Seventh Annual

Philosophy Workshop

June 29, 2017July 02, 2017
MSMC Campus

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