The annual Thomistic Institute sponsored by the Jacques Maritain Center of the University of Notre Dame, thanks to the generosity of the Saint Gerard Foundation and the Strake Foundation, meets on campus from July 18 through July 26, 1998, to discuss the topic "Science, Philosophy, and Theology". For the purposes of the Institute, "Thomistic" may be taken to stand for realistic philosophy generally -- the philosophical doctrine that we know truths about the world both prior to and by means of science, that knowledge of the world is prior to our knowledge of our knowledge of the world, and that knowledge of things transcending the world, most notably God, becomes possible through this knowledge of our knowledge of the world. Since these are philosophical presuppositions, any element of them is of course up for discussion.

Our day begins with Mass and morning prayer in Alumni Hall chapel and ends with evening prayer. In order that all may actively participate beyond the discussions of scheduled papers, we provide an opportunity for short papers to be given in what we have dubbed Quodlibetal Sessions.

In the schedule below, highlighted entries provide links to texts of the corresponding talks. We apologize for errors resulting from the hasty conversion to Hypertext Markup Language, such as garbled accents, lack of italics in some titles of books, absence of footnotes in some cases. Blame us and not the authors for these atrocities.

Saturday 18 July

7:30pm Ralph McInerny

• Opening and Keynote Address

9:00 Evening Prayer

Sunday 19

Chair: William Carroll

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Martin Hewlett

• "Reductionism in Biology: When It Works and When It Doesn't"

11:30 Tour of Campus & Library

• Lunch

3:30pm Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P.

• "Natural Science and Immaterial Being"

5:00 Evening Prayer

5:30 Pizza Party (Law School Basement)

Monday 20

Chair: Mario Castagnino

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Mons. Lluis Clavell

• "Karol Wojtyla's Integral Anthropology: An Invitation To Join Theology And Philosophy"

11:30 Lunch

1:30pm Mario Enrique Sacchi

• "Does Void Exist?: The Thomistic Rejection of its Presence in the Natural World"

3:00 Break

3:30 Wolfgang Smith

• "From Schrödinger's Cat to Thomistic Ontology"

5:00 Evening Prayer

Tuesday 21

Chair: Martin Hewlett

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Miloš Lokajícek

• "Time in Natural Sciences"

11:30 Lunch

1:30pm Fr. Mariano Artigas

• "Natural, Human and Divine Creativity. A Reflection on the Presuppositions and Implications of Scientific Progress."

3:00 Break

3:30 Steve Snyder

• "Scientific Method and the Human Soul in Aristotle's De anima"

5:00 Evening Prayer

Wednesday 22

Chair: Fr. Mariano Artigas

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Fr. Juan Jose Sanguineti

• "Cosmic and Human Time"

11:30 Lunch

1:30pm Fr. Leo Elders

• "Modern Views of Time."

NO 3:30 SESSION.

Thursday 23

Chair: Steve Snyder 8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 William Carroll

• "Aquinas on Creation and the Metaphysical Foundations of Science"

11:30 Lunch

1:30pm Louis Chammings

3:00 Break

3:30 Fr. Rafael Martinez

5:00 Evening Prayer

7:00 Milos Lokajicek

• "Group Discussion: Response to Assembly of World Religions' 'Declaration to the World Ethos'"

Friday 24

Chair: Louis Chammings

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Mario Castagnino

• "Time and Universe."

11:30 Lunch

1:30 Steve Baldner

• "Matter, Prime Matter, and Elements"

3:00 Break

3:30 Andrea Muellerova

• "Several Remarks on the Truth Problem in Quantum Mechanics"

4:30 Evening Prayer

Saturday 25

Chair: Rev. Rafael Martinez

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Angelo Campodonico

• "Thinking of Creation"

11:30 Lunch

1:30pm Fr. William Wallace, O.P.

• "Is Nature Accessible to the Mathematical Physicist?"

3:00 Break

5:00 Evening Prayer

6:30 Banquet (Morris Inn)

Sunday 26

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

Departure

P.E. Hodgson, "Global Warming and Nuclear Power."

All sessions will be in the Law School, Room 121.

All meals will be in the North Dining Hall (except for the opening pizza party and the final banquet).

Masses will be in Alumni Chapel.