Calculatores Project

07/10/2022

https://calculatoresproject.com/2022/10/07/conference-announcement-logic-and-modalities-in-the-late-middle-ages-17-19-october-2022-parma/

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the international conference “Logic and Modalities in the Late Middle Ages”, which will be held at the University of Parma, from 17 to 19 …

14/10/2021

We are pleased to invite you to the workshop: “Beyond Impossible. Logical and Philosophical Perspectives”, dedicated to the notion of impossibility in the history of logic and contemporary logic.

The workshop will take place next Friday, October 22, at the University of Padova (Sala Seminari, Palazzo del Capitanio – Piazza Capitaniato, 3), with the following schedule:

10.00-12.30
Daniel Nolan: "Counterpossibles, Consequence and Context"
Bjørn Jespersen: "Impossibilities without Impossibilia"

14.30-17.30
Irene Binini: "An Impossible that Can Be Thought. Medieval Logical Theories on the Intelligibility of Impossibility"
Sara Uckelman: "Possible Impossibilities in Medieval Logic"
Francesco Berto: "I Wasn’t Thinking About That!’ The Logic of Framing Effects”

It will be possible to also follow the workshop online, as a Zoom conference.

For the Zoom link or any other info, please contact me at this email or Massimiliano Carrara at: [email protected]

19/09/2021

Friday afternoon, on the occasion of the , with my two dear collagues Daniele Molinari and Wolfgang Huemer, I will talk about , and how we can use our to answer * simple * questions like: What is right and what is wrong? Who am I, what is it that keeps me myself even if I change a little every day?
If these questions inspire you, it means that you have a philosophical soul!
If so, you can book here to come and imagine with us:
https://prenotazioninottericercatori.unipr.it

Here is a small abstract of the event:
What do you need to do scientific research? Collect data, examine it in laboratories and formulate theories? Doesn't it seem that something else is missing?
All this would be vain if it were not guided by our imagination. Thanks to thought experiments, we are able to use our imagination in a serious, compelling and rigorous way to broaden our knowledge.
In our meeting we will invite you on a journey into the imagination, conducting together three thought experiments from the fields of science and philosophy.

23/05/2021

The project is briefly on holiday, but we couldn't help finding some medieval labyrinths / labyrinth-like decor here too...

11/05/2021

We would like to sincerely congratulate our colleagues for organizing this beautiful program in such difficult times (even more difficult for female scholars, as many research show). We will certainly be there, will you? 👩‍🏫👩‍🎓

https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/conferences-lectures/womedieval?fbclid=IwAR1GEINMqzEwsMCrNK3YDOgCnPitr2KQPI5aCU4VTW8AOtdgVGU3kpCwrhA

International Online Conference, hosted by the University of Leuven (Belgium)

11/05/2021

On next Monday, May 17th, we'll be back with our seminar series on the impossible. This month we have the pleasure to host Francesco Berto, Professor at the University of Saint Andrews and at the University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hope to see many of you to talk about *how impossibilities could be conceived* 🧐⁉️⁉️
To have the details to access the seminar please write to: [email protected]
Irene Binini Lorenzo Azzano Andrea Strollo Giorgio Lando

28/04/2021

18/03/2021

Great news for all the Calculators lovers!

Monika Michałowska, Richard Kilvington on the Capacity of Created Beings, Infinity, and Being Simultaneously in Rome and Paris: Critical Edition of Question 3 from Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (History - Brill Publishing, March 2021)

https://brill.com/view/title/59524?rskey=kkKG2l&result=4

Richard Kilvington was one of the most talented Oxford Calculators. His influence on late medieval philosophy and theology remains unquestionable. He made a name for himself with his logical treatise Sophismata, which was soon followed by a series of three commentaries on Aristotle’s works and a commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences. Richard Kilvington on the Capacity of Created Being, Infinity, and Being Simultaneously in Rome and Paris by Monika Michałowska presents a critical edition of question 3 from Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum, complete with an introduction to the edition and a guide to Kilvington’s theological concepts. Kilvington’s theological question commentary enjoyed considerable popularity and became a source of continuous inspiration for Oxonian and Parisian masters.

13/03/2021

A brand-new interview to Irene Binini by InformaGiovani Parma about her life as a proud young European researcher in medieval philosophy and logic 👈

Il nostro Ateneo è sede di moltissime eccellenze nel campo della Ricerca Scientifica. L'Informagiovani di Parma, che collabora con l' Università degli Stud...

11/03/2021

Great news, everyone!

On March 24th will take place the Colloquium "Modality, Tense and Truth” organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen. It will host 2 talks on medieval modalities, by Irene Binini (Università di Parma) and Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder)

👉 Here's the Programme 👈

15:15 – 16:20 — Abelard’s modal theory in its “fourth dimension”. Modal metaphysics, essentialism, possible worlds. (Irene Binini)
16:20 – 16:30 — Break
16:30 – 17:35 — A Tale of Two Determinisms (Bob Pasnau)

📍 Everybody is welcome to join! To participate, please email the organizer at [email protected].