University of California, Berkeley

The Thomistic Institute at the University of California, Berkeley presents a lecture by Prof. Paul Symington of the Franciscan University of Steubenville on “The Question of Free Will in the Modern World: Free Will in Light of Contemporary Science and Philosophy.”

Wheeler 108

Monday, February 3

8:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker: Professor Paul Symington graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Roberts Wesleyan College in 1998. He received an M.A. in Theology from Northeastern Seminary in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College in 2004. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. He then taught for one year at the University of San Francisco before receiving a position in 2008 at Franciscan University of Steubenville. 

He was a Service-Learning Faculty Fellow at the University of San Francisco and received a NYS Professional Development Award from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2007. He is a member of The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, The American Catholic Philosophical Association, and The American Philosophical Association. His research is mainly focused on areas in metaphysics and medieval philosophy.