The second session of two Medieval Philosophy mini-colloquia will take place in the Meeting Room, E Staircase, New Court, Trinity College, from 5.00 to 7.10 pm, on Tuesday 6 March. Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS, Paris) will give a paper 'The Rise of Logic as a General Educational Standard in the Latin West: contrasting traditions and contexts in Europe'. John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge) will give a paper 'Aristotle in the Latin and the Arabic Traditions: a comparison in the social history of logic'. There will be drinks after the talks. A map indicating the routes from Porter's Lodge to E Staircase, New Court, Trinity College can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsis61l5rf6koq1/Map-Medieval%20Mini-Colloquia.png?dl=0
Below are the abstracts of the two papers given in this session. Julie Brumberg-Chaumont: The Rise of Logic as a General Educational Standard in the Latin West: contrasting traditions and contexts in Europe One way of addressing the project of a social history of logic in the Middle Ages is to focus on the social significance of a phenomenon observed in the second half of the thirteenth century, that is the rise of logic as a generalised educational standard, in religious schools as well as in universities, even in areas where logical teaching was previously not so important, as in Italy. By ‘Logic in the Middle Ages’ is meant something different from ‘medieval logic’, the medieval contribution to the field of logic. Study of Logic in the Middle Ages focusses on the place and role of logic within medieval society, where logic as a school discipline is the obvious, though not exclusive, object for a history of logical education. As I see it, the inquiry can and must none the less have a doctrinal dimension, since logic as a school discipline (a human skill and a science) is also a concept to be investigated. The idea is to try to answer the question ‘What was logic? ‘by addressing the questions: ‘Where was logic (geographically, institutionally, textually and socially speaking)?’; Logic for whom?’ and ‘logic for what purpose?. The social history of the concept of logic as a discipline means here that a ‘strong’ and a ‘weak’ programme for the sociology of philosophical knowledge can be fruitfully combined and the debates between internalist and externalist approaches to the history of philosophy can be happily overcome. This could be termed a non-normative study of logic as a social and anthropological norm in the Middle Ages. John Marenbon: Aristotle in the Latin and the Arabic Traditions: a comparison in the social history of logic The medieval Latin and Arabic traditions of logic were based on much the same range of Aristotelian texts. Although there were some contacts, there was much less influence of Arabic work on Latin thinking here than in, for instance, metaphysics or philosophy of mind. Logic therefore offers a way to compare how, from a similar starting point, the two traditions developed differently, and to consider the various factors – intellectual, religious, institutional, social – at the basis of these differences. ================================ HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR/ CAMBRIDGE - PSL EXCHANGE SCHEME Was there anthropology in the Middle Ages? Does logic have a social history? There will be two mini-colloquia, under the aegis of the Cambridge - Paris Sciences et Lettres exchange scheme, exploring these themes, with papers given by Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS, Paris) and John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge). They will take place in the Meeting Room, E Staircase, New Court, Trinity College on Tuesday 27 February and Tuesday 6 March, from 5.00 to 7.10 pm. Seminar 1: Tuesday 27 February 5.00 John Marenbon: Introduction 5.05 Julie Brumberg-Chaumont: 'Logic and the Making of Humanity in Philosophical Anthropology of the Thirteenth Century' 6.10 John Marenbon: 'Anthropology and Ethnology in the Long Middle Ages' 7.10 Drinks Seminar 2: Tuesday 6 March 5.00 Julie Brumberg-Chaumont: 'The Rise of Logic as a General Educational Standard in the Latin West: Contrasting Traditions and Contexts in Europe' 6.10 John Marenbon: 'Aristotle in the Latin and the Arabic Traditions: a comparison in the social history of logic' 7.10 Drinks All welcome. Enquires to John Marenbon ([email protected]) please. -- Hanyang Liu MPhil in Philosophy Trinity College _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
