Thomism and the Quantum Enigma

Smith Modeling of Nature William A. Wallace on the philosophy of nature

 

Thomistic Philosophy of Nature: Bibliography

 

In the Beginning . . . by William E. Carroll

 

Charles De Koninck a Man of Faith, Philosopher of Science

 

River Forest Aquinas Institute of Philosophy and Theology

Albertus Magnus Lyceum for Natural Science

Benedict Ashley

William H. Kane

William Augustine Wallace

James Athanasius Weisheipl

 

The way toward wisdom is through metaphysics

The Way toward Wisdom by Benedict Ashley, O.P.
(Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

The Way toward Wisdom

Read all the books by Benedict Ashley

Read the new books by opponent of the River Forest approach, Lawrence Dewan, O.P.

Read Benedict Ashley's reply to Lawrence Dewan, "St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics", The Thomist 61 (1997): 549-66.

In The Way toward Wisdom (UND, 2006), pp.146-153, Benedict Ashley definitively refutes Dewan.
(See also pp.153-158 for Ashley's refutation of Wippel; pp.158-163 for refutation of Owens/Knasas; and pp.256-57 with p.520 n.11 for refutation of Clarke.)

 

Aristotelian Thomism: the traditional way of reading Thomas Aquinas, a living tradition of the Order of Preachers

 

Resources for Modern Aristotelians

The Five Proofs of God

Video Presentations on the Five Ways

Finding God through Faith and Reason

Robert Spitzer, "Indications of Supernatural Design in Contemporary Big Bang Cosmology." Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 2004), pp. 265-287.

Robert Spitzer, "Indications of Creation in Contemporary Big Bang Cosmology." Philosophy in Science, Vol. 10 (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Vatican Conservatory, 2003), pp. 35-106.

Robert Spitzer, "Indications of Creation in Contemporary Astrophysics." Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, 24:3 (September 2001) pp. 208-254.

Robert Spitzer, "Proofs for the Existence of God Part I: A Metaphysical Argument", International Philosophical Quarterly (Vol 41:2--June 2001): 162-186.

Robert Spitzer, "Proofs for the Existence of God Part II": (A Cosmological Argument and a Lonerganian Argument), International Philosophical Quarterly (Vol 41:3--Sept 2001): 305-331.

Robert Spitzer, "Definitions of Real Time and Ultimate Reality." Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, 23:3 (September 2000) pp. 260-276.

 

 

Institute for Advanced Physics
Physics for Realists

Hans Jonas and the Rediscovery of Nature

Institute for the Study of Nature

John W. Keck, "The Natural Motion of Matter in Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Physics", The Thomist 71 (2007): 529-54.

 

The Evolution and "Intelligent Design" controversy: Bibliography

Stephen M. Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith

 

The Aristotelian Background to Aquinas's Denial that 'Woman is a Defective Male'