The Catholic and Dominican Institute's Seventh Annual Philosophy
Workshop, "Aquinas on Metaphysics," will be held at Mount Saint
Mary College on June 29-July 2, 2017.
Required reading for students:
- Aquinas, De Ente et Essentia
- Aquinas, Commentary on the Metaphysics, Book IV
- Lawrence Dewan, Form and Being (The Catholic University of
America Press, 2014)
Featured presenters include:
- James Brent, OP, Dominican House of Studies
- Michael Gorman, PhD, The Catholic University of America
- Jeffrey Brower, PhD, Purdue University
- Candace Vogler, PhD, University of Chicago
- Edward Feser, PhD, Pasadena City College
- John O’Callaghan, PhD, University of Notre Dame
- Fred Freddoso, PhD, University of Notre Dame
- Steve Long, PhD, Ave Maria University
Schedule of events
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28
Arrival
THURSDAY, JUNE 29
- The Principle of Non-Contradiction, presented by James Brent,
OP
- Categories and Transcendentals, presented by James Brent,
OP
- What is a Substance?, presented by Michael Gorman, PhD
FRIDAY, JUNE 30
- Form-Matter Composition, presented by Jeffrey E. Bower,
PhD
- Teleology and Actuation, presented by Candace Vogler, PhD
- The Distinction of Essence and Existence, presented by Edward
Feser, PhD
SATURDAY, JULY 1
- Mental Being, Possible Worlds, and Real Existence, presented by
John O’Callaghan, PhD (Aquinas, Frege and Geach)
- Kant and Aquinas on Ontotheology, presented by Fred Freddoso,
PhD
- The Primary Being, presented by Steve Long, PhD
SUNDAY, JULY 2
Closing Mass
For more information, please email cdi@msmc.edu