Having acquired some foundational knowledge of Aquinas’s philosophical anthropology in their previous course, students will here engage several of the major questions we find in the contemporary literature. Some of these questions, dealing also with contemporary philosophy of mind, include: personal identity and animalism; reductionism/physicalism; animal communication/language; metaphysics and human evolution; metaphysics of sex/gender; issues concerning human death; and mind/computer problems. Students will construct Thomistic frameworks and strategies for use in successful dialogue with some of the contemporary thinkers working in these areas.