The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy

Magali Roques currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Hamburg and is an associate researcher at the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance. She received her PhD in December 2012 from the Université François-Rabelais de Tours, and held several postdoctoral positions in Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. Her research interests focus on fourteenth-century philosophy, especially Ockham and his contemporaries. Her work deals with connections between philosophy of language and metaphysics. Nicolas Faucher is a postdoctoral researcher in medieval philosophy at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Reason and Religious Recognition, and an associate member of the Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (CNRS, France). He received his PhD in December 2015 from the Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris) and the Università degli Studi di Bari - Aldo Moro. His research focuses on the psychological and epistemological aspects of the habitus and act of faith in the 13th and 14th centuries, as well as on voluntary belief in general and the links between rhetoric and belief.

Introduction (Nicolas Faucher).- 1. Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes: "Habitus selon Augustin: tradition philosophique et exégèse biblique" (Isabelle Bochet).- 2. University of California Irvine: "Speaking Theologically: The Concept of Habitus in Peter Lombard and his Followers" (Bonnie Kent).- 3. Université Clermont-Ferrand II Blaise Pascal: "La volonté et son orientation. Augustin, Anselme et Duns Scot sur l'habitus" (Kristell Trego,).- 4.Université de Genève-Université de Lausanne: "Intellection in Aquinas: From Habit to Operation" (Hamid Taieb).- 5. Universität Salzburg: "As one is disposed, so the goal appears to him: On the Function of Moral Habits according to Thomas Aquinas" (Rolf Darge).- 6. Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Università degli Studi di Bari: "What does a habitus of the soul do? The case of the habitus of faith in Bonaventure, Peter John Olivi and John Duns Scotus" (Nicolas Faucher).- 7. Jyväskylän Yliopisto-Suomen Akatemia: "Habitual Perception in Peter Olivi: An Abstract" (Juhana Toivanen).- 8. University of Toronto: "Duns Scotus on Whether Moral Virtues Cause Moral Goodness" (Ian Drummond).- 9. Loyola University Chicago: "Habit and Act in Durandus of Saint-Pourçain" (Peter Hartman).- 10. University of Toronto: "Peter Auriol on habits and virtues" (Martin Pickavé).- 11. Centre d'Etudes Supérieures sur la Renaissance-Freie Universität Berlin: "Habitus and Act According to William of Ockham" (Magali Roques).- 12. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: "Ockham on Knowledge and the Cultivation of a Disposition towards Anti-Heretical Action" (Jenny Pelletier).- 13. Fordham University: "The Metaphysics of Habits in Buridan" (Gyula Klima).- 14. University of Alberta: "Acts and Dispositions in Buridan's Faculty Psychology" (16. Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lodzi: "Quantification of Virtues and Vices: Richard Kilvington's New Methods and Ideas in Ethics and Theology" (Monika Michalowska).- 17. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: "Suárez on the Metaphysics of Habits (Dominik Perler).- 18. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: TBA (Han Thomas Adriaenssen).- 19. Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes: TBA (Pascale Bermon).- 20. Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes-Boston College : TBA (Jean-Luc Solère).