CUA Workshop in
Medieval Philosophy

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February 17–18, 2012,
The Catholic University of America

Library of Aquinas Hall

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Friday, February 17
 
2:00–2:10
Dean John McCarthy
A word of welcome
 
2:10–2:55
Evelina Miteva
The Philosophical Anthropology of Albert the Great: the Double Perfection of Man → handout
 
3:00–3:45
John Wippel
Development in Siger of Brabant’s Views on the Intellect?
 
4:00–4:45
James Brent OP
Instinctus in Aquinas: A Development in His Thought?
 
Wine and cheese		  
 


Saturday, February 18
 
Coffee and Danish available from 8:45
 
9:10–9:55
Michele Trizio
The Latin Reception Eustratios of Nicaea’s Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics → handout
 
10:00–10:45
Brandon Zimmerman
Aquinas, Avicenna, and the Meaning of Creation
 
11:00–11:45
Brian Carl
Aquinas on the Order of the Divine Names
 
11:50–12:35
Mark Henninger S.J.
An Intriguing Fourteenth-Century Text on God’s Power over Created Natures
 
Lunch		    
 
2:10–2:55
Thérèse-Anne Druart
Al-Farabi (870–950) on Language (Aristotle’s De Int. 1.16a5–6 & 16a27–29)
 
3:00–3:45
Sean Cunningham
Inclinatio naturalis and the “Ulpian Problem” in Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory
 
4:00–4:45
Andrew Haines
Nature & Necessity: William of Ockham and the Modern Turn
 
5:15
Vigil Mass, Caldwell Chapel
 
Dinner
 

The event is sponsored by the School of Philosophy and the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies.

Please RSVP by Friday, 02/17. For disability accommodation please contact Tobias Hoffmann at 202-319-6643 or hoffmann@cua.edu at least one week ahead of the event.