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Intellect and Contemplation in Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Philosophy6–7 March 2020Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (MUSAΦ),Leopoldstraße 11b, 80802 Munich, 4th floor, room 433This conference is part of a collaboration betweenmembers of Utrecht University and MUSAΦFriday, 6 March 20209:30–10:00 WelcomeSection 1 Chair: Laura Castelli (LMU München)10:00–11:00 Mauro Bonazzi (Utrecht University)“Antiochus, Ulysses and the Limits of Contemplative Life”11:00–12:00 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre University)“Life and Contemplation in Plotinus’ Hierarchy of Being”Section 2 Chair: Rotraud Hansberger (LMU Μünchen)14:00–15:00 Tommaso Alpina (LMU München)“Contemplating the Contemplator. Human Soul as the Object and the Subject of Contemplation”15:00–16:00 Bethany Somma (LMU München)“Externalized Contemplation in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān”16:30–17:30 Keynote talk: Peter Adamson (LMU Μünchen)“From Known to Knower: Affinity Arguments for the Mind’s Incorporeality in the Islamic World”Saturday, 7 March 2020Section 3 Chair: Mareike Hauer (LMU München)10:00–11:00 Thomas Bénatouïl (University of Lille)“Porphyry on the Digression of the Theaetetus and Intellectual Detachment from Sensations and Social Activities”11:00–12:00 Bert van den Berg (Leiden University)“Contemplation as Experience: Reading the Symposium and Phaedrus in the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens”12:15–13:15 Julia Trompeter (Utrecht University)“Michael of Ephesus on the Objects of Contemplation”Section 4 Chair: Tommaso Alpina (LMU München)15:00–16:00 Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)“Critique of Definition and Knowledge of Essences in Suhrawardī”16:00–17:00 Cécile Bonmariage (UCLouvain)“‘Knowledge is the seed of vision’: Contemplation, Knowing Things as They Are, and the Intellect in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī”17:00–18:00 Concluding discussionOrganization: Rotraud Hansberger and Mareike Hauer (LMU München)Contact: hansberger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, mareike.hauer@lrz.uni-muenchen.deThis conference is kindly supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.