Christian Anthropology and Bioethics (2016)

This talk was given at the 4th Annual Catholic Medical Association Medical Student and Resident Boot Camp held at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood PA on June 22, 2016. I cover the following three topics, with most of the time spent on the third: 1. The Role...

Foundational Bio-ethical Principles and Applications (2016)

This talk was given at the 4th Annual Catholic Medical Association Medical Student and Resident Boot Camp held at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood PA on June 23, 2016. In this talk I explain the Principle of Double effect and touch on some of the other...

Metaphysics of the Person and Medical Ethics (2018)

This talk was given at the 6th Annual Catholic Medical Association Medical Student and Resident Boot Camp at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois on June 21, 2018. I begin with a brief discussion of the role of the Magisterium for Medical...

Intentionality in Phenomenology

In this lecture I explain what “intentionality” means in phenomenology. For this lecture I follow closely Chapter 17, “Value Response” of the book Ethics by Dietrich von Hildebrand.