3rd Symposium petrinicum, Max Plank Institut - Berlin, 19th-21th September 2019.

3rd Symposium petrinicum
19th-20th September 2019, 9h00-17h30

Petrus Hispanus on cognitio and experientia: Theories and Practices in Context

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin
Boltzmannstraße 22 / 14195 Berlin, Germany

21st September 9h00-15h00: internal project discussion.

3rd Symposium petrinicum

The works attributed to Petrus Hispanus (13th Century) cover several domains of the Aristotelian philosophical and the Galenic-Avicennian medical corpora, including logic, psychology, zoology, prescription books, medical commentaries, alchemy, and mysticism, but also ranging to sermons and papal bulls. Despite these connections and the understanding we have acquired of them over the past four decades of research, these domains were never studied under a global perspective of theories and practices in context. The colloquium “Petrus Hispanus on cognitio and experientia: Theories and Practices in Context” intends to fill this lacuna and carry out a survey of the complex corpus from the viewpoint of cognitio and experientia.

This viewpoint is a central theoretical theme in the epistemological and psychological works, but connected to a much wider range of problems and practices in several other fields, such as mysticism, alchemy, medicine, and sermons. Indeed, Petrus Hispanus was no exception to his medieval contemporaries in following the laws of the soul for establishing his sciences rather than the laws of nature.

All presentations to be delivered are intended to explore cognitio and experientia in these different disciplinary domains in order to gain a deeper and precise understanding of the diverse and complex theories and practices related to them. Since little is known to this date about these interrelations, perspectives and approaches in philosophy, philology, and history will be combined. This interdisciplinary approach is intended to place Peter of Spain in his contexts of sources and influences, and debates with contemporary mid-13th century authors. By this reason, comparative approaches are welcomed too.

PROGRAM

19th September 2019

9:30 - 9:55 Welcome

Katja Krause (MPIWG)

José Meirinhos (IFUP): The works attributed to Petrus Hisapnus

10:00 - 11:30 Logic I

Chair: Katja Krause

Charles Manekin (College Park, Maryland), “Petrus Hispanus Hebraeus”

Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (Paris), The History of Logic Through the Lenses of Practices: a truncated version of Peter of Spain’s Tractatus as a non-terminist ‘pocket Aristotelian logic’, at a secondary level of logical education

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:15 Logic II

Chair: Vítor Guerreiro

Mário Correia (IFUP, Porto), The Categories in the Tractatus’ Commentators: Johannes Buridanus, Johannes Versor and Petrus Tartaretus

Guilherme Willye (Rio de Janeiro), The Theory of Syncathegorems in Petrus Hispanus

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Animals

Chair: Vera Rodrigues

Dominic Dold (MPIWG, Berlin), “Why Do Animals Have Parts?” Biological Organisation in Latin Scholasticism

José Higuera Rubio (IFUP, Porto), Homo prudentissimum est animalium: experience and animal foresight

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Research Tools

Chair: Joana Matos Gomes

Vera Rodrigues (IFUP, Porto), Commentarii et commentatores: a preliminary survey of the manuscript commentary tradition on Petrus Hispanus’ Tractatus (Summular logicales)

Jeffrey Witt (Baltimore), Peter of Spain, the SCTA, and an Open Access Corpus of text-DATA

20th September 2019

10:00-11:30 Soul

Chair: Dominic Dold

Paula Oliveira e Silva (IFUP, Porto), A Separate Substance in a State of Union. Some Paradoxes on the Nature of the Intellectual soul (Petrus Hispanus, Scientia libri de anima, Tract. IX)

Celia López Alcalde (IFUP, Porto), Intellectual Species and the Ways of Knowledge in Petrus Hispanus’ Commentary on De anima

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:15 Body and Medicine

Chair: Celia López Alcalde

Patrícia Calvário (IFUP, Porto), Physiology, Psychology and Knowledge in the Medical Treatises Attributed to Petrus Hispanus

Francisca Navarro Sánchez (IFUP, Barcelona), Los prólogos de los comentarios de Petrus Hispanus a los textos de la Articella en el ms. 1877 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Aesthetics, Mysticism and Apologetics

Chair: Terence Kleven

Vítor Guerreiro (IFUP, Porto), Unseen Beauty – Aesthetic Aspects of Religious Experience in Petrus Hispanus’ Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius

João Rebalde (IFUP, Porto), Experience and Mystical Knowledge in Petrus Hispanus’ Commentaries on Pseudo-Dionysius

Eleonora Lombardo (IFUP, Porto), Experiencing Holiness in Petrus Hispanus’ Sermones de sanctis

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Between Humans and Animals

Chair: Paula Oliveira e Silva

José Meirinhos (IFUP, Porto), Ordinatio universi and principia naturalia in Petrus Hispanus’ Liber de morte et uita et de causis longitudinis ac breuitatis uite

Katja Krause (MPIWG, Berlin), Knowing by Signs in Petrus Hispanus medicus and Albertus Magnus

18:00 Concluding Remarks: José Meirinhos and Katja Krause

21th September 2019

10:00-17:00:        Research project members meeting

Will participate in the debates: Anina Woischnig; Fabio Dominik De Gregorio; Terence Kleven; Wenrui Zhao; Yuan Tao.

Call

Open until 10th July for a short number of places.
Please email your proposal (name, institution, title, 300 words abstract maximum) to gfm@letras.up.pt.

Organization:

Convenors: Katja Krause (MPIWG) and José Meirinhos (IF-UP).
Team: José Meirinhos - Celia López - Vitor Guerreiro (GFM, Porto) || Katja Krause - Chaonan Zhang - Dominic Dold (MPIWG, Berlin)

Projects: Critical Edition and Study of the Works Attributed do Petrus Hispanus (Ref. FCT: PTDC/MHC-FIL/0216/2014 / IF-Universidade do Porto, Portugal / FCT) & Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650 (PI K. Krause, Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences).