Featuring some recent talks on science and its relationship to the faith.

Faith and Science | Featured Tracks

This lecture was delivered for the Vanderbilt University chapter on 4/20/2021.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:

Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis focused on laboratory astrochemistry, from Leiden University in 2009. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. In 2013 she joined the Harvard astronomy faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted and named the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor in Astronomy in 2016, and promoted to full professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Öberg’s research in astrochemistry has been recognized with a Sloan fellowship, a Packard fellowship, the Newton Lacy Pierce Award from the American Astronomical Society, and a Simons fellowship. Her recent TED talk explaining some of her research can be found here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/karin_oberg_the_galactic_recipe_for_a_living_planet

Science And the Theology Of Extraterrestrial Life | Prof. Karin Öberg

57 El origen de la traición │ Juan 12:1-8

This talk was given on June 26th, 2021 at the 10th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop: Knowledge, Truth, and Wisdom in Aquinas. The handout can be found at https://tinyurl.com/yv5by7f5

For information on upcoming Thomistic Institute events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 33 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000), and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-editor (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.

On the Union of the Knower with the Known | Prof. Robert Koons

This talk was given online on September 21, 2021 to The Thomistic Institute at the University of California Berkeley.

For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker: 
Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. After undergraduate studies at Seattle University, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1970 and was ordained in 1977. He then taught for three years at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, before doing his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. He has served as Academic Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Convener of the Theology Area at the Graduate Theological Union, and Regent of Studies and Vicar Provincial of the Western Dominican Province. He is the author of The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability (2008), and Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas (2012), both from The Catholic University of America Press.

Are Science and Faith Compatible? | Fr. Michael Dodds, O.P.

פליישמן ופלקסין- 18-11-21- שעה ראשונה

This talk was given on November 11, 2021 at Texas State University.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as well as Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.

What Makes a Good Person? The Cardinal Virtues and Living Well | Prof. Patrick Callahan

This talk was given on November 11, 2021 at Trinity College Dublin.

Click here for Prof. Carroll's slides: https://tinyurl.com/2p94tjtx

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org

About the speaker:
Dr. William E. Carroll is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Philosophy at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China) and Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium of Anton Neuwirth (Bratislava, Slovakia). His specialty is the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology, with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the doctrine of creation. He is the author of works and articles including Creation and Science: Has Science Eliminated God?; Galileo: Science and Faith; and (with Steven Baldner) Aquinas on Creation. Beginning in 2013, he has spent several weeks each year giving lectures and seminars at various Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan.

Creation and the Origin of the Universe | Prof. William Carroll

Ignite Jingle montage 2021 for Rutland & Stamford Sound

RSS Ignite Montage

This lecture was given at West Virginia University on November 5, 2021.

For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker: 
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

How Is My iPhone Changing Me? Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Dr. Revelle's handout is available here: https://tinyurl.com/8ze3uusf

This talk was given on January 29, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer", an intellectual retreat for the UVA Thomistic Institute chapter.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Dr. Joshua Revelle is an adjunct instructor at Mount Saint Mary College, with a PhD in Spirituality from The Catholic University of America. His areas of specialization are dogmatic and spiritual theology, especially in St. Thomas Aquinas. He also enjoys teaching Biblical theology. His research and teaching are geared toward the integration of theory and practice.

The Majesty of Truth: St. Thomas on the Contemplation and Worship of God | Dr. Joshua Revelle

Minot Variety Station new jingle ad February 11 2021

A little flock of Whooper Swans, arrived a few days ago, one hour after sunset at Rengaskari Reef one mile from our home shore.  The sea is frozen a long way out, but by the shallow waters of the reef there's a small piece of free water.  The picture is by sunset as I leaved the mics on the reef.

Updating www.rupuranta.net  - Better description maybe later ;-

(MKH8020 ab80cm,  MixPre, 32>24/48, no processing, Flac)

A frozen Reef  - 15/3/2022 - Rengaskari Finland

More on this 534th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transition Capsule (The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones) — at: https://disquiet.com/0534/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0534-transition-capsule/

Stairs [ disquiet0534 ]

View Prof. Bogardus' slides here: https://tinyurl.com/yer9hxmu

This lecture was given on February 22, 2022 at the University of Arizona.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief.

Are We Just Accidents? Evolution in the Light of Faith | Prof. Tomás Bogardus

To better serve you, we've switched to a new podcast provider. If you're currently listening on SoundCloud, we invite you to join us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, and more!

We’re excited to share that you can also visit our podcast webpage at https://podcast.thomisticinstitute.org, where you can search for speakers, topics, and find episodes that interest you. Thank you for your support, and we can't wait for you to tune in to our latest content!

Creation and the Origin of the Universe | Prof. William Carroll

The Thomistic Institute - WE HAVE MOVED, SEE BIO

Related tracks