8-11 June 2010
Bologna, Italy
18th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics 8-11 June 2010, Bologna Usus loquendi, discretio audientis, intentio proferentis Pragmatic Approaches to Language During the Middle Ages (IX-XIV Century) Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici Sala Rossa Via Marsala 26 June, 8th 9.00 Registration 9.30 Welcome 9.45 Paolo Leonardi (Universit� di Bologna) Reference (Then and) Now 10.30 Coffee Break 10.45 Costantino Marmo (Universit� di Bologna), Usus loquendi in Anselm �s Philosophy of Language 11.30 Luisa Valente (Universit� di Roma �La Sapienza�), Conceptus auc toris and vigilantia lectoris: Text Interpretation According to Gilbert of Poitiers Lunch (Buffet at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici) 14.30 Christopher J. Martin (Auckland University), Figurative Language and Speaker's Intention in 12th Century Logic 15.15 Coffee Break 15.30 Allan B�ck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), Islamic Modes of Usus Loquendi 16.15 Sten Ebbesen (K�benhavn Universitet) Context-sensitive Argumentation. Dirty Tricks in Sophistical Refutations and the Medieval Commentaries June, 9th 9.00 Visiting Bologna (Basilica di Santo Stefano; Museo Civico Medievale) Lunch 15.00 Stephan Meier-Oeser (Freie Universit�t Berlin), Roger Bacon's Use Theory of Meaning 15.45 Coffee Break 16.00 Dafne Mur� (Universit� di Roma �La Sapienza�), Bonitas intell igentis and the Notion of repugnantia in XIIIth-Century Commentaries on the Elenchi 16.45 Fabrizio Amerini (Universit� di Parma), Pragmatic Aspects of Aquinas's Semantics June, 10th 9.00 Ana Maria Mora-Marquez (SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen), Elements of Pragmatics in Peter John Olivi's Theory of Signification 9.45 Joke Spruit (Universiteit van Maastricht), Henry of Ghent on Teaching Theology 10.30 Coffee Break 10.45 Paloma P�rez-Ilzarbe (Universidad de Navarra), "De Modo Opponendi e t Respondendi": Sophisms and Distinctions from a Dialogical Perspective 11.30 Ernesto Perini Santos (Belo Horizonte), On Buridan on the Liar, Again Lunch (Buffet at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici) 14.30 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Universiteit van Amsterdam), A Deontic-Pragmatic Interpretation of Obligationes 15.15 Coffee Break 15.30 Laurent Cesalli (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit�t Freiburg), Wyclif on th e Felicity (Conditions) of Marriage 16.15 Meeting on the next Symposium 20.00 Dinner Party June, 11th 9.30 Riccardo Strobino (Scuola Normale di Pisa), Contexts of Utterance in Peter of Mantua's Obligations 10.15 Fr�deric Goubier (Universit� de Gen�ve) & Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London), Proper Sense, virtus sermonis, and the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction 11.00 Coffee Break 11.15 Table ronde � Round Table Pragmatics in the Middle Ages � Pragmatics today Ir�ne Rosier-Catach (CNRS, Paris) - Bruno Ambroise (CNRS, Paris) - Costantino Marmo (Universit� di Bologna) Other participants: Jennifer E. Ashworth (Waterloo University), Magdalena Bieniak-Nowak (Universit� di Padova), Stefania Bonfiglioli (Universit� di Bologna), Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (Universit� de Paris), Umberto Eco (Universit� di Bologna), Christophe Erismann (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge), Margareta Fredborg (K�benhavn Universitet), Rodrigo Guerizoli (Universidade Federal do Rio d e Janeiro, Brazil), Krystyna Krauze-Blachowicz (Warszawa Univ.), Alfonso Maier� (Universit� di Roma �La Sapienza�), John Marenbon (Trinity C ollege, Cambridge), Bernadette Preben-Hansen, Jennifer Reid (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Mary Sirridge (Louisiana State University), Alfred van der Helm (Universiteit van Leiden), Sara L. Uckelman (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Ueli Zahnd (Freiburg Universit�t)