AQUINAS ON METAPHYSICS JUNE 29 - JULY 2, 2017 MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE 7 TH ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP FEATURED SPEAKERS

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1 The Catholic and Dominican Institute Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY The Thomistic Institute Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC The Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture Notre Dame, IN 7 TH ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP AQUINAS ON METAPHYSICS Photo courtesy of Nheyob/Wikipedia Commons JUNE 29 - JULY 2, 2017 MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE JAMES BRENT, OP Dominican House of Studies MICHAEL GORMAN The Catholic University of America 330 POWELL AVENUE, NEWBURGH, NEW YORK FEATURED SPEAKERS JEFFREY BROWER Purdue University CANDACE VOGLER University of Chicago EDWARD FESER Pasadena City College JOHN O CALLAGHAN University of Notre Dame FRED FREDDOSO University of Notre Dame STEVE LONG Ave Maria University

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3 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, June 28 3:00-6:00 pm Registration for graduate students, Dominican Center 1st Floor Thursday, June 29 All workshop sessions held in Dominican Center, Room 218 8:00 am Mass, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center 8:30 am Continental Breakfast, Dominican Center Dining Hall 9:30 am Session 1, James Brent, OP The Principle of Non-Contradiction 10:30 am Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 10:45 am Session 2, James Brent, OP Categories and Transcendentals Noon Lunch, Dominican Center Dining Hall 2:00 pm Session 3, Michael Gorman, PhD What is a Substance? 3:15 pm Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 3:00-5:00 pm Registration for non-grad students, Dominican Center 1st Floor 3:30 pm Session 4, Selected Graduate Students Presentations & Discussion 5:15 pm Welcoming Dinner Remarks & Welcome Dr. David Kennett, Interim President Mount Saint Mary College Thomas Joseph White, OP, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC Dr. Ryan Madison, Notre Dame Center of Ethics and Culture 7:30 pm Eucharistic Adoration, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center

4 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, June 30 All workshop sessions held in Dominican Center, Room 218 Dominican Center 8:00 am Mass, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center 8:30 am Breakfast, Dominican Center Dining Hall 9:30 am Session 1, Jeffrey E. Brower, PhD Form-Matter Composition 10:30 am Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 10:45 am Session 2, Candace Vogler, PhD Teleology and Actuation Noon Lunch, Dominican Center Dining Hall 2:00 pm Session 3, Edward Feser, PhD The Distinction of Essence and Existence 3:30 pm Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 3:45 pm Session 4, Discussion Panel 6:00 pm Dinner, Dominican Center Dining Hall 7:30 pm Eucharistic Adoration, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center Evening Social immediately following, Dominican Center Dining Hall

5 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Saturday, July 1 All workshop sessions held in Dominican Center, Room 218 8:00 am Mass, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center 8:30 am Breakfast, Dominican Center Dining Hall 9:30 am Session 1, John O Callaghan, PhD Mental Being and Real Existence 10:30 am Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 10:45 am Session 2, Fred Freddoso, PhD The Kantian Critique of Ontotheology Noon Lunch, Dominican Center Dining Hall 2:00 pm Session 3, Steve Long, PhD The Primary Being 3:30 pm Break, Dominican Center Dining Hall 3:45 pm Session 4, Discussion Panel 6:00 pm Dinner, Dominican Center Dining Hall 7:30 pm Eucharistic Adoration, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center Evening Social immediately following, Dominican Center Dining Hall Sunday, July 2 7:00-10:00 am Breakfast, Dominican Center Dining Hall 10:00 am Closing Mass, Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, Dominican Center **Guests may check out between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. and all are asked to be out of the dorms no later than 12 noon. If you intend to check-out earlier, please see Jeanne Conboy before leaving.

6 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS FR. JAMES DOMINIC BRENT, OP completed his doctoral dissertation, The Epistemic Status of Christian Belief in Thomas Aquinas, from St. Louis University in He has articles on natural theology, metaphysics, and the epistemology of faith in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas, and the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He is an assistant professor of Philosophy on the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. JEFFREY E. BROWER is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is author of Aquinas s Ontology of the Material World (OUP, 2014) and co-editor of Reason and Faith: Themes from Swinburne (OUP, 2016) and The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (CUP, 2004). He has also published widely in the areas of medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. EDWARD FESER, PhD is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton. Called by National Review one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy, Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas, and Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics. Feser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American, The American Conservative, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Reason, and TCS Daily. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and six children. ALFRED FREDDOSO is Oesterle Professor Emeritus of Thomistic Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he was on the Philosophy faculty for 37 years. He is best known in philosophical circles for his work on divine foreknowledge, efficient causality, and various aspects of the relation between faith and reason. In retirement he continues to work on his new translation of St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae. MICHAEL GORMAN, PhD is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, where he has taught since He has doctorates in philosophy (SUNY-Buffalo) and theology (Boston College). The author of over thirty scholarly articles in those fields, he has a book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union. His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and Christology.

7 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS STEVEN A. LONG is a full/ordinary professsor of theology at Ave Maria University in the United States, who has taught philosophy and theology both in America and Europe. He is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, who has published in Revue thomiste, The Thomist, Communio, the English language edition of Nova et Vetera, The National Catholic Bioethics Quartertly, and a variety of other journals. Author of three books: The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act (now in its 2nd edition); Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace; and Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith, he is married and the father of seven children. JOHN O CALLAGHAN, PhD has been a member of the University of Notre Dame faculty since O Callaghan graduated from St. Norbert College in 1984, and earned a master s degree in mathematics from Notre Dame in He worked as an engineer in Boston for two years before returning to Notre Dame, where he earned a doctoral degree in philosophy in Before joining the Notre Dame faculty, he taught philosophy at Creighton University and the University of Portland. In 2006, he was appointed director of the Jacques Maritain Center. He has also been appointed a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of four academy members from the United States. He has authored numerous articles, and his books include Thomistic Realism and The Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence (2003), and Recovering Nature: Essays in Honor of Ralph McInerny (1999), ed. with T. Hibbs. Dr. O Callaghan is the Vice-president/ President-elect of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. CANDACE VOGLER is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the Principal Investigator for the John Templeton Foundation Grant, Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life. Vogler completed her BA in Philosophy at Mills College, and a PhD in Philosophy and a PhD certificate in the Program for the Study of Culture at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also held a Sarah Scaife Fellowship in formal Economics. She taught philosophy at U.C. Davis and U.C.L.A. prior to joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where she also co-directed the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities for 7 years. Vogler has published two books John Stuart Mills Deliberative Landscape (Routledge, 2001; to be reissued in 2016) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and articles in moral philosophy, the philosophy of action, moral psychology, sexuality and gender studies, cinema studies, and the history of philosophy. Her primary research interests are in moral philosophy (particularly those strands of contemporary moral philosophy indebted to work by Elizabeth Anscombe), the thought of Thomas Aquinas, contemporary moral theory and Immanuel Kant s practical philosophy. She has just begun work on a book devoted to Anscombe s philosophy for Routledge.

8 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ANNA HALPINE is the founder of the World Youth Alliance. She has her masters in Philosophy of Religion from Yale University (2009), and a bachelor of music, cum laude, from Mount Allison University in Canada (1999). She has studied piano at the Taubman Institute and voice at the Juilliard School. As founder and past-president of WYA, Anna has traveled and lectured extensively. She is on the Board of Trustees of Mount Saint Mary College. FR. THOMAS JOSEPH WHITE, OP is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity, A Thomistic Study in Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015), and Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016). He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera. CHARLES ZOLA, PhD is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the Division of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Mount Saint Mary College. He is also the director of the Catholic and Dominican Institute of Mount Saint Mary College. He studied at University of Scranton (B.A., philosophy), and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (Ph.L. and Ph.D., philosophy). His area of interest is ethics and applied ethics. He has published articles on family ethics and elder care, and has made numerous presentations on ethical issues related to elder care for the general public and health care professionals. He also serves as an ethics consultant for Temple University s Institute on Protective Services. His current research focus is the topic of sexual ethics and Alzheimer s.

9 THE CATHOLIC AND DOMINICAN INSTITUTE The Catholic and Dominican Institute promotes the College s Dominican heritage; advances the Dominican charism of study and service; provides a forum for discussion of contemporary ethical issues; and enhances Catholic and Jewish dialogue. Guided by the College s vision and mission statement, the Institute welcomes persons of varied faiths and acknowledges different religious traditions as essential to the College s intellectual and spiritual life.

10 THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE An educational project of the Order of Preachers, the Thomistic Institute is situated within the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Institute promotes research into the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the subsequent Thomistic tradition. Its placement in our nation s capital ideally allows it to initiate and respond to academic, cultural and public policy developments at a central crossroads of national and international exchange. Through this work, the Institute approaches Catholic theology as an invaluable resource for the evangelization of human culture and as a perennial dimension of Christian intellectual life.

11 THE NOTRE DAME CENTER FOR ETHICS AND CULTURE At the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, we believe that the truth the church affirms about the human person is the foundation for freedom, justice, human dignity, and the common good. All of our work is aimed at one goal: to share the richness of this Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and dialogue, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. In so doing, we strengthen Notre Dame s Catholic character on campus -- and we bring the university s voice into the public debate over the most vital issues of our day.

12 SPECIAL THANKS to The Dominican House of Studies Washington, D.C. The Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture Notre Dame, IN for providing scholarships for several participants. Mount Saint Mary College NEWBURGH, NY