Neuroscience and the Soul | Dr. Daniel De Haan

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This lecture was given on May 29, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yckbsbs3. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Daniel De Haan is a Research Fellow in Natural Theology at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford he was a postdoctoral fellow working on the neuroscience strand of the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences project at the University of Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and University of St. Thomas in Texas. His research focuses on philosophical anthropology and the sciences, natural theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:10.9	We've heard a lot of exegetical talks on Thomas, and this is more of asking what kind of questions of
0:15.8	how would we ask the same questions of Aquinas today when we confront issues related to neuroscience.
0:21.1	So we're just going to think about the brain and other related empirical sciences.
0:26.0	So neuroscience here isn't being used in a strictly technical sense, nor is cognitive neuroscience in my talk,
0:31.2	nor is neuropsychology. I'm not using these in the kind of technical senses.
0:34.7	And an important thing that you learn when you talk to people from the
0:37.9	UK they use these terms in slightly different interdisciplinary ways than if you were to talk
0:41.5	to a cognitive neuroscientists in the States or in Canada or in Italy or in Germany.
0:46.1	So that's also something that's of note that they're not necessarily universal the way they
0:49.6	use those terms anyway.
0:51.5	But the thought here is not the kind of answering the questions of is this true,
0:56.1	but I'm going to be trying to ask questions of like how we re-ask Aquinas' questions today,
1:01.8	where we have to now add additional questions, where we have to add new kind of inputs or things
1:06.1	relating to the sciences. So it's going to be a kind of a pretty picture, a sort of account of how you might think
1:12.1	about answering sort of what questions of what might we think or how might we think about
1:16.1	these sort of issues. So my outline is going to start, and you've got a lot of this on the
1:19.9	handouts, so many of the things on the handout are also in the PowerPoint. But first just sort
1:24.9	of a general thoughts about Thomas' philosophical anthropology after neuroscience.
1:28.9	A number of T.I. Talks and other things I've done have kind of covered these issues, so I'm going to run through that first part pretty quick.
1:35.2	The second, then I'm going to get into some things relating to psychology, hyalomorphism, powers ontology, and biological systems.
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