On Being Incomplete: The Metaphysics of our Spiritual Pilgrimage

4200 Fifth Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15260

29 March, 2021

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A lecture by Prof. Christopher Frey Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh The Thomistic Institute at Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh presents a lecture by Prof. Christopher Frey from the University of South Carolina titled “On Being Incomplete: The Metaphysics of our Spiritual Pilgrimage” This lecture will be delivered over Zoom. Registration information to come. Monday, March 29 7:00 pm EST About the Speaker: Christopher Frey is currently an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Prof. Frey works primarily in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics. He is writing a book entitled The Principle of Life: Aristotelian Souls in an Inanimate World. It concerns the distinction between the animate and the inanimate, the unity of living organisms, nutrition, birth, death, and, more generally, what one’s metaphysical worldview looks like if one takes life to be central. He also works in contemporary philosophy of perception and mind and has written extensively on the relationship between the intentionality and phenomenality of perceptual experience. In addition to these two main areas of research, he has secondary projects in metaphysics, the philosophy of action, Medieval philosophy, Early Modern philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.