The Warburg Institute of the University of London
1-2 June 2017
“Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality”
Including a 3 pm Wednesday 31 May pre-conference visit for
AAIWG members with faculty at the nearby
Institute of Ismaili Studies
210 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London followed by a presentation at 4:00 pm by
Prof. Richard Taylor (Marquette University & DeWulf-Mansion Centre, KU Leuven)
“Creation and Artifice:
The Metaphysics of Primary and Secondary Causality”
Warburg Institute Schedule
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Session 1: Chair: Mary Catherine Sommers, Houston
9:30–10:25am: Talk 1: Michael Chase, Paris:
Creation and Continuity In Neoplatonism: Origins and Legacy
10:30–11:25am: Talk 2: Luís Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat, México:
Al-Jabbār and al-Ghazālī on Divine Speech and the Controversy
over the Createdness of the Qur’ān
11:55am–12:50pm: Talk 3: David Twetten, Milwaukee:
Aristotle Less Transformed: Averroes and Why the Prime Mover
Is not an Artist, but the Art
Session 2: Chair: Janis Esots, London
2:30–3:25pm: Talk 4: Ann Giletti, Oxford:
The Eternity of the World and Eternal Creation on the Part of the Creature: Did They Amount to the Same Thing?
3:30–4:25pm: Talk 5: R. E. Houser, Houston:
Creators—Created and Uncreated: What Aquinas Learned from
Avicenna
Session 3: Chair: Charles Burnett, London
4:50–6:15pm: Keynote 1: Amos Bertolacci, Pisa:
Is God a Substance According to Avicenna?
Friday, 2 June 2017
Session 4: Chair: Katja Krause, Durham
9:15-10:10am: Talk 6: Charles Burnett, London: Agency and
Effect in the philosophy of Abu Ma‘shar of Balkh (Albumasar)
10:15–11:10am: Talk 7: Nicola Polloni, Durham:
‘Indeed, the soul has not been made by the First Maker’: Creation, Imitation, and Matter
11:35am–12:30pm: Talk 8: Philippe Vallat, Vienna:
What kind of creature is the assumed nature? Aquinas’s Greek-Arabic Christology and Chalcedon
12:30–12:45pm: Update: Richard Taylor, Milwaukee:
Update on the Work of the AAIWG Members
12:45–2:30pm: Lunch for speakers, chairs, organizers
Session 5: Chair: Richard Taylor, Milwaukee
2:30–3:25pm: Talk 9: Therese Cory, South Bend:
Colour is in the Air, as the Power of Art is in the Instrument: The Concept of Spiritual Inherence in the Arabic and Latin Traditions
3:30–4:25pm: Talk 10: Dragos Calma, Cambridge:
Being in the Light of the Intellect
Session 6: Chair: Charles Burnett, London
4:50 – 6:15pm: Keynote 2: Jon McGinnis, St Louis:
For every action …: Medieval Islamic Reactions to Views on Generation and Creation