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A LIVING THOMISM FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Center for Thomistic Studies: 2011-12 Colloquia

The Center colloquium takes place on a weekly basis during the academic year. It consists of a short paper and a discussion, presented by a member of the faculty, a visiting lecturer, or a student. Each doctoral candidate is expected to present at least one colloquium during his or her program. Full-time students of the Center are expected to attend the colloquium.
     
Date Speaker Topic
Aug 25. Rev. Prof. Robert A. Gahl, Jr.,
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy

"Contemporary Psychology and its relationship to Aristotelian-Thomistic Moral Psychology"
Sept 1. Daniel De Haan,
Ph.D. Student, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

"Dysordered Acquired Appetites and the Ratio of Addictiona: A Thomistic Analysis"
Sept 15. John F.X. Knasas,
Professor of Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

"Comments on Brian Davies, The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil"
Sept 29. Ed Houser,
Professor of Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

"Aristotle, Avicenna, and Aquinas"
Oct 6. Domenic D'Ettore,
Ph.D. Student, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

"The Concept Represneting God and Creatures: An Analysis of John Capreolus' Doctrine of Analogy"
Oct 14. Alexander Pruss,
Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University

"Evil as Anamoly: Why some arguments from evil are like pseudoscience"
Oct 20. Steven Jensen,
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

"Double Effect, Proportionality, and Allowing Harm"
Nov 11. Peter Casarella,
Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University

"Facing the Verbal Likeness: St. Augustine, Nicholas of Cusa, and Pope John Paul II on the Analogy of the Word"
Dec 2. Walter Redmond,
Visiting Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy and Classical Studies, College of St. Thomas More in Fort Worth

"'Deum Esse' in St. Thomas and Frege"
Jan 27.
(Friday)
Matthew Levering,
University of Dayton

Aristotle and the Old Law in the Summa theologiae
Feb 2. John Macias,
Center for Thomistic Studies

Rationality, Relativism, and MacIntyre
Feb 10.
(Friday)
Robert Koons,
University of Texas-Austin

Objects of Intention: A Hylomorphic Critique of the New Natural Law Theory
Feb 16. Joe Graham,
Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston TX

In the Little Gallery
Feb 24. Helen Hattab,
University of Houston

Suárez and Descartes: A Priori Arguments Against Substantial Forms and the Decline of the Formal Cause
March 1. John Deely,
Rudman Chair, Center for Thomistic Studies, UST

Updating the Cartesian Notion of Cogito
March 29. Bruce Marshall,
Southern Methodist University

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