October 26, 2024

University of St. Thomas (Brezik Room, Sullivan Hall, 4218 Yoakum Blvd.)

GRADUATE WORKSHOP IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

Moderator: Michael Salvatore Politz (UST)
10-10:50 am: Fr. Christopher Wetzel (UST): “A Perfect Fifth: Aquinas on Fine-Tuning as
Evidence for God”.
11-11:50 am: Moriah Poliakoff (Texas A&M): “Arendt and Jonas on Finding a Home for Man
on Earth”
12-1 pm: Thomas Ciavatti (UST): “Value and Limitation of Crowley’s Thomistic Philosophy of
Measure”
1-3 pm Lunch
Moderator: Miguel Brand (UST)
3-3:50 pm: Annie Smalley (UST): “Aristotle and Heidegger: Physis, Dynamis and Ereignis”
4-4:50 pm: Lewis Rosenberg (Texas A&M): “Heidegger, Physics and the Anthropocene”
5-5:50 pm: Dillon Raum (UST): “A Hierarchy of Essence: Can Aristotelian Psychology Carve
Nature at its Joints?”

Info: Dr. Mirela Oliva [email protected], Moriah Poliakoff [email protected], Lewis
Rosenberg, [email protected]