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We cordially invite you to participate in the international conference “Aquinas: Strategies and Methods,” which will be held on May 28–30, 2025 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Abstracts can be submitted until March 15. Details below.

St. Thomas Aquinas had brilliant ideas, which contributed to both theology and philosophy. However, an important part of his success as a theologian and philosopher which can be easily overlooked was his effective planning. In order to gain truth and present it to the readers or listeners (according to the Dominican motto: contemplata aliis tradere), it is essential to know how to do that. Aquinas’s investigations and presentations are always ordered according to certain patterns and governed by ideas, which he often explains. They also follow clear methodological frameworks.

In the 800th anniversary of his birthday, we would like to focus on strategies he adopts in different types of his production and methods he applies both as a theologian and as a philosopher. We are going to examine the importance and the consequences of such choices, as well as their motivations and inspirations. We will include both those strategies and methods which are explicitly mentioned by Thomas and those which can be traced back. This will enable us to create a picture of Aquinas as a scholar who cared about the correct ways of thinking and scientific procedures.

We invite submissions of contributed papers which analyse Aquinas’s:

• patterns of work composition,
• exegetical techniques,
• hermeneutical strategies,
• methodology of sciences (including metaphysics, theology, natural sciences),
• ways of argumentation and argumentative strategies,
• use of logic,
• analytical approach,
• other similar aspects of his work.

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