The Case for Free Will | Professor Matthew Dugandzic

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 18th, 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Matthew Dugandzic joined the theology faculty at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in 2019 after completing a Ph.D. in moral theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His dissertation, "A Thomistic Account of the Habituation of the Passions," explored the ways in which people can develop virtuous affective inclinations. Dr. Dugandzic's scholarship focuses on medieval thought, especially Thomas Aquinas' anthropology, psychology, and ethics. His work on Christ's passions recently appeared in the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas and his other writings on the passions and on bioethics have appeared in New Blackfriars and National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. His current research focuses on the sources that Aquinas used in developing his understanding of virtue and on recovering ancient and medieval wisdom regarding economics in order to apply this wisdom to contemporary financial problems (like student loan debt). In addition to his doctorate, Dr. Dugandzic holds a BSc in biology from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec and an MA in religious studies from St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. He and his wife, Audra, live in Baltimore, MD. In his spare time, he likes to play hockey, which he enjoys almost as much as reading theology.

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1:09.3	Good evening everyone and thank you for coming.
1:13.6	I've been asked to talk to you about the case for free will.
1:17.6	I think it might be better to say that I'm going to make a case for free will,
1:21.6	but one that I think is novel and interesting, and I hope air tight.
1:26.6	So, first, what do we want to investigate?
1:30.9	And what is the question, in other words?
1:34.1	And I think we can start with a pretty uncontroversial pre-supposition,
1:38.5	which is that some objects enter our perception,
1:42.7	and among these objects, some of them attract us,
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