“NEW MATERIALS ON THE RECEPTION OF ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES

CONFERENCE, BYRON BAY, 17-18 DECEMBER 2006-11-28

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Sunday 9am

Harold Tarrant
 (University of Newcastle)

From Categories as Enemy to Categories as Friend: the path towards acceptance by Platonists

Sunday 10am

John Marenbon
 (University of Cambridge)

The Categories in the Latin tradition before Abelard: a survey of the evidence

MORNING TEA

Sunday 11.30pm

Chris Martin
 (University of Auckland)

Abaelard on the Structure of Substance

LUNCH

Sunday 2pm

Ken Parry
(
Macquarie University):

Aristotle and the Icon: the use of the Categories by Byzantine iconophile Writers

Sunday 3pm

Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens)

11th century Byzantine commentaries on Aristotle's Categories

AFTERNOON TEA

FREE TIME

 

Sunday 6.30pm     CONFERENCE DINNER:     600 COOLAMON SCENIC DRIVE, COORABELL     6684 7207

Monday 9am

Dimitri Gutas
(
Yale University)

The Categories in Arabic - a review of the sources; Al-Kindi on the Categories

Monday 10am

Allan Back
(
Kutztown University)

Avicenna's reception of the Categories

MORNING TEA

Monday 11.30am

Tony Street
(
University of Cambridge)

The Categories in post-Avicennan logic

LUNCH

Monday 2pm

Henrik Lagerlund
 (University of Western Ontario)

The Latin translations of Averröes’s commentaries on Porphyry and the Categories

Monday 3pm

Paul Thom
(Southern
Cross University)

Robert Kilwardby on the simultaneity of relatives

AFTERNOON TEA

Monday 4.30pm

Sten Ebbesen
(University of Copenhagen)

The Categories in Lutheran Denmark

DRINKS AND CANAPÉS

END OF CONFERENCE