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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Arabic</strong>, <strong>Hebrew</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Reception</strong> <strong>of</strong> Avicenna’s Physics <strong>and</strong> Cosmology<br />
International Conference at the <strong>Villa</strong> <strong>Vigoni</strong><br />
Menaggio, 26-30 June 2013<br />
Wednesday, 26 June 2013<br />
19:00 Welcome Drink & Dinner<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
Thursday, 27 June 2013<br />
8:50 Dag Nikolaus Hasse<br />
Welcome <strong>and</strong> Introduction<br />
Morning Session<br />
Chair: Peter Adamson<br />
9:00 (1) Jon McGinnis<br />
From Kinematics to Dynamics <strong>and</strong> Back Again: <strong>The</strong> Place (<strong>and</strong> Misplace) <strong>of</strong><br />
Avicenna’s <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> Motion in the Post-classical Islamic World<br />
9:40 Discussion<br />
10:10 (2) Katrin Fischer<br />
Avicenna in William <strong>of</strong> Auvergne<br />
10:50 Discussion<br />
11:20 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
11:50 (3) Dimitri Gutas<br />
Avicenna’s al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya: meaning <strong>and</strong> reception<br />
12:30 Discussion<br />
13:00 Lunch<br />
Afternoon Session<br />
Chair: Resianne Fontaine<br />
15:00 (4) Charles Burnett<br />
Avicenna’s Division <strong>of</strong> the Physical Sciences <strong>and</strong> their Branches<br />
15:40 Discussion<br />
16:10 (5) Jules Janssens<br />
<strong>The</strong> incompleteness <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Latin</strong> translation <strong>of</strong> the Physics: a conscious choice by the<br />
Burgos translator(s), based on doctrinal considerations?<br />
16:50 Discussion<br />
17:20 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
17:50 (6) Dag Nikolaus Hasse<br />
Who translated Avicenna’s Physics into <strong>Latin</strong>? Towards Identifying Anonymous<br />
<strong>Arabic</strong>-<strong>Latin</strong> Translators in Twelfth-Century Spain<br />
18:30 Discussion<br />
19:30 Dinner
Friday, 28 June 2013<br />
Morning Session<br />
Chair: Charles Burnett<br />
9:00 (7) Resianne Fontaine<br />
Avicennian Sources in Ibn Daud’s natural philosophy<br />
9:40 Discussion<br />
10:10 (8) Gad Freudenthal<br />
Why are Humans not Aquatic Animals? Avicenna, Averroes <strong>and</strong> Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
Jewish Readers on the Formation <strong>and</strong> Perseverance <strong>of</strong> Dry L<strong>and</strong><br />
10:50 Discussion<br />
11:20 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
11:50 (9) Lukas Mühlethaler<br />
Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī on Avicenna on Time<br />
12:30 Discussion<br />
13:00 Lunch<br />
Afternoon Session<br />
Chair: Dimitri Gutas<br />
14:30 (10) Peter Adamson<br />
Time in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzīʼs Maṭālib<br />
15:10 Discussion<br />
15:40 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
16:00 (11) Andreas Lammer<br />
Time <strong>and</strong> Mind-Dependence in Later Islamic Philosophy<br />
16:40 Discussion<br />
18:00 Boat tour<br />
20:30 Dinner<br />
Saturday, 29 June 2013<br />
Morning Session<br />
Chair: Jon McGinnis<br />
9:00 (12) Jean-Marc M<strong>and</strong>osio<br />
Ibn Sīnā’s Meteorology <strong>and</strong> Its <strong>Reception</strong> in the <strong>Latin</strong> West<br />
9:40 Discussion<br />
10:10 (13) Cecilia Trifogli<br />
Avicenna in Roger Bacon’s Communia Naturalia<br />
10:50 Discussion<br />
11:20 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
11:50 (14) Silvia Donati<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Reception</strong> <strong>of</strong> Avicenna, Liber I Naturalium, in the 13th <strong>and</strong> Early 14th Century in<br />
Commentaries on Book I <strong>of</strong> the Physics<br />
12:30 Discussion<br />
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session<br />
Chair: Ulrich Rudolph<br />
15:00 (15) Cristina Cerami<br />
Who has to prove God’s existence? <strong>The</strong> debate between Avicenna <strong>and</strong> Averroes in an<br />
inedited Renaissance Quaestio by Domenico Grimani<br />
15:40 Discussion<br />
16:10 (16) Alnoor Dhanani<br />
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s arguments for atomism in the Maṭālib al-ʿāliyya<br />
16:50 Discussion<br />
17:20 C<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
17:50 (17) Heidrun Eichner<br />
Hylomorphism in the illuminationist reception <strong>of</strong> Avicenna<br />
18:30 Discussion<br />
19:30 Dinner<br />
Location:<br />
Centro Italo-Tedesco <strong>Villa</strong> <strong>Vigoni</strong><br />
Via Giulio <strong>Vigoni</strong>, 1<br />
22017 Loveno di Menaggio (Como)<br />
Italy<br />
Tel. ++39 034436111<br />
Fax ++39 0344361210<br />
Email: segreteria@villavigoni.eu<br />
Funding:<br />
VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover<br />
Organisation:<br />
Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Würzburg<br />
Amos Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa<br />
Contact:<br />
dag-nikolaus.hasse@uni-wuerzburg.de<br />
a.bertolacci@sns.it
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