Exploring Fortitude and Its Relation to Human Appetites

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Timothy Pawl about how the integration of philosophy, the wisdom of Christian morality, and psychology can help us grow in virtue.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: youtu.be/0Xdq7weIhmc

About the speaker:

Timothy J. Pawl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in philosophy. He specializes in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, Thomistic philosophy, analytic theology, and moral psychology. His books include In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2019), The Incarnation (Cambridge, 2020), and Jesus and the Genome: The Intersection of Christology and Biology (Cambridge, 2024), co-authored with a philosopher of science and an evolutionary biologist.

In addition, he has published more than forty academic articles in his areas of expertise and given more than 100 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth.

He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.