PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Jeremiah Hackett is Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Trained primarily in the history of philosophy (ancient, medieval, and early modern), he is also interested in the ways in which modern philosophy seeks to understand the history of science. He is the editor of Medieval Philosophers (1992) in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Roger Bacon and the Sciences (1997), World Eras: Medieval Europe, 814–1350 (2002), Being and Thought in Aquinas (2004), and A Companion to Meister Eckhart (2013), as well as numerous essays and articles.

A reception will follow the lecture in the Laurence K. Shook Common Room at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto.