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The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy will be sponsoring as many as four panels/wor... more The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy will be sponsoring as many as four panels/workshops at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, occurring March 20–22, 2024 in Boston, MA.

The SMRP welcomes proposals for individual papers or seminar presentations (e.g., abstracts for individual presentations) as well as for full panels (i.e., abstracts for a proposed panel, workshop, or roundtable). Examples of appropriate themes / formats might include (but is not limited to) any of the following:
* A paper or a panel of papers discussing various Renaissance neo-Platonic philosophies
* A seminar session on Renaissance philosophy that provides an opportunity to collaborate on an edited volume
* A workshop or roundtable on various approaches to broadening the philosophical canon in teaching medieval and Renaissance philosophy

Papers by Jack Zupko

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, 2021

Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 2018

The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy, 2017

An Aristotelian faced with the difficult problem of explaining the phenomenon of sensory awarenes... more An Aristotelian faced with the difficult problem of explaining the phenomenon of sensory awareness and self-awareness in both human and non-human animals, John Buridan (ca. 1300–1361) appeals to the Augustinian notion of sensus interior or internal sense, a power of the soul operating in the body through the medium of sensitive or vital spirits. These spirits are a subtle fluid capable of transmitting sensed intentions in a living animal, and their active circulation throughout the body corresponds to baseline self-awareness, making possible an animal’s sub-rational or non-intellectual self perception. On the other hand, Buridan’s slightly younger Parisian contemporary, Nicole Oresme (ca. 1320–1382), appears to treat self-awareness as unique to humans, denying that brute animals are ever aware that they see or hear because he holds that the power of sensory cognition – which is all that they have – is not reflexive. Despite this, he allows that brute animals are able to recognize unsensed intentions and even that their imaginings can sometimes alter their sensations. But Oresme seems more interested in explaining apparently anomalous sensory phenomena than in identifying any broader mechanism of self-cognition.

Preface John Buridan, Metaphysician and Natural Philosopher. An Introductory Survey, Johannes M. ... more Preface John Buridan, Metaphysician and Natural Philosopher. An Introductory Survey, Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen & Jack Zupko John Buridan's Solution to the Problem of Universals, Peter King Buridan's Theory of Definitions in his Scientific Practice, Gyula Klima Buridan's Theory of Identity, Olaf Pluta Necessities in Buridan's Natural Philosophy, Simo Knuuttila The Natural Order in John Buridan, Joel Biard Naturaliter principiis assentimus: Naturalism as the Foundation of Human Knowledge?, Gerhard Krieger John Buridan on Infinity, John E. Murdoch & Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen Buridan's Concept of Time. Time, Motion and the Soul in John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's Physics, Dirk-Jan Dekker On Certitude, Jack Zupko Sensations, Intentions, Memories, and Dreams, Peter G. Sobol The Notion of "non velle" in Buridan's Ethics, Fabienne Pironet Ideo quasi mendicare oportet intellectum humanum: The Role of Theology in John Buridan's Natural Philosophy, Edith Dudley Sylla Aristotelian Metaphysics and Eucharistic Theology: John Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen on the Ontological Status of Accidental Being, Paul J. J. M. Bakker Philosophical Theology in John Buridan, Rolf Schonberger Bibliography Index of Names Index of Manuscripts

Meeting of the Minds. The Relations between Medieval and Classical Modern European Philosophy, 1999

Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 2017

Zupko’s chapter deals with transduction, the cognitive psychology of the transmission of sensory ... more Zupko’s chapter deals with transduction, the cognitive psychology of the transmission of sensory information for intellectual processing. This theory mentions three kinds of mental acts: understanding (intelligere), believing (credere), and attending to (se convertere ad). We can understand, or think, only one thought at a time, but that thought can be about more than one thing at the same time. Buridan does not offer an account of the compositionality of thoughts (intellectiones) distinct from his theory of the compositionality of propositions in logic. He also says that the intellect trades in beliefs (opiniones), which must belong to a different species than thoughts if we are to maintain any principled distinction between occurrent and dispositional states of the intellect. What he does not offer in q. 16 is an account of how dispositions belonging to one species can cause occurrent thoughts belonging to another, different species. Finally, the act of attention is presented in terms of the intellect turning on itself, that is, reflexive thought.

Forming The Mind, 2007

... 2r–36r; Oxford BodlL canon. ... But as Anneliese Maier pointed out somewhat later, 'one ... more ... 2r–36r; Oxford BodlL canon. ... But as Anneliese Maier pointed out somewhat later, 'one cannot really say that he [ie, Buridan] decides in favor of the teaching of Alexander of Aphrodisias; throughout his arguments and conclusions, Buridan goes his own way, and then states only ...