Jacques Maritain
CenterIn 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.
7:30pm Ralph McInerny
Opening and Keynote Address
9:00 Evening Prayer
Saturday 17 Chair: Ann Wiles
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Jude Dougherty
"John Paul II as Defender of Faith and
Reason"
11:00 Tour of Campus
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Vittorio Possenti
"Fides et Ratio and Nihilism"
3:00 Long Break
4:30 Evening Prayer
5:30 Pizza Party (Law School Basement)
Sunday 18 Chair: John O'Callaghan
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Rev. Leo Elders
"The Lasting Value
of Dogmatic Formulas"
11:00 Lecture William Carroll
"The Scientific Revolution
and Contemporary Discourse on Faith and Reason."
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Rev. Benedict Ashley
"The Validity of Metaphysics"
2:45 Break
3:15 Quodlibet Ann Gardiner
"Entrusting Ourselves: Fides et Ratio and Augustine's
de utilitate credendi"
3:45 Quodlibet John Hittinger
"Maritain on the Cartesian Rupture of
Faith and Reason"
4:30 Evening Prayer
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Alejandro Llano
"Audacity of Reason -- Obedience of Faith"
11:00 Lecture Peter Hodgson
"Global Warming and Nuclear
Power"
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Remi Brague
"The Angst of Reason"
3:00 Break
3:15 Quodlibet Steven Baldner
"Christian Philosophy, Etienne Gilson,
and Fides et ratio"
4:15 Evening Prayer
Tuesday 20 Chair: Mario Enrique Sacchi
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Angelo Campodonico
"Contemporary Philosophy Facing
Faith and Reason"
11:00 Lecture William Hoye
"Truth and Truths. A Crucial
Distinction in the Encyclical"
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture John Haldane
"Vocation of Philosophy"
3:00 Break
3:15 Quodlibet Mary Keys
"Fides et ratio, Thomas Aquinas, and Political Theory."
3:45 Quodlibet Michael Sherwin, O.P.
"The Third Millenium and the Philosophical Life or Celsus, Don't Despair"
4:15 Evening Prayer
Wednesday 21 Chair: Rev. Michael Sherwin
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Christopher Martin
"Conceptions of Reason"
11:00 Lecture Louis Chammings
"Technology and Wisdom: Promises,
Threats and Challenges of the Information Society"
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Rev. Servais Pinckaers
"The Place of Philosophy in the Moral
Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas"
3:00 Break
3:15 Quodlibet Steve Snyder
3:45 Quodlibet Roger Pouivet
4:15 Evening Prayer
"Consolatio
Philosophiae: Philosophy Consoling and Consoled"
"Faith, Reason and Logic"
Thursday 22 Chair: Christopher Martin
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Lecture Cyrille Michon
"Faith and Reason:
Aquinas' Two Strategies"
11:00 Lecture Grace Goodell
"The Social Foundation of Realist Metaphysics"
11:30 Lecture Peter Hunter, O.P.
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Mario Enrique Sacchi
"The Exaltation of Metaphysics in John Paul II's
Fides et ratio"
3:00 Break
3:15 Quodlibet Jennifer Hockenbery
"Fides et Ratio and the Graceful Redemption of Philosophy"
3:45 Quodlibet John O'Callaghan
"Verbum: Philosophical or Theological Doctrine"
4:15 Evening Prayer
6:30 Banquet (Morris Inn)
Friday 23
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
9:00 Breakfast
Departure
All sessions will be in the Law School, Room 121.
All meals will be in the South Dining Hall (except for the opening pizza party and the final banquet).
Masses will be in the Welsh Hall Chapel.