Clemson University

A lecture by Prof. Thomas Ward (Baylor University)

Wednesday, November 20

6:30 PM

Hardin Hall, Room 232

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Thomas M. Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. He specializes in the history of philosophy, focusing on the Middle Ages. He is the author of Divine Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and the forthcoming Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus (Angelico Press). His translation of John Duns Scotus’s De Primo Principio, with extensive commentary, will soon be published as Treatise on the First Principle later this year (Hackett Publishing Company). Ward's scholarship  has been supported by a NEH Fellowship and a Harvey Fellowship, and he is the past winner of the British Society for the History of Philosophy Graduate Student Essay Prize (2009), the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founder's Award (2013), and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rising Scholar Essay Contest (2018). Ward has taught at Azusa Pacific University (2011-2012) and Loyola Marymount University (2013-2017). He studied philosophy at Biola University (BA 2004) and UCLA (PhD 2011), and theology at Oxford University (M.Phil 2006), where he was also Head Resident at The Kilns, the former Oxfordshire home of C.S. Lewis.