For this session, it's my honor to introduce, first of all, Professor Edward Faser.

He's a professor of philosophy at Pasadena College in Pasadena, California.

Responding to him today will be Father Thomas Joseph White as a professor of systematic theology at the Dominioning House of Studies.

Runs the Timistic Institute down there.

Professor Faser is well known as an expositor of Aquinas' philosophical metaphysics and ethics.

Among his many books, one of my favorites is this one, my personal copy here, just kind of dog-eared and underlined.

Aquinas, a beginner's guide from One World Press, which came out in 2009.

Also, his philosophy of mind book, I think, is one of the best

things in kind of contemporary epistemology as well. That's not in my notes, by the way. That's

just what I'm saying. Most recently, he's edited in a volume called Aristotle on method and

metaphysics, and that's from Paul Grave-Millan. Father Thomas Joseph White also writes books and

articles, but he doesn't blog like Professor

Faser does just yet.

It's actually hard to imagine how you do all the things you do do between teaching, speaking,

and blogging.

But I'm sure your wife does agree.

That's probably true.

Father Thomas Joseph published his dissertation, which is entitled, Wisdom in the Face of Modernity,

a Study in Timistic Natural Theology in 2009. He'll be responding after Professor Faser gives us his

paper entitled, An Aristotelian Argument for the Existence of God. And there's a handout that goes

with this. If you don't have that, please raise your hand. We can have one of our trustee assistants give it to you. All right. Without further ado, Professor Faser.

Thanks so much. Thanks for the invitation and the hospitality. My talk is called an

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