IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1104: Peter Abelard & Liberal Arts, II: Ideals in Writing

Organiser:	Babette Hellemans, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Moderator/Chair:	Eileen Sweeney, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, Massachusets
Paper 1104-a	The Language of Inwardness in Abelard and Hugh of Saint-Victor (Language: English) Ineke van 't Spijker, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Theology
Paper 1104-b	Peter Abelard's Semantics (Language: English) John Marenbon, Trinity College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Philosophy, Rhetoric
Paper 1104-c	The Beginning of the Controversy on Universals (Language: English) Yukio Iwakuma, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy
Abstract	This session on the 'philosophical identity' of Abelard starts with a lecture on Abelard's thinking about involucra, not as a form of literary theory avant la lettre, but as a complex and subtle methodological argument at the intersections of Trinitarian theology and Abelard's self-fashioning.The second paper will be discussing the relationship between Abelard's views on the relationship between words, sentences, thoughts and things and those of some contemporary philosophers with which they have been compared.The last paper proposes a different view, showing, in the light of new sources, when and in what context William of Champeaux first formulated the material essence theory, the starting point of the controversy on universals.