Notre Dame & Aquinas Professors debate: Should President Truman have dropped the bomb?
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(Grand Rapids, Mich.) – On Thursday, October 2, the Aquinas College Philosophy Department will debut its first event of the year, Disputatio, which is free and open to the
public. Reflecting the College’s Dominican tradition, Dr. Bryan Pilkington, assistant
professor of philosophy, will moderate a debate designed to engage challenging moral
issues in a collegial manner. The first installment of Disputatio is titled: The Most
Controversial Decision in History: Should President Truman have Dropped the Bomb?
This discussion will feature notable University of Notre Dame professors Reverend
Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C. and Dr. David Solomon, as well as Aquinas professor of theology,
Dr. Robert Marko.
Miscamble, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, has focused his research primarily in American foreign policy since World War II, and the role of Catholics in 20th Century U.S. foreign relations. A published author, he has written on religion, history and politics. He received the Harry S. Truman Book Award twice, including for his From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Solomon is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He also founded, and is the director emeritus of, Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture. He has held research fellowships at Oxford, Boston and Baylor universities. His research interests are focused on issues in contemporary moral philosophy with a special interest in medical ethics. He is the coauthor of a study of the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, The Synoptic Vision, and a number of articles in both scholarly and popular journals.
Marko is professor and chair of Aquinas’ department of theology. He teaches primarily in the areas of Catholicism, moral theology, social ethics and ecclesiology. His research interests are rooted in the Catholic Tradition and include the relationship between religion, ethics and society, which he researched as a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, and moral theological work on issues associated with obliteration bombing. He has presented at the Catholic Theological Society of America on the justice of the first Persian Gulf War in 1991 and his dissertation was titled, The Acceptance of Pacifism in The Challenge of Peace.
Disputatio is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Disputatio: The Most Controversial Decision in History – Should President Truman have Dropped the Bomb?
WHEN: Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Aquinas College, Wege Ballroom, 1607 Robinson Road S.E., Grand Rapids, MI, 49506
COST: Free and open to the public
Miscamble, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, has focused his research primarily in American foreign policy since World War II, and the role of Catholics in 20th Century U.S. foreign relations. A published author, he has written on religion, history and politics. He received the Harry S. Truman Book Award twice, including for his From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Solomon is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He also founded, and is the director emeritus of, Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture. He has held research fellowships at Oxford, Boston and Baylor universities. His research interests are focused on issues in contemporary moral philosophy with a special interest in medical ethics. He is the coauthor of a study of the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, The Synoptic Vision, and a number of articles in both scholarly and popular journals.
Marko is professor and chair of Aquinas’ department of theology. He teaches primarily in the areas of Catholicism, moral theology, social ethics and ecclesiology. His research interests are rooted in the Catholic Tradition and include the relationship between religion, ethics and society, which he researched as a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, and moral theological work on issues associated with obliteration bombing. He has presented at the Catholic Theological Society of America on the justice of the first Persian Gulf War in 1991 and his dissertation was titled, The Acceptance of Pacifism in The Challenge of Peace.
Disputatio is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Disputatio: The Most Controversial Decision in History – Should President Truman have Dropped the Bomb?
WHEN: Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Aquinas College, Wege Ballroom, 1607 Robinson Road S.E., Grand Rapids, MI, 49506
COST: Free and open to the public