The workshop ‘The Afterlife of Aristotle’s Organon’ brings together members of the Departments of Classics and Ancient History, History, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Philosophy at Durham University, and other British and European Institutions, to think collectively about the need to evaluate the impact of Aristotelian logic not just from the point of view of each respective field, but rather as a shared history. It will show how necessary it is to overcome the usual division between disciplines and fields to understand the impact that the Stagirite’s logical works had on later systems of thought and education and how each culture understood this heritage.
The workshop is generously supported by the British Academy and the Faculty of Art and Humanities at Durham University, and sponsored by the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP).
To register, please follow this link.
For further information, please email Mara Nicosia at mara.nicosia@durham.ac.uk
Workshop: ‘The Afterlife of Aristotle’s Organon’
Date: Friday, 24th January 2025
Venue: 7 Owengate, Durham DH1 3HB, UK
Programme
9.30-9.40 Welcome and Opening remarks
Greece and Byzantium, pt. 1. Chair: Mara Nicosia
9.40-10.00 Alessandro Vatri (Durham), “An Introduction to Aristotle’s Organon”
10.00-10.20 Ciro Giacomelli (Padua), “Some insights on the early circulation of the Organon and its ancient ‘editions’” [online]
10.20-10.40 General Discussion
10.40-11.00 Coffee Break
Greece and Byzantium, pt. 2. Chair: Giulia Bonasio
11.00-11.20 Guillermo Menéndez Sánchez (Ghent), “Anti-Manichaean texts in Neoplatonic philosophy: The polemic against the Manichaeans as a pedagogical method for explaining the Aristotelian corpus among the philosophers of the 6th century”
11.20-11.40 Christophe Erismann (Vienna), “Applied Logic. The Use of Aristotle’s Organon in Byzantium”
11.40-12.00 General Discussion
West Asia, pt. 1. Chair: Alberto Rigolio
12.00-12.20 Daniel King (Cardiff), “The contexts of Aristotle’s Logic in the Syriac world”
12.20-12.40 Jacob Lollar (Durham), “Aristoteles rescriptus”
12.40-13.00 General Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
West Asia, pt. 2. Chair: Daniel King
14.00-14.20 Mara Nicosia (Durham), “Syro-Arabic translations of the Organon: The case of Aristotle’s Rhetoric”
14.20-14.40 Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna), “From Ibn Bahriz to Ibn al-Tayyib: Aristotle’s Organon in Arabic”
14.40-15.00 General Discussion
Medieval Europe, pt. 1. Chair: TBC
15.00-15.20 Sara Uckelman (Durham), “’As the Philosopher says…’: Aristotle and Authority in the Reception of the Organon in the 13th Century Latin West”
15.20-15.40 Giles Gasper (Durham), title TBC
15.40-16.00 General Discussion
16.00-16.20 Coffee Break
Medieval Europe, pt. 2. Chair: Ita MacCarthy
16.20-16.40 Lorenzo Dell’Oso (Durham), “The Organon in Late Medieval Florence: The case of Dante”
16.40-17.00 Sigbjorn Sonnesyn (Bristol), “Knowing as understanding: the role of the Posterior Analytics in the natural philosophy of Robert Grosseteste”
17.00-17.20 General Discussion
Conclusions. Chair: Edith Hall
17.20-17.40 Phillip Horky (Durham)
17.40-18.00 Discussion and closing remarks
19.00 Social Dinner for speakers and chairs at the Bishop’s Dining Room, Castle College