Talking Thomism
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Fr. Sebastian Walshe Metaphysics In Aquinas And Aristotle
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on March 3, 2023 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker: Fr...
Dr. Ted Rebard | Acedia, The Basis Of The Anti - Culture
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on April 21, 2023 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker: D...
Fr. Stephen Brock | Retribution In St. Thomas
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on February 17, 2023 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker:...
Steven Jensen | The Fatal Flaw Of New Natural Law Theory
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on January 20, 2023 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker: ...
Scott Roniger | The Activities of Truth
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on October 14, 2022 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker: ...
Thomas McLaughlin | Is Energy Prime Matter? A Reply to David Oderberg
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on October 7th, 2022 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker:...
Therese Cory | Knowing as Being in Thomas Aquinas
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on January 28, 2022 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker:...
Thomas Osborne | John Gerson's Claim That Sins Are Mortal or Venial By God's Will
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on February 25, 2022, at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker...
Fr. Grzegorz Holub | Philosophical Anthropology & Ethics in the Thought of Karol Wojtyla
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on November 12th, 2021 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speak...
Fr. Robert Gahl | Should Thomists Use The Word 'Gender'?
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture was given on December 3rd, 2021 at the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. About the Speaker...
Dr. Robert Pasnau: Choosing Between Faith And Heresy
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder Dr. Robert Pasnau joins us for an episode on the assent of faith. Dr. Pasnau looks at...
Dr. Christopher Wolfe: Unalienable Rights And Some Libertarians
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas Dr. Christopher Wolfe joins us this week for an episode on unalienable rights...
Dr. Catherine Peters: Avicenna And Aquinas: The Twofold Division Of Common Principles
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University Dr. Catherine Peters joins us this week for an episode on Avicenna and Aquinas. Dr. P...
Dr. Christopher Wolfe: George Washington: A Key to the "Integralism" Debate
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas Dr. Christopher Wolfe joins us this week for an episode on politics. Dr. Wolfe, apropos...
Dr. George Sher: Vicious Thoughts
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a colloquium with Dr. George Sher! Dr. Sher is a professor of philosophy at the nearby Rice University, and he gives us in this episode an...
Dr. Nathan Smith: How Descartes' Method of Discovery Shapes His Concept of Corporeal Nature
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are happy to welcome Dr. Nathan Smith, who teaches at Houston Community College, to our Colloquium Series this semester. This episode features his ...
Marx, MacIntyre, and Metahistory
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a Colloquium with Dr. Steven Peña! Dr. Peña, who received his PhD from the Center for Thomistic Studies, and now teaches philosophy at S...
Dr. Christopher Martin: The Self and the Soul: Aquinas, Anscombe and Authority
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Center professor Dr. Christopher Martin is the author of this week's colloquium paper. The subject is the difficult concept of the "self": how the sel...
Dr. Jennifer Frey: Aquinas and Anscombe on Action
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are happy to have Dr. Jennifer Frey with us for another episode of our Colloquium series. Dr. Frey is an assistant professor of philosophy at the U...
The Metaphysics of Aquinas and Avicenna
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. R. Edward Houser, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies, gives in this episode his paper "The Metaphysics of Aquina...
Robert Koons: "Thermal Substances: Locating Form and Matter in Quantum Chemistry".
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a colloquium with Dr. Robert Koons! Dr. Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and he speaks here about ...
Dr. John Nieto: "Aristotle on God's Substance and Action as Subsisting Goodness"
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr. John Nieto. Dr. Nieto earned his PhD in philosophy from Notre Dame University and teaches at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa...
Gaston LeNotre: "Can Thomas' Account of Individuation Survive Scotus' Objections?"
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are happy to welcome back Dr. Gaston LeNotre for his second appearance on Talking Thomism! Dr. LeNotre is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at D...
Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski: "Suffering for Christ in Sts. Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Kolkatta"
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Dr. Thomas Harmon: "St. Augustine on the Platonic Division between the Few and the Many"
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Dr. Christopher Wolfe: "Looking for the Common Good in our Republic Contra MacIntyre"
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Dr. Steven Delay: "Jean-Yves Lacoste: From Being-in-the-World to Living-Before-God"
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the Center brings you Dr. Steven Delay (Wake Forest University)presenting a paper titled "Jean-Yves Lacoste: From Being-in-the-World ...
Dr. Thomas Ball on Anselm of Canterbury and Gray Areas in Ethics (Colloquium Series Talk)
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Thomas Ball is an independent scholar and a co-founder and co-owner of Sacristy Press(Durham, UK). Dr. Ball earned his PhD in the History of Poli...
Dr. Brian Carl: "The Multiplicity of Divine Attributes in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas"
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will hear Dr. Brian Carl present his paper "The Multiplicity of Divine Attributes in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas." Dr. Car...
Brian Kemple on "Interpretation and Traditions: An Intersection For Peirce, Heidegger, and Aquinas"
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr. Brian Kemple (Fellow at the Center for the Study of Digital Life) speaking on "Interpretation and Traditions: An Intersectio...
Brian Jones on "Is the Enlightenment Working? Considerations from Tocqueville" (Colloquium Talk)
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Jones (Ph.D. Candidate at the Center for Thomistic Studies) presents his paper "Is the Enlightenment Working? Considerations from Alexis de Tocq...
Gaston Le Notre on "Aquinas on the Different Problems of Individuation" (Colloquium Series Talk)
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gaston LeNotre is an independent scholar who earned his PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. In his paper ...
Dr. Turner Nevitt on "How to Be an Analytic Existential Thomist" (Colloquium Series Talk)
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Turner Nevitt is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. In his talk "How to Be an Analytic Existential Thomist," Dr....
Introduction to the Center for Thomistic Studies
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Center for Thomistic Studies is the only graduate program in the United States uniquely dedicated to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Informatio...
Dr. Steven Jensen on "Sophisticated Alienation" (Colloquium Series Talk)
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Steven Jensen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Houston and the chair of the Center for Thomistic Studies. In his pape...