2018 Annual Fall Workshop of The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group
Aquinas and the Arabs International Annual Fall Meeting
Meeting Date: 23-25 August 2018
(Thursday afternoon through late afternoon Saturday.)
Location: Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Organizers:
Prof. Theres Cory, Notre Dame University
Prof. Luis López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana
Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University &
KU Leuven De Wulf-Mansion Centre
The Aquinas and the Arabs International Annual Fall Meeting will take place on August 23-25, 2018 (Thursday afternoon through late afternoon Saturday), at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.
AQUINAS AND ‘THE ARABS’ FALL MEETING 2018
August 23-25
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Organized by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Therese Cory and Richard Taylor
Sponsored by Universidad Panamericana and University of Notre Dame
Thursday August 23
4:50
Welcome Address: Richard Taylor & Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
5:00-5:50
Nicholas Oschman, Marquette University
Two Philosophical Critiques of Prophecy: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī on the Preeminence of Natural Reason
6:00-6:50
Michael Fatigati, University of Toronto
Varieties of Animal Emotions in Avicenna
Friday August 24
9:20
Welcome Address: María Elena García Peláez, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana
9:30-10:20
Keynote speaker: Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame
God as the Form of the Intellect in Aquinas’s Account of Beatific Union: Explanans or Explanandum?
10:30-11:20
Bret Yardley, Marquette University (Skype)
The Role of Testimony in Moses Maimonides’s Critique of Saadya Gaon
11:30-12:20
Brian Carl, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies
Divine Perfection in Avicenna, Averroes, and Aquinas
12:30-1:20
Daniel Regnier, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
The Arabic Plotinus on the Relationship between Soul and Intellect
1:30-2:50
Lunch
3:00-3:50
Deni Gamboa, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Ockham on Phantasia and Sensus Communis
4:00-4:50
Jörg Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Averroist by Contagion? Marsilius of Padua on Scientia Civilis
5:00-5:50
Richard Taylor, Marquette University
Double Truth, Science and Religion in the Contexts of Medieval Islam: Remarks on a Recent Proposal by Luca Bianchi
6:00-6:50
Rollen E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
Avicenna and Aquinas on Demonstrating God’s Existence
Saturday August 25
9:00-9:50
Youssef El Amari, Regional Academy of Education and Formation Tangier-Tetouan-al-Hoceima (Skype)
Averroes and Galileo on the Interpretation of Sacred Texts
10:00-11:50
Elisa Coda, University of Pisa (Skype)
Themistius’ interpretation of the Aristotelian abstraction and its role in Arabic philosophy
12:00-12:50 (Skype)
Nicola Polloni, Durham University
Avicennian Cosmologies? Remarks on Grosseteste and ‘the Arabs’