The Thomistic Institute

This lecture was given at the University of Texas at Austin on 24 October 2019. 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 continuing...

This lecture was given at Harvard University by Prof. Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) on 11 October 2019. 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 p...

This lecture was given at the University of Kansas on 30 September 2019. 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 an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelph...

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This lecture was given at Brown University on 18 October 2019. Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and...

This lecture was given at University College Dublin on 8 October 2019. Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews, and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of...

This lecture was given by Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP (Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and Professor of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception) at University College Dublin on 26 September 2019. 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 fo...

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This talk was given September 25, 2019 at The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon by Fr. Gregory Pine OP (Thomistic Institute) For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: 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 asso...

This lecture was given by Prof. Peter Kreeft (Boston College) at Rutgers University on 8 October 2019. Dr. Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and teaches philosophy courses at King’s College. Kreeft is a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics and the author of dozens of books, two of which include The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind th...

This lecture was given at the Yale Law School on 7 October 2019. Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his AB (history) and PhD (government) from Harvard. His writings...

This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 24 September 2019. 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 Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a...

This lecture given by Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute)is pt. 2 of a 2 pt. installment in the Wisdom of Aquinas series at The Catholic Center at NYU held on 28 September 2019. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and h...

This lecture given by Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute)is pt. 1 of a 2 pt. installment in the Wisdom of Aquinas series at The Catholic Center at NYU held on 28 September 2019. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and h...

This lecture was given to the undergraduate chapter at the University of Virginia on 17 September 2019. The handout for the lecture can be found here: tinyurl.com/yxg6f2ty Dr. Cleveland received his B.A. in philosophy and biblical studies from Taylor University, his M.A.R. in philosophical theology & philosophy of religion from Yale Divinity School, and his Ph. D. in philosophy from Baylor Uni...

This lecture by Prof. Thomas Pavel was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitu...

This lecture by Sr. Ann Astell was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.o...

This lecture was given on September 17, 2019 at John Hopkins University. 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 an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelph...

This lecture by Lauren Kopajitic was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). The hand out for this lecture can be found here: thomisticinstitute.or...

This lecture by Dhananjay Jagannathan was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinst...

This lecture was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The conference included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell (Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on September 11, 2019. 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 offered to all Third Class Midshipman (sophomores) at the Naval Academy...

This talk was offered for our chapter at the University of Texas at Austin on September 26, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. JeanPierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Pr...

This lecture was given by Prof. Catherine Pakaluk at the United States Naval Academy on 10 September 2019. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph. D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America in the summer of 2016 and is Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department a...

This talk was offered at the University of Utah on September 19, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: 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...