University of Rochester

The Thomistic Institute at University of Rochester presents a lecture by Prof. Paul Symington of Franciscan University of Steubenville titled, “Why Do I Keep Existing? A Lecture on Being.”

Monday, September 12th

5:00PM

Goergen 101 (Sloan Auditorium)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Paul Symington is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Scholarly Excellence at Franciscan University of Steubenville. His publications include On Determining What There Is (Walter De Gruyter, 2010) and over a dozen peer reviewed articles ranging in topics from philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of science and medieval philosophy. He has also given numerous paper presentations, in topics ranging from medieval metaphysics and teleology in modern science, including talks on prime matter as well as the problem of human death at University of Oxford in 2015.