Event
01 June 2017
Amos Bertolacci speaks about whether God is a Substance according to Avicenna
International Conference of the Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group, Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1-2 June 2017, organized by R. Taylor, K. Krause, C. Burnett
Program
Thursday, 1 June
09.00: Registration of Attendees and welcoming words
Session 1: Chair: Mary Catherine Sommers (Houston)
09.30: Michael Chase (Paris), ‘Creation and Continuity In Neoplatonism: Origins and Legacy’
10.30: Luí Xavier Lopéz-Farjeat (México), ‘Al-Jabbār and al-Ghazālī on Divine Speech and the Controversy over the Createdness of the Qur’ān’
11.25: Coffee Break
11.55: David Twetten (Milwaukee), ‘Aristotle Less Transformed: Averroes and Why the Prime Mover Is not an Artist, but the Art’
12.50: Lunch for speakers, chairs, organizers
Session 2: Chair: Janis Esots (London)
14.30: Ann Giletti (Oxford), ‘The Eternity of the World and Eternal Creation on the Part of the Creature: Did They Amount to the Same Thing?’
15.30: Ed Houser (Houston), Creators—Created and Uncreated: What Aquinas Learned from Avicenna
16.25: Coffee Break
Session 3: Chair: Charles Burnett (London)
16.50: Keynote Speaker: Amos Bertolacci (Pisa), ‘Is God a Substance According to Avicenna?’
Friday, 2 June
Session 4: Chair: Katja Krause (Durham)
09.15: Charles Burnett (London), ‘Agency and Effect in the philosophy of Abu Ma‘shar of Balkh (Albumasar)’
10.15: Nicola Polloni (Durham), ‘Indeed, the soul has not been made by the First Maker: Creation, Imitation, and Matter’
11.10: Coffee Break
11.35: Philippe Vallat (Vienna), ‘Are Creation and the Created Assumed Nature “real” for God? Remarks on Aquinas’s commentary on the Liber de causis and Christology’
12.30: Update: Richard Taylor (Milwaukee), Update on the Work of the AAIWG Members
12.45: Lunch for speakers, chairs, organizers
Session 5: Chair: Richard Taylor (Milwaukee)
14.30: Therese Cory (South Bend), ‘Colour is in the Air, as the Power of Art is in the Instrument: The Concept of Spiritual Inherence in the Arabic and Latin Traditions’
15.30: Dragos Calma (Cambridge), ‘Being in the Light of the Intellect’
16.25: Coffee Break
Session 6: Chair: Charles Burnett (London)
16.50: Keynote Speaker: Jon McGinnis (St Louis), For every action…: Medieval Islamic Reactions to Views on Generation and Creation
