News Mainly from Europe

The University of Cologne is advertising three visiting fellowships associated with the Averroes Edition Project. These are open to both senior and junior scholars, for a 1-3 month research visit. Applications should be received by September 15, 2022. Details here.

Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) is advertising 12 doctoral positions in ancient or medieval studies, focusing on what their DFG project calls “heteronomous texts”—in other words, texts, such as commentaries, that depend on other texts. Medieval philosophical texts are very much intended as part of the scope of the project, which is being led by Matthias Perkams. The application deadline is July 17, 2022—although another 12 positions are expected to be advertised for the following year. Details here.

A two-day conference, Revisiting Medieval Dialectics, is running next week in Paris, under the organization of Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS) and Gustavo Fernández Walker (Gothenburg). Sorbonne, June 28-29, 2022.

A conference on Teleology in the Aristotelian Tradition is being organized for this coming fall at Palacký University. October 6-8, 2022, in Olomouc (Czech Republic). The cfp deadline is July 31, 2022.

A conference at UC Louvain this fall will consider From Toledo to Gotha: New Perspectives on the Impact of Avicenna upon Sciences and Philosophy in Europe (Louvain, October 14-15, 2022).

Next spring, Durham University will be holding a conference on Augustine and the Making of Christian Practice (March 23-24, 2023). The cfp deadline is July 31, 2022.

In the latest issue of IPM Monthly, among much else of interest, there’s an interesting interview with Jeffrey Witt (Loyola Maryland) about his innovative work on editing scholastic texts in a digital environment.

Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam) has received the Lakatos Award for her 2020 book, The Dialogical Roots of Deduction (Cambridge UP). This annual prize honors a distinguished monograph in the philosophy of science.

Simo Knuuttila (1946-2022)

I am very sorry to announce the news that Simo Knuuttila died this past Friday. He served for three decades as a professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Helsinki. During this time, he was a giant figure in the field of medieval philosophy, both as a personal mentor to many scholars and as an inspiration through his many papers and books. This work managed to combine, in an exemplary way, historical erudition and philosophical sophistication. Among his many interests were the history of logic, modality, and the theory of emotions.