Consuetudo: Thomas Aquinas on Common Practices and the Foundations of Normativity

"Consuetudo. Thomas Aquinas on Common Practices and the Foundations of Normativity Conference"

September 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: [email protected]

- This is the official conference website: https://normativity.uniud.it/practices

Flyer: https://normativity.uniud.it/fileadmin/user_upload/20250929-30_Locandina_Convegno.pdf

Conference Program:

September 29th 2025, Venue: Rosazzo Abbey (Corno di Rosazzo, Udine)
 

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)

Thérèse 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)

Paul O’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
 

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)
 

9.30
 

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)

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

Biographies of Speakers: https://normativity.uniud.it/practices/biografie-dei-partecipanti

Scientific Organisation
Gabriele De Anna
Giulia Codognato