John Philoponus: Texts, Contexts, Reception

CHECK-IN and BREAKFAST ( 10.00 am )

OPENING REMARKS ( 10.25-10.30 am )

SESSION 1 ( 10.30am-12.30pm )
Chair: John Magee (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Christian Wildberg (University of Pittsburgh)
John Philoponus and the History of Philosophy
Commentator: Ioannis Papachristou (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 2 ( 2.00-4.00pm )
Chair: Elisa Brilli (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Tommaso De Robertis (University of Toronto)
Recovering and Interpreting Philoponus’ Physics in Renaissance Italy
Commentator: Maude Vanhaelen (Université du Québec à Montréal)

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3 ( 4.15-6.15pm )
Chair: Riccardo Macchioro (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
Cosmological Materialism and Eternity of the World: The Presence of Philoponus in Philosophical Debates of the Renaissance
Commentator: Jon McGinnis (University of Toronto)

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