The keynote address for the Newman-Scotus Symposium is given by Sr. Mary Beth Ingham, who advocates for a shift of our concept of rational activity from an intellectual centrality to that of the will along the lines of Scotus who is the most famous of the Franciscan masters.
Sr. Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J., Ph.D., is an expert on the thought of Blessed John Duns Scotus. She is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the Franciscan School of Theology in Oceanside, California. After earning her doctorate in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, she taught for twenty-five years at Loyola Marymount University before joining the faculty at FST.