Revisiting Aquinas' Five Ways w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., Prof. Robert Koons, & Prof. Daniel Bonevac

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Are Aquinas' Five Ways for proving the existence of God still relevant today? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Robert Koona & Prof. Daniel Bonevac about new insights that contemporary scholars glean from these arguments after 750 years.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPv-zo7R68.

About the speakers:

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of five books, including The Atlas of Reality with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and Is Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine Press, 2022). He is the co-editor of four anthologies, including The Waning of Materialism (OUP, 2010) and Classical Theism (Routledge 2023). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating hylomorphism in contemporary terms, and on interpreting and defending Thomas's Five Ways.

Prof. Daniel Bonevac is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, semantics, and philosophical logic. His book Reduction in the Abstract Sciences received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. The author of five books and editor or co-editor of four others, Professor Bonevac's articles include “Against Conditional Obligation” (Noûs), "Sellars v. the Given" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), "Reflection Without Equilibrium," (Journal of Philosophy), "Free Choice Permission Is Strong Permission" (Synthese, with Nicholas Asher), "The Conditional Fallacy," (Philosophical Review, with Josh Dever and David Sosa), “The Counterexample Fallacy” (Mind, also with Dever and Sosa), and “The Argument from Miracles” and “Two Theories of Analogical Predication” (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion). He was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1991 to 2001.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast for an off-campus conversation.
0:17.3	I think we've been doing off-campus conversation now for like two years, maybe two years in a smidge.
0:22.3	But typically they have only involved two parties.
0:25.4	This is a rare occasion in which the off-campus conversation involves three parties.
0:30.2	So I'm very delighted to be joined by professors Coons and Bonnevac from the University of Texas at Austin.
0:36.2	Thanks so much for joining.
0:40.3	Thank you, father. Thank you for having it. Hey, it's my joy. So folks will know you from your various publications in philosophy of science and in natural theology or just from the kind of splendor or radiance of glory,
0:55.0	which issues from the University of Texas and all of its school programs.
0:59.2	Is it still the case that there's a program there called Plan 2?
1:02.3	Oh, yeah.
1:03.5	I remember thinking that's a cool liberal arts program,
1:05.8	and that is the most subversive way to name it.
1:09.3	So kudos to you guys.
1:16.6	But for those who don't know you or your work, would you each say just a word of introduction?
1:17.9	Sure.
1:18.5	So we've both been at UT for a long time now.
1:20.7	I've been 37 years.
1:22.4	44.
1:23.1	44.
1:23.8	So we've been good friends all that time.
1:26.1	Although we've really collaborated or anything before this. Have we? A few things,
1:30.5	but not much. Nothing like a major project. We're working together on a book on the
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