2013 Spring / Summer Würzburg

“International Conference: Aquinas and Arabic Metaphysics”

Würzburg, 7-8 June 2013

Organizers: Jörn Müller, Dag Hasse & Richard Taylor

 

Friday 7 June

3:00-6:00pm: Graduate Student Workshop: Aquinas and Arabic Metaphysics

Presentations and discussion hosted by the local Lichtenberg research unit:

“History of Philosophy and of the Sciences in the Graeco-Arabic-Latin Tradition”

7.00-8:30pm: Evening Lecture Pasquale Porro (Bari):

“Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas on the indifference of the essences”

 

Saturday 8 June

9:15-10:15am: Rollen E. Houser (Houston):

“Introducing the Principles of Avicennian Metaphysics into Sacra Doctrina:Thomas Aquinas, In I Sent., d. 8”

Chair: Peter Adamson (München)

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10:30-11:30am: Uhr Deborah Black (Toronto):

“Aquinas and Avicenna on Divine Knowledge”

Chair: Peter Adamson (München)

11:30am-12:30pm: Olga Lizzini (Amsterdam):

“Relations, metaphysics and the demonstration of Godʼs existence”

Moderation: Peter Adamson (München)

2:30-3:30pm: Luis X. López-Farjeat (Mexico City):

“Avicenna and Aquinas on the Unity and Multiplicity of Divine Attributes in light of I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, art. 1-3”

Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo (München)

3:30-4.30pm: Richard C. Taylor (Milwaukee):

“The Metaphysics of Creation in Avicenna, Averroes and Aquinas”

Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo (München):

5:00-6:00pm: David B. Twetten (Milwaukee):

“Avicenna and Albert at the back of Aquinasʼ Doctrine of Being–Reliance and Departure”

Chair: Jules Janssens (Leuven)

6:00-7:00pm: Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Würzburg):

“Thomas Aquinasʼ media via between Avicenna and Averroes on the Spontaneous Generation of Compounds”

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Chair: Jules Janssens (Leuven)