The Thomistic Institute

This lecture was given at the University of Arizona on January 28, 2020. For more events and information please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. 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...

This lecture was given at Cornell University on February 11, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College, and has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. He received a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the autho...

This lecture was given at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on February 4, 2020. For more events and info please visit  thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such jo...

The hand-out referenced in the lecture is available at  tinyurl.com/suqmdda . For more events and info visit  thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee...

This lecture was given on 4 February 2020 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the con...

This lecture was given at Harvard Medical School on 4 February 2020. Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion-associated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physici...

This lecture was given on 30 January 2020 as the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas held at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. Fr. Simon Gaine, OP, teaches a wide range of courses in dogmatic and fundamental theology. He a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Aquinas Institute. For more inf...

This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, holds a research fellowship at Ave Maria University in Florida and serves as associate editor of The Thomist, senior editor of Magnificat, and general editor of the Catholic Moral Thought series at the Catholic University of America Press. For more information on this and other events go to thomistici...

This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, holds a research fellowship at Ave Maria University in Florida and serves as associate editor of The Thomist, senior editor of Magnificat, and general editor of the Catholic Moral Thought series at the Catholic University of America Press. For more information on this and other events go to thomistici...

This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 21 November 2019. The Hand Out for this lecture can be accessed here: tinyurl.com/r5t948s 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 Orde...

This lecture was given 21 October 2019 to the DC Young Adults Chapter. Jennifer A. Frey received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy d...

This lecture was given on 13 December 2019 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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 theolo...

This lecture was given at Vanderbilt Medical School on December 13, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he se...

This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 21 November 2019. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/rxd7o43 Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. teaches theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He studied science and theology at Cambridge University, and recently completed postgraduate studies in theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). For more informat...

This lecture was given at the University of Oregon on 21 November 2019. 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 well known for his work on moral self deception, “the revenge of conscience” what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we rea...

This lecture was given at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Arlington, VA for our DC Young Adults chapter. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as...

This lecture was given at UT Austin on December 5, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph. D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School in the summer of 2016, and is the founder of the Social Research academic area, where she is an Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor a...

This lecture was given on December 3, 2019 at The United States Military Academy. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The...

This event was given at Rutgers University on December 3, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with...

This lecture was given at Tulane University on December 2, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Petri, OP 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...

This lecture was given at Harvard University on November 20, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic 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 Philosop...

This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on November 14, 2019. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religionassociated differ...

This lecture was given at the US Naval Academy on November 19, 2019. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Petri, OP 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...

This lecture was given at Georgetown University on November 19, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Captain Joe McInerney is the Chairman of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and Permanent Military Professor of Applied Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Captain McInerney lectures in the Naval Academy’s core ethics course, which is offere...

This talk was given at the United States Naval Academy on 5 November 2019. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The...