Aquinas and ‘the Arabs; International Working Group (AAIWG)
at the SIEPM Maynooth Colloquium
9-12 Sept 2015
St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland
Seven AAIWG members presented at the SIEPM Colloquium “Tolerance and Concepts of Otherness in Medieval Philosophy” with six of the papers focused on Aquinas and/or the Arabic philosophical tradition:
(in alphabetical order)
Prof. Terence KLEVEN, Central College, Pella, Iowa, “Al-Farabis Syllogistic Dialectic in the Book of Analysis (Kitab al-Tahlil) as an Art for Evaluation of Certainty in Demonstrative Science and in Religion”
Dr Katja KRAUSE, Max Planck Institutes, Berlin “Thomas Aquinas, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Psychology”
Prof. Dr. Aicha LAHDHIRI, History of Philosophy, Al-Zeitouna University, Tunis, “How to Think Tolerance (and Intolerance) Through ‘Faycal Al-tafriqa; of al-Ghazali and ‘Fasl al-maqal’ of Ibn Rushd”
Prof. Luis X. LÓPEZ-FARJEAT, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, “Farabi on Tolerance, Religious Pluralism, and Philosophical Exclusivism”
Prof. Andrea ROBIGLIO, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, “Law and Ordeal: On Dueling and Tolerance in the Middle Ages”
Prof. Francisco ROMERO CARRASQUILLO, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, Mexico, “The Penalization of Heresy and Religious Tolerance in Aquinas”
Prof. Richard C. TAYLOR, Marquette University & DWMC, KULeuven, “Averroes and the Problem of Ultimate Human Happiness and the Afterlife”