Texas A&M University

The Thomistic Institute at Texas A&M University presents a lecture by Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Soul: Can Computers Be People Too?”

Thursday, March 2

7:00 PM

Rudder 301

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Anselm Ramelow is a Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He is professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and currently the chair of the philosophy department. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism?  George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, 2005). He contributed articles to the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophy and essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology, as well as a translation and commentary on part of Aquinas’ De veritate. He continues to work on questions of free will, philosophy of religion (miracles, existence and nature of God) and philosophical aesthetics.