Moody Conference

For information about Ernest Moody go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Addison_Moody

Moody 2008

Friday Feb. 1 Dodd 399
        3 PM
   Christopher J, Martin: "Instantiae in the Parisian Schools"

Saturday Feb. 2 Royce 306
        10:00 AM
            Hans Thijssen; "Dilemmas in Writing about Medieval Natural philosophy"

        11:00 AM (or thereabouts)
Max Etchemendy "Bartholomew's World"


        1:30 PM
Rysiek Sliwinski "Obligational disputations revisited - a unifying approach"

         3:00 PM
             Catarina Dutilh Novaes "Epistemic clauses in obligational
rules: normative or descriptive?"

Moody 2007

Anselm and His Tradition
January 19-21

Friday, January 19
Dodd 399

4:00	Voluntarism and Anselm on Motivation Tomas Ekenberg, Uppsala and UCLA

Saturday, January 20
Royce Hall 306

10:00	Coffee
10:30	Anselm, Morality and Self-Interest Mikko Yrjonsuuri, Helsinki
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Lucifer's Logic or Anselm on Moral Agency Peter King, Toronto
3:30	Break
4:00	Anselm, Scotus and Self-Mastery Mary Beth Ingham, Loyola Marymount

Sunday, January 21
Royce Hall 306

10:00	Coffee
10:30	Less powerful than a fly's foot: Rufus' assessment of the Ontological Argument Rega Wood, Stanford
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Anselm's Moral Theology John Boler, Washington (Emeritus)

Moody 2006

Avicenna
April 14-15

All meetings in Royce Hall 306

Saturday, April 14

9:30	Thom and Tusi on Avicenna's Logic Tony Street, Cambridge
11:00	Al-Ghazali Avicenna's Semantics Taneli Kukkonen, Victoria
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Avicenna on Abstraction Richard Taylor, Marquette
3:00	Scotus on Avicenna on the Nature of Metaphysics Peter King, Toronto
4:30	Avicenna on the Soul Martin Tweedale, Alberta

Sunday, April 15
Royce Hall 314

9:30	The Number of Souls Mikko Yrjonsuuri, Jyvaskyla and Helsinki
11:00	Avicenna on 'I exist' and Self-Awareness Ahmed al-Wisha, UCLA
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Avicenna's 'Floating Man' and the Latin Tradition Chris Martin, Auckland

Moody 2005

Historiographical Issues in the History of Philosophy
January 28-30

Friday, January 28: Ancient Philosophy
Royce Hall 306

3:00	Welcome and Introduction
3:15	Cicero and Early Modern Philosophy: Some Notes on the Logic of the History of Ideas Phillip Mitsis (NYU, Classics)
4:45	Coffee Break
5:00	The Language(s) of the self: A case study Brad Inwood (University of Toronto, Classics)
6:30	Break
7:00	Conference Dinner

Saturday, January 29: Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy
Royce Hall 314

8:30	Continental Breakfast
9:00	After Medieval Philosophy, What? Bob Pasnau (University of Colorado, Philosophy)
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	In Defense of Looseness Jon Miller (Queen's University, Philosophy)
12:00	Break for lunch, excursion to the Getty
4:00	Treating (without Hope of Curing) the Pandora's Box Syndrome Alan Gabbey (Barnard, Philosophy)
5:30	Coffee Break
5:45	Taking the Fourth: Steps toward a new (old) Reading of Descartes Michael Della Rocca (Yale, Philosophy)
7:15	Break
7:30	Dinner

Sunday, January 30: Modern Philosophy
Royce Hall 314

8:30	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Hermeneutic Practices and Theories of Meaning Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy)
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Does Philosophy Change for Philosophical Reasons? Brian Copenhaver (UCLA, Philosophy)

This program was made possible through the generous support of
the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
the UCLA Department of Philosophy,
the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

The Moody series of annual conferences grew out of the "Alphabet Workshop" series at OSU, which ran from about 1990 to 1996. The Moody series has taken place UCLA from 1997 until the present. The conferences are sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Department of Philosophy. They are planned and implemented by Calvin Normore with a little help from his friends.

Previous Conferences

Moody 2004
"Lies and Liars"

Feb 13-15

Calvin Normore (UCLA) and Rega Wood (Stanford), Coordinators

Friday, Feb 13
Lilli Alanen: Rethinking Necessity and Making Sense: Descartes's doctrine of the creation of eternal truths

Saturday morning (9-12)
Kaye, Sharon (John Carroll University) Can I Lie While Saying that I am Lying?: William of Ockham and the Logic of Love
Karger, Elizabeth (CNRS, Paris) Ockham and Wodeham on Divine Deception as a Skeptical Hypothesis".

Saturday afternoon (1-5)
Peter King(Toronto) Augustine on Lying
Tomas Ekenberg: (Uppsala) On Having to Lie: Anselm and Compulsion
Jeff Brower: (Purdue) On Lie or Die Cases of Coercion

Sunday morning (9:30-1)
Al-Wishah, Ahmed (UCLA) The Arabic Liar Paradox
Sliwinxki, Rysiek (Uppsala) Buridan and self-referential puzzles
Tweedale, Martin (Alberta) Talk of Determinate vs. Indeterminate Truth in Boethius and Amonius as a Solution to the Problem of Future contingents.

Additional participants:
Chris Martin : Jennifer Ottman : Rega Wood : Mikko Yrjönsuuri : Deborah Brown : Calvin Normore : Terry Parsons

Moody 2003
"Truth and Proof in the Middle Ages"

Participants included (among others) John Boler, Deborah Brown, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Mary Beth Ingham,
Elizabeth Karger, Bonnie Kent, Peter King, Gyula Klima, Henrik Lagerlund, Neil Lewis, Christopher J. Martin,
Calvin Normore, Terry Parsons, Darko Sarenac, Martin Tweedale, Rega Wood.

Friday (January 31)

Saturday (February 1)

Sunday (February 2)

"Abaelard on Truth"
Peter King, Ohio State

"Abaelard on Proof"
Christopher J. Martin
Auckland University

"Veritas in De veritate"
John Boler, University of Washington

“Robert & Richard on Truth, Truths, and the Transcendentals"
Neil Lewis & Rega Wood, Georgetown & Stanford

"Formally and materially valid consequences according to Burley, Ockham and Buridan"
Elizabeth Karger, CNRS

"Consequences of a Token-Based Semantics: The Case of John Buridan"
Guyla Klima, Fordham

"Essences and the Formal Validity of Consequences"
Henrik Lagerlund, Uppsala

"Aristotelian Proof, Mathematical Proof"
Henry Mendell, CSULA

"Moody 2002 - - - TRUTH"

The 2002 conference took place in two parts, both on the UCLA campus. Participants did not present papers. Instead, each presenter presented a problem connected with truth; the participants and others discussed possible ways to approach the problem.

Part I - - - Feb 22-24

Participants: Peter Boschung (Zurich), Tomas Ekenberg (Uppsala), Peter King (OSU) Gyula Klima (Fordham), Henrik Lagerlund (Uppsala), Chris Martin (Auckland), Calvin Normore (UCLA), Terry Parsons (UCLA), Olaf Pluta (Nijemegen), Mikko Yrjonsuuri (Jyvaskala)

Friday 3:30 PM Olaf Pluta "Persecution and the Art of Writing" <exception to the "no paper" rule>

Saturday 10 AM. Anselm and Truth: Introduced by Tomas Ekenberg
Saturday 2:30 PM Truth in the Twelfth Century: The Melidunensis: Introduced by Chris Martin

Sunday 10 AM Ockham and Truth: Introduced by Mikko Yrjonsuuri
Sunday 2:30 PM Buridan and Truth: Introduced by Gyula Klima

Part II- - - April 12-14

Participants: Ahmed al-Wishah(UCLA), Josh Blander (UCLA), Susan Brower-Tolland (Cornell/St. Louis University), Phil Corkum (UCLA), Sharon Kaye (John Carroll Univeristy), Peter King (Ohio State University/University of Toronto), Calvin Normore (UCLA), Terry Parsons (UCLA), Olaf Pluta (Nijemegen), Stephen Read (St. Andrews University), Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado), Alan Vincelette (UCLA).

Friday, April 12: Stephen Read delivered the 2002 Brigitte Rosenkranz Lecture "Concepts & Meaning in Medieval Philosophy".
For further information about the Rosenkranz Lecture click here.

Saturday April 13: Sharon Kaye: a problem on Peter John Olivi and the background to Buridan's Ass.
Saturday April 13: Robert Pasnau: Aquinas on Abstract Truth.

Sunday April 14: Susan Brower-Tolland: Ockham on Objects of Judgment focussing on the question brought up in Sent. I d. 39 "Whether God can Know more than God Does", and Robert Holkot's response in his discussion of this question.

Moody 2001 - - The Logic of William of Ockham
Coordinated by Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA) and Rega Wood (Philosophy, Stanford).

Friday, February 16:
Simo Knuuttila (University of Helsinki) "Ockham on Fallacies"

Saturday, February 17:
Henrik Lagerlund (Uppsala Univ.) "Some Reflections of Modal Logic in and before Ockham"
Chris Martin (Univ. of Auckland) "Ockham and Formal Consequence"
Mikko Yrjonsuuri (Jyvaskyla Univ.) Ockham and Natural Consequence"

Sunday, February 18:
John Martin (Cincinnati) "Ockham on the Semantics of Privation"
Terry Parsons (UCLA) "Representing Ockham"

Moody 2000 - -

Moody 1999 - - The Work and Influence of Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus

Friday, February 19:
John Boler (University of Washington) "Aquinas on Exceptionless Moral Rules"

Saturday, February 20:
Deborah J. Brown (University of Queensland) "Thomas Aquinas: Saint and Private Investigateor"
Mikko Yrjonsurri (Univeristy of Joensuu, Finland) "Aquinas on the Self"
Peter O. King (Ohis State University) "Scholastic Theories of Mind"

Sunday, February 21:
Fabrizio Mondadori (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Scotist Possibilities"
Christopher J. Martin (University of Aukland) "More Logic on the Scotist Plan"

Moody 1998 - -

Moody 1997 - -