Volume 80, 2006 - Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
This volume contains twenty-one essays from leading international scholars on a variety of topics
pertinent to the philosophy of mind. Specific topics addressed in the volume include: the problem
of mind-body dualism, the metaphysical status of the intellect, the question of when the individual
human life begins, the philosophy of cognition and knowledge, the nature of abstraction, and the
meaning of intentionality.
Volume 79, 2005 - Social Justice: Its Theory and Practice
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
In twenty original essays, scholars from around the world investigate a variety of philosophical
problems concerning the theory and practice of social justice. Included among the topics addressed
are: God and the problem of evil, the nature of crime and punishment, the meaning of just war
theory, the role of the courts and judicial interpretation, the meaning and experience of poverty,
the role of education, the promise of liberation theology, and the social significance of
philosophical discourse.
Volume 78, 2004 - Reckoning with the Tradition
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
In twenty-four essays, leading philosophers (including Nicholas Rescher, John Finnis, Gareth Matthews,
James Ross, Bonnie Kent, Ian Ker, and Lorenz Puntel) address questions about the meaning of tradition,
and the relevance of tradition for contemporary thought. The topics addressed in this volume
include the significance of the Augustinian, Thomistic, and Franciscan traditions; the philosophical
relevance of John Henry Newman; the prospects for metaphysics within the context of the Christian
tradition; traditional arguments concerning God, morality, causality, the problem of evil, and the
relation between mind and body; and the practical implications of traditional thought for
contemporary technological and ethical problems.
Volume 77, 2003 - Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
In twenty-two essays authors from around the world discuss the problems
and prospects of philosophical discourse in the midst of cultural pluralism.
The volume's contributors present their latest work on a number of inter-related topics,
including: the promises and challenges of religious pluralism; the importance of
analogical thinking in the context of cultural diversity; the philosophical foundations
and implications of human rights and justice; the role of religion in public life;
the concept of race; the meaning and role of education within an intercultural context.
Volume 76, 2002 - Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
This volume contains twenty new essays from leading scholars on the nature,
scope, possibilities, and boundaries of philosophy. The contributors present
ground-breaking work on a wide variety of philosophical issues, including:
the meaning and limits of onto-theology; the relation of reason to faith;
the paradoxes and problems of metaphysical reason; the role played by
imagination, language, allegory, analogy, and metaphor in philosophical
discourse; the historicity of reason; and the relation of knowledge to
value, or theory to practice.
Volume 75, 2001 - Person, Soul, and Immortality
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
This volume contains twenty-one new essays from leading scholars on philosophical
issues pertaining to the meaning of personhood, the nature of personal
identity and individuation, the ontological status of the human soul,
the problems and prospects of mind-body dualism, the possibility of immortal
life after physical death, and related themes in metaphysics, epistemology,
and ethics.
Volume 74, 2000 - Philosophical Theology
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
This volume includes contributions from internationally recognized scholars
on central themes in philosophical theology, including (among others)
the relation of reason to faith, the problem of evil, the doctrine of
creation, the possibility of the resurrection and life after death, human
freedom and divine foreknowledge, the efficacy of prayer, and modernity's
challenge to Christian belief.
Volume 73, 1999 - Insight and Inference
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
The focus of this volume is on the philosophical and historical status
of knowledge claims based on non-deductive reasoning. Topics discussed
include induction, the status of human intuition, perception, and rational
inference.
Tables of Contents


Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 978-1-889680-58-3 · Published October 2007 · 314 pages
- Anthony J. Lisska, Presidential Address - A Look at Inner Sense in Aquinas:
A Long-Neglected Faculty Psychology
- Alexander Eodice, Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Anthony Kenny, Aquinas Medalist's Address
- Anthony Kenny, The Beginning of Individual Human Life
- John Haldane, The Metaphysics of Intellet(ion)
- Kurt Pritzl, The Place of Intellect in Aristotle
- Jonathan J. Sanford, Aristotle's Divided Mind:
Some Thoughts on Intellectual Virtue and Aristotle's Occasional Dualism
- Jean DeGroot, A Husserlian Perspective on Empirical Mathematics in Aristotle
- Gloria Wasserman, Thomas Aquinas on Truths About Nonbeings
- Stephen Pimentel, Formal Identity as Isomorphism in Thomistic Philosophy of Mind
- Benjamin Hill, Why We Can No Longer Rationally Believe That Our Intellective Soul is a Substantive Form:
On the Degringolade of the Simplicity Argument
- H. M. Giebel, The Separate Minds of Church and State:
Collective Mental States and Their Unsettling Implications
- Richard C. Taylor, Abstraction in Al-Fârâbî
- Jon McGuinnis, Making Abstraction Less Abstract:
The Logical, Psychological, and Metaphysical Dimensions of Avicenna's Theory of Abstraction
- John Zeis, Evidentialism and Faith: Believing in Order to Know
- Bernando Cantens, Cognitive Faculties and Evolutionary Naturalism
- William Jaworski, Hylomorphism and Post-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind
- David B. Hershenov, Shoemaker's Problem of Too Many Thinkers
- Stephen R. Grimm, The Need for Explanation in the Philosophy of Mind: A Case Study
- Michael Schrynemakers, Vagueness and Pointless Evil
- Lorelle Lamascus, Aquinas and Themistius on Intellect
- Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, Aquinas in Intentions in the Medium and in the Mind
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- James Marsh, Presidential Address - Self-Appropriation and Liberation: Philosophizing in the Light of Catonsville
- Anthony Lisska, Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Brian Davies, Aquinas Medalist's Address: Thoughts about God
- Drucilla Cornell, Redemption in the Midst of Phantasmagoria (Dispelling the Fate of Socialism)
- William Desmond, Doing Justice and the Practice of Philosophy
- Elizabeth Linehan, Crime and Catholic Tradition: Restoration or Retribution?
- Emily Crookston, Strict Just War Theory and Conditional Pacifism
- Richard C. Taylor and Max Herrera, Aquinas's Naturalizing Epistemology
- Samuel B. Condic, How a priori is Lonergan?
- Edward McGushin, Reflections on a Critical Geneology of the Experience of Poverty
- Jason Bausher, M.A.R., "Greening" James L. Marsh's "Philosophy after Catonsville"
- James D. Madden and Louis A. Mancha, Jr., A Couonterfactual Analysis in Defense of Aquinas's Inference of Omnipotence from Creation Ex Nihilo
- Siobhan Nash-Marshall, Is Evil Really an Ontological Primitive
- Jeffrey J. Maciejewski, Natural Law, Natural Rhetoric, and Rhetorical Perversions
- Bernard G. Prusak, The Ancients, the Moderns, and the Courts
- William Jaworski, Hylomorphism and Mental Causation
- Kevin W. Sharpe, Aquinas and Non-Reductive Physicalism
- Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler, Karl Marx and the Critique of Bourgeois Philosophy
- Madonna Adams, The Concept of Work in Maria Montessori and Karl Mark
- Peter R. Costello, Towards a Phenomenology of Gratitude: What is Pleasing in the Euthyphro
- Donald J. Musacchio, Divine and Human Agency in the Work of Social Justice: Liberation Theology Responds to Radical Orthodoxy
ACPA Reports and Minutes
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 1-889680-44-3 · Published December 2005 · 324 pages
- Nicholas Rescher, Presidential Address: Faith, Respect for Tradition (And the Catholic Philosopher Today)
- Patrick Lee, Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- John Finnis, Aquinas Medalist's Address: Self-referential (or Performative) Inconsistency: Its Significance for Truth
- Gareth Matthews, The Aporetic Augustine
- James Ross, Adapting Aquinas: Analogy and Forms
- Bonnie Kent, Happiness and the Willing Agent: The Ongoing Relevance of the Franciscan Tradition
- Ian Kerr, Newman's Standing as a Philosopher
- Lorenz Puntel, How Can the Grand Metaphysical Qustions of the (Christian-)Metaphysical Tradition be Re-Thought Today?
- Stephen Pimentel, Thomas's Elusive Proof: A Reconstruction of the "Existential Argument" for the Existence of God
- Glenn Statile, The Uncertainty Principle and the Existence of God
- James M. Jacobs, The Relevance of Aristotle's Notion of Equity for the Contemporary Abortion Debate
- John Zeis, Killing Innocents and the Doctrine of Double Effect
- Lloyd Newton, Duns Scotus's Account of a Proper Quid Science of the Categories
- John Peterson, Are there Final Causes?
- Joe McCoy, The Appropriation of Myth and the Sayings of the Wise in Plato's Meno and Philebus
- William Jaworski, Hylymorphism and the Mind-Body Problem
- Aaron Martin, Reckoning with Ross: Possibles, Divine Ideas, and Virtual Practical Knowledge
- Brett Gaul, Is the Problem of Evil a Problem for Descartes
- Stephen Grimm, Value Incommensurability
- M. V. Dougherty, Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck: Reckoning with the Thomistic Ethical Tradition
- Michael R. Kelly, On the Mind's Pronouncement of Time: Aristotle, Augustine, and Husserl on Time-consciousness
- Chad Engelland, Augustinian Elements in Heidegger's Philosophical Anthropology: A Study of the Early Lecture Course on Augustine
- Max J. Latona, New Technologies, Old Distinctions: What's Wrong with Cloning?
- Raymond D. Boisvert, Ethics is Hospitality
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 1-889680-39-7 · Published July 2004 · 324 pages
- David Burrell Presidential Address: Faith, Culture, and Reason: Analagous Language and Truth
- Anthony J. Liska Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Michael Dummett Aquinas Medalist's Address
- Deirdre Carabine Outsiders on the Inside? Thinking About the Intercultural Understandingf of Gender Identity
- Faustine Pereira Human Rights, Human Wrongs, and the Problem of Multicultural Understanding
- Jacques Poulain Justice and Truth: A Critical Examination of the Liberal Contract
- James J. Delaney and Jeffrey Dueck A Rethinking of Contemporary Religious Tolerance
- John F.X. Knasas Does the Catholic Church Teach That There is no One True Philosophy?
- M.V. Dougherty On the Alleged Subalternate Character of Sacro Doctrina in Aquinas
- Michael Baur Newman on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences
- W. Matthews Grant Aquinas, Divine Simplicity, and Divine Freedom
- Louis A. Mancha, Jr. Defending God's Strong Conservation
- Catherine Jack Deavel Unity and Primary Substance for Aristotle
- James J. Madden Leibniz on Teleology and the Intelligibility of Nature
- Karl Schudt Are Animal Rights Inimical to Human Dignity?
- James W. Boettcher "Political Not Metaphysical": Reading the Bishops' Letter as a Form of Public Reason
- Joseph G. Trabbic Maimonides, Aquinas, and Interreligious Dialogue
- Andrew J. Dell'Olio Zhu Xi and Thomas Aquinas on the Foundations of Moral Self-Cultivation
- Atherton C. Lowry The Metaphysics of Culture: Its Being, Its Life, and Its Death
- Paul St. Amour Cultural Pluralism and the Limitations of the Classicist Conception of Culture
- Joshua P. Hochschild Did Aquinas Answer Cajetan's Question?: Aquinas's Semantic Rules for Analogy
- Antonio Donato The Role of Focus in Aquinas's Doctrine of Analogy
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-36-9 · Published July 2003 · 308 pages
- Patrick L. Bourgeois Presidential Address: Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason
- John J. Drummond Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Robert Sokolowski Aquinas Medalist's Address: Language, the Human Person, and Christian Faith
- Jean-Luc Marion The Unspoken: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love
- James L. Marsh Justice, Difference, and the Possibility of Metaphysics
- Adriaan Peperzak The Catholicity of a Catholic Philosopher
- Bernardo J. Cantens Peirce and the Spontaneous Conjectures of Instinctive Reason: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God
- Myron A. Penner The Quest for Natural Attitudes within Ontological Limits
- John J. Conley The Limits of Metaphysical Reason: Re-reading John Paul II
- Martin De Nys The Paradox at Reasons Boundary
- Phillip Stambovsky Mythemically Figuring the Limits of Ethical Reason: The Prelude of Fear and Trembling
- M.V. Dougherty Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory
- Jonathan J. Sanford Affective Insight: Scheler on Feeling and Values
- Alexander J. Doherty Aquinas on Scriptural Metaphor and Allegory
- Christine O'Connell Baur Dante as Philosopher at the Boundary of Reason
- Joseph G. Trabbic Aquinas and Continental Philosophy of Religion: Finding a Way Out of Ontotheology
- Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho The Maker's Knowledge Principle and the Limits of Science
- Avery Goldman The Metaphysics of Kantian Epistemology
- Lawrence Masek Why Kant's Project Did Not Have to Fail
- Lisa Bellantoni What Are Persons Made Of?
- Janette M. Blandford Employment-at-Will in the Context of Catholic Higher Education
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-35-0 · Published July 2002 · 348 pages
- James F. Ross Presidential Address: Together with the Body I Love
- Dominic J. Balestra Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Richard J. Blackwell Aquinas Medalist's Address: The Human Genome and the Mind-Body Problem
- Edwin M. Curley The Immortality of the Soul in Descartes and Spinoza
- Marilyn McCord Adams Ockham on the Soul: Elusive Proof, Dialectical Persuasions
- Alfred J. Freddoso Good News, Your Soul Hasn't Died Quite Yet
- Mark Amorose Aristotle's Immortal Intellect
- Carl N. Still Do We Know All after Death? Thomas Aquinas on the Disembodied Soul's Knowledge
- Bernardo J. Cantens A Solution to the Problem of Personal Identity in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas
- Silas Langley Aquinas, Resurrection, and Material Continuity
- Mark Van Hollebeke To Thine Own Self Be True: Tensions in Bernard Lonergan's Conception of Self-Appropriation
- Gregory B. Sadler Blondel's Conception of the Option between Egoism and Charity and Its Consequences for Intellectual Life and Culture
- Daniel Collins-Cavanaugh The Augustinian Impact on the History of Time
- John F. Crosby Is All Evil Really only Privation?
- Michael Winter An Axiomatic Approach to Aristotle's Ethics
- W. Matthews Grant Aquinas among Libertarians and Compatibilists: Breaking the Logic of Theological Determinism
- Christopher M. Brown Aquinas on the Individuation of Non-living Substances
- John White Max Scheler's Tripartite Anthropology
- Justin Skirry A Hylomorphic Interpretation of Descartes's Theory of Mind-Body Union
- Gordon Barnes Should Property-Dualists Be Substance-Hylomophists?
- James Kow What Philosophy Can Appropriately Say about the Person in the Eucharist
- Brian Treanor God and the Other Person: Levinas's Appropriation of Kierkegaard's Encounter with Otherness
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-34-2 · Published June 2001 · 364 pages
- Eleonore Stump Presidential Address: Francis and Dominic: Persons, Patterns, and Trinity
- Ralph McInerny Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- Peter Geach Aquinas Medalist's Address: Time and Eternity
- David B. Burrell Analogy, Creation, and Theological Language
- Matthias Lutz-Bachmann The Critique of Reason in Modern Philosophy and the Cognitive Status of Religion
- Peter Van Inwagen The Argument from Particular Horrendous Evils
- John F. Wipple Thomas Aquinas on Our Knowledge of God and the Axiom that Every Agent Produces Something Like Itself
- John P. O'Callaghan Verbum mentis: Philosophical or Theological Doctrine in Aquinas?
- Bernardo Cantens The Interdependency between Aquinas's Doctrine of Creation and His Metaphysical Principle of the Limitation of Act by Potency
- Michael Baur Kant's Moral Proof: Defense and Implications
- Gregory B. Sadler Hegel and Religion: The Second Enlightenment
- Michael Gorman Personal Unity and the Problem of Christ's Knowledge
- Katherin A. Rogers A Defense of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo Argument
- Montague Brown Infinite Regress Revisited
- Jason T. Eberl The Metaphysics of Resurrection: Issues of Identity in Aquinas
- Denis F. Sullivan Disagreement and Objectivity in Ethics: Aquinas on the Common Precepts of the Natural Law
- John Huldane The Examined Death and the Hope of the Future
- Paul St. Amour The Scale-Wielding God and the Limits of Philosophical Theodicy
- Lawrence Masek Petitionary Prayer to an Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent God
- Thomas Anderson Marcel's Philosophical Reflections on Faith
- Alexander R. Eodice Innocence Lost and Found
- W. Matthews Grant Counterfactuals of Freedom, Future Contingents, and the Grounding Objection to Middle Knowledge
- John F. Crosby How is it Possible Knowingly to do Wrong?
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Michael Baur, Fordham University
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-33-4 · Published June 2000 · 348 pages
- Thomas A. Russman Presidential Address: Rationalism and Nihilism: Partners in the Interminable Dance
- Stephen F. Brown Presentation of the Aquinas Medal
- John F. Wippel Aquinas Medalist's Address
- John Haldane Insight, Inference, and Intellection
- Hugo Meynell Insight, Inference, and 'Induction'
- Bas C. van Fraassen How Is Scientific Revolution/Conversion Possible?
- Michael Degnan The Scope of Aristotle's Defense of the Principle of Non-contradiction
- Jean De Groot The Status and Significance of Aristotle's Definition of Nature
- James Duffy Insights Into and In the History of Philosophy
- Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho Some Main Aspects of the Dispute over Intuitive Thought in Modem Philosophy
- John F. Crosby Inference and Intuition in the Understanding of Other Persons: A Critical Discussion of Max Scheler
- Janette Blandford Hume's Theory of Meaning: Insight into the Nature of Religious Discourse
- John F.X. Knasas Aquinas' Metaphysics and Descartes' Methodic Doubt
- Jay Newman The Illative Sense vs. Interpretation: D'Arcy's Critique of Newman's Approach To Insight and Inference
- Mark C. Murphy Functioning and Flourishing
- Mark Barber The Scope of Intention
- John Greco Skepticism and the Modern Ontology
- Donald Ferrari The Two Meanings of 'Perceive'
- Patrick H. Byrne Insight, Inference, and Aristotle's Theory of Demonstration
- Ernan McMullin Imagination, Insight, and Inference
- Vincent Colapietro Testing Our Traditional 'Intuition': Pragmatic Reflections On a Complex Inheritance
- Shane Drefcinski Is There Any Insight in Dewey's Instrumentalism?
- Paul J. Weithman Philosophy at Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States:
The Results of the ACPA-Notre Dame Survey
ACPA Reports and Minutes
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ISSN 0665-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-32-6 · 364 pages
- Jorge J.E. Gracia Presidential Address: The Interpretation of Revealed Texts: Do We Know What God Means?
- Timothy Noone Presentation of Aquinas Medal
- Allan Wolter Medalist's Address
- Josef Seifert Texts and Things: Towards a New Theory of Hermeneutics
- Susan Haack Misinterpretation and the 'Rhetoric of Science': Or What Was the Color of the Horse?
- Joseph Margolis Selves and Other Texts
- Nicholas Rescher The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts
- Robert Pannier and Thomas Sullivan Gathering Materials to Philosophize: Elements of an Aristotelian Approach to Texts
- Nicholas Plants Therapeutic Interpretation: Rorty's Pragmatic Hopes and Fears
- Marie George Aristotelian-Thomistic Reflections on the Use of Metaphors and Parables in Philosophy
- Christopher Gray Aristotle's Text on Justice: Its Treatment
- Gene Fendt The (Moral) Problem of Reading Confessions: Augustine's Double Argument Against Drama
- James K.A. Smith The Time of Language: The Fall to Interpretation in Early Augustine
- John Wilcox Our Knowledge of God in Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Quaestiones 3-6: Positive or Negative?
- Leo White Why the Cogitative Power?
- John Greco Perception as Interpretation
- Pol Vandevelde Poetry as Subversion of Narrative in Heidegger
- Michael Sweeney Stat rosa pristina marginae: Umberto Eco on the Role of the Margin in Medieval Hermeneutics and Aquinas as a Comic Philosopher
- Fritz Monsma How to Read Descartes
- Jane Kelley Rodeheffer On Spiritual Maternity: Edith Stein, Aristotle, and the Nature of Woman
- Beverly Whelton Human Nature, Substantial Change, and Modem Science: Rethinking When a New Human Life Begins
- Kenneth Kemp Euthanasia
- Denis Sullivan Intrinsically Evil Acts: Clarifying a Confused Debate
ACPA Reports and Minutes
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-31-8 · 301 pages
- Linda T. Zagzebski Presidential Address: Virtue in Ethics and Epistemology
- Wilfried Ver Eecke Presentation of the Medal
- Louis Dupré Medalist's Address
- J. L. A. Garcia Interpersonal Virtues: Whose Interest Do They Seek?
- Eleonore Stump Aquinas on Justice
- John Haldane What Future Has Catholic Philosophy?
- Sandra Menssen Maximal Wickedness vs. Maximal Goodness
- John D. Kronen Can God Feel? A Critique of Theological Impassivism
- Brian Leftow Divine Action and Embodiment
- Richard Brian Davis Zagzebski and Interesting Counterpossibles
- Ian Wilks The Role of Virtue Theory and Natural Law in Abelard's Ethical Writings
- Michael Potts C. S. Lewis, Aquinas's Theory of Habituation, and the Fall: A Via Media Between Augustine and Hick
- Patrick H. Byrne Phronêsis and Commonsense Judgment: Aristotle and Lonergan on Moral Wisdom
- Steven Jensen Goods of Consequence and Goods of Virtue
- James Bernard Murphy Virtue and the Good of Friendship
- Gavin T. Colvert Aquinas on Raising Cain: Vice, Incontinence, and Responsibility
- Richard K. Mansfield Antecedent Passion and the Moral Quality of Human Acts According to St. Thomas
- James M. DuBois On Finding the Self to be Substantial: A Preface to Virtue Theory
- Thomas A. Cavanaugh Act-Evaluation, Willing and Double Effect
- Alice Ramos Beauty and the Perfection of Being
- Michael Winter Practical Reason and a Demonstrative Science of Aristotle's Ethics
ACPA Reports and Minutes
Edited by Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-30-X · 297 pages
- Thomas C. Anderson Presidential Address: Technology and the Decline of Leisure
- Vincent Punzo Christian Hope in a Technological Age
- Albert Borgmann Technology and the Crisis of Contemporary Culture
- Carl Mitcham The Philosophical Challenge of Technology
- Ivan Illich Philosophy ... Artifacts ... Friendshipand the History of the Gaze
- Robert E. Wood Architecture: The Confluence of Art, Technology,and Nature
- Daniel M. McInerny Electric Technology and Poetic Mimesis
- Daryl J. Wennemann From Absurdity to Decision: The Challenge of Responsibility in a Technological Society
- R. Philip Buckley Rationality and Responsibility in Heidegger's and Husserl's View of Technology
- Stephen A. Dinan The Machine That Couldn't Think Straight
- Sandra Menssen Grading Worlds
- Graham McAleer Saint Anselm: An Ethics of Caritas for a Relativist Agent?
- John D. Jones St. Thomas Aquinas and the Defense of Mendicant Poverty
- Montague Brown Beauty and Technology as Paradigms for the Moral Life
- John E. Jalbert Habermas, Fichte and the Question of Technological Determinism
- Timothy Casey Medieval Technology and the Husserlian Critique of Galilean Science
- Michael J. Malone Donagan on Cases of Necessity
- Jeffrey Coombs Modal Voluntarism in Descartes's Jesuit Predecessors
- Christopher J. Thompson Christian Identity and Augustine's Confessions
- David Tweeten Clearing a 'Way' for Aquinas: How the Proof from Motion Concludes to God
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-29-6 · 284 pages
- Robert E. Wood Presidential Address: The Recovery of the Aesthetic Center
- Jude P. Dougherty Presentation of the Medal
- John T. Noonan, Jr Medalist's Address
- William Wallace A Place for Form in Science: The Modelling of Nature
- Louis Dupré Form and Transformation in the Modern Conception of Humanness
- Robert Sokolowski Modern Science and Material and Formal Causality
- Fred D. Miller, Jr. Aristotelian Natural Form and TeleologyReconsidered
- Laura Landen Of Forests and Trees: The Limits of Form
- Thomas Sullivan and Greg Coulter Philosophy and Revelation: Is Philosophy a Form of Unbelief?
- R. E. Houser Trans-Forming Philosophical Water into Theological Wine: Gilson and Aquinas
- Lloyd W. J. Aultman-Moore Cultural and Natural Forms in the Thought of Wendell Berry
- Richard Khuri Formal Freedom for the Sake of Higher Meaning in Modern Art: Cezanne, Chagall and Kandinsky
- Jonathan Jacobs The Forms of Realism
- John Zeis Warrant and Form
- Jerrold Caplan The Coherence of Plato's Ontology
- Eric Perl The Living Image: Form and the Erotic Intellect in Plato
- Thomas Sullivan and Russell Panier God and Subsistent Forms in De Ente et Essentia
- Michael Gorman Logical and Metaphysical Form: Lessons from the Theory of Dependence
- Donald Abel Intellectual Substance as Form of the Body in Aquinas
- Alice Ramos A Metaphysics of the Truth of Creation: Foundation for the Desire of God
- Joan Franks Nous as Human Form: Reflections on the De Anirna
- Michael Degnan Searle on Free Will and Thinking
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-28-5 · 302 pages
- Thomas R. Flynn Presidential Address: The Future Perfect and the Perfect Future: History has its Reasons
Ralph McInerny Presentation of the Meda
- Jude P. Dougherty Medalist's Address
- John Caputo Reason, History, and a Little Madness: Toward a Herrneneutics of Christian Historicality
- David Carr Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Philosophy of History
- Kenneth Schmitz What Happens to Tradition When History Overtakes It
- John Zeis The Epistemic Passage of the Five Ways
- Elmar J. Kremer The Hume-Plantinga Objection to the Argument from Design
- Lloyd Gerson Why Ethics is Political Science for Aristotle
- Walter J. Thompson Aristotle: Philosophy and Politics, Theory and Practice
- Michael Baur Hegel and Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and Historicity
- Martin J. De Nys The Substance of Knowing Is History: Absolute Knowing and History in Hegel's Phenornenology
- Michael J. Degnan Aristotle on Unqualified Knowledge: Do Referential Universals Solve the Meno Paradox?
- Russell Pannier and Thomas D. Sullivan Aquinas's Solution to the Problem of Universals in De Ent et Essentia
- John Haldane Reason, Truth and Sacred History?
- Helmut Hoping Time, Eternity, and the Visual Moment (Augenbliek): Heidegger and the Problem of a Theology of Time
- Daniel Westberg Thomistic Law and the Moral Theory of Richard Hooker
- Myron Sloboda Intuition, Involvement, Interrogation: The Meaning of Self-Making
- Sandra Menssen The Existential Problem of Evil: Reflections on the Analogy Between Creation and Procreation
- R. E. Houser Chronos and Logos: Rhetoric and the Rise of Philosophy
- Paul E. Hoyt-O'Connor Lonergan and Bellah: Social Science as Public Philosophy
- Prudence Allen Rationality, Gender, and History
Edited by Michael Baur, Catholic University of America
ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-27-4 · 281 pages
- Lawrence Dewan Presidential Address: Truth and Happiness
- Ralph McInerny Medalist's Address
- Benedict Ashley Truth and Technology
- Hugo Meynell The Importance of Religious Truth
- Ralph Nelson Political Philosophy vs. Political Ideology
- John C. McCarthy How Knowing the World Completes the World: A Note on Aquinas and Husserl
- Paul Gallagher Feuerbach and Nietzsche on the Significance of Dreaming
- James Kow Ethics, Politics and Ontology
- Joseph Spoerl What's Wrong with Egoism?
- Sandra Menssen and Thomas Sullivan God Does Not Harden Hearts
- Edward A. Synan The Stronger Truth of Aquinas
- Lloyd Gerson Eternal Truth: Plotinus, Aquinas, and James Ross
- Kenneth Kemp and Thomas Sullivan Speaking Falsely and Telling Lies
- Don T. Asselin A Narrow Defense of the Hippocratic Proscription of Killing
- Marie I. George Imagination as Source of Falsehood in Aquinas
- Patricia Fauser Authentic Existence in Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay
- Steven Baldner Is St. Albert the Great a Dualist on Human Nature?
- Lance Simmons Abelardian Ethics Reconstructed
- Kurt Pritzl Aristotle: Ways of Truth and Ways of Opinion
- Montague Brown Aristotle and Augustine on the Way to Truth: Essential Agreement and Existential Difference
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-26-3 · 290 pages
- Mary F. Rousseau Presidential Address: The Primacy of Gender
- Kenneth L. Schmitz Medalist's Address
- Francis George Being Through and Being in Christ: Esse Per and Ecclesial Communion
- R. Mary Hayden Lemmons The Primacy of Love in Aquinas's Natural Law
- John T. Noonan Three Real Relations
- Susan F. Krantz Humility and Teleology in Kant's Third Critique
- Richard White Morality as a Self-Relation
- David Banach Who Do You Think You Are? Relations, Subjectivity, and the Identity of Persons
- Lloyd P. Gerson The Ignorance of Socrates
- Philip Clayton Descartes and Infinite Perfection
- Ronald J. Tacelli Bradley on Relations: A Defence
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-25-2 · 308 pages
- Frederick J. Crosson Presidential Address: The Analogy of Religion
- Janice L. Schultz Aquinas Medal Presentation
- Msgr. Edward A. Synan Medalist's Address: Advice from a Thomist
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- Robert Sokolowski Christian Religious Discourse
- Kenneth L. Schmitz Natural Religion, Morality and Lessing's Ditch
- Susan F. Krantz The Tragic and the Religious: Openness to the Mystery in Caputo's Radical Hermeneutics
- Stephen A. Dinah The Tantalizing Absence of God
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- Mark F. Johnson Why Five Ways?
- Robert E. Lauder Religious Story, Religious Truth, Religious Pluralism: A Prolegomenon to Religious Faith
- Patrick Bourgeois & Gary Herbert The Religious Significance of Ricoeur's Post-Hegelian Kantian Ethics
- Mary C. Sommers He spak to [T]hem that wolde lyve parfitly: Thomas Aquinas, the Wife of Bath and the Two Senses of Religion
- Joseph J. Godfrey Trust, the Heart of Religion: A Sketch
- Gregory J. Coulter St. Thomas Aquinas on Explaining Individuality
- John F.X. Knasas Incommensurability and Aquinas's Metaphysics
- Marie I. George The Wonder of the Poet; The Wonder of the Philosopher
- Andrew N. Woznicki Theantropic Foundations of Religious Beliefs
- Rose Mary Hayden Aquinas and Natural Human Fulfillment: Inconsistencies
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- Gerald A. McCool Presidential Address: Is Thomas' Way of Philosophizing Still Viable Today?
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- Thomas R. Flynn Phenomenology and Faith: From Description to Explanation and Back
- James F. Ross The Fate of the Analysts: Aristotle's Revenge
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- Clyde L. Miller The Icon and the Wall: Visio and Ratio in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei
- Edward Papa Analytic Philosophy and the Question of Tolerance
- Gary Atkinson A Defense of Intuitions: Their Role in Moral Knowledge
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- Lawrence P. Schrenk John Philoponus on the Immortal Soul
- Gregory Coulter Aquinas on the Identity of Mind and Substantial Form
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- John F. X Knasas The Fundamental Nature of Aquinas' Secunda Operatio Intellectus
- Andrea Croce Birch Peirce's Three Arguments for the Reality of God
- David O'Connor A Skeptical Defense of Theism
- Gary B. Herbert The Labor of Consciousness and the Worlding of Natural Rights in Hobbes and Locke
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- George Kovacs The Way to God as Absolute Transcendence
- John F. Crosby The Dialectic of Autonomy and Theonomy in the Human Person
- Vincent C. Punzo David Hume and the Search for Right Reason in Ethics
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- Germain Grisez When Do People Begin?
- G. E. M. Anscombe Why Have Children?
- James Hanink Childhood Betrayed: A Personalist Analysis
- R. Mary Hayden The Paradox of Aquinas's Altruism: From Self-Love to Love of Others
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- Michael A. Vaccari Law Without Values: Do the Unborn Have to Wait for a Consensus?
- Raymond M. Herbenick Natural Fetal Dependency States and Fetal Dependency Principles
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- William R. Rehg Lonergan's Performative Transcendental Argument Against Scepticism
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-18-0 · 195 pages
- Germain Grisez Presidential Address: Practical Reasoning and Christian Faith
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- James P. Sterba Contemporary Moral Philosophy and Practical Reason
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-17-2 · 218 pages
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- Robert E. Lauder Person in the World: A Call to God
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- Douglas B. Rasmussen Rorty and the Nature of Intentionality
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- Emerine Glowienka Aquinas With the Linguists on 'Matter'
- Kenneth T. Gallagher Beginning Epistemology
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- David A. White Part and Whole in Aristotle's Concept of Infinity
- Wayne P. Pomerleau Does Reason Demand That God Be Infinite?
- John F.X. Knasas Super-God: Divine Infinity and Human Self-Determination
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- Joseph L. Lombardi Killing, Letting Die, and Euthanasia
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ISSN 0065-7638 · ISBN 0-918090-13-X · 211 pages
- George F. McLean Dedication of the 1979 Aquinas Medal to Pope John Paul II
- Karol Wojtyla The Task of Christian Philosophy Today
- Vernon J. Bourke Aeterni Patris, Gilson and Christian Philosophy
- Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka The Origins of the Philosophy of John Paul II
- Andrew N. Woznicki The Christian Humanism of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla
- Mary Morkovsky Catholic Philosophy in Latin America Today
- John Caputo The Presence of the Other: A Phenomenology of the Human Person
- J. M. Cameron Bodily Existence
- Richard Reilly Will and the Concept of a Person
- Louise Marcel-Lacoste Women as Persons
- John F. X. Knasas Aquinas and Finite Gods
- Stanley M. Harrison Charles S. Peirce: Reflections on Being a Man-Sign
- John King-Farlow Negation and the Soul
- Mary L. O'Hara Some Marxist Theories of Personality
- Janet A. Kournay and James P. Sterba How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free Action
- Louis Valeke De Physis á Nomos... et retour
- John U. Lewis The Power of Law: Mill, Devlin, and Aquinas on the Relation Between Law and Morality
- Joseph M. Boyle Quality of Life Standards and Withholding Life Saving Treatment
- Barry F. Brown On Killing and Letting Die
- Charles F. Kielkopf On the Structure of Chastity
- Oscar J. Brown Aquinas' Doctrine of Slavery in Relation to Thomistic Teaching on Natural Law
- Armand Maurer Time and the person
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ISSN 0065-7638 · 251 pages
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- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen The I and Aquinas
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- John D. Jones The Character of the Negative (Mystical) Theology for Pseudo-Dioynsius Areopagite
- Frederick C. Copleston Ethics and Metaphysics: East and West
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- Austin B. Creel Contemporary Hindu Ethics
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- Lik Kuen Tong Knowledge, Power, and the Good: Some Comparative Reflections
- Bernard J. F. Lonergan Natural Right and Historical Mindedness
- Germain Grisez Choice and Consequentialism
- Richard J. Blackwell Science, Objectivity, and Human Values
- Henry B. Veatch On the Use and Abuse of the Principle of Universalizability
- Edward A. Synan Useful Rhymes and Good Reasons
- Denis F. Sullivan Peirce and the Truth of Moral Propositions
- Katharine Rose Hanley Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity
- John K. Kearney Hume, Whitehead and Perception
- James J. Valone Conflicts in the Later Husserl's Ontology and Theory of Knowledge
- Arthur F. McGovern Should a Christian be a Marxist?
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ISSN 0065-7638 · 187 pages
- Charles Malik Association Address: Justice in the International Order
- Carl W. Grindel Presidential Address: Justice and the Philosophers
- Vernon J. Bourke Foundations of Justice
- Brendan F. Brown Justice in the Natural and Civil Law
- John A. Oesterle Justice in SocietyThe State and the Individual
- William Oliver Martin The Intentionality of Distributive Justice
- Thomas McGovern Ethics as Science
- Germain G. Grisez The Logic of Moral Judgment
- Augustine Osguiach Analogy of the Concept of Substance and Application to Cosmology
- Sister M. Kevin O'Hara Toward a Norm for Normality
- Jude P. Dougherty Randall's Notion of Substance
- Daniel C. Walsh Some Reflections on the Concept of Substance in Mediaeval Philosophy
- C. H. Geraets and Daniel Roach The Object of Social Justice
- Ralph M. McInerny Ethics and Subjectivity
- Harry La Plante Justice and Friendship in Aristotle's Social Philosophy
- William M. Walton The Christian Philosophy of Monsignor Edward A. Pace; Its Relevance for the Sixties
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