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UST Hosts Conference on Aquinas and the Arabs Project
9/7/2010
 The University of St. Thomas Center for Thomistic Studies will host the Fall 2010 Conference of the Aquinas and the Arabs Project, an international group of Thomistic scholars. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12, in the Brezik Seminar Room, Sullivan Hall, 4218 Yoakum.
The Aquinas and the Arabs Project works in conjunction with the Leonine Commission to explain— in books, academic papers, and lectures — the deep influence of Islamic thought on the thought of Aquinas. They work with the awareness that Western-Arabic relations are now more important than they have been for centuries, in fact, since the time of Aquinas himself.
Speakers include: 
Richard C. Taylor,
Marquette University
“Thomas’ Debt to Avicenna and Averroes on Cognition”
Mark Barker,
Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans
“Retrieving the Arabic Origins of the Preparation of Phantasms”
Jon McGinnis,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
“Making Something of Nothing: Avicenna and Aquinas on Privation, Possibility, and Potentiality”
R. E. Houser,
Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
“Aquinas’s Use of Averroes and Avicenna in his De principiis naturae”
Luis Farjeat,
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
“Aquinas on the Eternity of the World in II Sent., d 1, q 1 art. 5 and his Arabic/Islamic and Jewish Sources”
Max Herrera,
Marquette University
“Hylomorphism in Avicenna, Averroes, and Aquinas”
Nathan Poage,
Houston Community College
“Avicenna and Aquinas on the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”
Daniel DeHaan,
Center for Thomistic Studies
“Aristotle's de Anima: A Common Point of Departure for Averroistic
and Thomistic Noetics”
In its 28th year, the University of St. Thomas Center for Thomistic Studies is the only graduate philosophy program in the United States uniquely focused on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the pursuit of a living Thomism, the Center’s programs stress both historical understanding of Aquinas’ texts and a rigorous rethinking of his thirteenth-century wisdom in the light of twenty-first century problems and realities.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information about the Center for Thomistic Studies please contact Dr. Mary Catherine Sommers, director of the Center for Thomistic Studies at 713-525-3591 or e-mail http://Thomistic_center@stthom.edu.
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