Les états corporels et la cognition dans la pensée antique

The Body's Mind and the Mind's Body. Bodily States and Cognition in the Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophical and Medical Traditions

International Colloquium

organized by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Nadja Germann and Gad Freudenthal

University of Geneva
11-13 April 2016

Salle Denis de Rougemont
2, rue Jean-Daniel Colladon


Monday, 11th April 2016


9:30 Welcome
Chair: Nadja Germann

10:00-11:00 Keynote lecture
Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)


11:00-11:30 Coffee break


THE SOUL: PARTS AND FACULTIES
11:30-12:15 Chair: Paolo Crivelli

Dag N. Hasse (University of Würzburg) What is the essence of the soul according to Avicenna? A new reading of De anima I.1-3


12:15-13:00
Meryem Sebti (CNRS, Paris) Le lien entre l’intellect et l’imagination : le cas du prophète chez Avicenne


13:00-15:00 Lunch


15:00-15:45 Chair: Laurent Cesalli
Ahmed Hasnaoui (CNRS, Paris)
Avicenne, quels obstacles à l’émergence du moi?

15:45-16:30
Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Avicenna’s psychology in Yehuda ha-Levi’s Kuzari revisited

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45
David Wirmer (Thomas Institute, University of Cologne) Cogitation: Averroes’s problem of schematism



Tuesday, 12th April 2016

THE SOUL IN THE BODY
9:30-10:15 Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou

Pavel Gregorić (University of Zagreb) Alexander of Aphrodisias on the common sense


10:15-11:00
Matyáš Havrda (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Body and cosmos in Galen’s account of cognitive activities

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15
Orly Lewis (Humboldt University, Berlin) The physiology of the mind and anatomical research in the Graeco-Roman world

12:15-13:00
Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä) On the pollution of the soul by the body in Porphyry’s On abstinence


13:00-15:00 Lunch


15:00-15:45 Chair: Ioannis Papachristou
Erika Gielen (Leuven University) Meletius on psychic faculties within the human body

15:45-16:30
Hagar Kahana-Smilansky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Cosmological-psychological faculties in Islamic philosophy: ‘impulse’ according to al-Farabi and its relation to Avicenna’s wahm


19:00 Dinner



Wednesday, 13th April 2016
THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT
9:30-10:15 Chair: Nadja Germann

David Bennett (University of Gothenburg) Inside and outside: the kalām approach to perception and action

10:15-11:00
Tamas Visi (Palacky University, Olomouc) “Breath of life” and rational soul according to Qirqisani (10th c.)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15
Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris) Astrology as a probabilistic science: The astro-social psychology of Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides, 1288-1344)

12:15-13:00
Mohamed Moustafa (Azhar University, Cairo) Upholding God’s essence: Ibn Taymiyya on the createdness of the spirit


13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:45 Chair: Gad Freudenthal

Y. Tzvi Langermann (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Restoring emotional health by repairing the pneuma in the heart: Ibn Sina's al-Adwiya al-Qalbiyya
15:45-16:30
Haggai Ben-Shammai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The soul is a fine, clear, pure substance located in the heart: Comparative observations on Saadya’s psychology




For further information, please contact:
François Nollé
Francois.Nolle@unige.ch
+41 223 797 055 È+33 617 435 479