University of Kansas

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Kansas presents a lecture by Prof. Robert Koons of the University of Texas, Austin titled “Aristotle and the Quantum Revolution: How Modern Science Vindicates Ancient Philosophy of Nature.”

The 6th Level of the Kansas Union

Friday, February 11

5:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 33 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000), and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-editor (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.