Fall 2010 Research Seminar Conference
September 10-12, 2010
“Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ / Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes”
presented by
the University of St. Thomas and its Center for Thomistic Studies,
3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas 77006
Organized by Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas
in conjunction with
the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, and the Commissio Leonina, Paris, France
Local Hosts: Drs. R. E. Houser (Center for Thomistic Studies) and
Mary C. Sommers (Director, Center for Thomistic Studies)
with Valerie Hall (Administrative Assistant, Center for Thomistic Studies)
Attendees
Fr. Timothy Belamah, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris, and
Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D. C.
Prof. Mark Barker, Notre Dame Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana
Daniel DeHaan, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Prof. Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
Dr. Max Herrera, (Ph.D. Marquette University) Weston, FL
Prof. R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Prof. Luis Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Prof. E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
Prof. Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri. St. Louis
Nathan Poage, Houston Community College, Houston
Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee
Preliminary Program
Friday September 10, 2010, 7 pm:
Reception at the home of Prof. Houser,
3604 Garrot, Houston, 77006
(ca. seven blocks from the Center for Thomistic Studies)
Saturday September 11
Location: Brezik Seminar Room, Center for Thomistic Studies
9:00 – 10:30 am: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee
“Thomas’s Debts to Avicenna and Averroes on Cognition”
Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Mark Barker, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Retrieving the Arabic Origins of the Preparation of Phantasms”
Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
12:15-2:00 pm: Lunch at Kam’s Chinese Restaurant
2:00 -3:30: Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis “On Avicenna’s Physics”
Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:15: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
“Aquinas’s Use of Averroes and Avicenna in his De principiis naturae”
Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
5:30-6:30: Mass in the Chapel of St. Basil
7:00 pm: Dinner at Max and Julie’s Bistro
Sunday September 12, 2010
Location: Brezik Seminar Room, Center for Thomistic Studies
9:00-10:30: Luis Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
“Aquinas on the Eternity of the World in II Sent. d. 1, q. 1, art. 5,
and his Arabic/Islamic and Jewish Sources”
Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Max Herrera, Ph.D. Marquette University
“Hylomorphism in Avicenna, Averroes, and Aquinas”
Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
12:00-1:30: Catered Luncheon
1:30-2:45: Nathan Poage, Houston Community College
“Avicenna and Aquinas on the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”
Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
2:45-3:00: Break
3:00-4:15: Daniel DeHaan, Center for Thomist Studies, University of St. Thomas
“Aristotle’s’ De anima: A Common Point of Departure for Averroistic and Thomistic Noetics”
Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
4:15-5:00: Informal Discussion of the “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project”
5:00 pm: End of conference