Category: David Fleischacker

Evangelization, Historically Minded

 by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of the need for evangelization, and of course, this is a theme running through the […]...

Neural Demand Functions and Montessori Concentration

David Fleischacker, Ph.D. I take the term “neural demand functions” from Bernard Lonergan’s book on insight (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding). Lonergan was reworking Freud’s psychic censor into a more explanatory […]...

The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female

Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr. David Fleischacker Good evening. Next year is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae.  It has ties to an earlier encyclical […]...

Lonergan and the Surd of Contraception

David Fleischacker, PhD, December 2008 (written 10 years ago) In 1943, Lonergan had written an essay on marriage, love, and finality.[1] In this essay he makes use of metaphysics to […]...

Relating Description and Explanation: The Case of Gregor Mendel

by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One good illustration of the dynamic relationship between description and explanation is found in Mendel’s breakthrough into genetics.  Description to recall […]...

Off for August

FYI — I will not be posting blogs during this August, 2017....

Light and Transcendence

If you glance through the liturgy of the hours and the divine office, you will notice the frequency that the word light is used.  Of course, it is in the […]...