13-15 October 2011 at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.
Thursday 13 October
9:00-10:00am: Welcome by Universidad Panamericana Rector, Dr. José Manuel Nuñez Pliego, followed by a project description update by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & member, De Wulf – Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
10:00-11:15am: Prof. Francisco O’Reilly, Philosophy Department at Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay,
“Metaphysics as Mimesis of the Divine. An analysis of the Philosophia Prima of the Avicenna Latinus”
11:30am-12:45am: Paloma Hernández-Rubio, graduate student, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico,
“Sensata communia sunt instrumenta: The role of common sensation in Albert the Great’s De homine”
3:00-4:15pm: Prof. Therese Cory, Philosophy Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WI, USA,
“The Influence of Avicenna and the Liber de causis in Aquinas’s ‘Turn to the Phantasms’”
4:40-5:45pm: Dr. Marta Borgo, Commissio Leonina, Paris, France,
“Aquinas on matter. Notes on the reception of Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics in the 13th century”
Friday 14 October
9:00-10:15am: Prof. Francisco Romero, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus, Guadalajara, Mexico,
“The Reception of Averroes’s Abstractionist Theory of Intentionality in the Latin West”
10:30-11:45am: Prof. Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico,
“How did John of la Rochelle influence Thomas Aquinas?”
11:45am-1:00pm: Prof. Deina Ali Abdelkader, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA, USA,
“Thomas Aquinas’ Common Good and al-Shatibi’s Public Welfare”
3:00-4:15pm: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University & DeWulf Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
“Primary Causality and ibdā‘ in the Liber de causis”
4:30-5:45pm: Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA,
“The Friar and the Vizier on the Range of the Theoretical Sciences”
Saturday 15 October
9:00-10:30am: Presentation of sample translation with commentary for discussion of the project on the Sentences of Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & De Wulf – Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico