"Consuetudo. Thomas Aquinas on Common Practices and the Foundations of Normativity Conference"
\nSeptember 29th-30th\, 2025
Department of Legal Sciences - University of Udine (Italy)
- Online participation is possible with prior \;approval. If interested\, please write to the organisers: \;normativity@uniud.it
- This is the official conference website: \;https://normativity.uniud.it/practices
\nFlyer: \;https://normativity.uniud.it/fileadmin/user_upload/20250929-30_Locandina_Convegno.pdf
\nConference Program:
\nSeptember 29th 2025\, Venue: Rosazzo Abbey (Corno di Rosazzo\, Udine)
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9.00
Greetings from \;Silvia Bolognini
Director of the Department of Legal Sciences\, University of Udine
Introduction and Chairperson: \;Gabriele De Anna \;(University of Udine\, Project Coordinator)
\nThé\;rè\;se Scarpelli Cory \;(University of Notre Dame\, USA)
Species in Habitu \;vs. Intellectual Habits?: Light\, Memory\, and Scientific Knowledge in Aquinas
Luca Gili \;(University of Chieti\, Italy\, and University of Vilnius\, Lithuania)
Why Some Think Faster: Aquinas on Intelligence
Daniel De Haan \;(Oxford University\, UK)
Discerning the Natural Law via Phronesis: How can Plain Persons Vindicate\, Revise\, or Reject their \;Consuetudines?
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Chairperson: \;Manuele Dozzi \;(University of Udine)
\nPaul O&rsquo\;Grady \;(Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland)
Aquinas and Wittgenstein on Habits and Customs
Tom Angier \;(University of Cape Town\, South Africa)
What is Custom and What is its Value?
Matteo Negro \;(University of Catania\, Italy)
Consuetudo\, second nature\, and practical rationality
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20.30
Conference concert
The \;University of Udine Symphony Orchestra \;at Rosazzo Abbey.
Music by Bach\, Baermann\, Marcello and Mozart
Conductor: Maestro \;Davide Pitis
Solists: \;Anna Piani \;and \;Linda Zamparo \;(violins)\, \;Francesco Savonitto \;(oboe) and \;Mario Zanette \;(clarinet)
September 30th 2025\, Venue: Auditorium\, Department of Legal Sciences (Udine)
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9.30
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Greetings from \;Angelo Montanari
Rector of the University of Udine
Chairperson: \;Andrea Tabarroni \;(University of Udine)
Tobias Hoffmann \;(Sorbonne University\, Paris\, France)
Are Individual Prudence\, Household Prudence and Political Prudence Specifically the Same Virtue? Thomas Aquinas\, Godfrey of Fontaines\, and John of Pouilly on the Kinds of Prudence
Matthias Perkamns \;(University of Jena\, Germany)
Imagination and the Intelligence of Animals in Albert the Great and \;Thomas Aquinas
Luca Tuninetti \;(Urbanian Univesity of Rome\, Italy)
Inventio \;and \;disciplina. \;Two ways to acquire knowledge according to Thomas Aquinas
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Chairperson: \;Giulia Codognato \;(University of Udine)
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Marco Vorcelli \;(University of Padua\, Italy)
Gutta cavat lapidem. \;Albert the Great\, Consuetudo\, and the Via to Being Good
Michele Saracino \;(University of Turin\, Italy)
Prius addiscere logicam. \;On the Transmission of Knowledge According to Aquinas
Hagos Woldeselassie Fissuh \;(Gregorian University of Rome\, Italy)
Bad Custom Cannot Become Law: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Debates on Customary Law Abstract
Abstracts of Talks: \;https://normativity.uniud.it/practices/abstract-dei-contributi
\nBiographies of Speakers: \;https://normativity.uniud.it/practices/biografie-dei-partecipanti
\nScientific Organisation
Gabriele De Anna
Giulia Codognato