By IPM Monthly team
Browse through our section and find out what is going on in the field of medieval philosophy and related branches of philosophical research. This month we include many fascinating conferences, workshops, and summer schools that are going to take place in September 2023.
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By IPM Monthly team
Navigate the raging seas of the academy through updates and insights about posts, training, and call for papers. This month, we feature some opportunities for research, interesting calls for papers, and much more.
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Por Eduarda Machado
IPM Monthly has invited Professor Richard Cross for an interview, who very willingly volunteered. This encounter quickly became a pleasant and surprising conversation thanks to his charismatic personality and good humour. He has an insouciant curiosity, a sharp mind and impressive writing skills. We had the opportunity to talk about a vast group of topics, including the reasons that led him to study Christology, mainly from a philosophical-metaphysical point of view, his perspectives as a philosopher on how philosophical metaphysics and theology intersect in his work. We engage in a dense, detailed talk about the metaphysics of disability concerning the resurrected body, and human and divine natures in Christ. The interview could be shortened, but it was edited as little as possible to be faithful to the original conversation.
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Por Francisco Iversen
¿Cuáles son las principales características de la escolástica virreinal peruana? Y, ¿cómo se relaciona esta tradición fundamental pero aún poco estudiada con filósofos escolásticos anteriores como Aquino y Duns Scotus? Nos adentramos en estas y otras preguntas con Jean Christian Egoavil, filósofo e historiador peruano. En esta entrevista, conversamos sobre filosofía, las especificidades de la escolástica colonial y los principales desafíos al abordar sus obras.
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By Sarah Virgi
Amidst a chilly and rainy evening during a short visit to Utrecht, my friends and I sought refuge in a cozy café, yearning for the comfort of a steaming cup of cocoa. To our delightful astonishment, fate had a different plan in mind. On that evening, the very establishment we just entered happened to be hosting a Philosophy Café organized by a group of students at Utrecht University. What were the odds? The evening’s agenda promised an informal tête-à-tête with Dr. Elizabeth Cripps, centered around her recently published book Parenting on Earth.
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By Celeste Pedro
This short review covers two digital humanities resources available for the Spanish context. Despite their specificity regarding editorial type and geography, these tools prove how materials can be efficiently made publicly and digitally available to general audiences and how important it is to have scholars cataloguing, indexing, and describing public and private archives. In summa, the considerable effort needed to create such tools is of unquestionable value, and the impact they can have on researchers’ work is not marginal at all.
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By Mário João Correia
In September, our monthly list of recently published books on philosophy, history, and the Middle Ages features many monographs and volumes able satisfy different tastes. Take a look to find out the latest trend in our field.
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By Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva
We are back from our summer break introducing you to Samuel Pell! Sam is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a BA in Chemistry and Classics from Cornell University (2013) and an MA in Philosophy from Purdue University (2022). He is hoping to write a dissertation under Therese Cory on ‘confused cognition’ in Aquinas. A case of confused cognition, for instance, is that by which we define man to be a teachable animal that can laugh. Sam thinks Aquinas’ account of confused cognitions sheds light on his metaphysics of cognition more generally.
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By Aleksandar Anđelović
While reading an amazing article by Barbara Crostini on the theft of the Holy Cross from a Byzantine village of Sykeon in the eleventh century, the exotic name of the village spurred my interest in this place and I wanted to check if there are any remains of this village in Türkiye today. I realized that, apart from being known for Theodore, a seventh-century ascetic and afterwards a saint whose Vita was well known in subsequent centuries in Byzantium, next to nothing is known about this place, despite its importance as the crossroads for merchants and armies in as early as Roman times. Further surfing brought me to another fascinating 20-year-old article, by David Barchard, that deals with this place and provides some more information on its alleged location.
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