Angelicum conference on causality June 24-26

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome is hosting a conference titled "Recovering Causality: Historical Sources and Systematic Challenges from a Thomistic Perspective" June 24-26. This looks like an excellent conference. The 3-day event is open to the public and participants are asked to contribute a very modest 30 euro donation. You can find a PDF of the conference flyer with a complete schedule and list of speakers here. If you have questions or would like to pre-register, you can contact Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP at prefetto.biblio@pust.it (copy and paste please).

Upcoming summer events in the U.S., Ireland, and Australia

A few events taking place in June and July may be of interest to our readers.

On June 7 there will be a meeting of the Thomas Aquinas Society of Ireland/Cairde Thomáis Naofa at the Ely University Centre in Dublin. For more information go here.

The Department of Philosophy of Marquette University will be hosting a workshop on al-Fārābī July 11-13. For more information go here.

Eleonore Stump will be giving a lecture entitled "Is Justice Enough? Aquinas on Justice and Care" at Australian Catholic University on July 16. For more information go here.

If you are organizing or aware of an event that you think would be of interest to scholars of Aquinas or mediaeval thought, please feel free to contact us about it. You can email me (joseph.trabbic@avemaria.edu) or any of our contributors. 

Cory at Notre Dame

Therese Cory has given me permission to announce that she has accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame.  She will start there after her Humboldt fellowship.  It is exciting that there will be another Thomist at Notre Dame, and a particularly good one.  I am currently reading her Aquinas on Human Knowledge, which so far is excellent.

Essays on Garrigou-Lagrange "Teacher of Thomism"

An assortment of essays titled "Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP: Teacher of Thomism" is offered by the free online journal Educational Theoria. The essays are available in a single PDF here.

Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.: A Biographical Sketch 

Richard A. Peddicord, O.P.

My Personal Memories of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange 
Joseph M. de Torre

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Subsistence 
Christopher Albright

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on the Real Distinction 
Jude Chua Soo Meng

Garrigou-Langrange’s General Proof of God’s Existence 
+F. F. Centore

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Physical Premotion 
Steven A. Long

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and the Renewal of the Contemplative Life 
+James Arraj

Garrigou-Lagrange OP and la vie théologale 
Romanus Cessario OP

Garrigou-Langrange, Leo XIII and Liberalism 
Thomas Crean OP

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism (S.M.A.R.T.)

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism (S.M.A.R.T.) is planning a session for the 2014 meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., 9-12 October 2014.  It is accepting papers on all aspects of Thomism from 1274 to the publication of the Carmelite Cursus Theologiae (1631-1701), with a preference for the period from John Capreolus (d. 1444) to John of St. Thomas (1589-1644).  Please send papers and direct enquiries to Thomas Osborne at osborntm[at]stthom[dot]edu.

Perfect Hatred? Aquinas Lecture in Berkeley

The 24th Annual Aquinas Lecture at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, will be given by Dr. Diana Fritz-Cates, Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at The University of Iowa, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7:30 pm PST (10:30 pm EST). Entitled “Hatred in the Light of Love: A Thomistic Analysis,” the live-streamed presentation will present a conceptual and ethical analysis of hatred, based on the moral psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

D.Q. and Ralph McInerny

Here is a new interview with D.Q. McInerny on his brother Ralph McInerny and other topics: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/remembering-ralph-mcinerny 

New Book from David Braine

I missed the recent publication of David Braine's "The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought" from CUA Press.  I have been waiting for it.  His "The Human Person: Animal & Spirit" seems to me one of the best contemporary books on Philosophy of MInd.  In this earlier book on the human person, he uses the peculiar features of human language to argue that linguistic understanding and thinking have no bodily organ, and uses this material in his argument for the further positions that human persons transcend the body.  I wish that more people would read his work.

Registration Open for Berkeley Colloquium

Registration is now open for "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?", a colloquium concerning the intersection between philosophy and theology, July 16-20, 2014, in Berkeley, California. Hosted by The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, the event will gather scholars from academia and from the Dominican Order throughout the world, putting Thomism and other traditions into dialogue with more recent schools of thought. Plenary session presenters include Fr. Michael Dodds, OP, Edward Feser, Alfred Freddoso, John O’Callaghan, Fr. Michał Paluch, OP, John Searle, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, and Linda Zagzebski. This is to be the first of a triennial series (Dominican Colloquia in Berkeley). Details, including the call for papers (deadline, Feb. 7) and registration page, may be found at www.dspt.edu/conversation2014.

More from the Aquinas and 'the Arabs' Project

From Richard Taylor (Marquette University):

I direct the Aquinas and 'the Arabs' Project and its Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group and It seems suitable that we might find a way to share information and research results. The Project is described at www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org where there is also a list of project members in the Working Group. As you may know, members of the Working Group in 2012 presented some of its work in The Thomist (76.4 October 2012), an issue subtitled, Aquinas and The Arabs. We have also published sets of papers in the Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievale (Cologne & Leuven). Other collections have come out in other journals and three sets of papers (invited) are in progress for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and other journals. We are also editing a set of papers from a 2012 conference at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. For some years now we have held annual conferences in the summer in Paris and in the Fall in various locales such as Marquette University, the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, and the University of St Thomas (Center for Thomistic Studies) in Houston. For now I just want to make contact and let you know we will send you information on our activities.

Regards, Richard Taylor, Prof. of Philosophy, Marquette University & annual visiting Professor, KU Leuven.