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Add to Calendar 2017-06-15 00:00:00 2017-06-16 00:00:00 2017 West Coast Meeting of the Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies Thomas Aquinas College tacweb@thomasaquinas.edu America/Los_Angeles public

Theme: “Epistemology and Logic”

Co-sponsored by Thomas Aquinas College

 

List of speakers:

Thursday June 15
Lecture 1
9:00 a.m.
“The Road from ἔνδοξαι to ἐπιστήμη”
Joshua Yanhan Lo
Boston University
Lecture 2
10:15 a.m.
“The Many Methods of Metaphysics in Thomas Aquinas”
Gaston G. LeNotre
Northwest Vista College (TX)
Lecture 3
1:00 p.m.
“The Use and Abuse of Certitude:
How Philosophers Give Philosophy a Bad Name”

Michael J. Bolin
Wyoming Catholic College
Lecture 4
2:30 p.m.
“The Inductive Syllogism”
Paul O’Reilly
Thomas Aquinas College
   
Friday June 16
Lecture 5
9:00 a.m.
“The Separated Soul as Known
by Natural Reason and Sacred Doctrine”

Daniel Lendman
Ave Maria University
Lecture 6
10:15 a.m.
“The Importance of Sensation for Intellection
(and their Distinction)”

Thomas K. Nelson
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Lecture 7
1:00 p.m.
“Natural Science as Philosophy:
Charles De Koninck’s Response to Logical Empiricism”

Martin Beers
University of Notre Dame
Lecture 8
2:30 p.m.
“The Two First Meanings of Substance
and their Origins in Human Knowledge”

Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem.
St. Michael’s Abbey (Silverado, CA)

Each talk will be 40 minutes long and will be followed by a 20 minute question-and-answer period. Talks will be held at Thomas Aquinas College in Rm 106 of St. Albert the Great Science Hall.

A dinner honoring the speakers will be held Thursday evening. A $40 registration fee, which includes the dinner, should be paid to John Goyette by a check payable to Thomas Aquinas College. (Registration is $20 if you attend only the lectures.) Seating for the dinner is limited, so please register by June 1 if you wish to attend.

For more information, or to register for the conference, please contact John Goyette.


The Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies is an organization promoting “friendship in the pursuit of wisdom,” especially through the study of the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.