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| PERSONAL INFORMATION Born 26 April 1957, Watseka, Illinois USA Priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, ordained in Rome, 14 June 1992 B.A. (Philosophy), University of Chicago M.S.L. (Sectione Philosophica), Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Ph.D., Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Assistant Editor of Acta Philosophica Member of the Advisory Board of Nova et Vetera, English Edition Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas CHIEF PUBLICATIONS Monographs The Legal Character of Natural Law according to St Thomas Aquinas, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1988. (PDF file paginated as in original; 2.4mb) Action & Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998. (Spanish: Acción y conducta. Tomás de Aquino y la teoría de la acción, Barcelona: Herder, 2000.) (Italian: Azione e Condotta. Tommaso d’Aquino e la teoria dell’azione, Roma: EDUSC, 2002.) Editions Ralph M. McInerny, L'analogia in Tommaso d'Aquino, translation by Fulvio di Blasi, Rome: Armando, 1999. (Original: Aquinas and Analogy, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1996.) Aa.Vv., L’attualità di Aristotele, Rome: Armando, 2000. Aa.Vv., Tommaso d’Aquino e l’oggetto della metafisica, Rome: Armando, 2004. Articles “Ars imitatur naturam: un aspecto descuidado de la doctrina de la ley natural en Sto. Tomás,” in El Hombre. Transcendencia y imanencia, vol. I, Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 1991, 383-395. “The ratio omnipotentiae in Aquinas,” Acta Philosophica, v. 2, fasc. 1 (1993): 17-42. “Autonomia e gerarchia delle scienze in Tommaso d’Aquino: la difficoltà della sapienza,” in Unità e autonomia del sapere. Il dibattito del XIII secolo, ed. R. Martínez, Roma: A. Armando Editore, 1994, 71-95. “L’obbligo per legge, il governo e il bene comune: considerazioni metafisiche in Tommaso d’Aquino,” Con-tratto: rivista di filosofia tomista e filosofia contemporanea, III, 1-2 (1994): 7-30. (Link to English version below) “What is the Use of Usus in Aquinas’ Psychology of Action?”, in Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages, edited by B. Bazán, E. Andújar, L. Sbrocchi, vol. II, Ottawa: Legas, 1995, 654-64. “St Thomas and the Eucharistic Conversion,” The Thomist, 65.4 (October 2001): 529-565. “Can Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas,” Acta Philosophica, v. 11, fasc. 2 (2002): 215-238. “Causality and Necessity in Thomas Aquinas,” Quaestio, 2 (2002): 217-240. “Tommaso d’Aquino e lo statuto fisico dell’anima spirituale,” in Annuario di Filosofia, a cura di V. Possenti, Milano: Mondadori, 2004, 67-87 & 323-326. “L’ipsum esse è ‘platonismo’?”, in Tommaso d’Aquino e l’oggetto della metafisica, ed. S.L. Brock, Rome: Armando, 2004, 193-220. “La ‘conciliazione’ di Platone e Aristotele nel commento di Tommaso d’Aquino al De hebdomadibus,” Acta Philosophica, v. 14, fasc. 1 (2005): 11-34. “È l’unicità della persona il fondamento metafisico della sua dignità?”, in L'umanesimo cristiano nel III millennio: la prospettiva di Tommaso d'Aquino, Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2004, 204-216. “The Physical Status of the Spiritual Soul in Thomas Aquinas,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, vol. 3, no. 2 (2005): 305-332. “Is Uniqueness at the Root of Personal Dignity? John Crosby and Thomas Aquinas,” The Thomist, 69.2 (2005): 173-201. “Natural Inclination and the Intelligibility of the Good in Thomistic Natural Law,” Vera Lex, VI.1-2 (Winter 2005): 57-78. “G.E.M. Anscombe and Thomas Aquinas on Necessity and Contradiction in Temporal Events,” in Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue, ed. Craig Paterson & Matthew S. Pugh, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 283-302. “On Whether Aquinas’s Ipsum Esse is ‘Platonism’,” The Review of Metaphysics, 60 (December 2006): 723-757. “Harmonizing Plato and Aristotle on Esse: Thomas Aquinas and the De hebdomadibus,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, vol. 5, no. 3 (2007): 465–494. “Thomas Aquinas and ‘What Actually Exists’,” in Wisdom’s Apprentice: Thomistic Essays in Honor of Lawrence Dewan, O.P., ed. Peter A. Kwasniewski, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007, 13-39. "Veritatis Splendor §78, St. Thomas, and (Not Merely) Physical Objects of Moral Acts," Nova et Vetera, English Edition, vol. 6, no. 1 (2008): 1-62. "Realistic Practical Truth," in The 'Praeambula Fidei' and the New Apologetics. Doctor Communis (2008, fasc. 1-2), Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2008, 62-75. Book Reviews Angelo Campodonico, Salvezza e verità. Saggio su Agostino, in Annales Theologici, vol. 6, fasc. 2 (1992): 482-485. Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Mind, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 4, fasc. 1 (1995): 143-148. Aa.Vv., The Past and the Present. Problems of Understanding, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 3, fasc. 2 (1994): 377-378. Ralph McInerny, Aquinas and Analogy, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 7, fasc.1 (1998): 181-185. Rudi A. te Velde, Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 8, fasc. 1 (1999): 178-184. John Finnis, Aquinas: Social, Political and Legal Theory, in Ethics, 111/2 (January 2001): 409-411. John Wippel, The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 11, fasc. 1 (2002): 185-188. Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason, in The Thomist, 66.2 (April 2002): 311-315. Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Form and Being. Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 17, fasc. 1 (2008): 189-192. (available in Spanish here) Robert Sokolowski, Christian Faith and Human Understanding. Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person, in Acta Philosophica, vol. 17, fasc. 2 (2008): 386-389. Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Wisdom, Law and Virtue, in The Thomist [forthcoming]. UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS "Obligation, Legislation, and the Common Good: Metaphysical Considerations from Thomas Aquinas" (English version, somewhat modified, of article published in Italian) COURSE MATERIALS Introduzione a san Tommaso d'Aquino (requires password) L'ontologia di Tommaso d'Aquino: la questione dell'anima (requires password) CONTACT  Rev. Prof. Stephen
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