What has Metaphysics to do with Wisdom? | John Haldane

This talk was given as part of the online Thomistic Institute
Conference "Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas' Summa Contra
Gentiles in a Contemporary Context" in Rome on 4-5 December 2020.
John Haldane is a Scottish philosopher, commentator and
broadcaster. He is a former papal adviser to the Vatican. He is
credited with coining the term 'Analytical Thomism' and is himself
a Thomist in the analytic tradition. Haldane is associated with The
Veritas Forum and is the current chair of the Royal Institute of
Philosophy.He has been a visiting lecturer in the School of
Architecture of the University of Westminster, at the Medical
School of the University of Dundee, at the University of Malta, at
the Thomistic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, at the
University of Aberdeen, at Denison University, at the University of
St. Thomas, at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and
the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. He held the Royden
Davis Chair of Humanities at Georgetown University, and delivered
the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 2003–04, and
the Joseph Lectures at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was
appointed to the University of St Andrews in 1983 where he held a
lectureship and a readership. He was subsequently University
Professor in Philosophy from 1994-2015. From 1988 to 2000 and from
2002 to the present he has been Director of the University Centre
for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. In addition, he has held
fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh, University of
Edinburgh, St John's College, Oxford, Social Philosophy and Policy
Center, Bowling Green State University and at the Centre for the
Study of Sculpture in Leeds, England. Since 2015, he has held the
J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at Baylor
University.