Interests
- Ethics
- Catholic Higher Education
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Virtue Theory
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Early Phenomenology
Education
- Ph.D., University of Buffalo, State University of New York, 2001
- H.A.B. (Honors B.A.), Xavier University, Summa Cum Laude, 1997
Graduate Courses Taught:
- Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues
- Contemporary Virtue Ethics
- Emotion and Judgment
- Modern Political Philosophy
- Nietzsche and the Greeks
- Texts of Plato.
- Texts of Aquinas
- Texts of Aristotle
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
- Thomas Aquinas
- Medieval Philosophy
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Foundations of Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of the Human Person
Publications
Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, June 2015).
Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics , interview
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry, editor (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays, co-edited with Michael Gorman, (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America
Press, 2004).
Neo-Platonism and Its Legacy, co-edited with Sarah Wear, Volume 2, Issues 1 & 2 ofQuaestiones Disputatae, Spring-Fall 2011.
“Justice is Beautiful: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Justice as a Virtue,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance, edited by Alice Ramos (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press), forthcoming 2019.
“Whose Aristotelianism? MacIntyre, Neo-Aristotelianism, and Morality,” Politics and Poetics, IV, Article ID: 349644, October 2018.
Aristotle on Evil as Privation, International Philosophical Quarterly, 57 (2017): 195-209.Nature and the Common Good: Aristotle and Maritain on the Environment, in On Earth as it is in Heaven: Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation, edited by David Meconi, S.J., and Christopher Thompson (Grand Rapids,MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016): 212-233.
Newman and the Virtue of Philosophy,Expositions, 9 (2015): 41-55.
Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Christian Elevation of Pagan Friendship, inLove and Friendship, edited by Montague Brown (Washington, DC: The American Maritain Association Press, 2013).
Greatness of Soul (megalopsychia), inNew Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, edited by Robert Fastiggi and Joseph Koterski, SJ. The Catholic University of America Press and Cengage Learning, 2013.
On Vice and Free Choice, inThe Problem of Evil: Enduring Themes and Pressing Questions, edited by James G. Hanink (Washington, DC: The American Maritain Association Press, 2013).
Are You Man Enough? Aristotle and Courage, International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2010): 431-445.
"Aristotle's Divided Mind: Some Thoughts on Intellectual Virtue and Aristotle's Occasional Dualism, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 80 (2007): 77-90.
Scheler vs. Scheler: The Case for a Better Ontology of the Person, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 79: 1 (2005): 145-161.
Christs Choice: Could It Have Been Different? in Gibson’s Passion and Philosophy, Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.) (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2004).
Anselm:Ratio quaerens beatitudinem, with Jorge J. E. Gracia, inRationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Latin Medievals, Jiyuan Yu and Jorge J. E. Gracia (eds.) (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003).
Affective Insight: Scheler on Feeling and Values,Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 76, (2002).