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Home > Archives > Previous years: Workshops and Colloquie > Workshops and colloquii 2012–2013 > Physika: Aristotle’s Physics in the Greek, Arabic, Hebraic and Latin traditions

International Colloquium

Physika: Aristotle’s Physics in the Greek, Arabic, Hebraic and Latin traditions




Paris, Thursday 13–14 June 2013


University Paris Diderot, Room Luc Valentin, 454A



Saturday 15 June 2013


University Paris 1 Pantheon–Sorbonne, Room Cavailles


Organised by Cristina Cerami (UMR 7219 : CNRS, Paris 1, Paris Diderot) and
Andrea Falcon (Concordia University, Montreal).



Aristotle’s works on natural philosophy form a systematic body of knowledge that unfolds according to a definite order that ought to inform any study of it. And yet, there are very few passages where Aristotle talks about this order, so that there remain a number of important questions about the criteria governing this organization. Tellingly, all the philosophers and scientists working in the Greek, Arabic, Hebrew or Latin worlds who studied Aristotle’s physics whether to defend, criticize, or go beyond it, first sought to understand the organization and coherence of this systematic body of knowledge as well as the internal logic of its various components. The goal of this conference is to trace the history of this debate in each of these scholarly communities, based on the assumption that this debate was never purely philological, because any order given to the various treatises implies a definite understanding of each of the different stages of the physical inquiry and a distinct view of the project as a whole.



Programme : 13, 14, 15 June

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PROGRAMME



13 JUNE 2013

Room Luc Valentin, building Condorcet, University Paris Diderot



9 :30 Welcome and Presentation
Cristina Cerami and Andrea Falcon.


10:00
Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institut, University of London)
Gerard of Cremona: Translator, Commentator, and Editor of Aristotle.

10:45
Barbara Obrist (CNRS, UMR 7219)
Discussant.

11:05 – 12:40

General Discussion.


11:20
David Wirmer (Thomas Institut, University of Cologne)
Structure in Arabic Readings of the Physics: Al-Fârâbî, Ibn Bāǧǧa, Ibn Rušd.

12:05
Marc Geoffroy (CNRS, LEM)
Discussant.

12:25 – 12:40

General Discussion.


14:00
Stephen Menn (University von Humbolt, Berlin, and University McGill, Montreal)
Physics II and its Relation to Physics I-IV

14:45
Andrea Falcon (Concordia University, Montreal)
Discussant.

15:05 – 15:20

General Discussion.


15:30
Jan Opsomer (University KU Leuven, Centre De Wulf-Mansion)
The Argument of Physics V-VIII according to Proclus and Simplicius.

16:15
Pantelis Golitsis (Aristoteles-Archiv., FU, Berlin)
Discussant.

16:35

General Discussion.


16:50
Resianne Fontaine (University of Amsterdam-UvA)
The Study of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature by the 13th-century Hebrew Encyclopedists.

17:35
Esti Eisenmann (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Discussant.

17:55 – 18:10

General Discussion.



14 JUNE 2013

Room Luc Valentin, building Condorcet, University Paris Diderot


10:00
Valérie Cordonier (CNRS, UMR 7219)
Alexandre d’Aphrodise lecteur de la physique d’Aristote.

10:45
Cristina Cerami (CNRS, UMR 7219)
Discussant.

11:05 – 11:20

General Discussion.


11:20
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, UMR 7219)
Reconstruire pour réfuter: Avicenne contre Philopon.

12:05
Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
Discussant.

12:25

General Discussion.


14:00
Mauro Zonta (University La Sapienza, Rome)
The Corpus of Physical Writings in the Hebrew Tradition

14:45
S. Di Donato (CNRS/EPHE)
Discussant.

15:05 – 15:20

General Discussion.


15:30
Pieter De Leemans (University KU Leuven, Centre De Wulf-Mansion)
Stability and Variation in the Medieval Corpus Aristotelicum.

16:15
Pieter Beullens (University KU Leuven, Centre De Wulf-Mansion)
Discussant.

16:35

General Discussion.



15 JUNE 2013

Room Cavailles, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne


9:30
Silvia Donati (Albertus Magnus Institut, University of Bonn)
Commenting and Completing Aristotle: Albert the Great towards a Peripatetic Encyclopedia of the Natural Sciences.

10:15
Carlos Steel (University KU Leuven, Centre De Wulf-Mansion)
Discussant.

10:35

General Discussion.


10:50 – 12:30

Closing Roundtable.





ACCESS


– Campus Paris Rive Gauche of the University Paris Diderot, Paris 13 :

Building Condorcet, 4, rue Elsa Morante.

Plan du campus

Transports : RER C/Métro ligne 14 : Bibliotheque François-Mitterrand Bus : 62, 64, 89, 325


– University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Dpt of Philosophy, Room Cavailles, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris