Research Seminars

[1]

Wednesday 10 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Faruk Yolcu (Istanbul; visiting student IMT)

Avicenna's Scientific Explanation Theory 

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[2]

Thursday 11 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Amos Bertolacci (IMT School of Advanced Studies)

Universals, predication, and more: Avicenna's holistic view of philosophy 

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[3]

Friday 12 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Tommaso Alpina (LMU Munich)

The doctrine of the soul in Avicenna 

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[4]

Monday 15 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Marco Signori (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore; research project grant recipient, IMT)

Al-Ġazālī's Use and Consideration of Philosophy

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[6]

Tuesday 16 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Germano Gorga (Ph.D. candidate, IMT)

Avicenna's astronomy and his theory of constellations 

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[7]

Wednesday 17 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Arturo Mariano Iannace (Ph.D. candidate IMT)

Power, Legitimacy, and their Rituals and Imagery: a Beneventan case in cross-cultural perspective 

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[8]

Thursday 18 May, 5-7PM, Sala della Botte

Gholamreza Dadkhah (Ph.D. candidate IMT)

Avicenna’s manuscripts from Afghanistan: codicological features of The Kabul MS 2295

[1]

Friday 26 November, 4-6PM, Aula 1

Sina Salari (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran; visiting student IMT)

The doctrine of providence of Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Arabic tradition

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[2]

Friday 17 December, 4-6PM, Aula 2

Francesco Omar Zamboni (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Ontology of Trans-Categorical Properties

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[3]

Friday 14 January, 3-5PM, Aula 2

Alessia Astesiano (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica, Firenze)

Being potential or being actual? A controversial way of describing the continuum and the infinite in Aristotle's and Avicenna's Physics

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[4]

Friday 28 January, 3-5PM, Aula 2

Sina Salari (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran; visiting student IMT)

On the problem(s) of providence

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[5]

Friday 11 February, 3-5PM, Conference Room

Marco Signori (Ph.D. candidate Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa; research collaborator IMT)

On the Origins of the Term coaequaevus in Medieval Latin Thought. Between Latin Platonism and Arabic Philosophy

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[6]

Friday 25 February, 3-5PM, Aula 2 

Alfonso Quartucci (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; University of Toronto)

Avicenna on the structure of metaphysics

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[7]

Friday 11 March, 3-5PM, Aula 2

Arturo Mariano Iannace (Ph.D. candidate IMT)

Philosophy, politics, and images: a possible interpretation of the Exultet rolls

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[8]

Friday 25 March, 3-5PM, Aula 2

Ginevra Tozzi (Ph.D. candidate IMT)

Avicenna’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and his discussion on future contingents

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[9]

Friday 8 April, 2:30-4.30 PM, Aula 2

István Lánczky (Ph.D., Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest)

Individuals in Context: Avicenna’s Theory of Individuation in His Metaphysical Framework

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[10]

Friday 22 April, 3-5 PM, Aula 2

Amos Bertolacci (IMT)

“Things That No Eye Has Ever Seen and No Ear Has Ever Heard”: Avicenna’s Recourse to an Islamic ḥadīṯ and its interreligious scope

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Friday 20 May, 3-5 PM, Aula 1

Germano Gorga (Ph.D. candidate IMT)

Texts, Numbers and Diagrams: A Philosophical Analysis of Islamic Astronomical Manuscripts