Department of Philosophy
Center for Thomistic Studies

Title
Professor

Education

• Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1975
• M.A., University of Toronto, 1972
• B.A., Boston College, 1970

Experience

Teaching:

• 1983-present   Professor University of St. Thomas Department of Philosophy and Center for Thomistic Studies Houston, TX
• Fall, 1993         Acting Philosophy Chair and Director of Thomistic Center Graduate Program
• 1975-1983       Associate Professor Wadhams Hall Seminary-College, Ogdensburg, NY

Recent Publications:

• Thomism and Tolerance. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2011), pp. 140.
• "The Unavoidability of 'Religion' in John Rawls' Arguments for Tolerance," ed. in Faute, délit, péché et culpabilité: regards croisés sur les fondements de notre éthique (Paris: Edition Cujas, 2010).
• Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel. Submitted monograph on the problem of evil.

Recent Lectures & Papers:

• "Aquinas' Intellector of Being and Dawson's Narrative of Cultural History," at the conference,
• "Thomism and Asian Cultures: Celebrating 400 Years of Dialogue across Civilizations," at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, May, 2011.
• "The Role of Sense Realism in the Initiation of Aquinas’ Metaphysics," plenary paper at the Fordham University Medieval Center Conference, The Metaphysics of Aquinas and Its Modern Interpreters, March, 2011.
• "Fides et Ratio and the 20th Century Thomistic Revival," Ave Maria University, Houston Founders Club, March, 2010.
• "The Unavoidability of 'Religion' in John Rawls' Arguments for Tolerance," at Colloque International – Faute, délit, péché et culpabilité: regards croisés sur les fondements de notre éthique; Institut Catholique d-Etudes Superieures (ICES), La Roche sur Yon, France, January, 2010.

Teaching Areas
Undergraduate: Human Person; Ethics; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Political Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Heidegger; God and Philosophy; Aquinas’ Philosophy of God in S.C.G; Contemporary British and American Philosophy.

Graduate: Aquinas’ Metaphysics; Metaphysics of Maritain; Cosmological Argument; Problem of Evil; Transcendental Thomism; 20th Century Thomistic Revival; Commentary on De Anima; Commentary on Metaphysics; Rationalists.

Research Areas

• Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Culture
• Problem of Evil

Other Interests