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IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, 26-27 May, 2023
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In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave accord... more Org. A. Bertolacci, M. Signori |
In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave according to their fundamental qualities – hotness and coldness, dryness and wetness – and are therefore subject to specifically defined forms of spatial interaction. Among these connections, the one between earth (cold and dry) and water (cold and wet) is particularly rich of consequences for Aristotelian science, because it encroaches the domains of meteorology – full of wet phenomena such as rain and snow –, of geology – addressing issues like the physical shape of the earth, the formation of mountains, etc. –, and of biology – inasmuch as the relation between earth and water is key to the genesis and persistence of complex forms of life. In the religious domain, the biblical account of creation in the Genesis spells out with a certain degree of detail how earth and water were formed, shaped, and divided at the beginning of time, and how animals began to exist in the respective terrestrial and aquatic domains. The intersections between revealed/religious and philosophical/scientific accounts of the relation between water and earth were accordingly explored in much detail by medieval thinkers, not only in the Christian-Latin world, but also in the Jewish-Hebrew and Islamic-Arabic milieus. In this elaborate framework, a singular little text attributed to Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the Questio de aqua et terra, is a paradigmatic specimen of the significance of these debates also outside the boundaries of universities, and possibly for people who were not specifically trained in Aristotelian science and philosophy, or else in theology and Biblical exegesis.
The topic dealt with in the Questio is a central one for the Peripatetic physics of the elements, i.e. the issue of why and how did dry land emerge from water, if water is absolutely lighter than earth, and the elements take the shape of a sphere in their proper domain. This workshop aims to revise the complex tradition which finds in the Questio an all-peculiar exemplum, highlighting the possible crosspollinations between Arabic and Latin Peripatetic sources, and the treatment given to the issue in Dante’s purported treatise. In so doing, the workshop wishes to provide new material to Dante scholars interested in better understanding the theoretical and scientific teachings of the Questio, as well as the debated issue of its authorship. Likewise, it is an aim of the seminar to give historians of medieval and early modern thought a chance to discuss the interrelated issues of physics and religious exegesis raised by the most fundamental elemental interaction of water and earth, in the framework of the long history of Aristotelianism from its Greek origin up to its most recent, post-medieval incarnations.
A intensive session of eight meetings of informal discussion of papers – by Ph.D. students, resea... more A intensive session of eight meetings of informal discussion of papers – by Ph.D. students, researchers, and professors – on the philosophical tradition between Greek, Arabic, and Latin cultures
This talk will focus on the ‘zoological enterprise’ that Avicenna embarks on in his Book of Anima... more This talk will focus on the ‘zoological enterprise’ that Avicenna embarks on in his Book of Animals (Kitāb al-Ḥayawān, Liber de Animalibus), his only writing on this topic. In this regard, I will aim to answer two questions:
1) What is Avicenna’s goal in writing this book?
2) How does Avicenna reach his goal?
In answering these questions, it is essential to consider the composition of the whole Book of the Cure/Healing (Kitāb al-Šifāʾ), to which the Book of Animals belongs, and its complementarity with the Canon of Medicine (Qānūn fī l-ṭibb).
The anatomy and physiology of the organic body, that is, of the proximate matter of the living organism, is the field where (natural) philosophy and medicine interact, overlap, and conflict. According to my interpretation, in zoology as the philosophical study of the organic body, Avicenna aims to overcome the tensions between (Aristotelian) philosophy and (Galenic) medicine and to reconcile the two traditions and their different authorities (Aristotle and Galen) of which he is the heir.
To reach his goal, Avicenna makes use of three different modalities:
1) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments and defence of Aristotle (e.g. in the case of the origination of blood vessels and nerves and the issue of cardiocentrism);
2) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments but concomitant adherence to and silent use of parts of his arguments (e.g. in the theory of the two semina and the development stages of the embryo);
3) insertion of medical principles within an Aristotelian theoretical framework (e.g. in the theory of humors within the exposition of the three levels of composition of the organic body).
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Il seminario costituisce il primo esempio italiano di "reading group" riguardante il pensiero del... more Il seminario costituisce il primo esempio italiano di "reading group" riguardante il pensiero del filosofo e teologo domenicano Alberto Magno (m. 1280), al crocevia tra periodi storici (antichità, medioevo, età moderna), culture (greca, araba, latina) e discipline (filosofia, teologia, scienza) differenti. Specialisti delle varie aree e dimensioni dell'opera di Alberto Magno, in rappresentanza delle varie tradizioni della medievistica italiana e della ricerca in storia della filosofia medievale condotta in otto atenei del nostro paese, leggono, traducono e commentano passi di un'opera-chiave dell'autore, mettendone in luce la ricchezza delle fonti, lo spessore della dottrina, e la profondità dell'influenza successiva. In questo modo, l'opera prescelta del "dottore universale" viene analizzata in una prospettiva concentrica e multidisciplinare, l'unica veramente adatta a rendere ragione dell'inclusività del pensiero di Alberto Magno e ad ottemperare all'adagio domenicano secondo cui solo nella dolcezza della sinergia si può autenticamente ricercare la verità (in dulcedine societatis quaerere veritatem).
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Partecipanti:
Alessandra Beccarisi, Paola Bernardini, Amos Bertolacci, Amalia Cerrito, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Alessandro Palazzo, Stefano Perfetti, Anna Rodolfi, Antonella Sannino, Marco Signori
Si ritiene in genere che la prima teoria scientifica delle maree sia quella di Newton. In questa ... more Si ritiene in genere che la prima teoria scientifica delle maree sia quella di Newton. In questa presentazione, si mostra invece che: 1) Newton arrivò alla sua sintesi attingendo in modo essenziale a due tradizioni apparentemente contrapposte: quella che attribuiva il fenomeno della marea ai moti della Terra (sostenuta, tra gli altri, da Cesalpino, Sarpi, Galileo, Baliani e Wallis) e la teoria luni-solare, giunta a Newton attraverso Marcantonio De Dominis. 2) Entrambe le teorie precedenti trasmettevano aspetti parziali e complementari dell’antica teoria ellenistica delle maree, che Newton in larga misura ricostruisce.
April 29, 2022 - 11:00 am
IMT School for Advanced Studies, San Francesco Complex - classroom 1
A series of twelve meetings of informal discussion of papers – by Ph.D. students, researchers, an... more A series of twelve meetings of informal discussion of papers – by Ph.D. students, researchers, and professors – on the philosophical tradition between Greek, Arabic, and Latin cultures
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The Ph.D. Program in Cultural Systems unites disciplines that have been carefully selected for th... more The Ph.D. Program in Cultural Systems unites disciplines that have been carefully selected for their ability to provide the necessary cultural, methodological, and instrumental know-how for the analysis and management of complex cultural systems.
The Program comprises two Tracks and, in the spirit of the IMT School, integrates academic excellence with an interdisciplinary vocation. IMT internal faculty members, leading experts from leading international institutions and directors and curators from important Italian and international museums offer courses and seminars within the program.
The Track Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) offers different methodologies and tools for analyzing and managing cultural heritage through Archaeology, Art History, Visual Studies, and Visual Archives courses, complemented with Contemporary History, Cultural Heritage Law, Digital Humanities, History of Philosophy, ICT and Organisation and Management Science courses.
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In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave according to their fundamental qualities... more In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave according to their fundamental qualities – hotness and coldness, dryness and wetness – and are therefore subject to specifically defined forms of spatial interaction. Among these connections, the one between earth (cold and dry) and water (cold and wet) is particularly rich of consequences for Aristotelian science, because it encroaches the domains of meteorology – full of wet phenomena such as rain and snow –, of geology – addressing issues like the physical shape of the earth, the formation of mountains, etc. –, and of biology – inasmuch as the relation between earth and water is key to the genesis and persistence of complex forms of life. In the religious domain, the biblical account of creation in the Genesis spells out with a certain degree of detail how earth and water were formed, shaped, and divided at the beginning of time, and how animals began to exist in the respective terrestrial and aquatic domains. The intersections between revealed/religious and philosophical/scientific accounts of the relation between water and earth were accordingly explored in much detail by medieval thinkers, not only in the Christian-Latin world, but also in the Jewish-Hebrew and Islamic-Arabic milieus. In this elaborate framework, a singular little text attributed to Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the Questio de aqua et terra, is a paradigmatic specimen of the significance of these debates also outside the boundaries of universities, and possibly for people who were not specifically trained in Aristotelian science and philosophy, or else in theology and Biblical exegesis. The topic dealt with in the Questio is a central one for the Peripatetic physics of the elements, i.e. the issue of why and how did dry land emerge from water, if water is absolutely lighter than earth, and the elements take the shape of a sphere in their proper domain. This workshop aims to revise the complex tradition which finds in the Questio an all-peculiar exemplum, but it wishes to do so under a visual angle hitherto rather neglected in scholarship. This consists in highlighting the possible crosspollinations between Arabic (and Jewish) Peripatetic sources, and the treatment given to the issue in Dante’s purported treatise. In so doing, the workshop wishes to provide new material to Dante scholars interested in better understanding the theoretical and scientific teachings of the Questio, as well as the debated issue of its authorship, in contradistinction to the mainly Latin sources hitherto explored in scholarship to assess it. Likewise, it is an aim of the seminar to give historians of medieval and early modern thought a chance to discuss the interrelated issues of physics and religious exegesis raised by the most fundamental elemental interaction of water and earth, in the framework of the long history of Aristotelianism from its Greek origin up to its most recent, post-medieval incarnations.
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Speakers:
Zygmunt G. Baranski, University of Notre Dame
Amos Bertolacci, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Alberto Casadei, University of Pisa
Anna Gabriella Chisena, Università di Bologna
Gianfranco Fioravanti, University of Pisa
Aurora Panzica, Universitè de Fribourg
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, University of Losanna, SISMEL
Paolo Pontari, University of Pisa
Pietro Bassiano Rossi, University of Torino
Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR
Marco Signori, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Andrea Tabarroni, University of Udine
Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University
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Events by PhiBor Research Unit IMT Lucca
In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave according to their fundamental qualities – hotness and coldness, dryness and wetness – and are therefore subject to specifically defined forms of spatial interaction. Among these connections, the one between earth (cold and dry) and water (cold and wet) is particularly rich of consequences for Aristotelian science, because it encroaches the domains of meteorology – full of wet phenomena such as rain and snow –, of geology – addressing issues like the physical shape of the earth, the formation of mountains, etc. –, and of biology – inasmuch as the relation between earth and water is key to the genesis and persistence of complex forms of life. In the religious domain, the biblical account of creation in the Genesis spells out with a certain degree of detail how earth and water were formed, shaped, and divided at the beginning of time, and how animals began to exist in the respective terrestrial and aquatic domains. The intersections between revealed/religious and philosophical/scientific accounts of the relation between water and earth were accordingly explored in much detail by medieval thinkers, not only in the Christian-Latin world, but also in the Jewish-Hebrew and Islamic-Arabic milieus. In this elaborate framework, a singular little text attributed to Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the Questio de aqua et terra, is a paradigmatic specimen of the significance of these debates also outside the boundaries of universities, and possibly for people who were not specifically trained in Aristotelian science and philosophy, or else in theology and Biblical exegesis.
The topic dealt with in the Questio is a central one for the Peripatetic physics of the elements, i.e. the issue of why and how did dry land emerge from water, if water is absolutely lighter than earth, and the elements take the shape of a sphere in their proper domain. This workshop aims to revise the complex tradition which finds in the Questio an all-peculiar exemplum, highlighting the possible crosspollinations between Arabic and Latin Peripatetic sources, and the treatment given to the issue in Dante’s purported treatise. In so doing, the workshop wishes to provide new material to Dante scholars interested in better understanding the theoretical and scientific teachings of the Questio, as well as the debated issue of its authorship. Likewise, it is an aim of the seminar to give historians of medieval and early modern thought a chance to discuss the interrelated issues of physics and religious exegesis raised by the most fundamental elemental interaction of water and earth, in the framework of the long history of Aristotelianism from its Greek origin up to its most recent, post-medieval incarnations.
1) What is Avicenna’s goal in writing this book?
2) How does Avicenna reach his goal?
In answering these questions, it is essential to consider the composition of the whole Book of the Cure/Healing (Kitāb al-Šifāʾ), to which the Book of Animals belongs, and its complementarity with the Canon of Medicine (Qānūn fī l-ṭibb).
The anatomy and physiology of the organic body, that is, of the proximate matter of the living organism, is the field where (natural) philosophy and medicine interact, overlap, and conflict. According to my interpretation, in zoology as the philosophical study of the organic body, Avicenna aims to overcome the tensions between (Aristotelian) philosophy and (Galenic) medicine and to reconcile the two traditions and their different authorities (Aristotle and Galen) of which he is the heir.
To reach his goal, Avicenna makes use of three different modalities:
1) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments and defence of Aristotle (e.g. in the case of the origination of blood vessels and nerves and the issue of cardiocentrism);
2) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments but concomitant adherence to and silent use of parts of his arguments (e.g. in the theory of the two semina and the development stages of the embryo);
3) insertion of medical principles within an Aristotelian theoretical framework (e.g. in the theory of humors within the exposition of the three levels of composition of the organic body).
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Il seminario si terrà in italiano, in modalità mista, ed è aperto a tutti gli interessati. http://imt.lu/seminar
Partecipanti:
Alessandra Beccarisi, Paola Bernardini, Amos Bertolacci, Amalia Cerrito, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Alessandro Palazzo, Stefano Perfetti, Anna Rodolfi, Antonella Sannino, Marco Signori
April 29, 2022 - 11:00 am
IMT School for Advanced Studies, San Francesco Complex - classroom 1
Calls by PhiBor Research Unit IMT Lucca
The Program comprises two Tracks and, in the spirit of the IMT School, integrates academic excellence with an interdisciplinary vocation. IMT internal faculty members, leading experts from leading international institutions and directors and curators from important Italian and international museums offer courses and seminars within the program.
The Track Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) offers different methodologies and tools for analyzing and managing cultural heritage through Archaeology, Art History, Visual Studies, and Visual Archives courses, complemented with Contemporary History, Cultural Heritage Law, Digital Humanities, History of Philosophy, ICT and Organisation and Management Science courses.
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Conferences by PhiBor Research Unit IMT Lucca
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Speakers:
Zygmunt G. Baranski, University of Notre Dame
Amos Bertolacci, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Alberto Casadei, University of Pisa
Anna Gabriella Chisena, Università di Bologna
Gianfranco Fioravanti, University of Pisa
Aurora Panzica, Universitè de Fribourg
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, University of Losanna, SISMEL
Paolo Pontari, University of Pisa
Pietro Bassiano Rossi, University of Torino
Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR
Marco Signori, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Andrea Tabarroni, University of Udine
Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University
In Aristotle’s physical system, the four elements behave according to their fundamental qualities – hotness and coldness, dryness and wetness – and are therefore subject to specifically defined forms of spatial interaction. Among these connections, the one between earth (cold and dry) and water (cold and wet) is particularly rich of consequences for Aristotelian science, because it encroaches the domains of meteorology – full of wet phenomena such as rain and snow –, of geology – addressing issues like the physical shape of the earth, the formation of mountains, etc. –, and of biology – inasmuch as the relation between earth and water is key to the genesis and persistence of complex forms of life. In the religious domain, the biblical account of creation in the Genesis spells out with a certain degree of detail how earth and water were formed, shaped, and divided at the beginning of time, and how animals began to exist in the respective terrestrial and aquatic domains. The intersections between revealed/religious and philosophical/scientific accounts of the relation between water and earth were accordingly explored in much detail by medieval thinkers, not only in the Christian-Latin world, but also in the Jewish-Hebrew and Islamic-Arabic milieus. In this elaborate framework, a singular little text attributed to Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the Questio de aqua et terra, is a paradigmatic specimen of the significance of these debates also outside the boundaries of universities, and possibly for people who were not specifically trained in Aristotelian science and philosophy, or else in theology and Biblical exegesis.
The topic dealt with in the Questio is a central one for the Peripatetic physics of the elements, i.e. the issue of why and how did dry land emerge from water, if water is absolutely lighter than earth, and the elements take the shape of a sphere in their proper domain. This workshop aims to revise the complex tradition which finds in the Questio an all-peculiar exemplum, highlighting the possible crosspollinations between Arabic and Latin Peripatetic sources, and the treatment given to the issue in Dante’s purported treatise. In so doing, the workshop wishes to provide new material to Dante scholars interested in better understanding the theoretical and scientific teachings of the Questio, as well as the debated issue of its authorship. Likewise, it is an aim of the seminar to give historians of medieval and early modern thought a chance to discuss the interrelated issues of physics and religious exegesis raised by the most fundamental elemental interaction of water and earth, in the framework of the long history of Aristotelianism from its Greek origin up to its most recent, post-medieval incarnations.
1) What is Avicenna’s goal in writing this book?
2) How does Avicenna reach his goal?
In answering these questions, it is essential to consider the composition of the whole Book of the Cure/Healing (Kitāb al-Šifāʾ), to which the Book of Animals belongs, and its complementarity with the Canon of Medicine (Qānūn fī l-ṭibb).
The anatomy and physiology of the organic body, that is, of the proximate matter of the living organism, is the field where (natural) philosophy and medicine interact, overlap, and conflict. According to my interpretation, in zoology as the philosophical study of the organic body, Avicenna aims to overcome the tensions between (Aristotelian) philosophy and (Galenic) medicine and to reconcile the two traditions and their different authorities (Aristotle and Galen) of which he is the heir.
To reach his goal, Avicenna makes use of three different modalities:
1) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments and defence of Aristotle (e.g. in the case of the origination of blood vessels and nerves and the issue of cardiocentrism);
2) explicit refutation of Galen’s arguments but concomitant adherence to and silent use of parts of his arguments (e.g. in the theory of the two semina and the development stages of the embryo);
3) insertion of medical principles within an Aristotelian theoretical framework (e.g. in the theory of humors within the exposition of the three levels of composition of the organic body).
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Il seminario si terrà in italiano, in modalità mista, ed è aperto a tutti gli interessati. http://imt.lu/seminar
Partecipanti:
Alessandra Beccarisi, Paola Bernardini, Amos Bertolacci, Amalia Cerrito, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Alessandro Palazzo, Stefano Perfetti, Anna Rodolfi, Antonella Sannino, Marco Signori
April 29, 2022 - 11:00 am
IMT School for Advanced Studies, San Francesco Complex - classroom 1
The Program comprises two Tracks and, in the spirit of the IMT School, integrates academic excellence with an interdisciplinary vocation. IMT internal faculty members, leading experts from leading international institutions and directors and curators from important Italian and international museums offer courses and seminars within the program.
The Track Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) offers different methodologies and tools for analyzing and managing cultural heritage through Archaeology, Art History, Visual Studies, and Visual Archives courses, complemented with Contemporary History, Cultural Heritage Law, Digital Humanities, History of Philosophy, ICT and Organisation and Management Science courses.
More info at: https://cs.imtlucca.it/
http://imt.lu/aula1
Speakers:
Zygmunt G. Baranski, University of Notre Dame
Amos Bertolacci, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Alberto Casadei, University of Pisa
Anna Gabriella Chisena, Università di Bologna
Gianfranco Fioravanti, University of Pisa
Aurora Panzica, Universitè de Fribourg
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, University of Losanna, SISMEL
Paolo Pontari, University of Pisa
Pietro Bassiano Rossi, University of Torino
Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR
Marco Signori, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
Andrea Tabarroni, University of Udine
Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University