Water and Oil, or Water into Wine? St. Thomas and the Mixture and Subalternation of Sciences – Prof. Brian Carl

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This lecture was given on July 18th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speakers:

Brian T. Carl earned his M.A. in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. He is an assistant professor at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His research focuses on Thomistic metaphysics, philosophical theology, cognitive theory, and moral psychology.

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0:47.8	to mystic institute.org. I'm going to read, for the most part, from a a prepared lecture because I've made this joke before.
0:57.0	The purpose of this lecture is basically to cover in an introductory fashion what I would have covered in the first like two or three months of philosophy of nature course here at the House of Studies.
1:09.0	That joke is hopefully funny. It's also true.
1:15.6	So you've got a handout. The way to think about the purpose of this talk, as Father said,
1:20.6	very general overview, especially for anyone in the room who does not have this terminology,
1:26.6	doesn't have the background. Okay. And what we'll find
1:30.2	is we get into the other philosophy talks and in the conversations in the next couple of days is
1:34.3	that the questions for the Aristotelian and Thomistic tradition of philosophical inquiry
1:40.5	concerning something like the nature of light, there are just going to be questions
1:45.2	that are framed in terms of the notions that I'm introducing in this lecture.
1:51.0	All right, so the notions, the terminology that I'm going to introduce in this lecture include
1:56.1	the notions of substance and accident, along with Aristotle's categories of being, the kinds of
2:02.1	change distinguished by Aristotle, Aristotle's four causes, the notions of form and matter,
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