01 December 2024

The Metaphysics of Evolution in Light of Thomistic Philosophy of Nature

With Travis Dumsday, PhD, Chairman, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Concordia University of Edmonton.


In his Theistic Evolution: A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective, Fr. Tabaczek has presented us with perhaps the most detailed (and certainly the most up-to-date) Thomistic ontology of evolution, developed in dialogue with biologists and philosophers of science. In this short work I summarize and assess some of his key metaphysical claims.

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