The Commissio Leonina and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project
in collaboration with the CNRS équipe UMR 7219, SPHERE,
present:
“Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes / Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”
20-24 May, 2011, Paris
20 May, 2011
Université de Paris VII-Diderot, salle Mondrian (646A) 6ème étage,
4 rue Elsa Morante ou 4 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
75023, Paris
and
24 May 2011
Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, salle de ISTINA
AAIWG / AAP International Spring / Summer Workshops 2009-2016
43bis/45 rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris*
(For Paris travel information, click here.)
Organized by
Dr. Adriano Oliva, O.P., president, Commissio Leonina, Paris,
Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
(2010-11 visiting research professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven),
Dr. Cristina Cerami, CNRS, Paris, & Dr. Valérie Cordonier. CNRS, Paris
Detailed Program for 20 May 2011 at Université de Paris VII-Diderot
10h00-11h15: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St.
Thomas, Houston: « Avicenna and Aquinas’s De principiis
naturae, c. 1-3 »
11h15-12h30: M. Chase, CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin (UPR 76): « From Philoponus
to Aquinas : Studies in the posterity of John Philoponus in
Arabo-Latin philosophy »
14h30-16h00: J. McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis: « Making
Something of Nothing. Privation, Possibility and Potential in
Avicenna and Aquinas »
Detailed Program for 24 May 2011 at the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir
(Revised and updated 7 May 2011)
9h30-10h30 Chair: Prof. Jules Janssens, DeWulf-Mansion Centre.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Presentation: Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana,
AAIWG / AAP International Spring / Summer Workshops 2009-2016
Mexico City
“Aquinas on Creation in II Sent., d 1, q 1, art. 1-2 and his Arabic / Islamic
Sources”
10h30-11h00 Coffee break
11h00-12h00 Chair: Dr. Cristina Cerami, CNRS Paris
Presentation: Prof. Olga Lizzini, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Possibility and creation. Some remarks on the views of Avicenna and Aquinas”
12h00-12h15 Short break
12h15-12h45: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, “An Update on the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’
Project and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group” with
discussion to follow.
13h-14h30 Lunch
14h30-15h30: Chair: Prof. M. C. Sommers, Director, Center for Thomistic
Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston
Presentation: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, &
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “‘First Averroism’and ‘Second Averroism’:
An Analysis”
15h30-15h50 Coffee
15h50-16h50: Chair: Prof. Isabelle Moulin, Institut Catholique de Paris
Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University,
“Aquinas’ Early Essentialist Realism and the Avicennian Tri-fold Essence”