Fate, providence and moral responsibility: conference in honour of Carlos Steel (Leuven, Nov. 25-27)
Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility
A Conference in Honour of
Carlos Steel
Leuven, Institute of Philosophy
November 25-27, 2010
Programme
Thursday, November 25
9.30 Welcoming by G. Van Riel
1. Classical Positions and Schools
9.45 Lambros COULOUBARITSIS (Université Libre de Bruxelles), L’émergence de la thématique de la Providence divine de Diogène d’Apollonie à Platon
10.30 Frans DE HAAS (Leiden University), Mental Awareness and Imagination as a Prerequisite for Moral Judgment in Antiquity
Coffee
11.30 Jörn MÜLLER (Universität Würzburg), Aristotle on Alternate Possibilities, Voluntariness and the Causation of Action
12.15 Keimpe ALGRA (Utrecht University), Plutarch and Chrysippus on Stoic Providence
2. (Neo)platonism
15.00 Jan OPSOMER (K.U. Leuven), The Doctrine of Conditional Fate and Providence in Pre-Plotinian Platonism
15.45 Luc BRISSON (CNRS, Paris), La question du mal dans le monde sensible selon Plotin
Coffee
16.45 Bert VAN DEN BERG (Leiden University), From Postponed Punishment to Original Sin: Proclus’ 9th Doubt Concerning Providence in Context
18.00 Evening Lecture: John DILLON (Trinity College Dublin), Signs and Tokens: Do the Gods of Neoplatonism Really Care?
Friday, November 26
9.30 Christoph HELMIG (Humboldt Universität Berlin), Ascent of the Soul and Grades of Freedom – Neoplatonic Theurgy between Ritual and Philosophy
10.15 Daniel DE SMET (CNRS, Paris), La Providence selon le “Livre de la réprimande adressée à l’Âme” d’Hermès Trismégiste. Un document néoplatonicien arabe oublié
Coffee
3. Medieval Positions
11.15 Pasquale PORRO (Università di Bari), Divine Predestination, Human Merit and Moral Responsibility. The Reception of Augustine’s Doctrine of Irresistible Grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus
12.00 Valérie CORDONIER (K.U. Leuven), La doctrine aristotélicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d’Aquin
14.30 Marialucrezia LEONE (K.U. Leuven), Moral Responsibility in Henry of Ghent
15.15 Gordon WILSON (University of North Carolina, Asheville), Henry of Ghent’s Rejection Of Fatalism
Coffee
16.15 Martin PICKAVÉ (University of Toronto), Free Will and the Power To Do Otherwise in Later Medieval Philosophy
17.00 Kent EMERY jr (Univ. of Notre Dame), Fate, Providence and Predestination in the Sapiential Project of Denys the Carthusian
18.00 Evening Lecture: Andreas SPEER (Universität zu Köln), Divine Government and Human Freedom
Saturday, November 27
4. Arabic Philosophy
9.30 Richard TAYLOR (Marquette University – K.U. Leuven), Providence, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility in Averroes
10.15 Jules JANSSENS (K.U. Leuven), What About Providence in the Best of All Possible Worlds? (Avicenna and Leibniz)
Coffee
11.15 Philippe HOFFMANN (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Les hénades divines et la lumière de la Vérité
Afternoon: Valedictory Address by Carlos Steel
For more information, please contact
Mrs Sofie Keyaerts, sofie.keyaerts@hiw.kuleuven.be
or
Prof. Gerd Van Riel,
gerd.vanriel@hiw.kuleuven.be
Organised with the generous support of
FWO-Vlaanderen
Cornelia de Vogel Foundation
Van de Wiele Fund
(Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven)
De Wulf-Mansion Centre
(Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven)