Welcome those who were not here in the morning session.

Welcome to this day-long seminar on metaphysical realism.

This second session will feature Professor Candace Vogler, who's the chair of the philosophy department at University of Chicago,

and her respondent, David Velleman, who is a professor of philosophy here at NYU.

Both are noted for their work in moral philosophy,

Professor Vogler with a deliciously titled for their work in moral philosophy.

Professor Fogler, with a deliciously titled book, Reasonably Vicious,

and Professor Velleman, probably most notably,

his book on the possibility of moral reason.

So they're going to tackle this question of moral reason. So they're going to tackle this question of

moral realism

for us. And Professor Vogler's

going to speak, and the title of her talk is

nature, culture, and human good

in Aquinas. So please welcome Professor Vogler.

Thank you.

And I will touch on something to do with nature, something to do with culture, and something to do with human good, but it's really big title.

I was initially going to try to talk to you all about moral realism specifically and about

the last 20 years of super interest in moral realism in Anglophone philosophy. In order to do so,

it would be important to figure out a way of bringing Aquinas' moral psychology and work in moral philosophy together with contemporary Anglophone philosophy.

And it was in the search for some way to do that, that I kept going back and back and back and back and back, trying to figure out how to make good contact between these

very different ways of thinking that I wound up thinking, I don't even know how to start.

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