IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 747: Memorising and Remembering in the Middle Ages: Philosophical Approaches
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Groupe de Recherches Antiquité, Moyen-Âge, Transmission Arabe (GRAMATA), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
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| Organiser: | Véronique Decaix, UFR de Philosophie, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Moderator/Chair: | Véronique Decaix, UFR de Philosophie, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Paper 747-a | Mémoire, représentation et signification chez Aristote (arabe) et Averroès (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Science |
| Paper 747-b | Memory in the Arabo-Latin Medical Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Philosophy, Science |
| Paper 747-c | What Are We Remembering Of?: Albert the Great and the Object of Memory (Language: English) |
| Abstract | This session concentrates on philosophical explanations of the processes of memorizing and remembering. The main focus will be the reception of Aristotle's De memoria between the 12th and the 14th century. We are going to examine the solutions proposed by Avicenna, Averroes, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. Our principal aim will be shedding some light on the definitions of memory in medieval commentaries on the De memoria. Memory and recollection are described as two distinct capacities of human soul (the latter pertaining to human beings only); this session will thus allow us to grasp their specificity in comparison to other psychological processes, such as sensation and thought. |