Aquinas and the Arabs International Annual Fall Meeting
Meeting Dates: Fri, August 25th, and Sat, August 26th, 2017
Co- organizers: Therese Scarpelli Cory (Notre Dame), tcory@nd.edu and Francisco Romero Carrasquillo (Univ. Panamericana), fromero@up.edu.mx.
Location: Hospitality Room, South Dining Hall, University of Notre Dame
Friday, August 25th:
9:00am: Welcome (Therese Scarpelli Cory, University of Notre Dame) and introduction to the Aquinas and the Arabs Project (Richard Taylor, Marquette University)
9:20-10:10am: “Avicenna’s Emanationist Abstraction” (Stephen Ogden, The Catholic University of America)
10:10-11:00am: “On Abstraction in the Medieval Aristotelian Tradition” (Richard Taylor, Marquette University)
11:30am-12:20pm: “Transmigration and the Teacher: Philoponus on De Anima 3.4-8” (Jacob Andrews, Loyola University Chicago)
12:30 pm-2:00 pm: Lunch, Oak Room of South Dining Hall
LECTURE: “Raimundus Lullus and his Acceptance of Islamic Thought” (Josep Puig Montada, Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
2:30-3:20pm: “Continuity, Rupture, And Fragmentation: Charting the Uneasy Course of ‘Divine Science’ from Antiquity to Early Modernity” (Matthew Kostelecky, University of Alberta)
3:20-4:10pm: “Al-Fârâbî’s Enumeration of the Sciences, Avicenna’s On Demonstration, II, 8, and their Latin Readers” (Thérèse-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America)
4:30-5:20pm: “Thomas Aquinas, His Predecessors, and the Properties of Being Qua Being” (Philip Neri Reese, University of Notre Dame)
5:20-6:00pm: “Essentialism and Scientific Necessity in Thomas Aquinas” (Nathaniel Taylor, Marquette University)
Dinner (speakers and chairs)
Saturday, August 26th
9:00-9:50am: “Aquinas and the Absence of Islam in Scholastic Thought” (Tom Burman, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)
9:50-10:40am: “‘Le penchant pour l’arabisme’ at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century, or How Did Aquinas Learn Arabic Philosophy?” (Stephen Metzger, University of Notre Dame)
11:00-11:50am: “Boethius, Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna on Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents” (Lu Jiang, Sun Yat-sen University)
11:50am-12:40pm: “Divine Will and the Metaphysics of God in Avicenna and Aquinas” (Mark Schulz, Marquette University)
2:10-3:00pm: “Circumscribing Emotions in Avicenna’s Thought” (Michael Fatigati, University of Toronto)
3:00-3:50pm: “Establishing the Finiteness of Efficient Causes in the Metaphysics of the Healing” (Celia Byrne, University of Toronto)
4:10-5:00pm: “Aquinas on Exceeding Matter and Being a Body” (David Cory, Catholic University of America).
5:10-5:30pm: Concluding Remarks: “al-Ghazālī and Islamic Philosophy” (David Burrell, University of Notre Dame)
Dinner (speakers and chairs)