On Friday, April 24, Professor John Haldane (University of St. Andrews) gave a lecture to a group of professors and students of the Schools of Philosophy and Letters, Ecclesiastics of Philosophy and Theology. The session, which was held at classroom M05 of Amigos Building, was organized by the Cluster Group on Analytic TheologyThe session was organized by the Cluster Group on Analytic Theology: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Divine Providence.

Professor Haldane entitled his exhibition 'Putnam, Causality and God'. In it Haldane responded to some of the considerations that the philosopher Hillary Putnam made to his own assertion that "there are as many kinds of causes as there are senses of the expression why". Following his reflection, Professor Haldane proposed that the Aristotelian taxonomy of the four causes (material, formal, efficient and final) is only a preliminary classification, not exhaustive and susceptible of being extended. Finally, he outlined a response to Putnam's naturalism, proposing "transformation staff" as a class specific effect only attributable to a supernatural agent. The exhibition was followed by a question and discussion session.

John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews, has recently been appointed as the first tenured Chair of Philosophy J. Newton Rayzor at Baylor University (Waco, Texas). His interests include such topics as the history of Philosophy, Philosophy of the mind, Philosophy social and political, ethics and aesthetics. Professor Haldane has been a Lecturer at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Pittsburgh. Among his contributions to the current Philosophy is the exhibition and defense of Analytic Thomism. He is the author of over 200 articles and books, including An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion, Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical, Reasonable Faith, and Atheism and Theism. Among his merits is that he has twice been appointed consultant of the Pontifical committee for Culture (2005 and 2011); he is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas. In 2008 his extraordinary contribution to the Philosophy moral was recognized with an honorary D. Litt from the University of Glasgow.

Professor Haldane's presence at the University of Navarra was due to his participation in the first international forum Building Universities' Reputation, which took place from April 22 to 24.