This seminar offers a focused study of classical logic through the lens of Aristotle, the foundational figure in the development of logical theory in the Western tradition. Designed to sharpen students’ reasoning and analytic skills, the course engages closely with key texts from the Organon—including Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and On Sophistical Refutations. To support systematic training in formal reasoning, students will also work through Peter Kreeft’s Socratic Logic, gaining practical mastery in classical syllogistic logic within a philosophically rich context.
AI and The Metaphysics of Intelligence
Proving God from Perfection
Can God be proven? Yes. Denying the provability of God is popular today, even for Christians. Faith and reason have been divorced, and we Christians sometimes swallow that pill without realizing it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Faith seeks understanding, but it is built on it too. We believe in God for good reason or else we have no reason to believe in God.
Thomas Aquinas gives a series of five ways of proving the existence of God. The fourth way is taken from our idea of perfection.
"Aristotelianism" in Four Views on Christian Metaphysics
Neurology & the Virtue of Gratitude
Modern science and the Christian community do not always communicate with each other as much as they should. While secular scholarship grows more interested in the health benefits of gratitude and other virtues from a neurological and psychological angle, Thomists will not be surprised that a health benefit is associated with virtuous activity. The close mind-body relationship of hylomorphism could equip scientists to explain mental health in non-materialistic and reductionist ways. More partnership could exist between psychology and philosophy as both help explain each other.
Aristotelian-Thomistic Psychology
Aristotle’s On the Soul along with his Categories helps us define the soul and its powers., and consequently different essences, like human nature. It lays the groundwork of a Christian psychology as Thomas Aquinas develops Aristotelian psychology in a Christian way. In both Aristotle and Aquinas, this psychology establishes the groundwork for the natural law and Aristotelian ethics.
The Soul & The City (Plato's Republic)
Aquinas on Semantic Realism and Analogy of Being
Semantic anti-realism holds that statements cannot have truth value if their truth criteria are beyond the ability of humans to recognize them. John Haldane proposes moderate compatibility with Aquinas. I disagree, and the denial of verification-transcendence denies the possibility of the analogy of being.







