Annual Fall Workshop on Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’
The “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group”
At Houston, Texas, 5-6 September 2014
Hosted by The University of St Thomas, Houston
Organized by R. E. Houser & Richard C. Taylor
Friday 5 September
9:00-10:30am: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Prof. Julie Swanstrom, Armstrong State University (in person) with commentary by Prof. Jon McGinnis via Skype
“Creation as Efficient Causation in Aquinas”
10:45am-12:15pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Prof. Richard Taylor, Marquette University (in person) with commentary by Prof. Therese-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
“Remarks on Abstraction in al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes”
1:45-3:15pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Katja Krause, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, via Skype with commentary by Prof. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, via Skype
“AQUINAS AND HIS LATIN PSEUDO-DIONYSIAN PREDECESSORS ON THE BEATIFIC VISION: A RECONSIDERATION”
3:30-5:00pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Daniel DeHaan, University of St Thomas, Houston with commentary by R. E. Houser, University of St Thomas, Houston
“Why Existential Necessity? Finding Being To Be Necessary in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing”
Saturday 6 September
9:00-10:30 am: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Prof. Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame, via Skype with commentary by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas, via Skype
“Mind-Reading and the Metaphysics of Attention in Aquinas’s ‘De malo 16’”
10:45am-12:15pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St Thomas, Houston, with commentary by Rev. Dr. Timothy Belamah, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, and Commissio Leonina, Paris
“Avicenna, Averroes, and the Development of Aquinas’s Arguments for the Existence of God”
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch: Deli lunch in place.
Grad students Saturday afternoon (papers of 35-40 min. with 20-25 min for discussion)
1:30-2:25pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Daniel Wagner, University of St Thomas, Houston
“The Avicennian Formulation of the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”
2:30-3:25pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Nicholas Oschman, Marquette University, Milwaukee
“Reflections on the Agent Intellect: Situating the place of al-Farabi’s Epistle on the Intellect within his Broader Corpus”
3:30-4:30pm: Center, 4218 Yoakum
Brian Kemple, University of St Thomas, Houston
“Does the First Principle have a Quiddity?”