Annual Fall Workshop on Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’
The “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group”
At Mexico City 29-30 October 2015
Hosted by the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Organized by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat & Richard C. Taylor
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Thursday, October 29
9:45am: Welcome by Dr. José Alberto Ross, Vice-Chancellor of Humanities at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
10:00-11:00am: Therese Scarpelli Cory, University of Notre Dame,
“The Metaphysics of Intelligibility: Avicenna, Averroes, and their Latin Reception”
11:00am-12:00pm: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University,
“Rethinking First and Second Averroism”
12:30-1:30pm: Ann Giletti, University of California, Rome Campus,
“al-Ghazālī, Aquinas and Ramon Martí: A Question of Audience of the Pugio Fidei”
3:00-4:00pm: Henryck Anzulewicz, Albertus Magnus-Institut, Bonn, Germany,
“Albert the Great and his Arabic-Peripatetic Sources: His Early Appropriation in Light of his Late On the Intellect and Intelligible”
4:00-5:00pm: Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City,
“Avicenna and Albert the Great on the Language of Non-Human Animals”
5:00-6:00pm: Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp & Paloma Hernández, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,
“Albert the Great on animal knowledge and Ghazālī’s Logica”
Friday, October 30
10:00-11:00am: Julie Swanstrom, Armstrong State University,
“Creation, Divine Simplicity, and Divine Will in Aquinas”
11:00am-12:00pm: Francisco Romero, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara,
“Aquinas’ Reception of Albert the Great’s Account of the Virtue Religion”
12:30-1:30pm: (i) Presentation of The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (2015); (ii) Update on research on Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ and some recent developments and future plans