Members: Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group

 
 

Members


Member Officers

· Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Philosophy Department, Marquette University,

    Project Director & Founding Member,  (Ancient, Medieval & Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

    Email: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu. Executive Committee member ex officio

· Prof. Luis Xavier López Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Project

    Associate Director & Member. (Ancient, Medieval & Arabic/Islamic Philosophy) Email: llopez@up.edu.mx. Executive Committee member ex officio

· Dr. Katja Krause, Max Planck Institut, Berlin, Germany,. European events coordinator. Email:

  kkrause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de  Executive Committee member

· Prof. Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Member (Avicenna, Aquinas, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy) Executive Committee member

· Prof. Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame, Member (Aquinas, epistemology in the Latin and Arabic traditions)

· Prof. Francisco Romero Carrasquillo, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, Mexico. Americas events coordinator  Email: fromero@up.edu.mx (Aquinas, Averroes, Medieval Latin Philosophy) Executive Committee member

· Prof. Catherine Peters, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Communications Coordinator (Ancient, Medieval & Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Prof. David B. Twetten, Philosophy Department, Marquette University,  Founding Member

   (Ancient, Medieval & Arabic/Islamic Philosophy) Executive Committee advisor

Regular Members

· Prof. Rahim Acar, Illahiyat Faculty, Marmara University, Istanbul

· Jacob Andrews, Loyola University Chicago

· Rosabel Pauline Ansari, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

· Prof. Dr. Henryk Anzulewicz, Albertus-Magnus-Institut, Bonn Member (Albert the Great)

· Armagan Atar, Ankara University, Turkey

· Prof. Fouad Ben Ahmad, Dar el-Hadith El-Hassania for Higher Islamic Studies

Al-Qarawiyin University, Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Member (Averroes, philosophical logic in Arabic)

· Prof. Amos Bertolacci, Professore Associato, Storia della Filosofia, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Member (Avicenna, Albert the Great)

· Prof. Deborah Black, Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, Member (Aquinas, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Dr Nathan Blackerby, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA, Member (Aquinas, Avicenna, Averroes)

· Prof. Cécile Bonmariage, DeWulf Mansion Centre, Université Catholique de Louvain,

    Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium (Avicenna, post-Avicennian thought, Aquinas) Consultant

· Prof. J.-B. Brenet, Université de Paris - Nanterre, Member (Aquinas, Jean of Jandun, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Celia Byrne, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

· Dr Dragos Calma, Cambridge University, Member (Latin Neoplatonism, late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy)

· Dr. Cristina Cerami, CNRS, Paris, Member (Aristotle, Averroes, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Dr. Michael Chase, CNRS, Paris, Member (Neoplatonism)

· Dr. David Cory, University of Notre Dame, Member (Aquinas)

· Ellen De Doncker, KU Leuven, Belgium

· Dr. Daniel DeHaan, University of Oxford, UK, Member (Aristotle, Aquinas, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Prof. Therese-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC Member (Arabic tradition, Latin tradition)

· Dr. Charles Ehret, PhD Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

· Dr Janis Esots, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK, Member (Ismaili Thought)

· Michael Fatigati, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

· Alfonso Ganem, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

· Dr. Ann Giletti, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Rome Campus, Italy, Member (Aquinas, Ramon Martí, Medieval Latin Spain)

· Dr. David González Ginocchio, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

· Prof. Jeremiah Hackett, Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Member (Roger Bacon)

· Prof. Steven Harvey, Bar Ilan University, Israel Member (Medieval Philosophy in Hebrew and Arabic)

· Prof. R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston Member (Aquinas, Avicenna)

· Prof. Jules Janssens, DeWulf Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance

Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Member (Arabic tradition, Latin tradition)

· Prof. Mark Johnson, Theology Department, Marquette University, Consultant

        (Catholic Moral Theology, Thomas Aquinas)

· Rachel Katz, Divinity School, University of Chicago

· Prof. Jari Kaukau, Jyväskylä University, Jyväskylä, Finland, Member (Avicenna, Philosophy in the Lands of Islam, theories of knowledge)

· Prof. Terence Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa, Member (Arabic/Islamic Philosophy, al-Farabi, Organon)

· Lisa-Maria Knothe, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

· Prof. Dr. Aicha Lahdhiri, History of Philosophy, Al-Zeitouna University, Tunis, Tunisia, Member (Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Prof. Olga Lizzini, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Avicenna, Aquinas, Arabic Tradition)

    Member (Avicenna, Aquinas, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Prof. E. M. Macierowski, Philosophy Department, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

     (Arabic tradition, Latin tradition, metaphysics)

· Prof. Pedro Mantas, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain Member (Transmission of texts and ideas from Arabic to Latin)

· Prof. Cecilia Martini Bonadeo, Università degli Studi di Padova (Greek into Arabic, al-Farabi, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, Arabic traditions of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Plotinus’s Enneads)

· Dr Stephen M. Metzger, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, (Medieval European Intellectual History)

· Prof. Edward Moad, Philosophy, Qatar University, Qatar (Islamic philosophy), Member

· Prof. Isabelle Moulin,  Institut Catholique de Paris, Member (Ancient & Medieval Latin Philosophy)

· Prof. Timothy Noone, The Catholic University of America Member (Ancient & Medieval Latin Philosophy)

· Prof. Stephen R. Ogden, The Catholic University of America Member (Arabic-Islamic Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Aristotle, Philosophy of Religion)

· Prof. Ayse Sadika Oktay, Divinity School, Suleyman Demirol University, Isparta, Turkey

· Nicholas Oschman, Marquette University, Milwaukee

· Prof. Sarah Pessin, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, Member (Maimonides, Medieval Jewish and Arabic/Islamic Philosophy, Ibn Gabirol)

· Nicola Polloni, Durham University, UK Member (Avicenna, Gundissalinus, Latin philosophy in the 12th century)

· Prof. Traci Phillipson, Marquette University, Member (Aquinas, Averroes)

· Prof. Josep Puig Montada,  Universidad Complutenses, Madrid, Member (Averroes, Ibn Bajja, et al.)

· Prof. Jamal Rachak, Philosophy Department, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco, Member (Ibn Bajja, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy)

· Philip-Neri Reese, O.P., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

· Prof. Andrea Robiglio, DeWulf Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance

    Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Member (Aquinas, Medieval and Renaissance Latin Philosophy)

· Prof. Matthew Robinson, University of St Thomas, Fredericton, NB Canada Member (Bonaventure, 13th century philosophy in the Latin tradition)

· Mark Schulz,  Marquette University, Milwaukee

· Prof. Carl Still, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada  Member (Aquinas, Medieval philosophy & theology, philosophy of mind)

· Dr. Anna-Katharina Strohschneider, King’s College London, UK

· Nathaniel Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee

· Adam Takahashi, University of Tokyo, Japan. Arabic Aristotelianism in the Latin West, particularly natural philosophy

· Prof. Jörg Tellkamp, Philosophy Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,

    Mexico City Member (Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Medieval Latin Philosophy)

· Prof. Fehrullah Terkan, Divinity School, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, Member (al-Ghazali, Averroes, Avicenna, traditional Arabic-Islamic philosophy)

· Jacob Terneus, Marquette University

· Traci Wietecha, LMU, Munich, Germany

· Evan Williams, University of St Thomas, Houston, Texas, USA



Consultants

· Dr. Adriano Oliva, O.P., President, Commissio Leonina, Paris, (Aquinas, Latin Tradition)

    Consultant

· Dr. Marta Borgo, Commissio Leonina, Paris, (Aquinas, Latin Tradition) Consultant

· Prof. Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Institut für Philosophie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität

     Würzburg, Consultant

· Prof. Siobhan Nash-Marshall, Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy, Manhattanville

     College, Purchase, New York (Boethius, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics) Consultant

· Prof. Irfan Omar, Theology Department, Marquette University, Consultant

        (Islam, World Religions)

· Prof. Owen Goldin, Philosophy Department, Marquette University, Consultant

      (Ancient Philosophy, Maimonides)

· Rev. Prof. John  Jones, Philosophy Department, Marquette University,  (Neoplatonism,

     Medieval Philosophy), Consultant

· Prof. Jozef Matula, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Department of

     Philosophy, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Consultant

· Dr Justin Anderson, Immaculate Conception School of Theology, Seton Hall University, Consulant



Membership involves a positive effort to contribute in diverse ways to the understanding of the influence and importance of the Arabic tradition to the thought of Aquinas through articles, seminars, and the like. This also entails an interest in assisting other AAP International Working Group  members with critical comments on translations and studies. 

Consultant entails an interest in offering occasional comments and advice on parts of the AAP International Working Group and its direction.

While much of this shared work will be done via the Internet using various available and developing technologies such as Skype, file sharing, shared websites and working space, and other technology, the AAP International Working Group holds regular annual Spring and Fall international research meetings and conferences.