Workshop Perspectives on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Treatise De mundo

 

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming workshop “Perspectives on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Treatise De mundo”. This workshop aims to discuss the most recent research on the treatise and is promoted in the context of an ongoing Portuguese translation of the De mundo for the project of Portuguese translations of the Complete Works of Aristotle (PTDC/FER-FIL/0305/2021), hosted by the Centre of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

 

The workshop will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon (room D. Pedro V) on 1-2 February 2024, with the following programme:

 

February 1

9:30: Welcome

9:45: Silvio Marino (University of Brasilia and University of Naples “Federico II”), “Some Considerations on the Style of De mundo”.

11:15: Break.

11:30: Irene Pajón Leyra (University of Seville), “Pseudo-Aristotle De mundo and the Treatises On the Ocean: between Geography and Meteorology”.

13:00: Lunch.

15:00: George Karamanolis (University of Vienna), “Divine Causal Efficacy through a Power. A Model suiting Peripatetics and Platonists”.

16:30: Break.

16:45: Selene I.S. Brumana (Sapienza University of Rome), “God and the Divine Nature in Ps.-Aristotle, Περὶ κόσμου”.

February 2

9:30: Anna Pavani (Ruhr University Bochum), “Theologizing About the Cosmos. (De)constructing One Analogy After the Other”.

11:00: Break.

11:15: Luca Pitteloud (Federal University of ABC and Autonomous University of Madrid), “A Metaphysical Paradox in the De mundo”.

12:45: Lunch.

15:00: Pavel Gregorić (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb), “Tacit Criticism in De mundo”.

 

The workshop will be entirely on-site. Attendance is free.

 

Organisers:

António Pedro Mesquita, University of Lisbon

Silvio Marino, University of Brasilia / University of Naples “Federico II”