Events
The Fiction of Freedom? Aquinas on Human Choice
A lecture by Prof. Timothy J. Pawl (University of St. Thomas)
When:
November 20, 2018 | 6:30 PM PST
Chapter:
University of California, Los Angeles
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Timothy J. Pawl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in philosophy. He specializes in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, Thomistic philosophy, analytic theology, and moral psychology. His books include In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2019), The Incarnation (Cambridge, 2020), and Jesus and the Genome: The Intersection of Christology and Biology (Cambridge, 2024), co-authored with a philosopher of science and an evolutionary biologist.
In addition, he has published more than forty academic articles in his areas of expertise and given more than 100 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth.
He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.