Tolkein's Philosophy | Prof. Robert Koons

<p>This lecture was given on March 20th, 2024, at University of Texas at El Paso.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more information on upcoming events, visit us at <a href="https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events" target="_blank">thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events</a></p><p><br /></p><p>About the Speaker: </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of five books, including </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Atlas of Reality </em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Is Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (St. Augustine Press, 2022). He is the co-editor of four anthologies, including </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Waning of Materialism</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (OUP, 2010) and </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Classical Theism</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Routledge 2023).&nbsp; He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating hylomorphism in contemporary terms, and on interpreting and defending Thomas's Five Ways.</span></p>