Logic and Truth in God, Nature, and the Artificial | Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 6th, 2023, at Oxford University.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Philip-Neri Reese is a Dominican friar of the Province of St Joseph and a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St.Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is also the principal investigator for the Angelicum Thomistic Institute’s new Project on Philosophy and the Thomistic Tradition. He received his Licentiate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 2015 and his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2022. From 2015-2017 he taught philosophy at Providence College in Providence, RI. His main area of research is metaphysics and anything adjacent to it, with a special emphasis on the metaphysical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and its subsequent reception and interpretation. His publications, however, range widely, including articles on philosophical anthropology, ethics, and economics. He is also an enthusiast of classical Indian philosophy. Fr Philip-Neri is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, the Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group, the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism, and is currently serving on the executive committee of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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1:01.1	events, visit us at to mystic institute.org. So what does this talk about? Um, my goal is twofold. The first goal is what I'd call an exegetical goal,
1:18.5	right? So roughly, I think, when we do the history of philosophy, we can divide the questions
1:24.8	that we ask into roughly three categories. There are exegetical questions.
1:29.6	Did so and so think such and such? There are systematic questions. Should so and so have thought
1:37.5	such and such and such? And then there are speculative questions. Is such and such true? Right.
1:43.9	And we can pose all three of those questions and should
1:46.8	really pose all three of those questions when we do the history of philosophy. And so particularly
1:53.0	when we engage with the thought of St. Thomas. So the first exegetical goal is kind of low-hanging proof.
2:03.4	So I want to just give an account of St. Thomas's nuanced theory of truth.
2:10.6	The second goal is a systematic goal.
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