THE SECOND
ANNUAL
AVICENNA
STUDY GROUP
COLLOQUIUM
WOCMES 2002
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
Thursday Morning: Avicenna
and the Classical Tradition
- Amos Bertolacci: The
Reception of Book B (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Ilahiyyat
of Avicenna's Kitab al-Shifa'
- Carl Ehrig-Eggert: How
Avicenna Read Plato's "Laws"
- Peter Adamson: Avicenna
on Neoplatonism: His Commentary on the "Theology of Aristoteles"
- Robert Hall: Intellect,
Soul, and Body in Ibn Sina: the Problematics of his Synthesis
Respondent: Dimitri
Gutas
Thursday Afternoon:
Avicenna on Natural
Philosophy and the Exact Sciences
- Catarina Belo: Chance
and Determinism in Ibn Sina - Physics I of the Shifa'
- Jon McGinnis: Catęgoriai
kai Kinęsis: Ibn
Sina on the Categories in Which Motion Occurs
- Irina Luther: The
Conception of Angle in the Works of Ibn Sina and al-Shirazi
Respondent: Gül
Russell
FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER
Friday Morning: Avicenna
on Metaphysics and Theology
- Omer Maher Alper: Avicenna's
Argument for the Existence of God: Was He Really Influenced by the Mutakallimun?
- Olga Lizzini: Matter
and form in Avicenna's Metaphysics and the concept of fayd
- Rahim Acar: Reconsidering
Avicenna's Position on God's Knowledge of Particulars
Respondent: Yahya
Michot
Friday Afternoon: The
Heritage of Avicenna
- David C. Reisman: The
Philosopher and the Mystic: A Study in the Pseudo-Avicenna
Corpus
- M. Afifi Al-Akiti: The
'Three Properties' of Prophethood in Certain
Works of Avicenna and al-Ghazali
- Gabriel Lahood: Al-Ghazali
and Averroes on Avicenna's Theory of Action
- Roxanne Marcotte:
Resurrection in the Hayat al-Nufus of Isma'il Ibn
Muhammad Rizi: The Avicennan Background
Respondent: Jules
Janssens
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