Fr. James Dominic Rooney returns to the podcast to discuss some of his recent work on divine hiddenness and dogmatic authority (two distinct topics!).

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Let's talk about brute facts, baby!

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Pat is joined once again by Dr. Thomas Ward, this time to discuss his recent book After Stoicism: The Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher.

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Pat is joined by Dr. Gaven Kerr to explore the notion of personhood from a Thomistic perspective. This builds on Dr. Kerr's recent lecture Ratzinger's Notion of Person in Theology: a Thomistic Response.

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Dr. Michael Gorman has authored an excellent new book: A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics. In this episode, Pat interviews Dr. Gorman about some of the contents of that book, including how Aquinas thinks about composition, fundamentality, and God.

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Pat is joined by Dr. Kenneth Pearce to discuss some of his recent work related to metaphysical grounding, contingency, and the existence of God.

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Pat and Gaven discuss cool things, like Aquinas's theory of existence and how God knows He's not a brain in a vat.

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Pat is joined by Perry to discuss his work on Skeptical Theism.

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Pat is joined by Matthew Adelstein to discuss some of their (current) favorite arguments for God.

Pat is joined by Jack Boczar to discuss his forthcoming paper, Existential Inertia and Thomistic Esse.

Jack has published on Aquinas and Augustine and is currently working on medieval metaphysics. His PhilPeople page can be accessed here: