Fall 2008 Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Research Seminar Conference:
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 11-12, 2008
Organized by
the Marquette Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project with financial support from the Klinger College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette and the Departments of Theology and Philosophy
Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’:
A Research Seminar Conference on the Role of Arabic Philosophy in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Sentences.
Location: Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library
Beaumier Conference Center
SCHEDULE
Saturday October 11, 2008, 2-7 pm
2:00-3:30: Prof. R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas (Houston), “‘The Subtler Reasoning of Avicenna’: Aquinas’s ‘Short Course’ on the Principles of Avicennian Metaphysics included within Sacred Doctrine, Parisian Scriptum, 1. D. 8. Q. 1, Art. 1-3”
Commentator: Prof. Luis Xavier Lopez Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.
Session Chair: Prof. E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
3:45-5:15: Prof. Jörg Tellkamp. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City. Topic: Teachings on the internal senses in the Commentary on the Sentences.
Commentator: Prof. Kevin White, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Session Chair: Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University
5:30-7:00: SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Adriano Oliva, O,P., President of the Commissio Leonina, Paris, “Philosophy in the Teaching of Theology by Thomas Aquinas”
(Regarding the work of the Commissio Leonina, see http://leonina.nerim.net/)
Session Chair: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
Reception in honor of Père Oliva with buffet dinner at the home of Prof. Taylor.
Sunday October 12, 2008, 12-4 pm
12:00-1:30: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University. “The Use and Critique of Models From the Arabic Philosophical Tradition in Conceptualizing the Beatific Vision in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, 1, D. 49, Q. 2, Art. 1.”
Commentary by Prof. Mark Johnson, Marquette University
Session Chair: Prof. John Boyle, University of St Thomas, Minn.-St. Paul, MN
1:45: Presenter: Prof. E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas, author of Thomas Aquinas’s Earliest Treatment of The Divine Essence: : Scriptum Super Sententiis, Book I, Distinction 8(Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Institute for Global Cultural Studies, 1998): “Remarks on Aquinas’s Use of Arabic Philosophical Sources in the Scriptum Super Sententias Book 1, Distinction 8.”
Session Chair: Prof. E. R. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston