Program
This year's conference will feature keynote speaker Francisco Gonzalez, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa.
The Society
The purpose of the Canadian Aristotle Society is to establish a bilingual centre in which the themes of Aristotle, along with the Aristotelian tradition, are kept alive by way of conferences or publications. The spirit of this Society will be speculative and classical in nature, but this does not exclude analytical and continental traditions.
For more information, send an email to Mark Nyvlt.
Program
Friday, November 8, 2024
DMS 12102 [PYTHIAS]
| Time/l’Heure | Participant and Title/Participant(e) et titre | |
| 8h30-8h50 | Accueil, mot de bienvenue / Welcome | |
| A. CHAIR | John Thorp | |
| 9h00-9h35 | Thomas Slabon (PhD), “Winnowing Wisdom: Aristotle’s Typological Definition of Wisdom” | |
| 9h35-10h10 | William Wians, “The Question of a Science of Being in Metaphysics Epsilon 1” | |
| 10h10-10h40 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| B. CHAIR | Gregory L. Scott | |
| 10h40-11h15 | Paolo Biondi, “Aristotle’s Road to a Metaphysics of Form as activity of Being” | |
| 11h15-11h50 | Scott Rubarth, “Light is Not Visible: Metaphysical Paradoxes and Problems in Aristotle’s Account of Light” | |
| 11h50-12h25 | Gregory MacIsaac, “Aristotle on the Complexity of the Elements against the Presocratic Materialists” | |
| 12h25-14h00 | LUNCH/ DINER | |
| C. CHAIR | Gregory MacIsaac | |
| 14h00-14h35 | Laurence Lauzon (PhD), “Can a Substance be Composed of Substances?” | |
| 14h35-15h15 | Jordan Olver, “The Multiplicity of Separate Substances” | |
| 15h15-15h45 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| D. CHAIR | Joanne Waugh | |
| 15h45-16h20 | George Simons (PhD), « L’Héraclite du livre Gamma » | |
| 16h20-16h55 | Eusebius Nkwagu (PhD), “Aristotle and Metaphysics” | |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (DMS 12110), 17h30 p.m., followed by RECEPTION (DMS 12102) / “KEYNOTE” (DMS 12110), 17h30, suivi de RÉCEPTION (DMS 12102) :
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DMS 8161 [NICOMACHUS]
| 8h30-8h50 | Accueil, mot de bienvenue / Welcome | |
| A. CHAIR | Christopher Lutz | |
| 9h00-9h35 | Peter Haskett (PhD), “The Socratic Origins of Aristotle’s Formal Cause” | |
| 9h35-10h10 | Angela Curran, “Individual Forms in Aristotle’s Metaphysics VII and XII” | |
| 10h10-10h40 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| B. CHAIR | Peter Haskett | |
| 10h40-11h15 | Jay Elliot, “Aristotle on Necessity and the voluntary” | |
| 11h15-11h50 | No Session in this class / Pas de séance dans ce cours | |
| 11h50-12h25 | No Session in this class / Pas de séance dans ce cours | |
| 12h25-14h00 | LUNCH/ DINER | |
| C. CHAIR | Emily Katz | |
| 14h00-14h35 | Joanne Waugh, “A Metaphysics Worthy of the Name?” | |
| 14h35-15h15 | Michael A. Schintgen, “The Unintegrated Soul: The Ambiguous Place of the Soul in Aristotle’s Metaphysics” | |
| 15h15-15h45 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| D. CHAIR | Angela Curran | |
| 15h45-16h20 | Vazirova Mashhura Sultanovna, “Metaphysics of Aristotle” | |
| 16h20-16h55 | Rizoyev Firdavs Abduraxmon, “Metaphysics in Aristotle’s Teaching” | |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (DMS 12102), 17h30 p.m., followed by RECEPTION (DMS 12102) / “KEYNOTE” (DMS 12102), 17h30, suivi de RÉCEPTION (DMS 12102) :
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Saturday, November 9, 2024
DMS 12102 [PYTHIAS]
| Time/l’Heure | Participant and Title/Participant(e) et titre | |
| A. CHAIR | William Wians | |
| 9h00-9h35 | Emily Katz, “What Does a Mathematician’s Thinking Actualize?” | |
| 9h35-10h10 | Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire (PhD), “Formal and Numerical Unity in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ 6” | |
| 10h10-10h40 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| B. CHAIR | Thomas Slabon | |
| 10h40-11h15 | John Thorp, “Different Differentiae” | |
| 11h15-11h50 | Benjamin Wilck, “Definition by Addition Versus Definition by Division: How Does Aristotle Define Qualities and Differentiae?” | |
| 11h50-12h25 | Constança Barahona, “Delimiting the Question of Definition in Aristotle’s Metaphysics with the Help of the Topics and its Dialectical Method” | |
| 12h25-14h00 | LUNCH/ DINER | |
| C. CHAIR | Laurence Lauzon | |
| 14h00-14h35 | Christopher Lutz and Ronald Polansky, “Does Metaphysics Lambda Disappoint?” | |
| 14h35-15h15 | Gregory L. Scott, “The Final Nails in the Coffin of Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover of Lambda” | |
| 15h15-15h45 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| D. CHAIR | Jordan Olver | |
| 15h45-16h20 | Jean-Marc Narbonne, « Les dieux sont-ils concernés par les affaires humaines ? Les exposés contrastés des chapitres 8 et 9 du Livre 10 de l’Éthique à Nicomaque » | |
| 16h20-16h55 | Mathieu Marion, “Dialectic, Induction and the Search for First Principles” | |
| 16h55-17h30 | Majid Amini, “Aristotle and Metaphysical Logicism” |
DMS 8161 [NICOMACHUS]
| Time/l’Heure | Participant and Title/Participant(e) et titre | |
| A. CHAIR | Michael A. Schintgen | |
| 9h00-9h35 | Karim Ayad (MA), “A Divine paradigm: Thinking as the Primary Event-Space” | |
| 9h35-10h10 | Thomas M. Olshewsky, “From Mount Olympus to NOUS” | |
| 10h10-10h40 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| B. CHAIR | Paolo Biondi | |
| 10h40-11h15 | Silvia Fazzo, « Première philosophie comme science de l’être en tant qu’être dans la métaphysique d’Aristote » | ZOOM |
| 11h15-11h50 | Laetitia Monteils-Laeng, « Le moteur vient d’en haut, la matière vient d’en bas » (Météo., 2.4, 361a31-33) – météores et cataclysmes dans la cosmologie éternitaire d’Aristote » | ZOOM |
| 11h50-12h25 | George Simons (PhD), « L’Héraclite du livre Gamma » | |
| 12h25-14h00 | LUNCH/ DINER | |
| C. CHAIR | Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire | |
| 14h00-14h35 | Vanessa Arviset, « Mémoire et Métaphysique Delta » | |
| 14h35-15h15 | Louise Rodrigue, « Le statut des Éthiques aristotéliciennes selon Métaphysique, E, 1 » | |
| 15h15-15h45 | COFFEE BREAK/PAUSE CAFÉ | |
| D. CHAIR | Jay Elliot | |
| 15h45-16h20 | Etienne Rouleau (PhD), “The skopos of Theophrastus’ Metaphysics: Setting the Stage to a Convincing (Aristotelian) Account of the Eternity of Movement” | |
| 16h20-16h55 | Puthiran Jeyapalasingham (PhD), “First Philosophy and Ethics: The Necessity of Sophia for Phronesis” | |
| 16h55-17h30 | Gary Beck (PhD), “Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Virtue” |
Gratitude: The Canadian Aristotle Society owes a great debt of gratitude to all those who made this conference possible. I would like to thank 1) the Department of Philosophy and Professor Mitia Rioux-Beaulne for their donation, and to the graduate students, especially Ms. Laurence Lauzon, for their collaboration; 2) the Department of Classics and Religion and Professor Dominique Côté for their donation; 3) La Société de Philosophie du Québec and Philosophiques for their generous donation; and 4) the anonymous donor. We would also like to thank Mr. Zacharie Cadieux for his generous help in organizing Rooms and the Reception.