Text Workshop: “Aristotle’s De memoria and Its Reception”

(part of a series)

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Painting of Aristotle, depicted as middle-aged bearded man with worn, red tunic, propping a book against a table with one hand and holding a page with another, surrounded by darkness in a chiaroscuro style
Aristotle, by Jusepe de Ribera (1637)

The Philosophy Departments of the University of Notre Dame and the Universidad Panamericana are convening a text workshop, hosted in Mexico City for two-and-a-half days, devoted to one of Aristotle’s most influential and yet neglected psychological works: De memoria et reminiscentia (=On Memory and Recollection), and its reception by Greek, Muslim, and Latin Scholastic readers prior to the rise of modern science. This workshop, bringing together faculty and graduate students from both departments for intense discussion and study, will engage in a deep analysis of the work itself, together with how it was read and engaged with in the various aforementioned traditions.