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Lawrence Dewan, O.P. St. Thomas and Form as Something Divine in Things. ISBN: 978-0-87462-174-7. Aquinas Lecture 71 (2007). Cloth. 98 pp. $15

The 2007 Aquinas Lecture, St. Thomas and Form as Something Divine in Things, was delivered on Sunday, February 25, 2007, by the Reverend Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College, Ottawa, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottawa.

Lawrence Dewan was born in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, studied philosophy at St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto, and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1967. His Ph.D. Dissertation, begun under Étienne Gilson and completed under Rev. Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R., is entitled “The Doctrine of Being of John Capreolus: A Contribution to the History of the Notion of Esse.” After teaching in several universities, he joined the Dominican Order in 1973, received an M.A. in Theology from the Dominican University College, and was ordained in 1976.

Since 1974 Fr. Dewan has been a member of the faculty of Dominican University College, where he also served as Vice-President from 1984-1990. He has been Visiting Professor of Philosophy in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the University of Toronto, from 1983-1989; in the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., from 1990-1997; and in 2005 at the International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria. In 2003 he was Lokuang Chair in Philosophy at the Institute of Scholastic Philosophy, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Republic of China.

Among other honors, Fr. Dewan has been President of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association from 1988-1995, and President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1992-1993. In 1998 he was named Master of Sacred Theology by the Dominican Order. He was elected a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in 1999.

In addition to his volume, Form and Being: Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics, and a forthcoming companion volume in ethics, Fr. Dewan has published over a hundred papers in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, natural theology, epistemology, and ethics. Among the titles are: “St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Formal Causality,” “St. Thomas, Joseph Owens, and Existence,” “The Individual as a Mode of Being According to Thomas Aquinas,” “OBIECTUM: Notes on the Invention of a Word,” “St. Thomas and Pre-Conceptual Knowledge,” “St. Albert, the Sensibles, and Spiritual Being,” “Distinctiveness of St. Thomas' Third Way,” “St. Thomas and the Divine Names.”

Howard P. Kainz. Five Metaphysical Paradoxes. ISBN-10: 0-87462-173-9 & ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-173-0. Aquinas Lecture 70 (2006). Cloth. 58 pp. $15

Howard Kainz studied Greek, Latin, and Philosophy at the University of California and at Loyola University, Los Angeles (B.A.). After an M.A. in the History of Philosophy at St. Louis University, he finished his Ph.D. at Duquesne University, specializing in 19th Century German Philosophy. He was an Assistant Professor at Duquesne, then subsequently at Marquette, where he became full professor in 1981, and professor emeritus in 2002.

Professor Kainz was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for research in 1977-78, and two Fulbright Fellowships for study in Germany, 1981-82 and 1987-88. Among the publications of Professor Kainz are the following books: Natural Law: A ReevaluaThe Aquinas Lectures tion (2004), Politically Incorrect Dialogues (1999), G.W.F. Hegel: The Philosophical System (1996), An Introduction to Hegel: The Stages of Modern Philosophy (1996), Democracy and the ‘Kingdom of God’ (1993), Ethics in Context: Toward a Definition and Differentiation of the Morally Good (1988), Paradox, Dialectic and System: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic (1988), Democracy East and West: A Philosophical Overview (1984), Ethica Dialectica: A Study of Ethical Oppositions (1979), Hegel’s Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary (1976), Hegel’s Phenomenology, Part II: The Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint (1983), Active and Passive Potency in Thomistic Angelology (1972). In addition to some sixty scholarly articles and book reviews, he has also published a translation with commentary: Selections from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Bilingual Edition (1994); two textbooks: The Philosophy of Man: A New Introduction to Some Perennial Issues (1981), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right with Marx’s Commentary: A Handbook for Students (1974); and two collections: Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources (1987), The Legacy of Hegel, with J. O’Malley, L. Rice (1973).

 

Nicholas Rescher. Common Sense: A New Look at an Old Philosophical Tradition. ISBN 0-87462-172-0 & ISBN-13 978-0-87462-172-3. Aquinas Lecture 69 (2005). 272 pp. $20

The 2005 Aquinas Lecture, Common Sense: A New Look at an Old Philosophical Tradition, was delivered on Sunday, February 13, 2005, by Nicholas Rescher, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as Co-Chair of the Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Professor Rescher has served as a President of the American Philosophical Association, of the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and of the C. S. Peirce Society. He has recently completed his term as president of the American Catholic Philosophy Association and is president-elect of the American Metaphysical Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. He has held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, and he has been awarded fellowships by the Ford, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundations. He is the author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages. He is the recipient of six honorary degrees from universities on three continents and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.  

Professor Rescher’s many books deal with wideranging areas of philosophy, such as the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, pragmatism, philosophy of science and technology, ethics and value theory, social philosophy, philosophical logic, and metaphilosophy. In the history of philosophy he has written books on Leibniz and Kant as well as other figures in medieval and modern philosophy. He also has nine books on Arabic and Greco- Arabic philosophy. His several hundred articles in learned journals reveal a similar breadth of interest and expertise. Besides these books and articles already in print there are another eight books in press as well as several more articles.   

Jacques Taminiaux. The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction. ISBN 0-87462-171-2. (Aquinas Lecture 68 [2004]) 64 pp. $15

Jacques Taminiaux was educated at the University of Louvain, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 1948, Doctor Juris in 1950, a Licentiate in Philosophy in 1951, a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1954, and a Maître agrégé in Philosophy in 1967, with the dissertation, “La nostalgie de la Grèce à l’aube de l’Idéalisme allemand.” He has been professor of philosophy at Boston College since 1989. Prior to that he was professor of philosophy at Louvain-la-Neuve. He was also visiting professor at Universidad Federal, Rio de Janeiro, in 1980, at Université Laval in 1970, and at Boston College, every other year from 1968 to 1990.
Professor Taminiaux’s publications include the following books: Naissance de la philosophie Hégélienne de l’état: Commentaire et traduction de la Realphilosophie d’Iéna (1805-1806), Paris, 1984; Dialectic and Difference: Finitude in Modern Thought, London, 1985; Lectures de l’ontologie fondamentale: Essais sur Heidegger, Grenoble, 1989; La fille de Thrace et le penseur professionel: Arendt et Heidegger; Paris, 1992; Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment: The Shadow of the Work of Art from Kant to Phenomenology, Albany, 1993; Le Théâtre des philosophes: La tragédie, l’être, l’action, Grenoble, 1995, and Sillages phénoménologiques / Auditeurs et lecteurs de Heidegger, Brussels, 2002. He has also published well over one hundred articles and has delivered many invited lectures.
In 1977 Professor Taminiaux received the Prix Francqui, which is awarded annually by the King of Belgium to the nation’s outstanding scholar. He is a member of the Academie Royale de Belgique, the Institut International de Philosophie, and of the Academia Europaea, Cambridge, U.K. He was awarded a medal by the National Foundation for Scientific Research, Belgium, in 1990, and received an honorary degree from the Pontificia Universita Catolica del Peru, Lima, in 1996.

Jorge J.E. Gracia. Old Wine in New Skins: The Role of Tradition in Communication, Knowledge, and Group Identity. ISBN 0-87462-170-4. (Aquinas Lecture 67 [2003]) 140 pp. $15

Jorge J. E. Gracia is the Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University of Buffalo. He earned a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.S.L. from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Besides his distinguished career at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Professor Gracia has been visiting professor at Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1972-1973, at Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in June of 1984, at Universidad de Michoacán in 1996, at Franciscan University in 1997, at Fordham University in 1997, and at Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Liechtenstein, in 1998. Professor Gracia has been president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy from 1991 to1993, of the Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought from 1986 to 1988, of the Federación International de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe from 1987 to 1989, of the American Catholic Philosophical Association from 1997 to 1998, and of the Metaphysical Society of America from 2000 to 2001.

Professor Gracia’s most recent books include How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of Revelation (2001), Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (2000), Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge (1999), Filosofía hispánica: Concepto, origen y foco historiográfico (1998), Texts: Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience (1996), A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology (1995), and Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography (1992). He has also translated two volumes of the Metaphysical Disputations of Francisco Suárez and edited, alone or with others, eighteen books, as well as special journal issues on the transcendentals in medieval philosophy, on Francisco Suárez, and on Latin American philosophy today.

Professor Gracia has one hundred and ninety-two articles in print, mainly in medieval and in Latin-American philosophy, metaphysics, and hermeneutics. His list of papers presented numbers close to two hundred. His service to the profession of philosophy during his distinguished career is exemplary.

Arthur Hyman. Eschatalogical Themes in Jewish Medieval Philosophy. ISBN 0-87462-169-0. (Aquinas Lecture 66 [2002]) 135 pp. $15

Arthur Hyman is Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School and Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University. Previously Professor Hyman had been University Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University from 1972 to 1991, Professor of Philosophy from 1967 to 1972, and Associate Professor from 1961 to 1967. Prior to coming to Yeshiva, Professor Hyman had taught at Dropsie University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He received an M.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1955, a Ph.D. in 1953 and an M.A. in 1947 from Harvard University, and a B.A. from St. John’s College, Maryland, in 1944.

He has been Visiting Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1969-1970, and at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, in the summer of 1970. He has also been Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, the University of California, San Diego, Yale University, and The Catholic University of America, as well as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University.

Professor Hyman has received honorary degrees from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1994 and from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1987. He received the Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1999. He has served on the executive committee and as president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research in 1968 and served as its president from 1992 to 1996.

Professor Hyman’s publications include four volumes of Maimonidean Studies, which he edited, a critical edition of the Hebrew text and an English translation of Averroes’ De Substantia Orbis, and Essays in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy, which he edited while contributing an essay. He has also edited with others the Salo W. Baron Jubilee Volume and the Harry A. Wolfson Jubilee Volume and coauthored Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions. Among the most recent of his thirty some articles there are: “Maimonide, partisan du libre arbitre ou déterministe?” in Actes du Colloque Maïmonide, “Averroes’ Theory of the Intellect and the Ancient Commentators,” in Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition, “Spinoza on Possibility and Contingency,” in Meetings of the Minds: The Relations between Medieval and Classical Modern European Philosophy, and “Medieval Jewish Philosophy as Philosophy, as Exegesis, and as Polemic,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia.

Alston, William P. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism. ISBN 0-87462-168-2. (Aquinas Lecture 65 [2001]) 65 pp. $15

William P. Alston received his Ph. D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1951. He has been Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University since 1980 and Professor Emeritus since 1992. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinous at Urbana-Champaign from 1976 to 1980 and served as chair from 1977 to 1979. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University from 1971 to 1976, serving as acting chair from 1972 to 1973. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1949 to 1971 where he become Professor of Philosophy in 1961.

Professor Alston is a past President of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1965-66 and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology at the University of Alberta in 1975. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he received the Syracuse University’s Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement. He conducted NEH summer seminars in 1978 and 1979, and directed an NEH Institute on Philosophy of Religion in 1986. He is founding editor of the journal, Faith and Philosophy. In October, 1987 he led a delegation of eight American philosophers in epistemology and philosophy of mind for a week of discussions with Soviet philosophers in Moscow and Leningrad. In September, 1991 he participated in a conference at Castel Gandolfo, Italy on theology and physical cosmology sponsored by the Vatican Observatory.

His publications include several anthologies, Philosophy of Language (Prentice-Hall, 1964), more than one hundred journal articles, many of which have been reprinted in anthologies, eighteen articles in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards (MacMillan, 1967), and numerous reviews. Two collections of his essays have been published by Cornell University Press (1989): Epistemic Justification: Essays in Epistemology and Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology. His most recent books are Perceiving God: A Study in the Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cornell, 1991), The Reliability of Sense Perception (Cornell, 1993), A Realist Conception of Truth (Cornell, 1995), and Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning (Cornell, 2000).

Rist, John M. On Inoculating Moral Philosophy against God. ISBN 0-87462-167-4. (Aquinas Lecture 64 [2000]) 111 pp. $15

John M. Rist was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He completed the Classical Tripos, Part 1 and Part 2, the latter with a specialization in ancient philosophy, in 1958 and 1959; he proceeded to the M.A. in 1963. He taught Greek at University College in the University of Toronto from 1959 to 1969. From 1969 to 1980 he was Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. From 1980 to 1983 he was Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Aberdeen, and from 1983 to 1996 he returned to the University of Toronto as Professor of Classics and Philosophy, with a cross-appointment to St. Michael’s College from 1983 to 1990. He become Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto in 1997 and has been part-time Visiting Professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome since 1998.
In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1991 he was elected a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 1995 he was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Professor Rist’s publications include the following books: Man, Soul and Body: Essays in Ancient Thought from Plato to Dionysius (1996), Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994), The Mind of Aristotle (1989), Platonism and Its Christian Heritage (1985), Human Value: A Study of Ancient Philosophical Ethics (1982), On the Independence of Matthew and Mark (1978), The Stoics (1978), Epicurus: An Introduction (1972), Stoic Philosophy (1969), Plotinus: The Road to Reality (1967), and Eros and Psyche: Studies in Plato, Plotinus and Origen (1964). He has also published some eighty articles on ancient Greek philosophy, Hellenistic philosophy, Plotinus and Neoplatonism, Patristics, and medieval philosophy. To mention only a few of Professor Rist’s many articles, among the most important there are: “The Nature and Background of Basil’s ‘Neoplatonism,’” in Basil of Caesarea: Christian, Humanist, Ascetic, ed. P. J. Fedwick (1981); “Where Else?” in Philosophers Who Believe, ed. Kelly J. Clark (1993); “Plotinus and Christian Philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, ed. L. P. Gerson (1996); and “Platonic Soul, Aristotelian Form, Christian Person,” in Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience, ed. A. Baumgarten, J. Assmann, and G. G. Stroumsa (1998).

Adams, Marilyn McCord. What Sort of Human Nature? Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology. ISBN 0-87462-166-6. (Aquinas Lecture 63 [1999]) 113 pp. $15

After her undergraduate education at the University of Illinois, Professor Adams earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1967 from Cornell University and became professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where for twenty-one years she taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion. During this time she also earned two Masters in Theology, in 1984 and 1985, from Princeton Theological Seminary, was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1986, and served in various parishes in the Los Angeles area.
She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1989-90), the American Council of Learned Societies (1989-90), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1974-75).
Professor Adams’s distinguished record of publications includes, besides translations and edited works, her two-volume study, William Ockham (1987), and her book, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God forthcoming from Cornel University Press.
Among her many articles, chapters in books, and articles for encyclopedias, some of the most recent titles include: “Ockham on Final Causality: Muddying the Waters,” Franciscan Studies (1998); “Final Causality and Explanation in Scotus’ De Primo Principio” in Nature in Medieval European Thought (1998); “Reviving Philosophical Theology: Some Medieval Models,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia (1998); “Chalcedonian Christology: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil,” in Philosophy and Theological Discourse (1997); “Scotus and Ockham on the Connection of the Virtues,” in John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics (1996); “Satisfying Mercy: Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo Reconsidered,” Modern Schoolman (1995); “Duns Scotus on the Will as Rational Potency,” in Via Scoti: Methodologica ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti (1995); “Praying the Proslogion,” in The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith (1995); and “Memory and Intuition: A Focal Debate in Fourteenth Century Cognitive Psychology: Introduction, Edition, and Translation of Scotus’ Ordinatio IV, d. 45, q.3,” Franciscan Studies 53 (1993).

Wippel, John F. Mediæval Reactions to the Encounters between Faith and Reason. ISBN 0-87462-162-3. (Aquinas Lecture 59 [1995]). 120 pp. $15

“The distinction between faith and reason was not an original discovery on the part of the thirteenth century. It is already present in some of the Fathers of the Church, especially so in St. Augustine. While Augustine was interested in constructing what might best called a Christian wisdom rather than any kind of separate philosophy, he was quite familiar with and well versed in philosophical thinking, especially in Neoplatonism. For his appreciation of the distinction between understanding or proving something on purely rational or philosophical grounds and believing it on divine authority, one may turn to Bk II of his De libero arbitrio.

“There, in attempting to buttress the claim that God gave free will to human beings, he raises the issue of God’s existence. At the same time, in this same treatise Augustine had argued that it is one thing for us to believe that God exists on the authority of Scripture. It is something else for us to know and to understand what we believe. “Unless believing is different from understanding, and unless we first believe the great and divine thing that we desire to understand, the prophet has said in vain: ‘Unless you believe, you shall not understand.’” As a consequence, we find in Augustine strong support for a position adopted many centuries later by St. Anselm of Canterbury-Unless you believe, you will not understand.”

Thus Professor John Wippel opens his clear and engaging discussion of the relations between believing and understanding, showing the deep roots of this experience as developed in mediæval philosophy and theology.

Roland J. Teske, S.J. Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine. ISBN 0-87462-163-1 (Aquinas Lecture 60 [1996]). $15

Professor Roland Teske, author of over thirty articles on Augustine, is already well-known for having traced the roots of the Confessions’ conception of time to Plotinus. In this work Teske turns to a comprehensive examination of Augustine’s philosophy of time. Augustine never repented his early rejection of blind faith’s response to the rationalist question, What did God do before creating? Instead, for the first time in Christian thought, as Teske shows, Augustine developed a notion of timeless eternity, based on Plotinus -- a notion as essential as the privation of evil to his conversion from Manichaeism. As for time itself, Augustine offers a classic refutation, unappreciated in the scholarly literature, of time’s non existence in the external world. In showing that time has extension only in the mind, Augustine establishes that ‘the distention of the mind is a necessary condition of our perceiving temporal wholes.’ At the same time, as Teske explains, this condition is unnatural to the rational soul, for Augustine as for Plotinus, and results from original sin. Contrary to Bertrand Russell, however, Augustine’s notion of time is not merely subjective but is grounded in a universal soul, through which we await a return to the eternal One. This philosophy of time allows Teske a new reading of the Confessions as the story not of one but of every human, as a Christian and Plotinian philosophy of human existence crowned by the final three books.

Richard Swinburne. Simplicity As Evidence of Truth. ISBN 0-87462-164-X (Aquinas Lecture 61 [1997]). $15

Professor Swinburne was educated at the University of Oxford where as an undergraduate he read for a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, which he received in 1957. He subsequently read for a B.Phil. in Philosophy, which he received in 1959 and for the Oxford Diploma in Theology, which he received in 1960. He was the Leverhulme Research Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (1961-1963). He was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull (1963-1972), Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland (1969-1970), and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Keele (1972-1984). Since 1985 he has been the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992.

Professor Swinburne has written Space and Time (1968), The Concept of Miracle (1971), An Introduction to Confirmation Theory (1973), a trilogy on the philosophy of theism: The Coherence of Theism (1977), The Existence of God (1979), and Faith and Reason (1981), The Evolution of the Soul (1986), three volumes of a projected tetralogy on the philosophy of Christian doctrine: Responsibility and Atonement (1989), Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy (1991), and The Christian God (1994), in addition to Is There a God? (1996). He has also edited the following books: The Justification of Induction (1974), Space, Time and Causality (1983), and Miracles (1989), and is coauthor with Sydney Shoemaker of Personal Identity (1984). In 1994 Professor Swinburne was honored by many of his distinguished colleagues with a festschrift entitled: Reason and the Christian Religion, to which he contributed an essay, “Intellectual Autobiography.” Among his more than seventy-five scholarly articles are “The Argument from the Fine-Tuning of the Universe,” “Analytic/Synthetic,” “Thisness,” “Tensed Facts,” “The Objectivity of Morality,” “Necessary A Posteriori Truth,” “God and Time,” “The Beginning of Time and of the Universe.”

Richard J. Blackwell. Science, Religion and Authority: Lessons from the Galileo Affair. ISBN 0-87462-165-8 (Aquinas Lecture 62 [1998]). $15

The1998 Aquinas Lecture, Science, Religion and Authority: Lessons from the Galileo Affair, was delivered in the Todd Wehr Chemistry Building on Sunday, February 22, 1998, by Richard J. Blackwell, Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.

Professor Blackwell received his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at John Carroll University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Saint Louis University and then did post-doctoral studies in theoretical physics at John Carroll before returning to Saint Louis University in 1961 where he has taught for the past thirty-seven years. He became Professor of Philosophy in 1966 and held the Danforth Chair in the Humanities from 1986 to 1996.

Professor Blackwell is the author of Discovery in the Physical Sciences (1969), A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science (1983), Christiaan Huygens’ “The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstrations concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks” (1986), and Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible (1991). He has translated Thomas Campanella’s A Defense of Galileo, the Mathematician from Florence (1994), as well as Christian Wolff’s Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy in General (1963). He translated with others St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (1963).

His most recent articles include “Authority in Science and Religion,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1996), “Methodology in Modern Philosophy,” in Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Contemporary Thinkers: Commentary and Sources (1995), “Science vs. Religion: Conflict of Ideas or a Clash of Wills?” in Secularism versus Secularity (1994), “Foscarini’s Defense of Copernicanism,” in Nature and Scientific Method (1991), “Che cos’e una scoperta scientifica?” Materiali filosofici (1984), “Scientific Discovery: The Search for New Categories,” New Ideas in Psychology (1983), “Reflections on Descartes’ Methods of Analysis and Synthesis,” in History of Philosophy in the Making (1982), “The Rationality of Scientific Discovery,” in Wissenschaftliche und ausserwissenschaftliche Rationalität (1981), “A New Direction in the Philosophy of Science,” Modern Schoolman (1981), “In Defense of the Context of Discovery,” Revue internationale de philosophie (1980), “Descartes’ Concept of Matter,” in The Concept of Matter in Modern Philosophy (1978), and “Science, Objectivity, and Human Values,” in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1977).

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