CfA – Common Practices: Thomas Aquinas on Consuetudo and the Foundations of Normativity – International Conference_Udine (Italy)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Common Practices: Thomas Aquinas on Consuetudo and the Foundations of Normativity” September 29th-30th, 2025 Department of Legal Sciences – University of Udine (Italy) Keynote Speakers: Tom Angier (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Luca Gili (University of Chieti, Italy) Tobias Hoffmann (Sorbonne University, Paris, France) Matteo Negro (University of Catania, Italy) Paul O’Grady (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Thérèse Scarpelli Cory (University of Notre Dame, USA) Andrea Tabarroni (University of Udine, Italy) Call For Abstracts We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the international conference entitled Common Practices: Thomas Aquinas on the Notion of Consuetudo and the Foundations of Normativity, to be held at the University of Udine (Italy), on September 29th and 30th, 2025. Candidates are invited to submit abstracts and CVs by June 30th, 2025; decisions will be made by July 15th, 2025. Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): – Consuetudo as a general notion in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas; – The role of consuetudo in particular fields of Aquinas’s philosophy (logic, action theory, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, theory of law, political philosophy, etc.); – Consuetudo in the Thomistic tradition; – Consuetudo in Medieval philosophy; – The political and juridical function of custom in medieval times; – The possible contribution of the Thomistic conception of consuetudo to contemporary debates in analytical philosophy and in the phenomenological tradition; – Common good and common practice: Aquinas in conversation with contemporary authors in philosophy (e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Anscombe, Alasdair MacIntyre, Theodore Schatzki, Peter Winch, etc. ) and social sciences (e.g., Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Andreas Reckwitz, etc.).
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Deadline: 30/06/2025
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