Alfred J. Freddoso
Professor of Philosophy
John and Jean Oesterle Professor of Thomistic Studies
University of Notre Dame
"Oh, My Soul, There's Animals and Animals" (2012). Note of introduction: The intended audience for this paper is mainly Catholic graduate students and young Ph.D.’s in philosophy and theology, though everyone is of course welcom e to read it. The paper was written in three stages. The first version was delivered in October, 2010 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. The revised version was delivered at the inaugural Thomistic workshop at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY in June 2011. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute at Mount Saint Mary College and by The Thomistic Institute of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington. Finally, a new section on reductionism was added for the second Thomistic workshop at Mount Saint Mary College in June 2012, and the whole paper was revised again. I've decided to keep tinkering with this paper off and on for a while. I need to make some changes in the section on contemporary philosophy of mind, and I especially want to say something about Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, though it will probably take me a while to get around to digesting the book thoroughly enough to comment on it.
"Father Thomas Joseph White on Wisdom in the Face of Modernity" (2011). This is a brief comment on Thomas Joseph White, OP's Wisdom in the Face of Modernity (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2009). I gave it at the annual meeting of the American Maritain Society in October, 2011.
"Christ: Unum vel duo? Esse, Union, and the Incarnation in St. Thomas" (2006): This is an outline of a presentation I gave at the 2006 Summer Thomistic Institute, University of Notre Dame.
"Comments on Sleigh and Carriero" (1997): These are comments I gave in reply to Robert Sleigh's paper "The Scholastic Influences on Leibniz's Doctrine of Divine Physical Concurrence" and John Carriero's paper "Substance and Teleology in Leibniz"Comment on John Jenkins's "Intellect, Will, and the Assent of Faith in Thomas Aquinas"(1996)
"The Necessity for Revelation: A Primer on Summa Contra Gentles 1, chaps. 1-9"(1996)
"St. Thomas's Rejection of Ockham's Way Out" (1992)
Comment on Brian Leftow's "Aquinas on Dimensions and Individuation" (1991)
"A Suarezian Model of Efficient Causality" (1990) (An extensively revised version of this paper appears as a part of the introductory essay, "Suarez on Metaphysical Inquiry, Efficient Causality, and Divine Action," in Francisco Suarez, On Creation, Conservation, and Concurrence: Metaphysical Disputations 20, 21, and 22 (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, November 1999).
Comment on Peter van Inwagen's "The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God" (1987)