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Neuroscience and the Soul | Thomistic Circles Conference, Spring 2020

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The Christendom College Major Speakers Program is an important aspect of the academic life at the College, offering the students and community an opportunity for cultural, intellectual, and spiritual enrichment beyond the classroom. The Major Speakers Program offers the students expanded opportunities to gain greater insights and depth of understanding of important issues, and to interact personally with a wide range of men and women who are shapers and critics of our society. At least two major speakers are hosted by the College each semester. 

The Recrudescence of Modernism and Christendom | Dr. William Marshner

Christendom's faculty members are frequently invited to speak at other campuses, conferences, and community gatherings. Find these lectures here. 

Protestant Revolution: Luther, Calvin and Zwingli: Part 1 | Dr. William Marshner

Protestant Revolution: Luther, Calvin and Zwingli: Part 3 | Dr. William Marshner

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

Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Department Chair at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA. He holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Munich. At Munich, he studied with Robert Spaemann, and wrote a dissertation titled "Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl. Die Metaphysik der Willensfreiheit zwischen Antonio Perez, S. J. (1599-1649) und G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716," investigating the concept of "the best of all possible worlds." In 2018, he published the first comprehensive, article-length overview of Robert Spaemann's thought in Communio. He regularly teaches courses on modern philosophy and theology, covering Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, phenomenology, Heidegger, and the linguistic turn in philosophy and theology.

Freedom, Aquinas, and the Brain | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

Mark Pulliam explains why religion is disappearing from Religious Studies departments.

Anti-Religious Studies - Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (5.21.20)

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

Prof. Jeffrey Bishop is a philosopher, bioethicist, author and the Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of medical humanities. Prof. Bishop is a physician, holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Dallas and serves on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the Journal of Christian Bioethics for Oxford University Press.

Popular Neuroscience and Other Political Schemes | Prof. Jeffrey Bishop

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.

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

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 Nature of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Nature | Fr. Brian Chrzastek, O.P.

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 on the Blessed Mother | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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.

Neuroscience and the Human Soul | Prof. Marie George

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.

Moral Enhancement: Exemplars and Epistemic Trust | Prof. Stephen Napier

This lecture was given at Oxford University on February 19, 2020.

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Prof. John Lennox studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford University (by incorporation) and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg in Germany.

Can Science Explain Everything? | Prof. John Lennox

This talk was given at the University College Dublin on February 25, 2020.

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Fr. Terence Crotty, OP, is a doctor of Biblical Theology and is Student Master of the Irish Dominican Province.

Is the Bible True and Accurate? | Fr. Terence Crotty

This lecture was given at Queen's University on February 5, 2020.

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Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral philosophy in the Thomistic tradition, as well as topics in applied ethics (especially bioethics and the ethics of architecture) and connections between philosophy and literature. As part of the Humanities Program, he directs the Providence College Humanities Forum and the Providence College Humanities Reading Seminars.

The Catholic Imagination in JRR Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor | Prof. Raymond Hain

The lecture was given on October 7, 2020 at the Catholic Information Center. 

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The handout for this event can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y54dzpz5

About the Speaker:
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: Is Faith Irrational? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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

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