Paris 3-4 June 2013
“Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes /Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”
Université Paris – Sorbonne
Organizers: J.-B. Brenet (Paris), Isabelle Moulin (Paris), Luis X. López-Farjeat (Mexico City) & Richard C. Taylor (Milwaukee & Leuven)
3 June 2013: Avicenna, Aquinas & Roger Bacon
10:00-11:00am: Anne-Sophie Jouanneau (Paris),
“L’Équivocité du désir : sur le mouvement des corps célestes chez Avicenne et Thomas d’Aquin”
11:00am-12:00pm: Daniel DeHaan (Houston),
“Aquinas and the Possibles in St Thomas’s In I Sent., d. 8, q. 3, a. 2”
12:00-1:00pm: Julie Swanstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana),
“Creation as Emanation in Aquinas”
3:00-4:00pm: Syamsuddin Arif (Kuala Lumpur),
“Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and Aquinas between Essentialism and Existentialism”
4:00-5:00pm: Hector Ferreiro (Buenos Aires),
“Absoluta consideratio naturae: An Avicennian Theme as a Leitmotiv of Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics”
5:00-6:00pm: Günther Mensching (Hannover),
“Roger Bacon and Islamic Physics and Metaphysics”
4 June 2013: Aquinas & Averroes
10:00-11:00am: Katja Krause (London),
“Intellectual Union with God: Textual Reasons for Aquinas’ Adoption of and Retraction from Averroes’ Conjunction Theory as a Model for the Beatific Vision”
11:00am-12:00pm: Yamina Adouane (Paris),
“A New Approach to Averroes’ Restitution of Avicenna’s Proof of the Existence of God”
12:00-1:00pm: Charles Ehret (Paris),
“Semen as an instrument in Averroes and Aquinas”
3:00-4:00pm: Catarina Belo (Cairo),
“Aquinas’ References to Averroes in Quaestiones disputatae de veritate”
4:00-5:00pm: Traci Phillipson (Milwaukee & Leuven),
“The Role of the Will in the Psychology of Aquinas and his Predecessors”
5:00-6:00pm: Francisco Romero (Guadalajara, Mexico),
“Natural Theology and the AAIWG / AAP International Spring / Summer Workshops 2009-2016 Interpretation of Scripture in Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas”