The Thomistic Institute

Access Prof. Grant's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/2utsun3j This lecture was given on March 7, 2022 at Hillsdale College. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: W. Matthews Grant is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas (MN), and Associate Editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His articles have focused on Aquinas and the Philosophy of God, particularly issues having to do with the divine nature and God’s relationship to human freedom. His new book Free Will and God’s Universal Causality: The Dual Sources Account, draws resources from Aquinas and the scholastic tradition to explain how libertarian creaturely freedom can be reconciled with robust accounts of God’s providence, grace, and predestination.

This lecture was given on February 28, 2022 at Indiana University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Jennifer Frey is an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology and she has co-edited three volumes on Self-Transcendence and Virtue, Practical Wisdom, and Practical Truth. Her writing has been featured in Breaking Ground, Evangelization and Culture, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today.

This lecture was given on February 22, 2022 at the University of Dallas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011-12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

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.

This lecture was given on February 18, 2022 at the University of Oklahoma. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Dauphinais, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Professor Dauphinais holds a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He has co-authored Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible. He has co-edited multiple volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters in books dedicated to theology and exegesis in Aquinas and other topics relating to Catholic theology. Professor Dauphinais previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. His favorite courses are C.S. Lewis, Triune God, and the Colloquium on Ancients and Moderns. He also enjoys riding horses and running.

This lecture was given on February 17, 2022 at Trinity Western University via Zoom. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Jonathan J. Sanford, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Provost at the University of Dallas. He graduated summa cum laude from Xavier University in Classics and Philosophy in 1997, received his PhD from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 2001, and received a postdoctoral fellowship from Fordham University in 2001-2002. He has published on particular figures in the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Newman, and Scheler, as well as on topics in both metaphysics and ethics. He is especially interested in drawing from the tradition to solve contemporary problems. Sanford’s most recent book is Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics (CUA Press, 2015). The University of Dallas is well known for the undergraduate Catholic liberal education it provides, and as Provost, Sanford oversees all aspects of it. He is currently writing a book on the virtues of liberal education. He and his wife Rebecca live in Irving, Texas, and are blessed with eight children.

This lecture was given on February 11, 2022 at the University of Kansas. For more information on upcoming 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.

This lecture was given on February 16, 2022 at Regent University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Gorman is professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has doctorates in philosophy and theology. He has authored over thirty academic papers and a book entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and ethics.

This lecture was given on February 11, 2022 at Ashland University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Peter Karl Koritansky is a Professor of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at The University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Canada. At UPEI, he teaches courses in ancient and medieval philosophy, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law and Catholic thought. He has also taught at Malone University (Canton, OH), Walsh University (North Canton, OH), the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome) and has been a visiting scholar at The University of Notre Dame. Dr. Koritansky received his Ph.D in philosophy from The University of Toronto and is the author of Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Punishment (CUA Press, 2012) and Engaging the Skeptic: Essays Addressing the Modern Secularist’s Most Serious Objections to the Catholic Worldview (Justin Press, 2018). He has also recently published “Thomas Aquinas and the Euthyphro Dilemma” (Heythrop Journal, 2018) and “Retributive Justice and Natural Law” (The Thomist, 2019). For the 2021-22 academic year, Dr. Koritansky is a John and Daria Barry Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is currently completing a manuscript tentatively entitled "An Introduction to Thomistic Natural Law."

This lecture was given on February 7, 2022 at St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After serving for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist, chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans, and assistant student master. He served as student master and subprior at St. Dominic Priory from 2015-2018, and is currently the subprior.