Spring 2009 Research Seminar Conference
“Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes/Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”
Bibliothèque du Saulchoir
43bis rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris, France
March 27 & 28, 2009
Organized by the Commissio Leonina, Paris, France, and
theAquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Conference Program
27 March 2009
10 h Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The
Role of Arabic / Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific
Vision in his Commentary on the Sentences IV, d.49, q.2, a.1
11 h 30 Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Université de Paris X – Nanterre) L’image
requise. Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin lectuers de De anima 431a16-17
13 h Lunch break
14 h 30 R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas (Houston), How Br. Thomas
Introduces the Principles of Avicennian Metaphysics into Sacra doctrina: 1 Sent.
- 8, q.1
28 March 2009
10h Cristina Cerami, CNRS Paris, Physique et Métaphysique: l’ordo
AAIWG / AAP International Spring / Summer Workshops 2009-2016
scientiarumchez Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin
11 h 30 Isabelle Moulin (Faculté Notre Dame, Paris) The Question of the
Status of Secondary Causes in Three Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s
Sentences: Albert the Great, Bonaventura, and Thomas Aquinas
13 h Lunch break
14 h 30 David B. Twetten, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Aquinas’ Early Appropriation of Averroes: The Contra Gentiles’ Reading of the
Physics