2016 Annual Fall Workshop of
The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group
16-17 September 2016.
Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University
Thursday 15 September
Pre-Event Workshop: Prof. Fouad Ben Ahmed, Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute, Rabat, Morocco
The Arabic Reception of Averroes’ Thought
Friday 16 September
Friday Morning Session Chair: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
9:15-10:15am: #1 Luis X. Lopéz-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City), “Cosmology, Biology and the Nature of the Soul in al-Farabi and Ibn Sina”
10:15-11:15am: #2 Joshua Lee Harris (Institute of Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada), “Aquinas’ misreading of Avicenna on transcendental unity: A rationale.”
SKYPE CONNECTION
11:30am-12:30pm: #3 Francisco Romero Carrasquillo (Universidad Panamericana, Guadaljarro, Mexico) “Exterior Religious Worship in John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas”
Friday Afternoon Session Chair: Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University
2:00-3:00pm: #4 Brett Yardley (Marquette University, Milwaukee), “Al-Ghazali as Anachronistic Philosopher”
3:00-4:00pm: #5 Nicholas Oschman (Marquette University, Milwaukee),
“What is the status of Plato’s ‘knowledge of existing things insofar as they are existent’
4:15-5:15pm: #6 David Cory (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC), “Less Immersed in Matter. How Non-Human Souls Exceed the Powers of the Elements in Thomas Aquinas”
Saturday, 17 September
Saturday Morning Session Chair: Prof. Luis López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana
10:15-11:15am: #7 Saime Hızır (Faculty of Divinity, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey), “Aristotle and Avicenna on Definition” SKYPE CONNECTION
11:15 am-12:15pm: #8 Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame) & Katja Krause (University of Durham, UK), “From First Principles to Ultimate Conjunction in Averroes” SKYPE CONNECTION
12:15-1:00pm: Lunch options: Tory Hill Cafe at the Marquette Law School, Miss Katie’s Diner; fast food places on Wells Street
Saturday Afternoon Session Chair: Prof. Therese Scarpelli Cory, University of Notre Dame
1:45-2:45pm: #9 Anna Moreland (Villanova University & University of Notre Dame) “Aquinas on Prophecy: Contemporary Considerations”
2:45-3:45pm: # 10 Stephen Ogden, (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland) “The Avicennian Averroes: On Common Natures”
4:00-5:00pm: #11 Maricarmen Elvira Torres Torija (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City),
“Aquinas’s hylomorphism and its implications on soul’s self-knowledge”
5:00-6:00pm: #12 Fouad Ben Ahmed (Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania, Rabat, Morocco) “Averroist Logicians in Muslim Spain After Averroes”