Fellows 2013

Richard C. Taylor

Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee (USA)

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

May‒June 2013

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Aquinas and the Arabs. The Commentary on the Sentences«

Project outline:

While at Frankfurt in the proposed period I will be preparing portions of Aquinas and the Arabs. The Commentary on the Sentences, vol. 2: Creation, a translation and detailed analytical commentary on selected texts from the earliest major work of Thomas Aquinas with focus on his dependence on and engagement with the Arabic / Islamic philosophical tradition. This is deep background on the roles of thinkers of the Arabic philosophical tradition in the formation of theological and philosophical teachings in the thought of Thomas Aquinas as well as his teacher Albertus Magnus and other theologians of the early and middle 13th century up to and somewhat beyond the deaths of Aquinas and Bonaventura in 1274. (Richard C. Taylor)

Professor Richard C. Taylor follows an invitation of Markus Wriedt, Professor of Historical Theology at Goethe University, and the research training group of the German research foundation »Theology as a Science« (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1728).

Scholarly profile of Richard C. Taylor

Main areas of research:

Medieval Philosophy in Latin and Arabic, Philosophy of Religion, Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Metaphysics, Theories of Ethics

Selected publications:

(with R. E. Houser and L. X. López-Farjeat), Aquinas and the Arabic Philosophical Tradition: The Commentary on the Sentences, Selected translations and commentary, Vol.1: God, and Vol.2: Creation (under contract with Cambridge University Press).rnrn
(ed. with Irfan Omar), The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 2012.rnrn
»Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul«, in: Muslim World, vol. 102 (2012), p. 580-596.rnrn
(ed. with David Twetten and Michael Wreen), Tolle Lege: Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 2011.rnrn
(ed. with Peter Adamson), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005.

Further academic activities:
rnRichard Taylor is guest professor at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy of the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. In 2012, he was president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He is editor of the journal History of Philosophy Quarterly.

Richard C. Taylor

Scholarly profile of Richard C. Taylor

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