READINGS Lecture NOTES:

• The Science of Mobile Being Lecture I
• The Science of Mobile Being Lecture II
• Motion and Its Principles (part 1)
• Motion and Its Principles (part 2) (Feb 15)
• Motion, Its Origins, and Its Ends
• Motion and the Infinite
• Motion and Empiriological Physics (part 1)
• Motion and Empiriological Physics (part 2)
• Motion, Dualism, and Modern Physics (part 1)
• Motion, Dualism, and Modern Physics (part 2) (cf. St. Thomas’s De mixtione elementorum)
• Motion, Dualism, and Modern Physics (part 3)
• The Motor Cause and the Modern Mind (cf. “Aquinas on the Temporal Relation between Cause & Effect“)
• Progress and Purpose (part 1)
• Progress and Purpose (part 2) (cf. St. Thomas’s Summa Contra Gentiles lib. 3 cap. 1-24)
• Mathematics and the Infinite (part 1)
• Mathematics and the Infinite (part 2) (We also discussed the culmination of natural philosophy in St. Thomas’s Summa Theologiæ I q. 2 a. 3 c. and Compendium Theologiæ cap. 3.)

OTHER RESOURCES St. Thomas’s works in bilingual Latin-English

1. The Plague of Scientistic Belief, From Schrödinger’s Cat to Thomistic Ontology (The Thomist 63 (1999) 49-63), & The Quantum Enigma by Wolfgang Smith
2. Thomism and the Quantum Enigma (The Thomist 61 (1997) 455-468) by Fr. William A. Wallace, O.P.
3. Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science (Physics Today 58 (2005) 12:34-40) by Don Howard, Notre Dame History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) department
4. Physics & Metaphysics and Physics of a Believer by Pierre Duhem, Catholic physicist
5. Ernst Mach‘s The Science of Mechanics, which contains the famous “Mach principle,” inspired Einstein’s theory of relativity.

ANSWERS TO AFTER-CLASS QUESTIONS

• “Principle of Individuation” from Fr. Édouard Hugon, O.P.’s Cursus Philosophiæ Thomisticæ II (PDF)
• Russell’s Paradox

Intricate diagram of the classification of the sciences from Jacques Maritain‘s Degrees of Knowledge: