Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions
August 7 - 11, 2006
On the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions is a summer graduate seminar devoted to promoting intellectual exchange between the philosophical tradition inspired by Thomas Aquinas, broadly understood, and contemporary analytic philosophy. This seminar hopes to further this engagement between traditions by offering faculty and graduate students a forum for focused study and discussion of Thomism, as well as providing a convivial environment that initiates long-term scholarly collaboration. The topics addressed by the seminar will range broadly from metaphysics to legal and political theory, encouraging consideration of how the various problems and subfields of philosophy intertwine. Perhaps most importantly, the seminar aims to be more than a conventional academic conference by contributing in some small way to a renewal of contemporary philosophical practice; it is hoped that “philosophy” can again be understood as a way of life—an ideal which includes but transcends argumentation.
Seminar Faculty
- Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he is also Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science.
- Alexander Pruss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
- Gabriele De Anna is Permanent Researcher in philosophy at the University of Udine, Italy, and is currently a fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Mark C. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
- Michael Gorman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America.
Applications and more information at: http://www.winst.org/philosophy.htm