Fourth conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society - Aristotle and Metaphysics (or First Philosophy)

April 9, 2024

Program

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the fourth annual conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society, which will be held at the University of Ottawa on November 8 and 9, 2024.

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]

�վ��/��’H��ܰ��	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&�Բ��;»
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) : Dr. Francisco Gonzalez (University d’Ottawa): Aristotle’s Distinction Between ‘Activity’ (Energeia) and ‘Motion’ (��ê��) in Metaphysics Θ6 and its Reception by Plotinus and Iamblichus ZOOM LINK/LIEN ZOOM, DMS 12102:

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) : Dr. Francisco Gonzalez (University d’Ottawa): Aristotle’s Distinction Between ‘Activity’ (Energeia) and ‘Motion’ (��ê��) in Metaphysics Θ6 and its Reception by Plotinus and Iamblichus ZOOM LINK/LIEN ZOOM, DMS 12102:

Saturday, November 9, 2024

DMS 12102 [PYTHIAS]

�վ��/��’H��ܰ��	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 �پ��ڴڱ��Գپ��”
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&�Բ��;»
16h20-16h55	Mathieu Marion, “Dialectic, Induction and the Search for First Principles”
16h55-17h30	Majid Amini, “Aristotle and Metaphysical Logicism”

DMS 8161 [NICOMACHUS]

�վ��/��’H��ܰ��	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&�Բ��;»	ZOOM
11h15-11h50	Laetitia Monteils-Laeng, « Le moteur vient d’en haut, la matière vient d’en bas&�Բ��;» (��é��é��., 2.4, 361a31-33) – météores et cataclysmes dans la cosmologie éternitaire d’Aristote&�Բ��;»	ZOOM
11h50-12h25	George Simons (PhD), « L’Héraclite du livre Gamma&�Բ��;»
12h25-14h00	LUNCH/ DINER
C. CHAIR	Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire
14h00-14h35	Vanessa Arviset, « Mémoire et ��é�ٲ��ܱ� Delta&�Բ��;»
14h35-15h15	Louise Rodrigue, « Le statut des É�ٳ󾱱�ܱ�� aristotéliciennes selon ��é�ٲ��ܱ�, E, 1&�Բ��;»
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.