An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature | Professor Brian Carl

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on July 13th, 2023, at the "Thomistic Philosophy & Natural Science Symposium" at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Brian T. Carl earned his M.A. in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. He is an assistant professor at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His research focuses on Thomistic metaphysics, philosophical theology, cognitive theory, and moral psychology.

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0:51.5	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
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1:14.2	All right. So it's very much a pleasure and an honor for me to be invited back to the
1:22.6	Dominican House of Studies for this event. I'm going to dive right in and this is a lecture that I have typed up
1:30.3	because if I do this extemporaneously I'm only going to talk about substance and it's going to be 30 minutes in and
1:36.3	I will only cover one of the 20 topics I plan to talk about quickly.
1:41.3	All right, conversations require common, and as the purpose of this
1:47.8	event is to facilitate conversations between scientists and philosophers working in the Aristotelian
1:53.5	Intimistic traditions, it's hopeful to begin by introducing some fundamental notions and terminology
1:59.7	from Aristotelian and
2:01.2	to mystic philosophy. In particular, we're concerned with notions and terminology
2:06.0	from what we usually now call Aristotle's and St. Thomas's philosophy of nature,
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