Series on St. Thomas’s Summa contra Gentiles (Spring 2023 seminar)
Academic Presentations
Chance and Indeterminate Causes in the Cosmos (Thomistic Institute audio)
Atoms Neither Fast Nor Feast (Thomistic Institute, Clemson)
The Principle of Least Action and Our Knowledge of Nature (Chile)
The Action and Power of the Universe (Principle of Least Action)
Operari Sequitur Esse and the Principle of Least Action
The Relevance of Neo-Aristotelian Formal Causality to the Meta-Law Dilemma in Cosmology
Philosophy
Ah, to Live in a Cosmos Again! (Church Life Journal)
Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine (Thomistica, review of Davison’s book)
The Heart of Being (essay review of Knasas’s Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning; Thomistica.net)
Brother Thomas and the Universe (lecture at DSMME)
Common Sense, Science, and the Pursuit of Wisdom (lecture at Hillsdale College)
Dialectical Method in Peripatetic Philosophy of Nature and the Predicability of Physical Reality
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God (essay review of Alcalde’s Cosmology Without God?; Thomistica.net)
The Life and Times of the Universal Doctor (review of Resnick and Kitchell, Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature)
Making Images of the Cosmos (lecture at Anthem Preparatory Academy)
Matter, Mathematics, and the Laws of Nature (review of Younan)
Recovering Aquinas’s Motion Proof (review of Shields’s Nature and Nature’s God)
Rediscovering the Discarded Images of Man and Woman (review of Grabowski and Favale)
The Return of the Manuals? (review of Dodds and Houser)
Seven Habits of Highly Holy People (review of Sullivan, Habits and Holiness)
Some Mistakes Due to What Is Per Accidens (Thomistica.net)
St. Thomas Paving the Way for Modern Cosmology (lecture at Hillsdale College)
That Binding Yet Kindly Light (review of Brock’s The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law; Thomistica.net)
Thinking Things Together in Science and Philosophy (Arc Digital)
Those Two Roads (Thomistica.net)
What Is the Philosophy of Nature? (essay review of Feser’s Aristotle’s Revenge; Thomistica.net)
Politics, Ethics, & Culture
The CRISPR Conundrum (Arc Digital)
The Difference Between Ivory-Tower and Street-Level Scientism (Ethika Politika)
A Different Kind of Pro-Life Argument (Crisis Magazine)
A Natural Philosopher’s Lament (Public Discourse)
Kansas Supreme Court Empties ‘Natural Rights’ Of Meaning (The Federalist)
Will Gene Editing Allow for Human Perfectibility? (Crisis Magazine)
John G. Brungardt 