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<div class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Thomistic Institute Talk: Does physics leave any room for free will?</font></b></div>
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<div class=""><span class="">Our next and final TI talk of the semester will be <b class="">Friday, November 3 </b>at <b class="">6 pm</b> in <b class="">3-270.</b><span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/159864991278584/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22:%2229%22,%22ref_notif_type%22:%22plan_user_associated%22,%22action_history%22:%22null%22%7D&notif_id=1508897770458737&notif_t=plan_user_associated" class="">Facebook
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<i class="">Lecture Description:</i></span>
<div class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The advent of quantum mechanics a century ago overturned the deterministic assumptions of classical physics and seemed to put randomness and uncertainty
at its core. Neither the determinism of the old paradigm nor the randomness of the new one seem conducive to the ancient idea of free will. What exactly is free will and does physics, of any stripe, leave any more roo</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">m
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<div class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., received his B.S. in physics at Caltech in 2004 and his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2010, working in theoretical particle physics. He subsequently
entered the Order of Preachers and was ordained to the priesthood in 2017. He has written and spoken on the relationship of faith and science in a variety of venues, including being a main contributor to the Thomistic Evolution project. Currently he is studying
Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">There will be refreshments available following the talk.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">Past recorded Thomistic Institute Lectures can be found <a href="https://thomisticinstitute.org/tracks/" class="">here</a>.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">(poster attached)</span></div>
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