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Fate, Providence and Moral ResponsibilityA Conference in Honour ofCarlos SteelLeuven, Institute of PhilosophyNovember 25-27, 2010ProgrammeThursday, November 259.30 Welcoming by G. Van Riel1. Classical Positions and Schools9.45 Lambros COULOUBARITSIS (Université Libre de Bruxelles), L’émergence de la thématique de la Providence divine de Diogène d’Apollonie à Platon10.30 Frans DE HAAS (Leiden University), Mental Awareness and Imagination as a Prerequisite for Moral Judgment in AntiquityCoffee11.30 Jörn MÜLLER (Universität Würzburg), Aristotle on Alternate Possibilities, Voluntariness and the Causation of Action12.15 Keimpe ALGRA (Utrecht University), Plutarch and Chrysippus on Stoic Providence2. (Neo)platonism15.00 Jan OPSOMER (K.U. Leuven), The Doctrine of Conditional Fate and Providence in Pre-Plotinian Platonism15.45 Luc BRISSON (CNRS, Paris), La question du mal dans le monde sensible selon PlotinCoffee16.45 Bert VAN DEN BERG (Leiden University), From Postponed Punishment to Original Sin: Proclus’ 9th Doubt Concerning Providence in Context18.00 Evening Lecture: John DILLON (Trinity College Dublin), Signs and Tokens: Do the Gods of Neoplatonism Really Care?Friday, November 269.30 Christoph HELMIG (Humboldt Universität Berlin), Ascent of the Soul and Grades of Freedom - Neoplatonic Theurgy between Ritual and Philosophy10.15 Daniel DE SMET (CNRS, Paris), La Providence selon le “Livre de la réprimande adressée à l’Âme” d’Hermès Trismégiste. Un document néoplatonicien arabe oubliéCoffee3. Medieval Positions11.15 Pasquale PORRO (Università di Bari), Divine Predestination, Human Merit and Moral Responsibility. The Reception of Augustine's Doctrine of Irresistible Grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus12.00 Valérie CORDONIER (K.U. Leuven), La doctrine aristotélicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d'Aquin14.30 Marialucrezia LEONE (K.U. Leuven), Moral Responsibility in Henry of Ghent15.15 Gordon WILSON (University of North Carolina, Asheville), Henry of Ghent’s Rejection Of FatalismCoffee16.15 Martin PICKAVÉ (University of Toronto), Free Will and the Power To Do Otherwise in Later Medieval Philosophy17.00 Kent EMERY jr (Univ. of Notre Dame), Fate, Providence and Predestination in the Sapiential Project of Denys the Carthusian18.00 Evening Lecture: Andreas SPEER (Universität zu Köln), Divine Government and Human FreedomSaturday, November 274. Arabic Philosophy9.30 Richard TAYLOR (Marquette University – K.U. Leuven), Providence, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility in Averroes10.15 Jules JANSSENS (K.U. Leuven), What About Providence in the Best of All Possible Worlds? (Avicenna and Leibniz)Coffee11.15 Philippe HOFFMANN (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Les hénades divines et la lumière de la VéritéAfternoon: Valedictory Address by Carlos SteelFor more information, please contactMrs Sofie Keyaerts, sofie.keyaerts@hiw.kuleuven.beorProf. Gerd Van Riel,gerd.vanriel@hiw.kuleuven.beOrganised with the generous support of FWO-VlaanderenCornelia de Vogel FoundationVan de Wiele Fund(Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven)De Wulf-Mansion Centre(Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven)  