Events
Aristotelian Philosophy and the Quantum Revolution
A lecture by Prof. Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
When:
October 9, 2024 | 5:30 PM CDT
Location:
Room J05
Chapter:
Universidad Panamericana
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of five books, including The Atlas of Reality with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and Is Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine Press, 2022). He is the co-editor of four anthologies, including The Waning of Materialism (OUP, 2010) and Classical Theism (Routledge 2023). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating hylomorphism in contemporary terms, and on interpreting and defending Thomas's Five Ways.