THE MIDWEST SEMINAR IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
 
 

Marquette University Faculty Participants: Owen Goldin (Ancient), Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics), John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism), James South (Late Medieval & Renaissance), Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology), Richard C. Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic), Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion), David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas) and others from Marquette and other regional universities.


Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute), Alfred Ivry (New York University), Thomas Williams (University of Iowa), Eugene Garver (Saint John's University), Patricia Curd (Purdue University), Cristina D'Ancona (Università di Padova), John Sisko (College of William and Mary), Jeffrey E. Brower (Purdue University), Mary J. Sirridge (Lousiana State University), Richard Tierney (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Kenneth Seeskin (Northwestern University), Ruth Glassner (Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem), Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan University), Ray Weiss (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Hye-Kyung Kim (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay), Lorraine Pangle (University of Texas at Austin), Josep Puig Montada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University), Helen Lang (Villanova University), Andrew Payne, Universityof St. Joseph, Daniel Frank, Purdue University, Andreas Speer, Thomas Institut, Cologne, Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University, Sarah Pessin, University of Denver, and others.


DIRECTIONS AND MAPS:

- For directions to the Marquette Campus, see http://www.marquette.edu/contact/directions/

- For information on the Raynor Library and nearby parking see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/raynor.shtml.

- For information on the Alumni Memorial Union (AMU) and its location, see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/union.shtml

- For information on Cudahy Hall and its location, see

http://www.marquette.edu/contact/finder/cudahy.shtml

- For a map of the Marquette University campus, see http://www.marquette.edu/contact/CampusMap.pdf

- For a map of downtown Milwaukee, see

http://www.wisconline.com/counties/milwaukee/map-downtown.html


Send requests for information to:

Richard C. Taylor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University

Email: mistertea@mac.com or Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.

Telephone: (414)-288-5649, Fax: (414)288-3010


SOME VALUABLE LINKS


Aquinas and the Arabs: A Project in Medieval Philosophy:

http://web.mac.com/mistertea/iWeb/Aquinas%20&%20the%20Arabs/Aquinas%20&%20the%20Arabs.html


Marquette University Philosophy Department: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/

 

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

St Joan of Arc Chapel

The Marquette University

Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

is pleased to host

Anna-Katharina Strohschneider

Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany











presenting


“Metaphysics as Theology? Aristotle, Averroes,

and the Separate Beings”


3:30-5:30 pm Monday 8 May 2017

Raynor Library room 320a


Abstract


Anna-Katharina Strohschneider, University of Würzburg


“Metaphysics as Theology? Aristotle, Averroes,

and the Separate Beings”


Link HERE to video of the presentation.


When he introduces the science of metaphysics, Aristotle claims that metaphysics is, at the same time, the science of being insofar as it is being, and the science of the separate and divine substances. Just like Aristotle's modern readers, the medieval philosophers had to make sense of these seemingly contradictory statements.

In modern scholarship, Averroes has often been painted as the representative of a purely theological conception of metaphysics, in contrast to Avicenna who emphasizes the ontological nature of the science.

My paper shows that Averroes clearly states, and never denies, that Aristotle's metaphysics is a universal science, the science responsible for studying being insofar as it is being. But for Averroes, the only acceptable proof of the existence of separate substance is the proof provided by Aristotle in the Physics, while metaphysics is responsible for demonstrating how the first being is a final and formal cause. The study of being insofar as it is being, and substance insofar as it is substance, is the method employed for reaching this goal.

I argue that Averroes develops an innovative and influential theory in order to reconcile the two divergent aspects of metaphysics, theology and ontology.


Biographical Note


Anna-Katharina Strohschneider is currently a research and teaching associate for philosophy at the University of Würzburg. She is finishing her doctoral dissertation on Averroes' Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and its Latin reception under the supervision of Prof. Dag N. Hasse. Her research concentrates on the conception of metaphysics as a science and the relation between physics and metaphysics, with a focus on the Medieval and Renaissance commentary tradition. She was a short-term fellow of the Warburg Institute, London, a guest researcher at SNS, Pisa, and she has presented her work at international conferences.


Curriculum Vitae Link

http://www.philosophie.uni-wuerzburg.de/institut/allelehrsthlefrphilosophie/annakatharinastrohschneider/