Quantity, Extension, and Infinity in the 13th and 14th Centuries RESEARCH WORKSHOP OF THE ISF

 

Quantity, Extension, and Infinity in the 13th and 14^th Centuries

RESEARCH WORKSHOP OF THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

5-8 June 2023, Tel Hai

Organized by: Giora Hon and Yael Kedar

Monday June 5

Seminar room (2318), Eastern Campus

9:30–10:00 –Welcome and opening remarks

10:00–11:30 – Quantity, Matter and Bodies

Chair: Cecilia Trifogli

Expanding quantity: Robert Grosseteste on the bodily form

Nicola Polloni (KU Leuven)

The unity of matter, extension and potentiality in late thirteenth century natural philosophy

José Filipe Silva (University of Helsinki)

11:30–11:45 – Coffee break

11:45–13:15 – Metaphysics, Quantification, and Duality

 Chair: Nicola Polloni

Numbers and diagrams: Shao Yong (1012–1077) and his legacy in 11th–13th century China

Sophia Katz (Tel Hai College)

The substance and function (ti-yong) formula and Aristotle’s hylomorphic model

Gad C. Isay (Tel Hai College)

13:15–14:15 – Lunch break

14:15–15:45 – Continuity, Quantity, and the Aristotelian Categories

Chair: Ruizhi Ma

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on the category of quantity

Ahmed Igbariah (Tel Aviv University)

Continuity, limits, and quantity in Al-Farabi's paraphrase of Aristotle's Categories

Yehuda Halper (Bar Ilan University)

15:45–16:00 – Coffee break

16:00–17:30 – God’s Unity and Infinity

 Chair: Yael Kedar

Horror vacui or amor infini: The context and function of ornamentation considering the notions – void, infinity, and the place of God

Danielle Omesi Moisa (Tel Aviv University)

Measures in the Lucca Codex: Following instructions and making mistakes

Yael Barash (Tel Aviv University)

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Tuesday June 6

“Agur” Conference room in the Hula Lake Park

10:00–11:30 – Infinity and Infinities

Chair: Clelia Crialesi

Actual infinities of different kinds in Richard Kilvington’s philosophical and theological texts

Robert Podkoński (University of Łódź)

Quantity and infinity in Jacques Legrand's Compendium utriusque philosophie: A late nominalist approach to Aristotle

Daniel A. Di Liscia (LMU Munich)

11:30–12:15 – A visit to the Agamon wildlife rehabilitation center. Guide: Dr. Rona Nadler-Valensi

12:15–12:30 – Coffee break

12:30–14:00 – Measuring Forms

Chair: Daniel Di Liscia

Richard Kilvington’s concept of measuring the qualitative changes by the latitude of forms

Elżbietą Jung (University of Łódź)

From the measure of qualities to the quantification of metaphysical essences. On some 14th-century applications of limit decision problems to the perfection of species

Sylvain Roudaut (Stockholm University)

14:00–15:00 – Lunch break

15:00–16:30 – Nature and Minimal Parts

Chair: Sophia Katz

John Buridan and the piecemeal view of substantial change

Roberto Zambiasi (University of Torino)

Nicholas d'Autrécourt on minima and indivisibles

Aurélien Robert (CNRS, Université de Paris)

16:30–16:45 – Coffee break

16:45–18:15 – All the Time in the World

Chair: Roberto Zambiasi

Crescas' conception of infinite magnitudes

Avishay Gallili (Tel Hai College)

Does the aevum have parts? Some 13th-century reflections on the simplicity of eviternity

Dominic Dold (University of Notre Dame) On zoom

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Wednesday June 7

Seminar room (2318), Eastern Campus

9:30–11:00 – Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Quantity

 Chair: Sylvain Roudaut

William of Ockham on the ontological status of quantity

Cecilia Trifogli (Oxford University)

Quantity, place, and perception in 13th-century Eucharistic debates

Julia Reed (Bar Ilan University)

11:00–11:45 – A visit to the historical cartography collection. Guided by: Shalom Termechy

11:45–12:00 – Coffee break

12:00–13:30 – Round Table Discussion

Chairs: Nicola Polloni and Yael Kedar

History – philosophy – science: Disciplinary and methodological intertwining

13:30–14:30 – Lunch break

14:30–16:00 – Geometrical Objects in Continuous Space

Chair: Elżbietą Jung

Gregory of Rimini on infinite extended quantities

Clelia Crialesi (KU Leuven)

An impossible synthesis: Geometrical atomism vs. the continuity of matter, Roger Bacon’s solution

Yael Kedar (Tel Hai College)

16:00–16:15 Coffee break

16:15–17:45 – Color and the Perception of Quantities

Chair: Giora Hon

How big is a red square? Two ways of accounting for the perception of quantities in the thirteenth century

Elena Baltuta (Tel Hai College)

Unquantifiable color power and discontinuous color order in Avicenna and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

Ruizhi Ma (Humboldt University, Berlin)