Prednáška Dr.W.E.Carrolla: The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors

18.04.2012 14:40-16:00 Streda

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pod vedením Dr. Wiliama E. Carrolla z University of Oxford, Blackfriars,

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"The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors:

Cosmology and Creation".

Dr. William E. Carroll je profesorom na Teologickej fakulte Oxfordskej univerzity a je autorom kníh: Aquinas on Creation, La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino, Galileo: Science and Faith. Na Slovensku bola vydaná jeho kniha 'Stvorenie a veda'.

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Dr. William E. Carroll

Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Theology and Science, Blackfriars

University of Oxford

Dr. Carroll is Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Theology and Science at Blackfriars Hall of the University of Oxford and member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford. He is an intellectual historian and historian of science who has a special interest in the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity and the development of the doctrine of creation. He has written both on this topic and on the ways in which the analysis of Thomas Aquinas can inform contemporary discussions of the relationship among theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences. He is the co-author of Aquinas on Creation (Toronto, 1997); La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales. Actualidad de Santo Tómas de Aquino (Santiago, 2003); and Thomas Aquinas, Creation, and Contemporary Science (in progress). His published essays include: "Thomas Aquinas, Creation, and Big Bang Cosmology"; "Creation, Evolution, and Thomas Aquinas"; and "Thomas Aquinas and the Metaphysical Foundations of Science". He has lectured widely in North America, Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, North Africa, South America, and Australia.