Islamic-Arabic Philosophy Workshop

Date: 

Saturday, October 4, 2014, 9:00am to 4:30pm

Location: 

Robbins Library, Emerson 211, Harvard University

Schedule:

9:00 – 9:30: Coffee and Pastries

9:30 – 10:45: Jon McGinnis (Missouri – St. Louis) “Mind the Gap: Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space and Its Reception”

11:00 – 12:15:
Kara Richardson (Syracuse) "Avicenna on Determinism and Human Freedom"

12:30 – 1:30: Light Lunch in Robbins Library

1:45 – 3:00: Emma Gannage (Georgetown) "Revisiting al-Kindi's Sources"

3:15 – 4:30: Riccardo Strobino (Ruhr-Universität Bochum/University of Cambridge) "Necessity in Avicenna's theory of science"

Sponsored by:
Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Harvard Philosophy Department
Harvard Provostial Funds for the Humanities