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Philosophy Events Overview

Members of the DSPT faculty present ideas through special lectures at DSPT and beyond and invite theologians from other universities to discuss important philosophical issues and how they relate to contemporary society.

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Dr. Alma Santiago-Espartinez "Karol Wojtyla and Emmanuel Levinas: Face-to-Face"

February 15, 2011 - As part of our year-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the University of Santo Tomás, DSPT welcomed Dr. Alma Santiago-Espartinez, the 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Dominican University of California.The talk aimed to establish a fecund dialogue between Karol Wojtyla and Emmanuel Levinas organized around the concept of subjectivity prior to or conditioned by responsibility and the ways in which their thinking on this question has congruities and diversions.

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Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP "Teleological Foundations of Virtue in Light of Evolution"

November 14, 2010 - Fr. Austriaco explores what Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas can offer to scientists today concerning the nature of interactions in biological systems.

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John Searle, PhD "Language in the Construction of Social Reality"

October 20, 2010 - Professor Searle discussed the role of language in the construction of human civilization, arguing that all institutional reality is created by repeated application of a single linguistic operation.

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Maria Fedoryka, PhD "Contingency from a Personalist Perspective: A Metaphysics of Love"

April 16, 2010 - Dr. Maria Fedoryka, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University, gave a presentation exploring the metaphysical centrality of love for the existence of the human person.

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Text Seminars

October 2 & 10, 2010 - The Northern California Chapter of the St. John's College Alumni Association has the pleasure and honor of hosting a series of text seminars at the DSPT, thanks to its president and staff. Please join us in discussing important texts written many years ago on issues that still press upon us.

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Jon Stewart, PhD "Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge"

October 21, 2009 - DSPT was honored to welcome Professor Jon Stewart, an Associate Research Professor from the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His talk addressed one of Kierkegaard's main objections to Hegel's philosophy which is that it misunderstands the nature of religion by placing it on a par with various forms of scholarship and knowing.

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Philosophy Events Overview

Dr. Alma Santiago-Espartinez "Karol Wojtyla and Emmanuel Levinas: Face-to-Face"

Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP "Teleological Foundations of Virtue in Light of Evolution"

John Searle, PhD "Language in the Construction of Social Reality"

Maria Fedoryka, PhD "Contingency from a Personalist Perspective: A Metaphysics of Love"

Text Seminars

Jon Stewart, PhD "Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge"