How Can Aristotle Benefit Science Today? | Father Ambrose Little

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was born and raised in Connecticut and studied philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He joined the Order of Preachers in 2007, making his solemn vows in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. Fr. Little has a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Aristotelian Change and the Scala Naturae. He primarily works on topics of interest in Aristotelian-Thomism and natural philosophy. He has previously taught at Providence College and is now a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Timistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.1	Good afternoon.
0:29.1	Thank you for inviting me here.
0:30.5	It's a delight, really, to be able to speak here
0:32.8	at the University of Texas in Austin.
0:35.5	And my topic for today is how Aristotle can benefit science today,
0:41.5	or rather how Aristotle can benefit scientists and the scientific method if his philosophy is
0:48.1	properly understood. I might also add that it should be a good advertisement for Professor
0:52.9	Kuhn's classes. So if you like this type of thing, please feel free to take classes with him.
0:58.0	Now, why should we be interested in this topic at all?
1:02.0	Why come and spend your lunch hour on Monday considering it?
1:06.0	Why think that Aristotle has anything to say to us 2,300 years plus after he passed away. There are, after all,
1:13.4	scientists like the popular physicist Lawrence Krause who think that philosophy is a waste of time,
1:18.9	and that people like Aristotle only hold our interest as historical figures, not as people
1:24.6	who have meaningful things to say to us today.
1:32.4	Such dismissiveness towards philosophy in general and Aristotle in particular is common enough in the sciences and among scientists to warrant serious consideration.
1:38.0	So I'm going to begin this lecture by trying to pinpoint how it is possible for Aristotle to help us
1:43.9	and then outline some specifics of what
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