Aquinas,               Alfarabi,                  Avicenna,         Averroes,       Maimonides  &    Albertus

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Past Conferences

Annual Fall Workshop on Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’

20-21 September 2013

Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

“A Workshop on Averroes and His Philosophy”

27-28 June 2013, Marquette University,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

For information & the Call For Papers, click HERE.

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For the London 17-21 June 2012 conference

Conciliating Revelation and Science in the Abrahamic Traditions

click here.

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Special event 2 November 2011 at Marquette University

Dr. Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC) and visiting Mellon Professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, will be at MU for a lecture and seminar on November 2, 2011. For information on her work, see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/fierro.shtml.

2:00-3:30 in AMU 448, "Ibn Rushd / Averroes Seminar" with Professor Maribel Fierro and Professor R. C. Taylor, Marquette University. 

 

4:00-6:00 in AMU 227 Professor Fierro will present, "Plants, Mary the Copt, Abraham, Donkeys and Knowledge: Again on Batinism During the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus." Reception to follow.

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Many thanks to the Universidad Panamericana for hosting

a very successful meeting in Mexico City. And thanks to

the participants for very stimulating discussions that have

advanced our understanding of the importance of the

thought of thinkers of the Arabic tradition in the

development of the theological and philosophical

thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’

The annual Fall North American conference

will take place 13-15 October 2011 at the

Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.

Conference Hotel:

City Express Insurgentes Sur, Av. Insurgentes Sur No. 1581

Col. San José Insurgentes

03900 Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal

Tel: (55) 5482-0280

01-800-248-9397

www.hotelescity.com

Conference Schedule

Wednesday 12 October

Evening informal dinner near the hotel. Meet at 7:15 pm at the lobby. 

Thursday 13 October Room 37

8:30 coffee

9-10 Welcome by Universidad Panamericana Rector, Dr. José Manuel Nuñez Pliego, followed by a project description update by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & member, De Wulf - Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

10-11:15 Prof. Francisco O’Reilly,  Philosophy Department at Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay, “Metaphysics as Mimesis of the Divine. An analysis of the Philosophia Prima of the Avicenna Latinus”

11:15-11:30 break

11:30-12:45 Paloma Hernández-Rubio, graduate student, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico, “Sensata communia sunt instrumenta: The role of common sensation in Albert the Great’s De homine”

1-3 Lunch for speakers sponsored by the UP Department of Philosophy

3:00-4:15 Prof. Therese Cory, Philosophy Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WI, USA, “The Influence of Avicenna and the Liber de causis in Aquinas’s ‘Turn to the Phantasms’”

4:15-4:30 break

4:40-5:45 Dr. Marta Borgo, Commissio Leonina, Paris, France,  “Aquinas on matter. Notes on the reception of Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics in the 13th century”

Evening dinner at 7:30

Friday 14 October Room 37

8:30 coffee

9:00-10:15 Prof. Francisco Romero, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus, Guadalajara, Mexico, “The Reception of Averroes’s Abstractionist Theory of Intentionality in the Latin West”

10:15-10:30 break

10:30-11:45 Prof. Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, “How did John of la Rochelle influence Thomas Aquinas?”

11:45-1:00 Prof. Deina Ali Abdelkader, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA, USA, “Thomas Aquinas’ Common Good and al-Shatibi’s Public Welfare”

1:00-3:00 Lunch for speakers sponsored by the UP Department of Philosophy

3:00-4:15 Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University & DeWulf Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “Primary Causality and ibdā‘ in the Liber de causis”

4:15-4:30 break

4:30-5:45 Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA, “The Friar and the Vizier on the Range of the Theoretical Sciences”

Evening dinner at 7:30

Saturday 15 October Room 37

8:30 coffee

9:00-10:30 Presentation of sample translation with commentary for discussion of the project on the Sentences of Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, & De Wulf - Mansion Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

10:30 trip to market area at San Ángel for lunch and browsing. After lunch, museum visit.

ca. 2:00-6:00 Museo Nacional de Antropología

Evening dinner at 6:30/7:00

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Spring 2011 Research Seminar Conference

20 & 24 May 2011

The Commissio Leonina and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project

in collaboration with the CNRS équipe UMR 7219, SPHERE,

present

“Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes / Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”

20 May, 2011

Université de Paris VII-Diderot, salle Mondrian (646A) 6ème étage,

4 rue Elsa Morante ou 4 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet

75023, Paris

and

24 May 2011

Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, salle de ISTINA

43bis/45 rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris*

(For Paris travel information, click here.)

Organized by

Dr. Adriano Oliva, O.P., president, Commissio Leonina, Paris,

Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

(2010-11 visiting research professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven),

Dr. Cristina Cerami, CNRS, Paris,  & Dr. Valérie Cordonier. CNRS, Paris

Detailed Program for 20 May 2011 at Université de Paris VII-Diderot

10h00-11h15: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston: « Avicenna and Aquinas's De principiis naturae, c. 1-3 »

11h15-12h30: M. Chase, CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin (UPR 76): « From Philoponus to Aquinas : Studies in the posterity of John Philoponus in Arabo-Latin philosophy »

14h30-16h00: J. McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis: « Making Something of Nothing. Privation, Possibility and Potential in Avicenna and Aquinas »

Detailed Program for 24 May 2011 at the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir

(Revised and updated 7 May 2011)

9h30-10h30  Chair: Prof. Jules Janssens, DeWulf-Mansion Centre. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Presentation: Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

“Aquinas on Creation in II Sent., d 1, q 1, art. 1-2 and his Arabic / Islamic Sources”

10h30-11h00 Coffee break

11h00-12h00  Chair: Dr. Cristina Cerami, CNRS Paris

Presentation: Prof. Olga Lizzini, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“Possibility and creation. Some remarks on the views of Avicenna and Aquinas”

12h00-12h15 Short break

12h15-12h45: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, “An Update on the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group” with discussion to follow.

13h-14h30   Lunch

14h30-15h30: Chair: Prof. M. C. Sommers, Director, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston

Presentation: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “‘First Averroism’and ‘Second Averroism’: An Analysis”

15h30-15h50 Coffee

15h50-16h50: Chair: Prof. Isabelle Moulin, Institut Catholique de Paris

Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University,

“Aquinas’ Early Essentialist Realism and the Avicennian Tri-fold Essence”

*NOTE: To register for lunch on site on 24 May (ca. 15 Euros per person) before May 15 email your request to: aoliva@commissio-leonina.org. Payment will be onsite.

Conference titles and abstracts

Prof. Olga Lizzini, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“Possibility and creation. Some remarks on the views of Avicenna and Aquinas”

In his Metaphysics from the K. al-Shifa’, Avicenna declares that the Cause has power over existence: its action is on the existence of the thing and only on it (Ilāh., VI, 1, pp. 259, 11-263, 18). The quiddity (and/or the possibility) of the thing qua quiddity (and possibility) is in some way removed from the power of the Cause: on the one hand, possibility expresses the necessary distinction between  the Cause and its effect; on the other hand, it is a sort of condition  of  Causal power.

    That possibility is a sort of condition does not mean, however, either that it is temporally precedent to the thing, or that it has an essential anteriority (which still appertains to the Cause and never to the caused thing). Instead, possibility is a determinant condition of the causal relationship (in re or in intellectu). 

    This topic is discussed by Thomas Aquinas (Qq. De potentia). Beatrice Zedler has offered an interpretation of the relationship between Thomas and Avicenna in this work (Traditio, 1948; cf. already M. Bouyges, L’idée génératrice du de Potentia de saint Thomas, «Revue de Philosophie», 2, 1931, pp. 131-131; 246-268).

    More recently, in his book on Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas (Talking about God, talking about Creation, Brill, Leiden 2005), Rahim Acar has given his own interpretation of the question.

    Without attempting to deal exhaustively with the subject, I shall be offering some remarks, and stressing some elements which – I believe – are essential to the comprehension of the relationship between possibility and the creative power of the Cause in Avicenna.

Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

“Aquinas on Creation in II Sent., d 1, q 1, art. 1-2 and his Arabic / Islamic Sources”

    The creation of the world has been widely discussed since the Middle Ages until our present time. This doctrine, essential to the Christian faith, had a particular development that reached its maturity within the Christian tradition with Thomas Aquinas. Before him, Christian philosophers and theologians understood that the eternity of the world, a proposition coming from Greek philosophers, mainly from Aristotle, was contrary and incompatible with the doctrine of creation in time and ex nihilo. The theological and philosophical basis of Aquinas’ doctrine of creation is found in II Sent., d 1, q 1. There, especially in article 2, Aquinas argues for an eternal and created universe, quite an innovative approach considering the whole array of refutations of the eternity held by most of his Christian predecessors and contemporaries. In this paper, I argue that Aquinas builds this possibility, i.e. an eternal and created universe, on the basis of Averroes’ notion of continuous production (ihdāth dā’im). There are, however, relevant differences between both philosophers. Given that Averroes definitely rejects the possibility of creation out of nothing, Aquinas resorts to Avicenna’s metaphysics in order to propose a different meaning of the Latin expression ex nihilo. In this sense, Aquinas offers a radically different doctrine of creation to that of theologians as Bonaventure and Albert the Great. In addition to the metaphysical differences between these theologians and Aquinas, there is also a notorious contrast in their argumentative strategies. For most Christian thinkers it is not possible to attain a demonstrative argument for creation. Aquinas himself seems to accept, following Maimonides, that the discussion on whether the world is eternal or has been created is a dialectical one and, in this sense, there are no demonstrative arguments in any respect (II Sent., d 1, q 1, a 5 co). With this in mind, it is not unexpected to read in Summa Theologiae I, q. 46, a. 2 that the creation of the world is a matter of faith but not demonstrable (credibile, non autem scibile vel demonstrabile). In contrast, in II Sent., d 1, q 1, a 2 co Aquinas affirms that creation is not only a matter of faith but also demonstrable by reason (ratio demonstrat). After explaining Aquinas’ doctrine of creation paying attention to his Arabic / Islamic sources, I elucidate what can reason demonstrate about creation.

Prof. Richard C. Taylor,

Marquette University, Milwaukee, &  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

“‘First Averroism’and ‘Second Averroism’: An Analysis”

Over the course of several years of study and drawing on the work of Salman, Gómez Nogales, and others, R. A. Gauthier developed and refined the thesis of what he came to call ‘First Averroism’ and ‘Second Averroism.’ Briefly put, according to this view Averroes's teaching on the human intellect in the Long Commentary on the De Anima was understood by Latin thinkers initially such that the agent intellect and material or possible intellect are powers of the human soul, while it was only later that they came to view Averroes as holding that these intellects are separately existing immaterial substances. For Gauthier this latter position was not the genuine view of Averroes himself but rather a ‘Second Averroism’ created by the Christian theologians and surfacing around 1252.  This presentation reexamines the sources of Gauthier for this thesis as well as additional sources to provide a different view of the reception and use of Averroes by the theologians of the early to mid-Thirteenth century. Particular attention is given to the use of Averroes by Albertus Magnus in his De homine where he developed a natural epistemology remarkably similar to that set forth in the Commentary on the Sentences and later works by Thomas Aquinas.

Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University,

“Aquinas’ Early Essentialist Realism and the Avicennian Tri-fold Essence”

    In interestingly different ways, Gilson and Fabro, the greatest Aquinas scholars of the last century (along with nearly everyone else), have criticized Aquinas’ early Avicennian arguments for the “real distinction” between essence and esse (act of being). I submit that these scholars do not attend, however, to Aquinas’ other early (and late) “real distinction:” between individual substance or supposit and essence. I draw out the grounds, textual and philosophical, for this real distinction, especially in the early works, and I explore its background in Avicenna and Albertus Magnus. Aquinas takes this real distinction as already established within the philosophical tradition that he furthers, and within this context we must read his “Avicennian” essence-esse distinction.

Conference dinners will take place 19 or 20 May and 24 May. (Self pay.)

Information forthcoming.  Registration for one or both dinners due by 15 May.

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Fall 2010 Research Seminar Conference

September 10-12, 2010

   “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ / Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes”

presented by

the University of St. Thomas and its Center for Thomistic Studies,

3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas 77006

Organized by Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas

in conjunction with 

the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group,

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, and the Commissio Leonina, Paris,  France

Local Hosts: Drs. R. E. Houser (Center for Thomistic Studies) and

Mary C. Sommers (Director, Center for Thomistic Studies)

with Valerie Hall (Administrative Assistant, Center for Thomistic Studies)

Attendees

Fr. Timothy Belamah, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris, and

Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D. C.

Prof. Mark Barker, Notre Dame Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana

Daniel DeHaan, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Prof. Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

Dr. Max Herrera, (Ph.D. Marquette University) Weston, FL

Prof. R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Prof. Luis Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

Prof. E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

Prof. Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri. St. Louis

Nathan Poage, Houston Community College, Houston

Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee

Preliminary Program

Friday September 10, 2010, 7 pm:

Reception at the home of Prof. Houser,

3604 Garrot, Houston, 77006

(ca. seven blocks from the Center for Thomistic Studies)

Saturday September 11

Location: Brezik Seminar Room, Center for Thomistic Studies

9:00 - 10:30 am: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee

“Thomas’s Debts to Avicenna and Averroes on Cognition”

Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:00: Mark Barker, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana

“Retrieving the Arabic Origins of the Preparation of Phantasms”

Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

12:15-2:00 pm: Lunch at Kam’s Chinese Restaurant

2:00 -3:30: Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis “On Avicenna’s Physics”

Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-5:15: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas

“Aquinas’s Use of Averroes and Avicenna in his De principiis naturae”

Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

5:30-6:30: Mass in the Chapel of St. Basil

7:00 pm: Dinner at Max and Julie’s Bistro

Sunday September 12, 2010

Location: Brezik Seminar Room, Center for Thomistic Studies

9:00-10:30: Luis Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

“Aquinas on the Eternity of the World in II Sent. d. 1, q. 1, art. 5,

and his Arabic/Islamic and Jewish Sources”

Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-12:00: Max Herrera, Ph.D. Marquette University

“Hylomorphism in Avicenna, Averroes, and Aquinas”

Brief Comment by E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

12:00-1:30: Catered Luncheon

1:30-2:45: Nathan Poage, Houston Community College

“Avicenna and Aquinas on the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”

Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

2:45-3:00: Break

3:00-4:15: Daniel DeHaan, Center for Thomist Studies, University of St. Thomas

“Aristotle’s’ De anima: A Common Point of Departure for Averroistic and Thomistic Noetics”

Brief Comment by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

4:15-5:00: Informal Discussion of the “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project”

5:00 pm: End of conference

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Spring 2010 Research Seminar Conference

May 20, 2010

  “Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes / Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”

Bibliothèque du Saulchoir

43bis rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris, France

Organized by Dr. Adriano Oliva, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris,

and Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Conference photo gallery: click here.

Conference Program

20 May 2010

9 h 30     Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, “Aquinas on the Eternity of the World in II Sent., d. 1, q. 1, a., 5”

10 h 30   Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, “Avicenna in the Development of Aquinas’s Epistemology in the Commentary on the Sentences”

11 h 45   Jörg Tellkamp, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, “Vis aestimativa and vis cogitativa in the Commentary on the Sentences”

13 h     Lunch break

14 h 30  Marta Borgo. Commissio Leonina, Paris), “Entre Avicenne et Averroès : considérations sur l'Aristote de Thomas d'Aquin à ses débuts”

15 h 30 Fabio Gibiino (Commissio Leonina, Paris), Les Arabes, Denys, Thomas : un face à face sur la science divine. Analyse historique et doctrinale du traité de la science divine dans le commentaire de Thomas d'Aq. au Ier livre des Sentences

16 h 40 Discussion of all presentations

Sessions will take place at the new salle de ISTINA, above the

Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, 45 rue de la Glacière, Paris XIIIe.

Those who would like to have lunch on site (ca. 15 Euros) must give notice before May 12 via email to: aoliva@commissio-leonina.org.

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Fall 2009 Research Seminar Conference

Conference photo gallery: click here.

October 17, 2009, 1:30-7:00 pm

and

October 18, 2009, 12:00 - 5:00 pm

   “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ / Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes”

Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Organized by

the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group, Marquette University,

and sponsored by

the Commissio Leonina, Paris,  France, and

the Departments of Philosophy and Theology at Marquette University,

and the Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

with funding from the Mellon Fund and the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

Location: Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library

Beaumier Conference Center

Presenters & Presiders

Fr. Timothy Bellamah, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris & Washington, D.C.

Mr Nathan Blackerby, Marquette University

Rev. Fabio Gibiino, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris,

Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St Thomas, Houston,

Prof. Mark Johnson, Marquette University,

Prof. Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City,

Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University,

Prof. David B. Twetten, Marquette University,

Ms Rosa Vargas Della Casa, Marquette University

SCHEDULE

Friday October 16, 2009

Evening (7:30 pm): Welcoming Reception at the Home of

Prof. David B. Twetten

1895 Pilgrim W  Brookfield WI

(for directions use Googlemaps or Mapquest)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 1:30 - 7:00 pm

1:30-2:45 Session Chair: Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University

Presenter: Prof. Rollen E. Houser, University of St Thomas, Houston,

“Avicenna on Truth”

2:50-4:05 Session Chair: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University

Presenter: Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City,

“Maimonides on Religious Beliefs”

4:10-6:10 Session Chair: Prof. R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Presenter: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University,

“Intellect and Intelligibles in the Commentary on the Sentences: Avicenna, Averroes and Aquinas.”

6:15-7:00 Roundtable session: Presentation of the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project on Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences

Presenters: Profs. Houser, Taylor and López Farjeat

7:30 pm Reception with buffet dinner at the home of Prof. Taylor.

14360 Indian Ridge Drive, Brookfield, WI 53005

(for directions use Mapquest or Googlemaps)

Sunday October 18, 2009, 12:00-5:00 pm

Advanced Graduate Student Presentations

12:00-1:15  Session Chair: Fr. Timothy Bellamah, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris & Washington, D.C.

Presenter: Rev. Fabio Gibiino, O.P., Commissio Leonina, Paris,

“Saint Thomas et la science divine.”

1:20-2:35 Session Chair: Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University

Presenter:  Ms. Rosa Vargas Della Casa, Marquette University,

“Thomas Aquinas on the Possibility or Impossibility of a Conceptual Apprehension of Esse.”

2:40-3:55 Session Chair: Prof. Prof. Mark Johnson, Marquette University

Presenter: Mr Nathan Blackerby, Marquette University,

“On the Origins of Aquinas’s Dualism. An Exposition of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Soul and a Comparison with His Sources.”

4:00: Concluding Open Discussion

5:30: dinner at a local restaurant.

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Spring 2009 Research Seminar Conference

   “Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes / Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”

Bibliothèque du Saulchoir

43bis rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris, France

March 27 & 28, 2009

Organized by the Commissio Leonina, Paris,  France, and

the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project,

Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Conference Program

27 March 2009

10 h    Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Role of Arabic / Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in his Commentary on the Sentences IV, d.49, q.2, a.1

11 h 30    Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Université de Paris X - Nanterre) L’image requise. Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin lectuers de De anima 431a16-17

13 h     Lunch break

14 h 30  R.  E. Houser, University of St. Thomas (Houston), How Br. Thomas Introduces the Principles of Avicennian Metaphysics into Sacra doctrina: 1 Sent. d. 8, q.1

28 March 2009

10h    Cristina Cerami, CNRS Paris, Physique et Métaphysique: l’ordo scientiarum chez Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin

11 h 30    Isabelle Moulin (Faculté Notre Dame, Paris) The Question of the Status of Secondary Causes in Three Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences: Albert the Great, Bonaventura, and Thomas Aquinas

13 h    Lunch break

14 h 30    David B. Twetten, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aquinas’ Early Appropriation of Averroes: The Contra Gentiles’ Reading of the Physics

Sessions will take place at the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, Salle Saint Thomas, 43bis de la Glacière, Paris XIIIe.

Those who would like to have lunch on site (15 Euros) must give notice three days in advance by writing to: aoliva@commissio-leonina.org.

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