Feser Reviews Koons's Book

At Public Discourse, I review Rob Koons’s @robkoons excellent new book Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?: https://t.co/f7AoiwwAEZ

— Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) January 2, 2023

Debating "Ensoulment"

Asked about President Biden and abortion last week, @WashArchbishop Cardinal Gregory said that theologians are debating when conception occurs.
So we asked the National Catholic Bioethics Center to explain it to us. https://t.co/He7d2s92LL

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) September 13, 2021

De Sortibus

Holy Thomas of Aquino, pray for us!

On this Feast of St Thomas Aquinas we can celebrate the publication of a short work of his, appearing in print in English for the 1st time: 'De Sortibus' - On the Casting of Lots - translated by the Revd Dr Peter Carey. It's a fascinating little treatise. https://t.co/LtDtD2sFJc

— Andrew Davison (@AP_Davison) January 28, 2021

The Glory of the Cosmos

Four alumni authors, including @sancrucensis, have contributed to a new book about environmentalism, "The Glory of the Cosmos: A Catholic Approach to the Natural World," from @AroucaPress -- https://t.co/ane4tTctCT pic.twitter.com/S1SGlp4NlW

— ThomasAquinasCollege (@TACollege) January 12, 2021

A New Science of PHYSIKE?

I'll be teaching articles from The New Atlantis in my "World" class this spring, because they help restore the more comprehensive understanding of Physics that Aristotle first gave us. https://t.co/mJPb6S0Juh

— James Matthew Wilson (@JMWSPT) December 23, 2020

Wooten and Kuhn

I think there is something true in both accounts, but neither of them are fully adequate. If you had to choose, Kuhn would be the one to go with. But Aristotelian natural philosophy points to the possibility of a third way.

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) December 4, 2020

Finality... and Natural Inclinations

The question of finality in nature is key to an understanding of natural law. Hence a moral philosopher or moral theologian must study natural philosophy. pic.twitter.com/UHueXblZlO

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) October 27, 2020

Thomas Reid's Natural Philosophy

My interview with James Barham on a new edition on Thomas Reid’s Natural Philosophy https://t.co/IsMxQ26QIo via @DiscoveryInst1

— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) September 29, 2020

Foundations Restored

Rorate Caeli: Foundations Restored, a DVD series from the Kolbe Center for Creation Studies -- A guest-review, by Fr. Thomas Crean OP

Kolbe Center: Foundations Restored

A Latin Defense of Transubstantiation

1P5: Substance and Accidents: A Beginner’s Guide to Defending the Eucharist

Both the application of substance and substance/accident as applied to bread must first be corrected, and then we can see if verbally, the theologoumenon that is transubstantiation can still be maintained. Regardless, a naive application of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics is no longer viable given how sophisticated received opinion on material reality has become.

Physics and Vertical Causation by Wolfgang Smith

New from Angelco Press.

A New Book from Ed Feser

Coming Soon: Aristotle's Revenge: "My new book Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science will be out early next year from Editiones Scholasticae."

A Premature Defense?

Has evolution really been proven as fact?

In Defense of Thomistic Evolution: A Response to Chaberek by Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.

Why did God choose to work via an evolutionary process rather than will a special creation? Because it better reveals His glory and His power. Because it reveals better that He is God.

An Overhaul of the Aristotelian Sciences Is Needed?

Do the categories need to be reconsidered in a way going beyond the phenomenologists (e.g. William Marra)? What about the predicaments? Are the predicaments and attributes/properties confusing to the neophyte to Aristotelian philosophy? While the categories seem to be integral of the Metaphysics, are they so important to the Physics? Can one limit a discussion of change, generation, and corrruption to substance and accident? No, Aristotle does mention alteration of quality, quantity, and place. Out of those three, it seems that the category of quality is the one that may need to be revised in light of a better understanding of the natural world, even if it itself is a rather broad category that includes both color and thought?

Latin Sacramental Theology

Were there any alternative explanations by the schoolmen for the Real Presence in the Sacred Species, other than that offered by St. Thomas? Or was his the "standard" explanation?

Is it possible to formulate an explanation of the Real Presence without relying on Aristotle's metaphysics, and at the same time acknowledging that the Sacred Species is a sign (sacramentum) and a symbol, but not a symbol that refers to something else completely apart from itself? The Sacred Species conveys or signifies the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, localizes and realizes this Presence. Can the Real Presence be explained through participation? It is more than the causal presence of Christ in the natural matter or artifact of bread, nor is it the accidental conjunction of two different things.

Can the Real Presence be explained by other than an analogue to the Hypostatic Union?

It does not seem that if bread is not a substantial unity but an accidental unity that this would pose a problem for a "Aristotelian" explanation -- we would hold that the Real Presence is in all of the parts of bread which are substances.

Aquinas and Modern Science

Angelico Press

Philosophy and Science

Good for Bill Nye.

Dr. Michael Waldstein - Overcoming the Mechanization of Nature

Christopher Blum Reviews The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

Aristotle and the God of Creation (To the Heights)
Armand-Marie Leroi’s The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (Google Books)

Also from the author: 6 Things Aristotle Got Wrong

A Little Too Accepting of the Assumptions of Modern Physics?

A critique of Aristotle’s physics in Aristotle’s terms

Are we really justified in eliminating the distinction between agent and patient (and teleology)?