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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association

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November 11, 2023

  • Daniel Patrick Moloney
    Moralistic Therapeutic Holiness
    A Catholic Defense of Philosophy as Therapy for the Soul
    first published on November 11, 2023
  • Daniel Shields
    Infinite Regress and the Hume-Edwards-Ockham Objection:
    A Thomistic Analysis
    first published on November 11, 2023

November 4, 2023

  • Francis Feingold
    Reasons of the Heart
    The “Evidence” of Love in Pascal’s Pensées
    first published on November 4, 2023
  • John Skalko
    Aquinas on Animal Cognitive Action in Light of the Texts of Aristotle
    first published on November 4, 2023
  • Ryan Michael Miller
    80,000 Hours for the Common Good
    A Thomistic Appraisal of Effective Altruis
    first published on November 4, 2023

November 2, 2023


October 30, 2023

  • Patrick Fisher
    The Metaphysics of Mathematical Explanation in Science
    Platonist and Nominalist Problems and Aristotelian Solutions
    first published on October 30, 2023
  • William Rehg
    Habermas on Moral Motivation and Secular Hope
    A Contribution from Aquinas
    first published on October 30, 2023

October 29, 2023

  • Marie George
    Is Nicanor Austriaco’s Reformulation of Hylomorphism in Terms of Systems Biology Successful?
    first published on October 29, 2023
  • William Hannegan
    The Problem of Enframing for Natural Law
    first published on October 29, 2023
  • Harrison Lee
    Four Objections to a Broad Scope Theory of Intention
    first published on October 29, 2023

October 28, 2023

  • Joseph Gamache
    Hildebrandian Importance as a Scale of Forms
    Why Value is Properly a Philosophical Concept
    first published on October 28, 2023
  • Josh Taccolini
    Emotions and Moral Judgment
    An Evaluation of Contemporary and Historical Emotion Theories
    first published on October 28, 2023
  • Travis Dumsday
    A Bonaventurean Approach to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
    first published on October 28, 2023

September 17, 2022

  • Naomi Fisher
    “The Beautiful is the Symbol of the Morally Good”
    Judgments of Beauty and the Supersensible in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
    first published on September 17, 2022

September 15, 2022

  • Joseph Cherny
    A Defense of Robert Nozick’s Theory of the Meaning of Life
    Some Thomistic Considerations
    first published on September 15, 2022

September 13, 2022

  • Harrison Jennings
    A Thomistic Sexual Realism
    first published on September 13, 2022

September 10, 2022

  • Gaston G. LeNotre
    Why Is It That “Goodness is Good” but “Whiteness is Not White”?
    Thomas Aquinas, Philip the Chancellor, and their Neoplatonic Sources on Reflex Predication
    first published on September 10, 2022
  • Christopher V. Mirus
    Time, Eternity, Relativity, and History
    first published on September 10, 2022

September 7, 2022

  • Michael J. Rubin
    Aquinas on Bodily or Sensible Beauty
    first published on September 7, 2022
  • Alice M. Ramos
    What is the Meaning of Beauty’s Leading Us before the Face of God?
    first published on September 7, 2022

September 3, 2022

  • Joshua Hinchie
    Divine Glory: Responding to Another Euthyphro Problem
    first published on September 3, 2022

September 1, 2022

  • Alexander Pruss
    The Cosmos as a Work of Art
    A Skeptical Theist Approach That Isn’t Too Skeptical
    first published on September 1, 2022

August 30, 2022

  • Ryan Michael Miller
    Aesthetic Truth Through the Ages
    A Lonerganian Theory of Art History
    first published on August 30, 2022

August 27, 2022

  • Mark K. Spencer
    Divine Beauty and Our Obligation to Worship God
    first published on August 27, 2022

August 3, 2022

  • M. T. Lu
    How Is Patriotism a Virtue?
    first published on August 3, 2022

August 2, 2022

  • Chad Engelland
    Three Versions of the Question, “Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?”
    first published on August 2, 2022
  • Pol Vandevelde
    The Romantic Hermeneutic Ideal of “Understanding Better” as an Ethical Imperative
    first published on August 2, 2022

June 2, 2021

  • Anselm Ramelow
    A Perennial Theology of Nature
    first published on June 2, 2021

May 13, 2021

  • John H. Boyer, Daniel C. Wagner
    Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas on What is “Better-Known” in Natural Science
    first published on May 13, 2021

May 5, 2021

  • Christopher Frey
    Aristotle on Activity as a Variety of Rest
    first published on May 5, 2021

May 1, 2021

  • Michael Rauschenbach
    Theistic Moral Realism, Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, and a Catholic Philosophy of Nature
    first published on May 1, 2021
  • Allison Postell
    The Nature of Virtue Ethics
    first published on May 1, 2021

April 30, 2021

  • Elliot Polsky
    “In As Many Ways As Something Is Predicated . . . in That Many Ways Is Something Signified to Be”
    The Logic behind Thomas Aquinas’s Predication Thesis, Esse Substantiale, and Esse in Rerum Natura
    first published on April 30, 2021
  • Jean De Groot
    The Significance of Hylomorphism
    first published on April 30, 2021

April 29, 2021

  • Ignacio De Ribera-Martin
    Generation and Homonymy in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
    first published on April 29, 2021
  • R. E. Houser
    Aquinas the Avicennian: Prologue to the Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
    first published on April 29, 2021

April 28, 2021

  • Ryan Michael Miller
    Perennial Symmetry Arguments: Aristotle’s Heavenly Cosmology and Noether’s First Theorem
    first published on April 28, 2021

April 27, 2021

  • Christopher V. Mirus
    Relation is not a Category: A Sketch of Relation as a Transcendental
    first published on April 27, 2021
  • Thomas McLaughlin
    A Defense of Natural Place in a Contemporary Scientific Context
    first published on April 27, 2021
  • M. T. Lu
    Is Piety a Natural Virtue?
    first published on April 27, 2021
  • Marie I. George
    A Defense of the Distinction Between Plants and Animals
    first published on April 27, 2021

April 24, 2021

  • Daniel D. De Haan
    Is Philosophy of Nature Irrelevant?
    first published on April 24, 2021
  • Jameson Cockerell
    Divine Esse Without Ontological Significance
    Jean-Luc Marion’s Challenge to Aquinas
    first published on April 24, 2021
  • John G. Brungardt
    Is Aristotelian-Thomistic Natural Philosophy Still Relevant to Cosmology?
    first published on April 24, 2021
  • James Mattingly
    Empiricism and Natural Philosophy
    first published on April 24, 2021

April 23, 2021

  • Timothy Kearns
    Substantial Form in Modern Physics and the Other Sciences—and a New Picture of the Cosmos
    first published on April 23, 2021

April 22, 2021


September 18, 2020

  • Jonathan Fuqua
    Metaethical Mooreanism and Evolutionary Debunking
    first published on September 18, 2020
  • Steven Baldner
    Thomas Aquinas and Natural Inclination in Non-Living Nature
    first published on September 18, 2020
  • John G. Brungardt
    Is Personal Dignity Possible Only If We Live in a Cosmos?
    first published on September 18, 2020
  • Francis Feingold
    Is the Institution of Private Property Part of the Natural Law? Ius gentium and ius naturale in Aquinas’s Account of the Right to “Steal” When in Urgent Need
    first published on September 18, 2020

September 12, 2020

  • Jason T. Eberl, Christopher Ostertag
    Conscience, Compromise, and Complicity
    first published on September 12, 2020

September 10, 2020

  • Francis J. Beckwith
    Faith, Reason, and the Liberal Order
    first published on September 10, 2020

August 13, 2020

  • David McPherson
    Humane Philosophy as Public Philosophy
    A Path for Religious Engagement in Public Life
    first published on August 13, 2020
  • J. L. A. Garcia
    A Volitional Account of Racist Beliefs, Contamination, and Objects
    Engaging Dr. Urquidez
    first published on August 13, 2020

August 9, 2020

  • Scott J. Roniger
    Philosophy, Freedom, and Public Life
    Plato’s Gorgias as a Protreptic
    first published on August 9, 2020
  • Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP
    Believing the Incomprehensible God
    Aquinas on Understanding God’s Testimony
    first published on August 9, 2020
  • Alexander R. Pruss
    Counseling Lesser and Proportionate Evils
    A Principled Defense
    first published on August 9, 2020

July 15, 2020

  • Christopher Kaczor
    A Defense of Conscientious Objection in Health Care
    A Reply to Recent Objections
    first published on July 15, 2020

October 24, 2019

  • Hilary Yancey
    Frontiers of Analogous Justice
    A Thomistic Approach to Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals
    first published on October 24, 2019
  • Christopher Tomaszewski
    A Geachian Cure for Morally Paralyzed Skeptical Theists
    first published on October 24, 2019
  • Robert Verrill, OP
    Elementary Particles are not Substances
    first published on October 24, 2019

October 23, 2019

  • Marco Stango
    Understanding Hylomorphic Dualism
    first published on October 23, 2019
  • Karl Hahn
    “The Mystical is Everything Speculative”
    Natural Theology in Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
    first published on October 23, 2019

October 22, 2019

  • Christopher O. Blum
    Nature and Modernity
    Can One Philosophize about Nature Today?
    first published on October 22, 2019
  • Lindsay K. Cleveland
    “Property” Characterization and the Status of Accidental Unities in Aquinas
    A Response to Brower
    first published on October 22, 2019

October 3, 2019

  • Michael Potts
    Catholic Hylomorphism, Disembodied Consciousness, and Temporary Bodies
    first published on October 3, 2019
  • Chad Engelland
    Dispositive Causality and the Art of Medicine
    first published on October 3, 2019
  • Gregory M. Reichberg
    Restrictive versus Permissive Double Effect
    Interpreting Aquinas
    first published on October 3, 2019

September 13, 2019

  • Matthew Pietropaoli
    A Fruitful Crisis of Belief
    Hans Jonas on a Proper Mode of Faith within the Context of Modernity
    first published on September 13, 2019
  • Joshua Lee Harris
    Things within Things? Toward an Ontology of the Firm
    first published on September 13, 2019

September 6, 2019

  • Jeremy W. Skrzypek
    Complex Survivalism, or
    How to Lose Your Essence and Live to Tell About It
    first published on September 6, 2019
  • Mark K. Spencer
    Grace, Natura Pura, and the Metaphysics of Status
    Personalism and Thomism on the Historicity of the Human Person and the Genealogy of Modernity
    first published on September 6, 2019

August 29, 2019

  • Maria Fedoryka
    “God is Love”
    Personal Plurality as the Completion of Aristotle’s Notion of Substance and Love as the Absolute Ground of the Divine Being
    first published on August 29, 2019
  • Joseph Gamache
    Doxastic Involuntarism and Evidentialism
    A Curious Modern Conjunction
    first published on August 29, 2019

April 3, 2018

  • John Skalko
    Why Did Aquinas Hold That Killing is Sometimes Just, But Never Lying?
    first published on April 3, 2018

March 2, 2018

  • William Matthew Diem
    Obligation, Justice, and Law
    A Thomistic Reply to Anscombe
    first published on March 2, 2018

March 1, 2018

  • Seamus O’Neill
    Augustine and Aquinas on Demonic Possession
    Theoria and Praxis
    first published on March 1, 2018
  • James Dominic Rooney, OP
    Goods and Groups
    Thomistic Social Action and Metaphysics
    first published on March 1, 2018
  • R. E. Houser
    Aquinas
    Justice as a Cardinal Virtue
    first published on March 1, 2018

February 28, 2018

  • Terence Sweeney
    Beginning and Ending with Hestia
    Finding a Home for Justice in Plato’s Political Philosophy
    first published on February 28, 2018