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West Coast Methods Institute

The 2024 West Coast Methods Institute

What is 'Going Forward' in History? Progress, Revolution, and the Philosophy of History

April 25-27, 2024

The theme of the 2024 annual meeting of the West Coast Methods Institute is What is 'Going Forward' in History? Progress, Revolution, and the Philosophy of History. Historical consciousness and historical understanding are central themes in Lonergan’s philosophical and theological writings. Yet his treatments of historicity and historical development also depart in important respects from broader emphases on historicism and historical consciousness in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought.

Faculty speaker series

2024 WCMI Speakers

We are pleased to welcome the following speakers to our 2024 institute:

Thomas J. McPartland

Keynote Speaker
“Historicism and the Idea of Radical Revolution: A Dialectical Critique”

Jonathan Heaps

Bernard J. Tyrrell, SJ, Lecture in Philosophy of God and Theology Speaker:
“The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural.”

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