2013 Spring / Summer Würzburg
“International Conference: Aquinas and Arabic Metaphysics”
Würzburg, 7-8 June 2013
Organizers: Jörn Müller, Dag Hasse & Richard Taylor
Friday 7 June
3:00-6:00pm: Graduate Student Workshop: Aquinas and Arabic Metaphysics
Presentations and discussion hosted by the local Lichtenberg research unit:
“History of Philosophy and of the Sciences in the Graeco-Arabic-Latin Tradition”
7.00-8:30pm: Evening Lecture Pasquale Porro (Bari):
“Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas on the indifference of the essences”
Saturday 8 June
9:15-10:15am: Rollen E. Houser (Houston):
“Introducing the Principles of Avicennian Metaphysics into Sacra Doctrina:Thomas Aquinas, In I Sent., d. 8”
Chair: Peter Adamson (München)
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10:30-11:30am: Uhr Deborah Black (Toronto):
“Aquinas and Avicenna on Divine Knowledge”
Chair: Peter Adamson (München)
11:30am-12:30pm: Olga Lizzini (Amsterdam):
“Relations, metaphysics and the demonstration of Godʼs existence”
Moderation: Peter Adamson (München)
2:30-3:30pm: Luis X. López-Farjeat (Mexico City):
“Avicenna and Aquinas on the Unity and Multiplicity of Divine Attributes in light of I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, art. 1-3”
Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo (München)
3:30-4.30pm: Richard C. Taylor (Milwaukee):
“The Metaphysics of Creation in Avicenna, Averroes and Aquinas”
Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo (München):
5:00-6:00pm: David B. Twetten (Milwaukee):
“Avicenna and Albert at the back of Aquinasʼ Doctrine of Being–Reliance and Departure”
Chair: Jules Janssens (Leuven)
6:00-7:00pm: Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Würzburg):
“Thomas Aquinasʼ media via between Avicenna and Averroes on the Spontaneous Generation of Compounds”
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Chair: Jules Janssens (Leuven)