The lecture will discuss the different responses to the question of abortion and the philosophy of the act itself.

Angela Knobel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. From 2004 to 2020, she taught philosophy at her alma mater, the Catholic University of America. Her work focuses primarily on Aquinas’ theory of infused virtue, virtue ethics and applied ethics. Her most recent book was published through the University of Notre Dame Press, Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues.