This lecture was given at USC on April 16th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events Speaker Bio Jonathan J. Sanford, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and the Dean of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas. He graduated summa cum laude from Xavier University in Classics and Philosophy in 1997, received his PhD from University of Buffalo, State University of New York in 2001, and received a postdoctoral fellowship from F...
Jun 13, 2019•1 hr 12 min
This lecture was offered at Hillsdale College on April 2nd, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a pr...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 1 min
This lecture was given April 1st, 2019 at Harvard Medical School. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph.D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard Guarente, where he was a fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was ordained a pri...
Jun 11, 2019•31 min
This talk was delivered at Stanford University on April 17, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker bio: Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in ph...
Jun 08, 2019•1 hr 33 min
This talk was offered at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland during the "Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers" Conference on April 6th, 2019. Speaker Bio: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic 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 Sacre...
Jun 06, 2019•42 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on March 5th, 2019 and was organized in partnership with the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Rik Van Nieuwenhove lectures in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK. He has published scholarly articles on medieval theology and spirituality, theology of the Trinity, and soteriology. His books include: Introduction to Medieval Theology...
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr
This lecture was offered for our Harvard graduate chapter on April 4th, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This talk was given at the University of Arizona on March 26th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Dr. James Madden lives in Atchison with his wife and their children. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006, and he is the autho...
Jun 01, 2019•58 min
This lecture was given on March 28th, 2019 at the University of Toronto. For more information about upcoming TI events, please visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Event Description: Human beings naturally have the power of free choice, but mental habits can cause us to choose in determined ways. So how can we break out of deep bad habits to form new and better ones? “Divine grace” is the answer given by Augustine and the authors of the Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. Which of th...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 26 min
This talk was offered at Southern Methodist University on April 11th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: J. Budziszewski (Ph.D. Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His main area of research is the natural moral law, and he is most wellknown for his work on moral selfdeception, “the revenge of conscience” what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we real...
May 27, 2019•1 hr 9 min
This lecture was presented by Prof. James Madden(Benedectine College) with Prof. Mark Johnson (Princeton University) responding. The event was held on April 4th, 2019 and sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and The Aquinas Institute, Princeton University's Catholic Campus Ministry. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
May 24, 2019•37 min
This talk was given January 16th, 2019 at UNC Charlotte by Fr. Gregory Pine OP (Thomistic Institute) For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born...
May 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min
The lecture was given at Duke Divinity School on March 21, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
May 20, 2019•1 hr 21 min
This lecture was given by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, at the Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Angelicum) in Rome on May 11, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org
May 17, 2019•43 min
Professor Barker critiques the materialistic view that the soul is merely a mental construct disproven by neuroscience, instead suggesting that the soul is a fundamental aspect of living beings that cannot be reduced to empirical observation or mathematical measurement. The Aristotelian tradition is presented as an alternative to both dualism and materialism, understanding the soul as the formal cause of a living being, inseparable from its material body. The speaker argues that this perspective...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 1 min
This talk was held on April 4th, 2019 for the Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh TI Chapter. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events/what-d…n-to-be-human About the Speaker: Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Docto...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This talk was offered at UC Berkeley on April 8th, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events/the-se…-beyond-earth Speak Bio: Jonathan I. Lunine is The David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, His research focuses on astrophysics, planetary science and astrobiology. In addition to his responsibilities in the classroom, he serves as Interdisciplina...
May 10, 2019•1 hr 18 min
The annual St. Mary’s Lecture at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in New Haven, CT was held on April 8th, 2019. The lecture was given by George Weigel (Ethics and Public Policy Center) on the themes of his recent book by the same name, published last year by Ignatius Press. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit:
May 09, 2019•1 hr 5 min
This talk was given the University of Oklahoma on April 2nd, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the speaker: Dr. Cleveland received his B.A. in philosophy and biblical studies from Taylor University, his M.A.R. in philosophical theology & philosophy of religion from Yale Divinity School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Baylor University (2014). Before coming to UMary, he conducted postdoctoral research at Saint Louis University ...
May 09, 2019•41 min
This talk was given at Baylor University on March 28th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph.D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard Guarente, where he was a fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was ordained a priest ...
May 08, 2019•1 hr 17 min
This talk was offered for our chapter at the United States Naval Academy on March 26th, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. JeanPierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theo...
May 07, 2019•46 min
This talk was offered at the University of Maryland, College Park on March 28th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speak Bio: 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 a...
May 04, 2019•51 min
This lecture was given at MIT on Friday, March 15th, 2019. For more info on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. About the speaker: Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (...
May 03, 2019•1 hr 15 min
This talk was offered at Duke University on March 7, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and pub...
May 02, 2019•43 min
This talk was offered at the University of Oklahoma on March 5th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. About the speaker: Dr. Matthew Ramage is Associate Professor of Theology at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS. He is author, coauthor, or cotranslator of several books, including Dark Passages of the Bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinas (Catholic University of America Press, 2013) and Jesus, Interpreted: Benedic...
May 01, 2019•1 hr 1 min
This talk was offered at George Mason University on March 5th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordaine...
Apr 30, 2019•50 min
The panel discussion concluded the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019.
Apr 27, 2019•1 hr 4 min
The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019.
Apr 26, 2019•58 min
The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019. Presenters: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute) Prof. Steven Jensen - University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fr. John Corbett, O.P. - Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Conference Titles: 1. Principles of the Moral Life 2. The One Thing Necessary: The Last End and Beatitude 3. Our Good and God: Our Place Within the Gre...
Apr 24, 2019•59 min
The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019. Presenters: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute) Prof. Steven Jensen - University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fr. John Corbett, O.P. - Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Conference Titles: 1. Principles of the Moral Life 2. The One Thing Necessary: The Last End and Beatitude 3. Our Good and God: Our Place Within the Gre...
Apr 18, 2019•57 min
