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Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind by James D. Madden (review)Nova et Vetera 13 (3). 2015.
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10Nature and ModernityProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 91 51-62. 2017.A conspicuous feature of modernity has been the rejection of nature as an authoritative ground of intelligibility and value, a position once defended by nearly all Catholic philosophers. Since Fr. Ernan McMullin’s 1969 article, “Philosophies of Nature,” however, the philosophy of nature has been eclipsed by the philosophy of science in mainstream Catholic philosophy. After examining McMullin’s reasons for setting aside the philosophy of nature and Thomas Nagel’s recent re-affirmation of the poss…Read more
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2The Prospect of an Aristotelian BiologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 89-101. 2013.In recent decades, a growing number of biologists has testified to the priority of the whole organism with respect to its parts and protested against the dominance of mechanist and reductionist accounts of the organism in biological science. To see disinterested inquiry thus shaped “by constraint of facts” will delight, but cannot surprise, an Aristotelian. Taking this rediscovery of nature by biologists as an occasion for reflection, this essay considers, first, what is presupposed by any healt…Read more
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1Vézelay: The Mountain of the LordLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8 (3): 141-164. 2005.
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The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch by Stephen L. Brock (review)Nova et Vetera 14 (4). 2016.
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On the Recovery of Experience and the Search for a Christian EnvironmentalismNova et Vetera 10 95-104. 2012.
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A Fruitful Restraint: The Perennial Relevance of the Virtue of StudiousnessNova et Vetera 11 (4). 2013.
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24The Prospect of an Aristotelian BiologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 89-101. 2013.In recent decades, a growing number of biologists has testified to the priority of the whole organism with respect to its parts and protested against the dominance of mechanist and reductionist accounts of the organism in biological science. To see disinterested inquiry thus shaped “by constraint of facts” will delight, but cannot surprise, an Aristotelian. Taking this rediscovery of nature by biologists as an occasion for reflection, this essay considers, first, what is presupposed by any healt…Read more
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3Art and Politics in the Sainte-Chapelle of ParisLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 4 (2): 13-31. 2001.
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20Philosophy of Biology. By Peter Godfrey-SmithAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89 (4): 733-737. 2015.
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13The Promise of Newman’s Collegiate IdealLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 16 (4): 78-98. 2013.
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4The Promise of Newman’s Collegiate IdealLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 16 (4): 78-98. 2013.
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45Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue. By Christopher Stephen Lutz (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (4): 791-793. 2013.
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18The Historian and His Tools in the Workshop of WisdomLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 13 (4): 15-34. 2010.
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102. Art and Politics in the Sainte-Chapelle of ParisLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 4 (2). 2001.
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9MacIntyre and the Catholic HistorianCatholic Social Science Review 5 157-167. 2000.Alisdair Macintyre's defense of the tradition of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas offers a way to answer the question "What is the good of history?" By his use of dialectical reasoning in defense of the Thomist tradition, Macintyre helps Catholic historians to see that the good of history comes from its being a handmaiden to tradition. The writings of St. Bede the Venerable and John Henry Cardinal Newman are used as examples of how Catholic historians can know and draw upon their own tradition.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |