October 29, 2025,
opening 2:15 p.m.
14.30 Pasquale Porro (Milan), Firmitas adhaesionis. Belief, Evidence and Absent in Thomas Aquinas.
15.30 David Piché (Montreal) What Causes Absent? Contrasting Answers among Theologians of the Years 1250-1350
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Fiorella Retucci (Lecce), Averroes on Assent, Knowledge and Faith
18.00 Luca Bianchi (Milan), Should one only believe what is evident or proven? On three articles condemned in 1277
20.15 Dinner, Osteria Alla Malora
October 30, 2025
9.00 Stefano Di Bella (Milan), Decision for Truth. Descartes on Forging Absent in Theoretical and Practical Contexts
10.00 Alberto Frigo (Milan), “Qui s’accoutume à la foi la croit.” Apologetics and Belief in Pascal’s Pensées’
11:00 Coffee Break
11.30 Brunello Lotti (Udine), Absent, Probability and Error in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding.
12:30 p.m. Claire Etchegaray (Paris Nanterre), Thomas Reid on the Virtues of the Mind
1:30 p.m. Lunch, Ghislieri College
2:30 p.m. Dan O’Brien (Oxford), Hume, Trust and Testimony
15.30 Lorenzo Mileti Nardo (Milan), Unjustified Believing? Georg Friedrich Meier’s Account of Prejudice between Logic and Aesthetics.
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Marcus Willaschek, Lewis Wang (Frankfurt a.M./Boston), Kant on the Norms of Belief
18.00 Costantino Esposito (Bari), Between Truth and Certainty
8:15 p.m. Dinner, Locanda del Carmine
October 31, 2025
9:30 a.m. Michela Summa (Würzburg), Knowledge, Belief, and Position-Taking. A Husserlian Approach to Epistemic Responsibility.
10:30 a.m. Michel Croce (Genoa, Italy), Doxastic Wronging and the Ethics of Belief
11:30 a.m. Tommaso Piazza (Pavia), Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Responsibility
12:30 Lunch, Ghislieri College
