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Moral Enhancement: Exemplars and Epistemic Trust | Prof. Stephen Napier Jun 29, 2020

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This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020.

Prof. Stephen Napier is Assistant Professor of moral epistemology, cognitive science of intuitions, bioethics, and metaphysics of persons at the Villanova University. Prof. Napier has over 18 peer reviewed publications. His research interests include epistemology, bioethics, cognitive science, social perception, and moral psychology and metaphysics of persons.

Neuroscience and the Human Soul | Prof. Marie George Jun 26, 2020

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This lecture was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, on February 29, 2020.

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Marie George has been a member of the Philosophy Department at St. John's University since 1988. Professor George is an Aristotelian-Thomist whose interests lie primarily in the areas of philosophy of nature and philosophy of science. She has received several awards from the John Templeton foundation for her work in science and religion, and in 2007 she received a grant from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) for an interdisciplinary project entitled: “The Evolution of Sympathy and Morality.” Professor George has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and two books: Christianity and Extraterrestrials? A Catholic Perspective(2005) and Stewardship of Creation (2009). She is currently working on Aquinas’s “Fifth Way,” and also on a variety of questions concerning living things (self-motion, consciousness, evolution, etc). Professor George is a member of ten philosophical societies, including the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Society for Aristotelian Studies.

Is Belief In The Trinity Irrational? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. Jun 24, 2020

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This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series.

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The Rise of Modern Atheism: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction | Prof. Anna Moreland Jun 22, 2020

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This lecture was given at Harvard University Graduate school on March 5, 2020.

About the speaker: Anna Bonta Moreland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College.

Anna Bonta Moreland’s areas of research include faith and reason, medieval theology with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, the theology of religious pluralism, and comparative theology, especially between Christianity and Islam. She has written Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Natural Knowledge of God (Herder & Herder, 2010), and edited New Voices in Catholic Theology (Herder & Herder, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy (Notre Dame Press, 2020) is in press. Dr. Moreland completed this work as the Myser Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture during AY 2016-2017. Her current book projects include a co-written manuscript with Dr. Thomas Smith, The College Guide to Adulting: How to Major in Life, and a manuscript on method in comparative theology.

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Who Am I to Judge? Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith Jun 19, 2020

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This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of Arizona on February 27, 2020.

Prof. Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are "Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice" (Cambridge University Press, 2007), "Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft" (IVP, 2010), and "Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith" (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

Friendship and the Common Good | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. Jun 17, 2020

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This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series.

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Aquinas as a Mystical Theologian | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. Jun 15, 2020

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This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of California, Berkeley on October 21, 2019.

Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. He is a professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, where he is an associate director of the Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Fr. Gilles Emery, O.P. He has published "The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas" (CUA Press, 2015). He is currently completing a textbook on the Eucharist. His other research interests include medieval Dominican mystical theologies, the function of metaphysics in theology, the grace/nature relation, the notion of revelation, the development of doctrine and the charisms.

Did Jesus Christ See the Father? | Fr. Simon Gaine, O.P. Jun 10, 2020

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This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series.

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A Window into the Mind? Neuroimaging and Our Understanding of the Human Being | Pro. Sofia Reimao Jun 05, 2020

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This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020.

Prof. Sofia Reimao is a medical doctor from Lisbon, Portugal. She is a professor on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon.

The Inner Workings of Confession | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P. Jun 03, 2020

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This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series.

For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

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