Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition

in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy

April 11-13, 1999

Keynote Speakers:

David B. Burrell

University of Notre Dame

Daniel H. Frank

University of Kentucky

Michael E. Marmura

University of Toronto

Sunday, April 11

Jesse Philips Humanities Center

1:00 - 2:35 p.m.

HM 351/353: Philosophy and Law

"A Philosophical Odyssey, Ghazzali's Intentions of the Philosophers"

Gabriel Said Reynolds, Yale University

"The Relationship Between Averroes and al-Ghazali as it Presents Itself in Averroes' Early Writings,

Especially in His Commentary on al-Ghazali's al-Mustasfa"

Frank Griffel, Free University of Berlin

"Al-Ghazali and Halevi on Philosophy and the Philosophers"

Barry Kogan, Hebrew Union College

"Projection and Time in Proclus"

D. Gegory MacIsaac, Carleton University

"Forms of Knowledge in the Arabic Plotinus"

Peter Adamson, University of Notre Dame

"Secundum rei vim vel secundum cognoscentium facultatem: Knower and known in the

Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius and in the Proslogion of Anselm"

Wayne John Hankey, Dalhousie University

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2:35 - 2:50 p.m.: Break, 4^th Floor Lobby

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3:00 - 5:05 p.m.

HM 351/353: On Existence, Inherence, Contradiction, and Imaginative Notions

"Existence as Act in Early Neoplatonism"

David Bradshaw, University of Kentucky

"Alexander of Aphrodisias and Avicenna on the Notion of Inherence"

Inna Kupreeva, University of Toronto

"Avicenna and Tusi on the Contradiction and Conversion of the Absolute"

Tony Street, Australian National University

"The Intentionality of Imaginative Notions and Ideas of Intellect in Maimonides"

Sean Erwin, Vanderbilt University

"The End of Aristotle's Topics and the Beginning of Islamic Philosophy"

David M. DiPasquale, Harvard University

"Peter Lombard and Philosophy"

Marcia L. Colish, Oberlin College

"Spinoza's Presentation of Medieval Philosophy"

Steven Frankel, California State University, Dominguez Hills

"Unseemly Kisses: Time, Matter and Gender in Jewish Thought"

T. M. Rudavsky, Ohio State University

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6:00 - 7:30 p.m.: Banquet for Participants

Barrett Dining Room, Kennedy Union

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8:00 p.m.: Jesse Philips Humanities Center Sears Auditorium Keynote Address on Islamic Philosophy "Medieval Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition" Michael E. Marmura University of Toronto

Reception to follow in HM 470/472

Monday, April 12

Jesse Philips Humanities Center

8:00 - 8:50 a.m.

HM 257/259: Continental Breakfast

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9:00 - 10:35 a.m.

HM 351/353: Creation, God, and the Latin use of Maimonides

"Is God a 'What'?: Avicenna and William of Auvergne on the Divine Essence"

John P. Rosheger, Marquette University

"Did Roger Bacon Read Maimonides?"

Jeremieh Hackett, University of South Carolina

"Causality and Creation in Chasidic Kabbalism"

Owen Goldin, Marquette University

Commentator: Alan Udoff, Baltimore Hebrew University

"Alfarabi and Leo Strauss: Toward Political Philosophy as First Philosophy"

Joshua Parens, University of Dallas

"'Two Lights, One Way': Aquinas' Intention in the Exposition of Boethius' de Trinitate"

Fr. James Lehrberger, O.Cist., University of Dallas

"Spinoza's Critique of Maimonides' Appeal to Aristotle"

Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas

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10:35 - 10:50 a.m.: Break, 4^th Floor Lobby

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11:00 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

HM 351/353: On Causation and Creation

"William of Auvergne's Use of the Avicennian Principle: 'Nature Operates in the Manner of a Servant'"

Michael Miller, Boston College

"Aquinas vs. Avicenna: The Viability of Pre-Existence and the Neoplatonic Theory of Causation"

Sarah Pessin, Ohio State University

"Rambam and Abu Nasr: Deciphering the Ezekiel Discourse (Guide III:1-7) in the Light of al-Farabi's Cosmology"

Timothy Gianotti, Penn State University

HM 470/472: On the Soul and Knowledge

"Augustine vs Plotinus: The Uniqueness of the Vision at Ostia"

Thomas Williams, University of Iowa

"Fear and Hope in the Transformation of the Soul as Described by Augustine and Ghazzali"

James Highland, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

"Self-Consciousness, Self-Identity, and Self-Knowledge in Suhrawardi"

Roxanne D. Marcotte, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

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12:45 - 2:45 p.m.: Lunch Break

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3:00 - 5:05 p.m.

HM 351/353: On Virtue

"Aristotle and Aquinas on the End of Man"

Adrian J. Reimers, South Bend, IN

"Thomas Aquinas and a Neoplatonic Treatment of Different Virtuous Lives"

Joshua P. Hochschild, University of Notre Dame

"Three Kinds of Objectivity"

Jonathan Jacobs, Colgate University

"Aquinas and the Role of Anger in Social Reform"

Judith Barad, Indiana State University

HM 470/472: On the Intellect and Intelligences

"The Epistemology of al-Munqidh min al-Dalal"

Yudian Wahyudi, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

"Avicenna and Suhrawardi on the Question of Knowledge"

Mehdi Aminrazavi, Mary Washington College

"Composition and Creation of Intelligences in Latin Averroist Commentaries on the Liber de causis"

Brian Francis Conolly, Indiana University

"From Sensation to Intellection: The Continuity of Desire in Gersonides' Supercommentary on

Averroes' Commentary on Aristotle's de Anima"

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University

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5:30 - 7:00 p.m.: Banquet for Participants

Barrett Dining Room, Kennedy Union

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7:30 p.m.: Jesse Philips Humanities Center Sears Auditorium Keynote Address on Jewish Philosophy "On Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism" Daniel H. Frank University of Kentucky

Reception to follow in HM 470/472

Tuesday, April 13

Jesse Philips Humanities Center

8:30 - 9:15 a.m.

HM 257/259: Continental Breakfast

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9:30 - 10:35 a.m.

HM 470/472: Nature and Time

"Augustine and Aristotle's Treatise on Time: A Case Study in the Christian Appropriation of Antiquity"

Edward Papa, Sacred Heart University

"Infinite Power and Plenitude: Two Traditions on the Necessity of the Eternal"

Taneli Kukkonen, University of Helsinki

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10:35 - 10:50 a.m.: Break, 4^th Floor Lobby

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11:00 a.m.: Jesse Philips Humanities Center Sears Auditorium Keynote Address on Christian Philosophy "The Challenge to Medieval Christian Philosophy: Relating Creator to Creatures" David B. Burrell, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame

Registration and Lodging

The Department of Philosophy would like to thank the following for their support of this year's Colloquium:

Alumni Chair in Humanities

Catholic Intellectual Tradition

College of Arts and Sciences

Office of Graduate Studies and Research

Office of the Rector

Religious Studies Department

For further information contact Dr. John Inglis at

937-229-2933, or by e-mail at: inglis@checkov.hm.udayton.edu.