School of Philosophy

The Catholic University of America

 

Fall 2008 Lecture Series

 

Metaphysical Themes – In Honor of John F. Wippel

 

 

September 12                      Gregory T. Doolan, The Catholic University of America

                                                "Aquinas on Substance as a Metaphysical Genus"

                                                                                                       

September 19                      Pending

 

September 26                      Brian Shanley, O.P., Providence College

            "Thomas Aquinas on Demonstrating God’s Providence"  

 

October 3                              Jan Aertsen, University of Cologne

"Why is Metaphysics called First Philosophy in the Middle Ages?"

 

October 10                            Marilyn McCord Adams, Oxford University                 

                                                "Why Bodies as Well as Minds in the Life to Come?"

 

October 17                            Stephen Brown, Boston College

                                                "The Role of Metaphysics in Theology according to

                                                     Godfrey of Fontaines"

 

October 24                            Dominic O’Meara, University of Fribourg

"The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late Antiquity"

 

October 31                            Andreas Speer, University of Cologne

"The Fragile Convergence: Structures of Metaphysical Thinking"

 

November 7                          Carlos Bazan, University of Ottawa

            "On Angels and Human Beings"

           

November 14                        Eleonore Stump, Saint Louis University

                                                "God's Simplicity, the Knowledge of Persons, and the

                                                     Knowledge of God"

 

November 21                         James Ross, University of Pennsylvania

 "Merely Metaphysical Possibility?"

 

December 5                           Robert Sokolowski, The Catholic University of America

                                                "The Science of Being as Being"

 

 

All lectures are held at 2:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of Aquinas Hall at

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064.

 

This series is made possible by a generous grant from the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation

and the support of the

Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation and the George Dougherty Foundation.

 

For further information, contact the School of Philosophy,

202-319-5259 or cua-philosophy@cua.edu.