought of the written Torah recorded by Moses as less extensive than the oral Torah known to the prophets and handed down to themselves. Debate over the oral Torah and its relation to the Bible was also summarized in the written Mishna and later Talmudic texts. Disputes about these texts and the oral traditions behind them generated great heat, but it was heat in the service of light. Strikingly, the Talmud says of divergent, even contradictory, teachings that 'these and also these others are the words of the Living God,' a principle that guided the early Rabbis as they developed methods of analyzing God’s words while holding sacred their own disputes about the meanings of those words.-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 11/20/07 (Tues)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Ancient Church Councils: How formal were they, and was there discussion?"
3:30PM until 6:30PM
In Royce 306
Speakers to include Thomas Graumann (University of Cambridge).-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 11/27/07 (Tues)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Disputing Love: Abelard, Heloise and Bernard of Clairvaux"
3:30PM until 6:30PM
In Royce 306
With Constant Mews (Monash University). Abelard, in 1115 the most celebrated logician of his day, fell in love with a brilliant and beautiful young student named Heloise. Their story of tragic love, starting with bad judgment, causing Abelard to be castrated, and ending in conventual solitude, was all the more dramatic because they were passionate debaters about despair, salvation and personal obligation in and out of wedlock. A current of disputation runs not only through the late letters that they exchanged after events tore them apart but also through an anonymous exchange of letters (preserved at the abbey of Clairvaux) that, it is argued, they wrote during the affair. The seminar will consider disputation about love as a consistent theme of their relationship from its earliest phases, comparing what they both had to say about love, with the reflections on the subject of Abelard’s famous adversary, Bernard of Clairvaux, whom Heloise once welcomed to the Paraclete.-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 12/4/07 (Tues)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "The Owl and the Nightingale: Philosophy and the Female Voice"
3:30PM until 6:30PM
In Royce 306
With Professor Christopher Cannon (New York University). The Owl and the Nightingale, a Middle English poem of nearly 1800 lines, was probably written in the early thirteenth century. Its Latin title calls the poem an argument (altercacio), but the quarreling birds follow rules of debate used by medieval orators and lawyers. In an agile range of styles, the owl’s unlovely philosophy contends with the nightingale’s blissful song on contentious topics that include lust, love, misogyny and innovations in worship. The absence of a conclusion may reflect doubts about the role of dialectic inside and outside the schools.-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
- 2/1/08 (Fri) through 2/3/08 (Sun)
Annual E.A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop
"Arguments, Disputations, and Obligationes: Medieval Theories"--Coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA).Place: Dodd Hall 399 on Friday; Royce 306 on Saturday; Dodd 399 on Sunday.
Time: 3-6 pm on Friday; 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
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