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Laurent Cesalli et Irène Rosier-Catach
Introduction. The first paragraph of Roger Bacon's De signis revisited
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Roger Bacon's De signis opens with the assertion that the sign belongs to the category of relation: " signum est in praedicamento relationis " (§1). The sign is in a double relation, to the interpreter (R1) , and to the thing it signifies (R2) . The full …
2:45 - 3:15pm

Matsubara Kentarô
Local Social Change and State Formation: The Role of the Legal Process in Matters of Land and Credit
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9:00 - 10:00am

Laurent Cesalli
Meaning as relationship in Bacon, Olivi, Simon de Faversham and Duns Scotus
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Starting with the initial thesis of De signis that the sign belongs to the category of relation, this contribution will address the following three questions: i) how is this thesis - let's call it T - to be understood in the light of Bacon's theory of …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Irène Rosier-Catach
The theological implications of a relational definition of the sign
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Roger Bacon's definition and description of the sign in De Signis can only be understood in relation to its theological background, and more specifically that of sacramental theology. Starting with the Augustinian definition in De doctrina christiana , …
3:15 - 4:00pm

David Simonetta
Intuition in reasoning. Locke's influence on 18th-century English logic textbooks

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Although he always expressed the strongest reservations about logic, Locke very early on attracted the attention of logicians of his time and was even at the starting point of a tradition of English logicians who, in the 18th century, explicitly used the …
11:45am - 12:30pm

Alain de Libera
Presentation of the " study days"

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9:00 - 9:15am

Christophe Grellard
What am I allowed to ignore ? Faith, ignorance and the acceptable limits of orthodoxy
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The aim of this paper is to examine the role played by the problem of the excuse of ignorance in medieval reflections on the status of faith and unbelief. By means of an archaeological investigation, the aim is to identify when and how the phrase fides …
11:00 - 11:45am

Jean-Baptiste Brenet
Thinking in the moment. " An Arab-Latin reading of Aristotle, Physics VII, 3 "
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The object of the intervention is the instantaneous advent of human thought. I study this in Averroes, who derives from Aristotle's Physics VII, 3 the idea that thought arises in the intellect as a relation as soon as something else - images, in …
10:00 - 10:45am

Bernhard Rudolf Haensch
Differences in unity. The Roman government and the provinces of the Empire (3)
Guest lecturer
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3. Lycia …
10:00 - 11:00am

Man and microbes: an (almost) perfect symbiosis
Philippe Sansonetti, chair Microbiology and infectious diseases
Lecture
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The 2009-2010 lectures ran from late November to late January. The title of this session was: Man and microbes, an (almost) perfect symbiosis. It followed on from a 2008-2009 session presenting a generic overview of the major mechanisms of interaction …
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Man and microbes : an (almost) perfect symbiosis
Philippe Sansonetti, chair Microbiology and infectious diseases
Seminar
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Le Corbusier
Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art
Guest lecturer
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Criteria for beauty : case study
Philippe Descola, chair Anthropology of nature
Seminar
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Eugene Rogan
The Young Turks and the Destruction of the Armenian Community in the First World War
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4:00 - 5:00pm

Henri Pourrat and the truth of fairy tales
Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France
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Thinking, modeling and mastering computer calculation
Gérard Berry, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies
Lecture
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The lecture " Thinking, modeling and mastering computation " was given as part of the annual Computer Sciences chair . It was the very  lecture of this Chair, created following my previous lecture "  Why and how the world is going digital  ", itself given …
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Virtual visit of the Collège de France
Collège de France
News
The Collège de France opens its doors to you. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Collège de France never ceased to maintain its professors' lectures, which were held behind closed doors, but were quickly broadcast thanks to their audiovisual capture and …
Published on 15 January 2021

For a history of written culture in Italy (16th-18th centuries)
Roger Chartier, chair Writing and cultures in modern Europe
Guest lecturer
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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Some aspects of the theory of quasi-periodic dynamical systems (4)
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Documents and media Download support (1) Download support (2) …
11:00am - 12:00pm

Thinking, modeling and mastering computer calculation
Gérard Berry, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies
Opening lecture
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Bernhard Rudolf Haensch
Differences in unity. The Roman government and the provinces of the Empire (2)
Guest lecturer
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2. Macedonia …
10:00 - 11:00am

Paul Bernard, Henri-Paul Francfort et Laurianne Sève
The urban phenomenon in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (14)
Seminar
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2:00 - 4:00pm

Renormalization of generalized interval exchanges
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, chair Differential equations and dynamic systems
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Release of the fourth Archibab volume
Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization
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Prof. Dominique Charpin, Chair of Mesopotamian Civilization, and his team announce the publication of the fourth volume in the Archibab series (linked to the Archibab website: Babylonian Archives - 20th-17th centuries BC). It focuses on the deciphering …
Published on 13 January 2021