Curriculum
vitae
R. James Long,
Ph.D.
Department of
Philosophy
Fairfield
University
Fairfield,
CT 06430
Office: (203)
254-4000 x2856
Home: (203)
259-6388
e-mail:
"rjlong@mail.fairfield.edu" or “fishacre@aol.com”
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Toronto (1968)
M.S.L.,
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (1966)
Dissertations:
Doctorate: "The Problem of the
Soul in Richard Fishacre's Commentary on the Sentences"
(Toronto,
1968)
Licentiate:
"`Utrum iurista vel theologus plus proficiat ad regimen
ecclesie':
A Quaestio Disputata of Francis Caracciolo; An
Edition and Study"
(Toronto, 1966)
Supervisors:
James A. Weisheipl, O.P., D. Phil.
(Oxon.)
J. Reginald O'Donnell, C.S.B., Ph.D.
(Tor.), F.R.S.C.
Languages:
Latin,
Greek, French, German, and Italian
Academic Awards,
Honors, and Grants:
Fellow
of Massey College, Toronto (1965-68);
Province
of Ontario Graduate Fellowships (1966-68);
Canada
Council Doctoral Fellowship (1967-68);
Fulbright
Scholarship (Italy and U.K.; l968-69);
Canada
Council Post-doctoral Fellowship (1969);
NEH
Summer Stipend (1974);
American
Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid
(1977);
American
Philosophical Society Grant (1977);
Associate
of Clare Hall,
Cambridge U. (1977);
NEH
Scholarly Publications Grant (1979);
NEH
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Fordham U.
(1981);
Yale
Visiting Faculty Fellowship (1982-83);
NEH
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Yeshiva U.
(1984);
American
Philosophical Society Grant (1984);
Fairfield
University Summer Stipends (1986, 1989, 1992);
NEH
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Columbia U.
(1987);
NEH
Summer Stipend (1988);
Warren
W. Wooden Citation, PMR Conference (1989);
NEH Editions/Texts Grant, Edition of
Richard Fishacre's Sentences-Commentary,
1-2; $130,000 (1992-1994);
Yale
Visiting Fellowship, Philosophy Department (1996-99)
NEH
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, (Rome, Siena and Assisi), summer
2006
Teaching
experience:
Instructor
in Mediaeval Latin, Pontifical Institute,
Toronto
(1967-68);
Assistant
Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University
(1969-73);
Associate
Professor of Philosophy, Ffld. U. (1973-78);
Professor
of Philosophy, Ffld. U. (1978- );
Liaison
Faculty, Program in Classical Studies,
Ffld.
U. (1981- );
Italian Studies (1998- );
Catholic Studies (2006- )
Memberships:
American
Catholic Philosophical Assoc. (life member);
American
Philosophical Association;
Catholic
Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs;
Consociatio
cultorum historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum;
International
Society for Neoplatonic Studies;
Medieval
Academy of America;
Société
Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale;
Society for Medieval and Renaissance
Philosophy
(secretary-treasurer, 1991-2003; Vice-President, 2003-2005; President,
2005-2007; Chair of the Nominating Committee, 2007-2009 );
BOOKS:
(1) Bartholomaeus
Anglicus, On the Properties of Soul and Body (De
proprietatibus rerum
libri III et IV), ed. R. James Long, Toronto Medieval Latin
Texts, 9
(Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979), pp. 113.
(2) A
Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture; Essays in
Honor of
Arthur Hyman, eds. Ruth Link-Salinger, R. James Long, Charles
Manekin,
Jeremiah Hackett, & Michael S. Hyman (Washington, D.C.: The
Catholic
University of America Press, 1988), pp. 310.
(3) Philosophy
and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, O.P.,
ed.
R. James Long (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
1991), pp.
x, 296.
(4)
with Maura O'Carroll SND, The Life and Works of Richard
Fishacre OP.
Prolegomena to the Edition of his Commentary on the `Sentences'
(Munich:
Verlag der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999), pp. 235.
(5) Liber
III et liber IV, ed., in Bartholomaeus Anglicus,
“De proprietatibus
rerum ,” Volume I,
Prohemium, libri
I-IV , with Baudouin Van den Abeele, Heinz Meyer, Michael Twomey, and
Bernd
Roling. De diversis Artibus, vol. 78 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols,
2007), pp.
135-242
(6)
Richard Fishacre, In Secundum Librum Sententiarum, Part 1: Prol., Dist.
1-20,
ed. R. James Long (Munich: Verlag der Bayerische Akademie der
Wissenschaften,
2008), pp. 49*, 423,
ARTICLES:
(1)
"`Utrum iurista vel theologus plus proficiat ad regimen ecclesie'; a Quaestio
Disputata of Francis Caracciolo: Edition and Study," Mediaeval
Studies 30 (1968) 134-62.
(2)
"The Science of Theology according to Richard Fishacre: Edition of the
Prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences," Mediaeval Studies
34 (1972) 71-98.
(3)
"In Defense of the Tournament: An Edition of Pierre Dubois' De
torneamentis et iustis," Manuscripta 17
(1973) 67-79.
(4)
"A Note on the Dating of MS. Ashmole 1512," Manuscripta
18 (1974) 113-14.
(5)
"Richard Fishacre and the Problem of the Soul," The Modern
Schoolman 52 (1975) 263-70.
(6)
"Richard Fishacre's Quaestio on the Ascension of
Christ: An
Edition," Mediaeval Studies 40 (1978) 30-55.
(7)
"Botany in the Middle Ages: An Introduction," Res Publica
Litterarum 3 (1980) 225-27.
(8)
"The Virgin as Olive-Tree: A Marian Sermon of Richard Fishacre and
Science
at Oxford," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 52
(1982) 77-87.
(9)
"Alfred of Sareshel's Commentary on the Pseudo- Aristotelian De
plantis:
A Critical Edition," Mediaeval Studies 47 (1985)
125-67.
(10) "The Question 'Whether the Church
Could Better be Ruled by a Good Canonist than by a Theologian' and the
Origins
of Ecclesiology," Proceedings of the PMR Conference
10 (1985)
99-112.
(11) "Richard Fishacre," Dictionnaire
de Spiritualité 13 (1987), cols. 563-65.
(12) "Richard Fishacre's Way to
God," A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and
Culture;
Essays in Honor of Arthur Hyman, eds. Ruth Link-Salinger et
al.
(Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1988)
174-82.
(13)
with Joseph Goering, "Richard Fishacre's Treatise De fide,
spe, et
caritate," Bulletin de philosophie médiévale
31 (1989) 103-11.
(14)
"Adam of Buckfield and John Sackville: Some Notes on Philadelphia Free
Library MS Lewis European 53," Traditio 45
(1989-1990) 364-67.
(15)
"The Reception and Interpretation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian De
plantis
at Oxford in the Thirteenth Century," Knowledge and the
Sciences in
Medieval Philosophy (Proceedings of the Eighth International
Congress of
Medieval Philosophy: S.I.E.P.M.), eds. Reijo Työrinoja, Anja I.
Lehtinen, &
Dagfinn Fφllesdal: Annals of the Finnish Society for
Missiology and
Ecumenics, 55 (Helsinki, 1990), pp. 111-23.
(16)
"The Moral and Spiritual Theology of Richard Fishacre: Edition of
Trinity
Coll. MS O.1.30," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 60
(1990) 5-143.
(17)
"The Anonymous Peterhouse Master and the Natural Philosophy of Plants,"
Traditio 46 (1991) 313-26.
(18)
"Richard Fishacre," Medieval Philosophers, ed.
Jeremiah
Hackett, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 115
(Detroit: Bruccoli
Clark Layman, Inc., 1992), pp. 195-200.
(19)
"A Thirteenth-Century Teaching Aid: An Edition of the Bodleian Abbreviatio
of the Pseudo-Aristotelian De plantis," in Aspectus
et Affectus:
Essays and Editions in Grosseteste and Medieval Intellectual Life in
Honor of
Richard C. Dales, ed. Gunar Freibergs with an Introduction by
Richard
Southern, AMS Studies in the Middle Ages: no.23 (New York: AMS Press,
1993),
87-103.
(20)
"Richard Fishacre's Super S. Augustini librum de haeresibus
adnotationes: An Edition and Commentary," Archives
d'histoire
doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 60 (1993) 207-79.
(21) "Botany," in Medieval
Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, ed. F. A.
C. Mantello and
A. G. Rigg (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press,
1996),
401-05.
(22)
"Richard Fishacre's Treatise De libero arbitrio," Moral
and
Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the
Ninth
International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (Ottawa, 17-22 August
1992), ed.
B. Carlos Bazán, Eduardo Andújar, Léonard Sbrocchi
(Ottawa: Legas, 1995), 2: 879-91.
(23)
with Margaret Jewett, "A Newly Discovered Witness of Fishacre's
Sentences-Commentary: University of Chicago MS 156," Traditio
50
(1995), 342-45.
(24)
"The Reception and Use of Aristotle by the Early English Dominicans,"
Aristotle in Britain During the Middle Ages, ed.
John Marenbon (Turnhout
[Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 51-56.
(25)
"Roger Bacon on the Nature and Place of Angels," Vivarium
35/2
(1997), 266-82.
(26)
"Of Angels and Pinheads: The Contributions of the Early Oxford Masters
to
the Doctrine of Spiritual Matter," Franciscan Studies,
Essays in
Honor of Girard Etzkorn, ed. Gordon A. Wilson and Timothy B.
Noone, 56
(1998) 237-52.
(27)
"The First Oxford Debate on the Eternity of the World," Recherches
de philosophie et théologie médiévale 65/1 (1998) 54-98.
(28)
"The Role of Philosophy in Richard Fishacre's Theology of Creation," Miscellanea
Mediaevalia 26 (1998) 571-78.
(29)
"The Cosmic Christ: The Christology of Richard Fishacre, OP," Christ
Among the Medieval Dominicans. Representations of Christ in the Texts
and
Images of the Order of Preachers, ed. Kent Emery and Joseph
Wawrykow (Notre
Dame IN: UND Press, 1998), 332-43.
(30)
with Timothy B. Noone, "Fishacre and
Rufus on the Metaphysics of Light: Two Unedited Texts," Roma,
magistra
mundi. Itineraria culturae medievalis. Mélanges
offerts au Père L.E.
Boyle à l'occasion de son 75e anniversaire. Textes et Études du moyen
âge
(Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études
Médiévales,
1998) 517-48.
(31)
"Richard Fishacre," Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche
8 (1999)
1171.
(32)
"The Integrative Theology of Richard Fishacre OP," New
Blackfriars
80 no. 941/42 (July/August 1999) 354-60.
(33)
"Aquinas and the Cosmic Christ," Medieval Masters.
Essays in
Memory of Msgr. E.A.Synan, ed. R.E. Houser, Thomistic Papers VII
(Houston:
Center for Thomistic Studies, 1999) 233-48.
(34)
"Scholastic Texts and Orthography: A Response to Roland Hissette," Bulletin
de philosophie médiévale 41 (1999) 149-51.
(35)
"On the Usefulness of `Augustinianism' as a Historical Construct: Two
Test
Cases from Oxford," Medieval Perspectives. Southeastern
Medieval
Association 26 (2001) 74-83.
(36)
"The Beginning of a Tradition: the Sentences
Commentary of Richard
Fishacre, OP," in Medieval Commentaries on the `Sentences' of
Peter
Lombard, Volume 1, Current Research, ed.
G.R. Evans (Leiden: Brill,
2002) 345-57.
(37)
"The Significance of RIchard Fishacre's Sentences-Commentary,"
Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter
6 (2001)
213-16.
(38)
"Richard Fishacre," A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle
Ages,
edd. Jorge J.E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003),
563-68.
(39)
"Richard Fishacre," in The Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography,
(Oxford: OUP, 2004).
(40)
"Adam de Buckfield," ibid.
(41)
"Geoffrey de Aspale," ibid.
(42)
"Philosophy," chapter six of Arts and Humanities Through the
Eras.
Medieval Europe (814-1450), eds. Kristen M. Figg and John B.
Friedman
(Detroit-New York-San Francisco etc.: Thomson Gale, 2005), 257-93.
(43)
"Aquinas and Franciscan Nature Mysticism," Logos: A Journal
of
Catholic Thought and Culture 8:2 (Spring 2005), 52-60.
(44)
"The Philosophy of Richard Fishacre," in Albertus Magnus und
die
Anfänge der Aristoteles-Rezeption im lateinischen Mittelalter von
Richardus
Rufus bis zu Franciscus de Mayronis (Albertus Magnus and the
Beginnings of
the Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West from Richard
Rufus to
Franciscus de Mayronis), Subsidia Albertina I, ed. Ludger Honnefelder
et al.
(Münster: Aschendorff, 2005), 189-218.
(45)
“The Contribution of the Books on the Soul and the Body to the
Dissemination of
Greco-Arabic Learning,” Bartholomaeus Anglicus, `De
proprietatibus rerum’.
Texte latin et réception vernaculaire (Actes du
colloque international,
Münster,9-11 October 2003), edd. Baudouin Van den Abeele and Heinz
Meyer. De
Diversis Artibus: Collection de travaux de l’academie internationale
d’histoire
des sciences 74 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005), 137-49.
(46)
“ Interiority Self-Knowledge according to Richard Fishacre," Intellect
and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy. Actes du XIe
Congrès
International de Philosophie Médiévale de la S.I.E.P.M., edd. M.C.
Pacheco and
J.F. Meirinhos, Porto, 26 to 31 August 2002, Recontres de philosophie
médiévale, 11 (Turnhout, Belgium:Brepols, 2006), 2:1269-1277.
(47)
“Undoing the Past. Fishacre and Rufus on the Limits of God’s Power,” in
Laudemus
viros gloriosos. Essays in Honor of Armand Maurer, CSB, ed.
R.E. Houser
(Notre Dame IN: U of Notre Dame Press, 2007),
pp. 60-74.
(48) (with Richard DeWitt) “Richard
Rufus’s Reformulations of Anselm’s Proslogion
Argu-ment,” International
Philosophical Quarterly
47,3
(September 2007), 329-48.
(49)
“Anselm’s Atheism: A Reply to Stephen Maitzen,” Fides
Quaerens Intellectum 4,1
(Fall 2007), 21-30.
REVIEWS:
(1)
William of Ockham, Quodlibeta septem,
ed. Joseph C. Wey, C.S.B. (Guillelmi de Ockham Opera theologica, 9) St.
Bonaventure, N.Y.: St. Bonaventure University, Franciscan Institute,
1980. pp. 43*, 838,
in Speculum 57 (1982)
181-82.
(2)
Renato Russo, O.F.M., La metodologia del sapere nel sermone
di S.
Bonaventura `Unus est magister vester Christus', Spicilegium
Bonaventurianum, 22
(Grottaferrata [Rome]: Collegium S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 1982). pp. 145, in Speculum
59 (1984) 441-44.
(3)
Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., St. Thomas Aquinas, Vol.
1, The Person and
his Work, tr. Robert Royal (Washington DC, CUA Press, 1996),
pp. xiv,407,
in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73,
no. 2 (Spring, 1999),
355-57.
(4) A
Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson, ed.
Peter Redpath,
Value Inquiry Book Series 142 (Rodopi), in University of
Toronto Quarterly
74, 1 (Winter 2004), 308-09.
(5)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. A. S.
McGrade
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 405, in The
Thomist
69, 4 (October 2005), 632-36.
(6) Essays
in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in Memory of Walter H. Principe,
CSB:
Fortresses and Launching Pads, edd. James R.Ginther and Carl
N. Still
(Aldershot-Burlington: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 177, in Journal of
the History of
Philosophy 45, 3 (July 2007), 495-97.
PAPERS:
(1)
"Aquinas on the Ontological Argument," Special Colloquium of the
Department of Philosophy, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, 15 April 1970.
(2)
"The Avicennian Ambiguity in Richard Fishacre's Definition of the
Soul," Sixth Annual Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, 17 May 1971.
(3)
"De torneamentis et iustis: A Fourteenth Century
Treatise in
Defense of the Tournament," delivered at the Seventh Annual Conference
on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 3 May 1972.
(4)
"The Concept of Love in Abelard's Monitum ad Astralabium,"
Eighth Annual Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 2
May 1973.
(5)
"The Manuscript Tradition of De proprietatibus rerum:
Some Comments
and Conclusions," accepted for delivery at the First Saint Louis
Conference on Manuscript Studies, 18 October 1974.
(6)
"Richard Fishacre on the Ascension of Christ: A Case of the New Science
on
the Rise," 11th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western
Michigan U., 7 May 1976.
(7)
"Animal Deiforme: Bartholomaeus Anglicus on the
Properties of the
Soul," 12th Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western
Michigan U., 7 May 1977.
(8)
"Alfred of Sareshel and the Origins of Philosophical Botany in the
Latin
West," Third Mid-Atlantic States Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and
Renaissance Studies, Villanova U., 30 September 1978.
(9)
"The Virgin as Olive Tree: A Marian Sermon of Richard Fishacre and the
Greening of Oxford," 16th International Congress
on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan U., 9 May 1981.
(10)
"Alfred's Glosses on De plantis: At the Roots of
Philosophical
Botany in the West," 18th International Congress
on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan U., 5 May 1983.
(11)
"A History of Latin Bookhands: An Illustrated Lecture," special
discussion session, 8th International Conference
on Patristic,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova U., 24 September l983.
(12)
"Adam of Buckfield on the Pseudo-Aristotelian De plantis:
The
Flowering of Philosophical Botany," 20th
International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 10 May 1985.
(13)
"The Question 'Whether the Church Could Better be Ruled by a Good
Canonist
than by a Theologian?' and the Origins of Ecclesiology," 10th
International Conference on
Patristic,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova U., 22 September 1985.
(14)
"The Evidence for God's Existence: Bonaventure and Fishacre," 22nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 9 May
1987.
(15)
"The Reception and Interpretation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian De
plantis
at Oxford in the Thirteenth Century," Eighth International Congress of
Medieval Philosophy, Helsinki, 27 August 1987.
(16)
"An Anonymous Cambridge Commentary on Pseudo-Aristotle's De
plantis,"
25th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan
U., 10 May 1990.
(17)
"Super S. Augustini librum de haeresibus adnotationes:
The Earliest
Dominican Disputation on Heresies," 26th
International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 10 May 1991.
(18)
"Richard Fishacre: Angelic Doctor avant le mot," 27th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, 8 May
1992.
(19)
"Richard Fishacre's Treatise De libero arbitrio,"
Ninth
International Congress on Medieval Philosophy, Ottawa, 17 August 1992.
(20)
Commentary on Charles Lohr's paper: "Latin Aristotelianism from the
Middle
Ages to the Renaissance," Bradley Lecture Series, Boston College
Institute
of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 25 March 1994.
(21)
"The Reception and Use of Aristotle by the Early Oxford Dominicans,"
Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, A Conference under the
auspices of
the Société Internationale pour l'étude de la Philosophie Médiévale,
Trinity
College, Cambridge, England, 9 April 1994.
(22)
"Lying with Hagar: At the Origins of Oxford Empiricism," NYU
Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, NYU, 6 February 1995.
(23)
"Lying with Hagar: The Empiricism of an Oxford Neoplatonist," Mysticism,
Rationalism and Empiricism in the Neoplatonic Tradition,
International
Conference to celebrate the Bicentenary of St. Patrick's College,
Maynooth, 11
July 1995.
(24)
"The Cosmic Christ: The Christology of Richard Fishacre OP," Christ
among the Medieval Dominicans, University of Notre Dame, 8
September 1995.
(25)
"On Angels and Pinheads: The Contributions of the Early Oxford
Theologians
to the Doctrine of Spiritual Matter," The Medieval Association of the
Pacific, University of San Diego, 15 March 1996.
(26)
"The Debate over the Science of Theology at Oxford in the Thirteenth
Century," Third International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds,
10
July 1996.
(27)
"Medieval Perspectives Compared: Richard Fishacre," Yale University
Colloquium on "The Will, Problems and Possibilities: A Medieval
Perspective," 27 September 1996.
(28)
"Editing Richard Fishacre's Sentences Commentary:
Principles and
Problems," 21st International Conference on
Patristic,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, 5 October 1996.
(29)
"The Earliest Oxford Debate on the Eternity of the World: Grosseteste,
Fishacre, and Rufus," The Medieval Association of the Pacific,
University
of Hawaii, 14 March 1997.
(30)
"St. Thomas and the Cosmic Christ," 32nd Annual
Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 8 May 1997.
(31)
"The Philosophical Foundations of Richard Fishacre's Theology of
Creation," The Tenth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy,
Erfurt, Germany, 26 August 1997.
(32)
"Roger Bacon on Putting the Angels in Their Place," 22nd
International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance
Studies,
Villanova University, 13 September 1997.
(33)
"Surprises in Book Two of Fishacre's Sentences Commentary,"
Colloquium to Commemorate the 750th Anniversary of Fishacre's Death,
Blackfriars, Oxford, 8 July 1998.
(34)
"Natural Philosophy and Heresy at Oxford: A Case Study,"
International Medieval Congress `98, University of Leeds, 13 July 1998.
(35)
"The Tradition of Light Metaphysics at Oxford," 23rd
International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance
Studies,
Villanova University, 9 October 1998.
(36)
"The Inevitability of the Incarnation," Yale University Colloquium on
Medieval Perspectives on the Incarnation, 6 November 1998.
(37)
"At the Origins of Oxford Philosophy: Robert Grosseteste and the
Friars," The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, 12 April 1999.
(38)
"Oxford's Unique Adaptation to Scholasticism," 24th
International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance
Studies,
Villanova University, 8 October 1999.
(39)
"Angels and Pinheads Revisited: Spiritual Matter in Bacon, Fishacre,
and
Rufus," 35th Annual Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western
Michigan U., 6 May 2000.
(40)
"The Aristotelianism of Richard Fishacre," Die Anfänge der
Aristoteles-Rezeption im lateinischen Mittelalter (The Beginnings of
the
Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West). International
Conference.
Collegium Albertinum, Bonn, Germany, 14-18 August 2000.
(41)
"On the Usefulness of `Augustinianism'
as a Historical Construct," Southeastern Medieval Association XXVI,
Human
Nature and the Natural World, University of North Carolina at
Asheville, 30
September 2000.
(42)
"The Philosophy of Plants: The Contributions of Alfrdus Anglicus and
Adam
of Buckfield," The 22nd Phymouth State College Medieval Forum, Plymouth
State College, 6 April 2001.
(43)
"`Undoing the Past': The First Oxford Debate on God's Absolute
Power," 26th International Conference on
Patristic, Medieval,
and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, 29 September 2001.
(44)
"The Role of Self-Reflexivity in the Question of Free Choice: from
Robert
Grossteste to Robert Kilwardby," Southeastern Medieval Association
XXVII,
New Orleans, 18 October 2001.
(45)
"The Fate of the Proslogion Argument at the Hands
of the First
Oxford Masters," The Second Saint Anselm Conference, St. Anselm's
College,
13 April 2002.
(46)
"Aquinas and Franciscan Nature Mysticism," International Medieval
Congress `98, University of Leeds, 11 July 2002.
(47)
"Interiority and Self-Knowledge according to Richard Fishacre," The
Eleventh International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Porto,
Portugal, August
26, 2002.
(48)
"Dante's Intuition: the Thomism of St. Francis of Assisi," 27th
International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance
Studies,
Villanova University, 28 September 2002.
(49)
"Gaunilon Redivivus: The Second Opponent of Anselm's Proslogion
Argument for God's Existence," The Boston Colloquium in Medieval
Philosophy, 18 November 2002.
(50)
"On the Margins of Soul and Body: Preachers' Cues in the De
proprietatibus rerum," 38th Annual
Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan U., 11 May 2002.
(51)
"Spare Ribs: Natural Philosophy and the Formation of the First Woman in
the Grosseteste School," Robert Grosseteste and his Intellectual
Milieu.
International Grosseteste Conference, Bishop Grosseteste College,
Lincoln, UK,
18-21 July 2003.
(52)
"Adam's Rib: Materia and the Formation of the First
Woman According
to the Oxford Masters," 28th International
Conference on
Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, 6
September
2003.
(53)
"The Contributions of the Books on the Soul and Body to the
Dissemination
of Greco-Arabic Learning," Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus
rerum. Latin Text and Vernacular Tradition, Internationales Kolloquium,
Seminar
für Mittellateinische Philologie, Münster, Germany, 9-11 October 2003.
(54)
"The Metaphysics of Creation in the Grosseteste School," 39th
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 8 May 2004.
(55)
"The Division of the Waters (Gen. 1,6-7): A
Challenge for Natural
Philosophy," College of Charleston, 14 October 2004.
(56)
"Robert Grosseteste and the Division of the Waters (Genesis 1:6-7): A
Conundrum for the Natural Philosopher," 40th
Annual Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 6 May 2005.
(57)
“Anselm’s Atheism,” Southeastern Medieval Association XXXI, Making and
Remaking
the Middle Ages, Stetson University, Daytona FL, 29 September-1 October
2005.
(58)
“The History of the Patristic-Medieval-Renaissance Conference,” Special
Convocation of the Philosophy Department, Villanova University, 21
April 2006.
(59)
“The Knowledge of God and Anselm’s Atheism,” 41st
Annual Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 5 May 2006.
(60)
“The Anonymous De anima of Assisi, Biblioteca
Comunale ms. 138,” The
Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Palermo, Sicily,
20
September 2007.
(61)
“Editing a Solitary Witness: the Case of an Anonymous Assisi
Manuscript,”
Southeastern Medieval Association XXXIII, Wofford College, Spartanburg
SC, 6
October 2007.
(62)
“Peeling the Onion: Rescuing Timeless Truth from its Time-bound
Setting,” 43rd
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., 8 May 2008.
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