Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.

Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.

The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world.

To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at

Thomistic Institute.org. I took the, you know, the privilege of adjusting my head

slightly because I switched it from account to approach. Because in one sense, this is,

if we put it silly, this is, in a certain sense, this is a plea for help.

It's putting out a kind of a research project that I've been thinking about for a while

that links in with these conferences and things like that.

And I think, but it's in an interesting way kind of come to my mind just from various things that have

come up with the course of today about, you know, the value of being able to draw on people

from so many different backgrounds.

And I'll try to talk about that a little bit.

That said, the talk itself is, in certain sense, inspired by, I guess, a little bit of pet peeve about ways that

Tomists sometimes are a bit too fast and loose, I would say, with aspects of how they

talk about the philosophy of nature.

I don't want to say that there, so there's one person in particular that I'm going to

referring to, and he's a very, very good philosopher.

I don't want to say that, I don't want to be, I don't want to say that, that I don't want to be,

I don't want to disparage that.

But I do think that he's making a misstep

and a misstep arguably along the lines of using principles

...