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Please join us for a Workshop on the Formal Distinction, with Rega Wood (Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University-Bloomington, and Research Professor, Stanford University), faculty and graduate students (principal discussants: Martin Tweedale, Kathrin Koslicki, Matt Kostelecky, and Jack Zupko). The workshop will take place on Wednesday, March 25, 2:00-4:00pm, in Assiniboia Hall 3-30. An abstract for the workshop and a short bio for Professor Rega Wood follow below.
Abstract:
The Workshop on the Formal Distinction will consist in an informal discussion of the history, theory, and application of the notion from medieval metaphysics that there is a mode of distinction mid-way between real distinction (x and y are really distinct if x can exist without y or vice versa) and purely conceptual distinction (x and y are just two different concepts, or ways of thinking about the same thing).
Short Bio:
Rega Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Bloomington and Research Professor at Stanford University. Professor Wood is one of the most distinguished scholars working on medieval philosophical texts today. She has co-edited and published a dozen works by William of Ockham, Adam Wodeham, Duns Scotus, and, more recently, Richard Rufus of Cornwall, in connection with her NEH-supported project, Richard Rufus and the Origins of Scholasticism. She is currently studying Richard's role in the transformation of the university curriculum in metaphysics and natural philosophy in the second quarter of the thirteenth century.