Heirs of Avicenna Workshop
12.03.2018 – 13.03.2018
Munich School of Ancient Philosophy
(Leopoldstr 11b, 4th floor).
Sponsored by the DFG.
Programme
Day one: March 12
10-10:15 Welcome
10:15-11:15 Tony Street
“Thirteenth Century Discussions of Signification and Meaning”
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Fedor Benevich
“The Post-Avicennian Debate on the Nature of Knowledge”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Michael Noble
“Wahm in the Heirs of Avicenna”
15:00-16:00 Salimeh Maghsoudlou
“The Reception of Avicenna’s Doctrine of the Origination of the
Human Soul in ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī”
16:00-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:15 Peter Adamson
“Self-Awareness after Avicenna”
Day two: March 13
10:00-11:00 Andreas Lammer
“The Classical Kalām Argument from Accidents for
the Origination of the World after Avicenna”
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:15 Saleh Zarepour
“Avicenna against Mathematical Platonism”
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Hannah Erlwein
“Al-Rāzī on Secondary Causality and Occasionalism”
15:00-16:00 Gregor Schwarb
“The Heirs of Avicenna in Two Commentaries on the Mishneh Torah
“The Heirs of Avicenna in Two Commentaries on the Mishneh Torah”