Br. Paschal Strader, OP
Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Courses Taught
- PH 1056 - Philosophy of Nature
From the Professor
I am a friar of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Western USA) of the Order of Preachers. I am also a cooperator brother, that is, a Dominican brother who is not called to priestly ministry.
In 2016, I completed a Ph.D. in Physics, with a concentration in experimental astrophysics at UC Santa Barbara. My research was in , using MKID detectors for infrared and visible wavelength astronomy. My dissertation project focused on scaling up the system that reads data out of a MKID camera and also on using the camera to observe pulsars in visible wavelengths.
With this background I am interested in connecting the Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy of nature to contemporary science, in philosophy of physics, and also in natural theology.