Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy

WINTER-SUMMER 2024 – The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) will be hosting multiple presentations on chapters in the book, Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Latin Traditions, edited by Katja Krause, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, and Nicholas A. Oschman (New York: Routledge, 2023). The presentations that promise explicit discussion of Albert’s thought include:

• Therese Scarpelli Cory, “How Light Makes Color Visible: The Reception of Some Greco-Arabic Theories (Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes) in Medieval Paris, 1240s–50s” (February 24)

• Henryk Anzulewicz, “The Emergence of a Science of Intellect: Albert the Great’s De intellectu et intelligibili” (March 30)

• Isabelle Moulin, “Institution and Causality in Albert the Great’s Sacramental Theology” (June 29)