Joseph Koterski, S. J.
Philosophy Department
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
Phone: 718-817-3291
E-mail: koterski@fordham.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Fordham University, New York, since 1992 (Associate Professor)
• Editor-in-Chief, International Philosophical Quarterly (since 1994)
• Chair of the Philosophy Department (2002-2005)
• Chaplain & Tutor, Queens Court Freshman Residential College (since 1994)
• Co-editor, Fordham Univ. Press Series in Moral Philosophy and Theology
   

Education

• S.T.L. (1993) Weston School of Theology.  Thesis: "Natural Law and the Book of Wisdom", Director: Fr. R. Clifford, S.J.
• M.Div. (1991) Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Mass.
• Ph.D. (1982) Philosophy, St. Louis Univ.  Dissertation: "Karl Jaspers on Truth and Freedom in Science", Director: Dr. James Collins
• M.A. (1980) Philosophy, St. Louis Univ. Thesis: "Aristotle's Ethics and Reflective Equilibrium" Director: Dr. W. Charron
• H.A.B. (1976) Classical Languages, Xavier University, summa cum laude.
   

Memberships

• American Catholic Philosophical Assn. (since 1980, Exec. Council, 1998-2001)
• American Maritain Society (1980-present, Executive Committee, 1995-1998)
• American Philosophical Association (1980-present)
• Apostleship of Prayer (Board of Directors, 1997- , President, 2001- )
  Cardinal Newman Society (Advisory Board Member, 1994-  )
• Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston TX (Editorial Board, Member, 2004- )
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (1982-present; Board of Directors, 2002-2005)
• Gonzaga University Board of Trustees (1998- )
• ITEST (Institute for Theological Encounters with Science & Technology)(1980- )
• International St. Thomas Society (member, 1996- )
• Knights of Columbus (2001- )
• The Metaphysical Society of America (member 1995- , Councilor, 2000-03)
• North American Jaspers Society (member 1982-, Sec-Trea., 1994-99, Pres. )
• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (1982- )
• University Faculty for Life (1991-present, member of the Board of Directors, 1993- treasurer 1997- )
• Advisory Board for Long Island Chapter, 2001-  ) 

Academic Recognition

• Alpha Sigma Nu, elected 1974, President of Xavier Chapter 1975-76
• Joseph Verkamp Greek Award, 1975
• Archbishop McNicholas Philosophy Prize, 1976
• John Zurancik Award for General Excellence in the study of Classical Languages, 1976
• Ragland Latin Medal, 1976
• Danforth Fellowship, Class of 1976
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1982
• ACPA Machette Prize, 1983
• Massachusetts Bible Society/Weston School of Theology,  Award for Excellence in Scriptural Studies, 1991
• Faculty Fellowship for Summer 1997, Fordham University
• Undergraduate Teaching Award - presented at the Faculty Day Dinner of Fordham College, February 7, 1998
• Graduate Teacher of the Year Award presented at the Commencement Ceremony, May 20, 2000, by the Fordham University Graduate Student Association 

Publications

• "Thomism/Neo-Thomism" in Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, and Richard S. Myers (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, forthcoming)
• "Thomas More" in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan DeWald (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004).
• "Jaspers on Truth and Freedom" in Cambridge Companion to Karl Jaspers, ed. Gregory J. Walters (forthcoming)
• "Jesuit Spirituality" in Magnificat (forthcoming)
• Entries on "Edwin Corwin," "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case," "Personalism" and "Ralph McInerny" in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, ed.  Bruce Frohnen (Wilimington DE: ISI,  forthcoming)
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of October 2003 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 103/11 (Aug.-Sept. 2003) 44-55
• "Jaspers on the Idea of the University" in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophie: Gegenw ärtigkeit und Zukunft / Karl Jaspers's Philosophy: Rooted in the Present, Paradigm for the Future, ed. Richard Wisser and Leonard H. Ehrlich (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003), pp. 241-48.
• "The Ignatian Examen" in Magnificat 5/5 (July 2003) 409-412
• Thomas More on Conscience" in Thomas More: Spiritual Writings (New York: Vintage Press, 2003) pp. xi-xxix.
• "Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of Religion: His Treatment of Anselm and Cusa" in Karl Jaspers on the History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History, edited by Raymond Langley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Amherst: Humanity Press, 2003), pp. 130-40
• "The Challenge to Metaphysics" in Fides et Ratio in The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, ed. by David Ruel Foster and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003), pp. 22-35.
• "Fides et ratio and Biblical Wisdom Literature" in The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, ed. by David Ruel Foster and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003) pp. 129-62.
• "The Study of Philosophy" in A Student’s Guide to the Liberal Arts, ed. Wilburn T. Stancil (Kansas City: Rockhurst University Press, 2003), pp. 180-95
• "Why Authority is Such a Troubling Idea" in A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan,ed. by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth Grasso (Wilmington: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002), pp.107-25
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of November 2002 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 103/1 (October 2002) 33-43
• "Religion and Culture in Eliot's Wasteland" in Saint Austin Review I/3 (Nov. 2001) 12-14
• "Advice for Thomists" in The Maritain Notebook: The American Maritain Association Newsletter 9/2 (Fall 2001)
• "The New IGMR and Mass versus populum" (co-authored with Christopher Cullen, S.J.) in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 101/9 (June 2001) 51-54
• "Introduction to the 2000 Edition" for The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), pp. vii-xxii.
• Response to Robert P. George:  Natural Law, The Constitution, and the Theory and Practice of Judicial Review" in Fordham Law Review 69 (2001) 101-04
• "How Jefferson Honored Religion in Crisis 19/3 (March 2001) 35
• "The Arts and Authority: An Attempt to Apply Some Thoughts of Maritain on Authority and Democracy" in Beauty, Art, and the Polis, ed. Alice Ramos (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press and the American Maritain Association, 2000), pp .269-86.
• "An Introduction to the Thought of Pope John Paul II" in The Legacy of Pope John Paul II: His Contribution to Catholic Thought, ed. Geoffrey Gneuhs (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000) pp. 13-37, and "Introduction" to the volume, pp. 7-11.
• "Response" to "Person, Community, Law, and Grace" by Arthur Madigan, S.J. in Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Teaching of Pope John Paul II, edited by John J. Conley, S.J. and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1999) 111-14.
• "The Word" - for the 32^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A in Catholic New York, Nov. 5, 1999
• "Education: Restoring the Goal of Development to the Idea of Learning" in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Dan McInerny (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press and the American Maritain Association, 1999), pp.153-62.
• "On the Aristotelian Heritage of John of Damascus" in The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism, ed. Brendan Sweetman (Washington, D.C.: The American Maritain Association and Catholic University of America Press, 1999) pp. 58-71
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of October 1998 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 98:11/12 (1998) 46-57
• "Jaspers on Realism and Idealism" in Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Karl Jaspers Gesellschaft 11 (1998) 58-69
• "History of the Philosophy of Religion: from the thirteenth century to the twentieth century" in Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject,ed. Brian Davies, O.P.  (London: Cassell, 1998) pp. 12-21
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of July 1997 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 97:9 (1997) 33-44
• "First, Do No Harm" in Celebrate Life 19:2 (March-April 1997) 46
• "Unexpected Philosophical Progress: The Origins of the Concept of the Person" in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Jesuit
  Philosophical Association, March 21, 1997, ed. Gary M. Gurtler, S.J. (Boston College: JPA, 1997) 24-40.
• "Unreliable Tools" in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, ed. Roman T. Ciapalo. (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association and The Catholic University of America Press, 1997) pp. 141-48.
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of Nov. 1996 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 97:1 (1996) 33-43
• "The Doctrine of Immortality in the Old Testament" in Catholic Dossier 2:2 (1996) 44-48
• "Recognizing One of Aquinas's Debts to Neoplatonism" in Aquinas on Mind and Intellect: New Essays, ed. Jeremiah Hackett. Dowling Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. (Dowling College Press, 1996) pp. 1-14
• "C. S. Lewis and the Natural Law" in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society  26:6 #306 (April 1995) 1-7
• "Religion as the Root of Culture" in Christianity and Western Civilization: Christopher Dawson's Insights. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995) pp. 15-35
• "The Book of Wisdom as a Biblical Approach to Natural Law" in Freedom, Virtue and the Common Good, ed. Curtis L. Hancock and Anthony O. Simon.  (American Maritain Association and Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1995) pp.253-63
• "Homilies" for the Sundays of June 1995 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 95:8 (May 1995) 33-41
• "Paul VI Was Right" (with Kevin Flannery, S.J.) in America 169:8 (Sept. 25, 1993) 7-11.  In the same issue, pp. 11-14, "A Response" by R. A. McCormick, S.J.
• "Mary, the Mother of Jesus" in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 92:4 (Jan. 1992) 21-26
• "Sigrid Undset's World" in The Dawson Newsletter 10:4 (1992) 6-9.
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Thomistic Metaphysics" in The Future of Thomism, eds. Deal W. Hudson and Dennis W. Moran.  (American Maritain Association and University of Notre Dame Press, 1992) pp. 185-96
• "Introduction" to Understanding Europe by Christopher Dawson.  Reprinting of the 1951 volume.  (Fayetteville: Christian Cultural Press, 1991) pp. iii-vi
• "Discerning the More Fruitful Paths to Reform: The Work of Pierre Favre in mid-16th Century Germany" in The Heythrop Journal 31:4 (1990) 488-504
• "Simon Schama and Christopher Dawson on the French Revolution" in The Dawson Newsletter 8:/4 (Summer 1990) 1-4 and 9:1 (Fall 1990) 5-7
• "Dante and 14th Century Messianic Expectations"in Thought 65 (March 1990) 47-58, and Introduction (as guest editor of this volume), pp.5-6
• "Ignatian Spirituality and Baroque Culture" in The Dawson Newsletter 7:3 (Fall-Winter 1988-89) 9-12
• "Jaspers on Freedom and Truth in Science" in Karl Jaspers Today: Philosophy at the Threshold of the Future, ed. Leonard H. Ehrlich and Richard Wisser (Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and the University Press of America, 1988) pp. 133-52
• "Kristin Lavransdatter: In-Laws and Out-Laws" in The Church and the Law, edited by Paul L. Williams (Scranton: Northeast Books, 1985) pp.69-75
• "Religion and History in Maritain and Jaspers" in The Dawson Newsletter 3:2 (1984) 11-14 and III/3 (1984) 93-10
• "Freedom as a Condition for Truth: Jaspers on the Significance of Temporality in Science" in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 (1984) 93-103
• "Certain Essentially Human Aspects of Intelligence" paper and discussion in the Proceedings of the ITEST Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (St. Louis, Mo.: March 1984) pp. 38-43 et passim
• "A Mystic's Epistemology: Truth and Freedom in the Thought of St. Bernard of Clairvaux" in the Proc. of the Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference 8 (1983) 47-52
• "Secularization or Christian Culture?" in The Dawson Newsletter 1:2 (1981) 1-4
• "St. Augustine on the Moral Law" in Augustinian Studies 11 (1980) 65-77
• "Aristotle on Signifying Definitions" in The New Scholasticism 54 (1980) 75-86 

Translations

• A portion of Ja-Cz_owiek (I-Man: An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology) by M. Krapiec.  New Britain, Ct.: Mariel, 1983
• "Kant's Doctrine of Ideas" by Karl Jaspers (from Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 6. Auflage (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1971 [1954]) pp. 463-86; the translation appears in Karl Jaspers on the History of Philosophy and the Philosophy of History, edited by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Raymond Langley (Amherst: Humanity Press, 2003) pp. 173-92 

Editorial Positions

• Editor-in-Chief of International Philosophical Quarterly as of May 1994
• Co-Editor, Fordham Univ. Press Series in Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology, as of Fall 1999
• Book Review Editor for International Philosophical Quarterly, January 1993 to October 1994
• Editor of the annual volume of Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life Conferences.
  • Life and Learning II. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1993
  • Life and Learning III.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1993
  • Life and Learning IV.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1995
  • Life and Learning V.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 199
  • Life and Learning VI.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1997
  • Life and Learning VII.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1998
  • Life and Learning VIII.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1999
  • Life and Learning IX.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2000
  • Life and Learning X. Washington, D.C., UFL, 2002
  • Life and Learning XI.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2002
  • Life and Learning XII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2003
  • Life and Learning XIII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2004 (forthcoming)
• Advisory Board for Precious Life Books, Elkton, Md.
• Associate Editor, Auslegung, 1979-1984
• Guest-editor for a special issue of Thought on "Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture," vol. 65 (March 1990)
• Co-editor (with John J. Conley, S.J.), Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Teaching of Pope John Paul II (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1999)
• Co-editor (with Raymond J. Langley), Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy (Amherst, NY: Humanity Press, 2003
• Co-editor (with David Ruel Foster), The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et Ratio (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003)
• Co-editor (with Ronald Begley), Medieval Education (forthcoming from Fordham University Press
• Co-editor (with John Conley, S.J.), Culture and Creed (forthcoming 2004 from St Joseph's University Press) 

Research Interests

• Relation of religion and culture, with attention to the historical influence of philosophy and theology on general culture
• Natural Law Theory
• Ancient and medieval metaphysics: history and contemporary significance of classical traditions, esp. Thomas Aquinas and Thomism
• Catholic Social Teaching 

Teaching Experience (courses offered)

• St. Louis University: Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of God, Philosophy of Human Nature
• University of St. Thomas/Center for Thomistic Studies:  Plato's Later Dialogues (graduate); Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology (undergraduate)
• Loyola College: Philosophy of Human Nature, Ethics, Ancient and Medieval Metaphysics, Survey of Ancient and Medieval Thought on Art, Nature and Society
• Fordham University:  Natural Law Ethics, Fundamental Moral Theology, God and Religion in Ancient Thought, Opuscula of Aquinas, Christian Platonism, Aquinas' De Veritate, Introduction to Augustine (graduate); Philosophy of Human Nature, Philosophy of Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion, Four Medieval Thinkers, Philosophy of the Person, Shakespeare and Aquinas on the Passions, Great Ideas of Western Civilization I (Honors Program), Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Honors Program), History of Ancient Philosophy (undergraduate)
• Neuman Residence, Archdiocese of New York Collegiate Program:
  Philosophy of the Person, Philosophy of God, Fundamental Theology, Christology,Metaphysics (undergraduate)
• Institute for Religious Studies, St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie):
  Theology of Prayer: St. Ignatius of Loyola (graduate)
• Education for Parish Service (Stamford CT, Manhattan NY. and Naples FL): Fundamental Moral Theology, Catholic Social Teachings, Beginning-of-Life and End-of-Life Issues, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality

Professional Addresses

• "The Possibility of Impartiality: Comment-Response to Prof. Vernon J. Bourke on 'The Ethical Role of the Impartial Observer" St. Louis Univ. Phil. Dept. Colloquium Series, Nov. 18, 1977.
• "Philosophy and the Faith: The Proofs for the Existence of God" "Conferences on Apologetics at the Catholic Central Union, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 1978 and Oct. 1979.
• "Augustine's Discovery of the Will" invited lecture to the St. Edmund Campion Society, St. Louis University, Sept. 1980.
• "On Arguing Questions of Justice"  invited lecture at Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24, 1983.
• "Freedom as a Condition for Truth: Jaspers on the Significance of Temporality in Science" at the World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, August 1983.
• "The Epistemology of Bernard of Clairvaux" address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, September 1983.
• "A Comparison of the Philosophies of History of Dawson, Jaspers, and Maritain" address at the Society for Christian Culture Conference, Houston, February 1984.  Organizer of the Conference.
• "Certain Essential Aspects of Human Intelligence"  invited paper delivered at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence of ITEST, St. Louis, Mo., March 1984.
• "Jaspers's Philosophy of Science" address at the Catholic Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, April 1984.
• "Aquinas on Error" - address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Conference, Villanova, September 1985.
• "St. Thomas's Theory of the Passions: A Dispassionate Appraisal" invited address at the Thomas More Institute, Merrimack, N.H., February 13, 1987. (Invited Paper)
• "The Stoicism of Epictetus" address to the Faculty of Loyola College, February 20, 1987 (Invited Paper)
• "Boethius on Universals" invited lecture at Georgetown University, January 1990
• "Religious Metaphysics in Antiquity" presentation on Von Balthasar's The Glory of the Lord, vol. 4, at the Jesuit Philosophical Assn., Toronto, March 1990.
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Thomistic Metaphysics" address at the American Maritain Association Conference on "The Future of Thomisms" Fordham Univ., Oct. 1990.
• "The Book of Wisdom as a Biblical Approach to Natural Law" short presentation and discussion at the Jesuit Philosophical Association, San Diego CA, March 1992.
• "A Biblical Approach to Natural Law" lecture at the American Maritain Association meeting in Kansas City, November 1992.  
• "Boethius on Universals" paper (read in absentia by Sr. Joan Franks) at the ACPA Round Table, St. John's Univ., Jamaica NY, April 3, 1993.
• "Reflections on the Structure of Thomas's Five Ways" - address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Conference, Villanova, October 1993.
• "Religion as the Root of Culture" invited address at the Wethersfield Institute Conference on Christopher Dawson, New York, October 1993. (Invited Paper)
• "Unreliable Tools: Postmodernism and Religion" - address at the American Maritain Association meeting, Dallas, November 1993.  Also delivered as a Philosophy Department Colloquium at Fordham University, February 1994.
• "Jaspers on Anselm and Cusa" - address at the North American Jaspers Society, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 1993
• "Response" to Arthur Madigan's Paper on "The Moral Philosophy in Part III of the Catechism" at the conference on "The Moral and Social Thought of John Paul II" at Canisius College, Buffalo, August 1994
• "Recognizing One of Aquinas's Debts to Neoplatonism" - lecture at the Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Conference (Institute of Global Cultural Studies) at Binghamton University, SUNY, October 16, 1994.   Same lecture delivered for the Fordham University Medieval Studies Program, September 19, 1995
• "The General Theory of Authority and the Protection of Human Rights" - American Maritain Association annual meeting, New York University, Nov. 10, 1994
• "Natural Law in the Thought of C. S. Lewis" - invited address to the C. S. Lewis Society of New York, New York City, February 10, 1995
• "The Problem of the Divine Ideas in Thomas Aquinas's De Veritate" - invited lecture at St. Thomas More College in Merrimac, N.H., March 31, 1995
• "The Aristotelian Heritage of John of Damascus" - lecture at the Conference on Medieval Studies of the University of Virginia, Wise VA, September 29, 1995
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas's Commentary on St. John" - lecture at the Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Conference (Institute of Global Cultural Studies) at Binghamton University, SUNY, October 22, 1995
• "Personhood and the Problem of Abortion" -- invited lecture in the New York Catholic Forum series on the Life Issues, New York City, November 14, 1995
• "Restoring the Ideal of Development to the Idea of Education" -- lecture at the American Maritain Association annual meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, November 30, 1995
• "Response" at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America" to papers by Hope Fitz and John Lachs - New York, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Assn., December 29, 1995
• "Can There Be Freedom Without Authority?" (lecture to the general public), "John Damascene's Philosophical Defense of Icons" (philosophy department colloquium), and "Natural Law in the Wisdom of Solomon" (lecture to the general faculty).  Visiting
   Scholar at the University of St. Thomas, Houston TX, March 5-10, 1996.
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas' Commentary on John" - lecture at the meeting of the St. Thomas Aquinas Society, held in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association) - Los Angeles CA, March 23, 1996
• "Response" to "Christian Identity in Augustine's Confessions- by Christopher Thompson at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Los Angeles CA, March 24, 1996
• "Neoplatonism in Plotinus, Augustine, and John Scotus Eriugena" - invited lecture at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York City, April 12, 1996
• "Response" to Robert Spitzer at the Fourth Bi-Annual Jesuit Conference on the Thought of John Paul II" - at Georgetown University, August 3,1996
• "Aquinas's Use of Damascene's De Fide Orthodoxa" - lecture at the American Maritain Association, Tempe Arizona, November 2, 1996
  "Jaspers on Idealism and Realism" -- lecture at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Atlanta GA, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, December 27, 1996
• "Ethics and Genetics: Engineering the Perfect Baby?" and "Power and Authority: A Crucial Distinction" - invited lectures at Wheeling Jesuit College, March 5-6, 1997
• "Unexpected Philosophical Progress: The Origins of the Concept of the Person" -- presentation at the Jesuit Philosophical Association"- Buffalo, New York, March 21, 1997.
• "Catholicism and American Liberalism: A Discussion of Robert H. Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline -- participant in the panel-discussion (Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association) Buffalo NY, March 21, 1997
• "Some Contributions of Bonaventure and Aquinas to Dante" - paper at the conference on "The Virgin Mary in Italian Literature" at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, April 11, 1997
• "Eriugena on the Soul: One of the Inner Struggles of Christian Neoplatonism" - lecture at the Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova Univ., Sept. 12, 1997
• "Thomistic Philosophy and Seminary Education" - lecture at the "Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference" at Villanova University, Sept. 13, 1997
• "Response" to Prof. Merold Westphal's "Appropriating Postmodernism" at the Philosophy Department's Inaugural Lecture, Fordham University, Sept. 17, 1997
• "Veritatis Splendor: What’s New and What’s True" - invited lecture at Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, October 2, 1997
• "An Introduction to John Paul II's Thinking: The Central Themes" - keynote speaker at the 1997 Wethersfield Institute on "The Thought of Pope John Paul II and the Future of Catholicism" at the Donnell Library, Manhattan, October 10, 1997
• "The Arts and Authority" - lecture at the American Maritain Association meeting in Boston, Mass. October 23, 1997
• "The Christian Appropriation of Neoplatonic Doctrines of the Soul" - lecture at the Conference on Medieval Studies, Binghamton University, October 26, 1997
• "The Problem of the Divine Ideas in Aquinas's de Veritate" - lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1997
• "Response" to "Technology and the Poetics of ‘Life: Heidegger, Holderlin, and Kant" by Jennifer Anna Gosetti at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America session in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. December 29, 1997.
• "Augustine's Confessions" - eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, Manhattan, March-June 1998
• "Jaspers on the Idea of the University" at the International Karl Jaspers Society meetings in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 12, 1998
• "Response" to "Natural Law and Human Rights: the Person, the Family, and the State" by Prof. Michel Schooyans - The Jacques Maritain Lecture series on the Natural Law, held at the United Nations, May 27, 1998
• "Response" to the lecture by Ken Woodward at the Fordham University Symposium on Fides et Ratio - Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus, March 2, 1999
• "Dante on Being True to Oneself" and "Whether Universal Truths Exist for the 21^st Century" - a pair of invited lectures as the 1999 Visiting Scholar at Walsh University, Akron OH
• "Recent Controversies Concerning the Natural Law" - invited lecture at a symposium of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at New York University: "Degrees of Truth: Current Controversies Concerning Aquinas" - April 30, 1999
• "Strategies for Discussing Plato's Apology"  - presentation for Fordham University Faculty in the 1999-2000 Freshman Advising Program - McGinley Center, August 25, 1999
• "Response" to Prof. Gowans's paper "A Priori Responses to Disagreement Arguments against Moral Objectivity: Why Experience Matters" at the Philosophy Department's annual "Inaugural Lesson," Fordham University, September 30, 1999
• "The Jesuits and Thomism" - address at the Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, October 9, 1999
• "The Challenges of Fides et Ratio" – invited lecture at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio – October 16, 1999
• "The Metaphysics of Fides et Ratio" - lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation, meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association, St. Paul MN, November 5, 1999
• "Harvesting Organs: Is Brain Death Really Death? A Disputed Question for Audience Debate" - presentation at the Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues, at the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 28, 1999
• "Dante on the Question of Free Will" - invited lecture at the College of St. Francis, Brooklyn, NY, March 7, 2000
• "Providence and History in Medieval Thought" - invited lecture for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program, Philadelphia PA, June 6, 2000
• "Discussion of Fides et Ratio" at the Biannual Jesuit Seminar on the Thought of Pope John Paul II, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH, August 6, 2000
• "Augustine's Debt to Neoplatonism" - paper delivered at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, September 23, 2000
• "The Social Teaching of Pope John Paul II" - invited lecture for the Wall Street Catholic Young Adult Club, Manhattan, October 18, 2000
• "Ordering the Passions" - paper delivered for the Natural Law Society (meeting at the American Catholic Philosophical Association), Dallas, TX, November 3, 2000
• "Commentary" on the lecture by Prof. Robert P. George, "Natural Law, Judicial Review, and Constitutional Interpretation" at the Natural Law Colloquium at the Fordham University Law School, Manhattan, November 20, 2000.
• "The Dream of the Siren in Purgatorio XIX: Dramatizing the Thomistic Philosophical Account of Desire, Attraction, and Freedom Choice" - invited lecture at the University of Padova (Italy), November 24, 2000.
• "A Trio of Problems: the Nature of God, the Nature of Evil, and the Nature of Free Choice in Augustine's Confessions VII" - invited lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, February 23, 2001
• "The Relation of Faith and Reason in Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio" - invited lecture at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, March 15, 2001
• "Papal Social Teachings" - The 2001 Wethersfield Institute Lectures, Manhattan (April 18, 25, May 2, 16, 30, June 13, 27)
• "Philosophical Principles in Papal Social Teachings" - invited lecture for the Catholic Studies Program at Loyola College, Baltimore MD, October 16, 2001; same lecture at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN, April 4, 2001
• "The Problem of Formal and Material Cooperation with Evil" - invited lecture for the Agnus Dei Council of the Knights of Columbus, Manhattan, October 30, 2001
• "Natural Law Theory and the Charge of the Naturalistic Fallacy" - invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN, April 5, 2002
• "Response" to Gwynn Markle, "Conscience and the Critical Potential of Hegel’s Social Theory" and to "David Zinn," The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories: A Semblance of Subjectivity" for the Fordham Philosophical Society’s symposium on "Truth and Interpretation" at Fordham University, November 13, 2002
• "Jaspers's Models for Freedom in Philosophie, Vol. 2" - lecture for the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia PA, December 28, 2002
• "Human Cloning" - participant in a panel-discussion at the Makor Center (sponsored by the 92^nd Street Y and by The New Republic, Manhattan on March 27, 2003
• "Response" to Colleen McCluskey, "Aquinas on Malice" at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Cleveland OH, April 25, 2003
• "Dante's Debt to Aquinas in Purgatorio 16-19" - invited lecture at Christendom College, Front Royal, VA - October 6, 2003
• "Medical and Ethical Issues on Stem Cells and Cloning" - lecture at the Respect Life Conference of the Archdiocese of New York at Dunwoodie Seminary, Yonkers, NY - Oct. 18, 2003
• "Model Syllabi for Teaching Natural Law Ethics" - lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation at the American Catholic Philosophical Association conference in Houston TX, November 1, 2003
• "Catholic Social Teaching in the Papal Encyclicals: The Philosophical Principles" -  invited lecture for the Catholic Studies Program at the University of Scranton - Nov. 6, 2003

General Lectures, Addresses, Conferences

• "Kristin Lavransdatter: In-Laws and Out-Laws" - address at the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Chicago, March 1984
• "Temptations to Rationalism" - address at the Society for Christian Culture Conference, Steubenville, Oct. 1986
• "Fourteenth Century Messianic Expectations" - address at the Conference on Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture, Baltimore, October 10, 1987.  Co-chair of the Conference
• "The Historicity of the Scriptures" - Adult education group, Diocese of Rochester, New York, February 1988
• "Jesuit Spirituality and Baroque Art" - paper (read in absentia by John Mulloy) at the Conference on Baroque Culture, University of Steubenville, October 8, 1988
• "Newman and the Oxford Movement" - address at the Centennial Dawson Seminar, "Christening Culture,"  Elmbrook University Center, Cambridge, Mass., June 2, 1989
• "Dawson and the French Revolution" - address, Society for Christian Culture Conference, Steubenville, Oct. 1989
• "Religion and Jung's Idea of the Unconscious" - at Hartford, Ct., April 1990.
• "Sigrid Undset's World" - Dawson Seminar, Embrook Center, Cambridge, Mass., May 30, 1990
• "Chesterton Re-Appraised as a Social Thinker" - address at the 10th annual Fordham Chesterton Conf., Nov. 1990
• "In Luther's Backyard: Pierre Favre SJ and the first generation of Jesuits in Germany" - address to the St. Thomas More Society of Boston College, Nov. 1990
• "Is Jungian Psychology Compatible with Christianity?" - lecture to the St. Thomas More Society of Boston College, Feb. 1992
• "Have You Ever Read Roe v. Wade?  An analysis of Supreme Court Abortion Decisions" - lecture for the Boston College pro-life group, March 1992
• "Learning from the Book of Wisdom" - address at the Campion Club, Scranton, Pa., December 1993
• "Authority" - seven lectures for the Wethersfield Institute, Helmsley Hotel, January-March 1994: "Why the Idea of Authority Troubles So Many Today," "...And He Taught with Authority," "Moral Matters," "Church and State," "The Origins and Limits of Legitimate
  State Authority," The Family: Genuine Authority vs. Personal Domination," and "Personal Development and Authority"
• "Authentic Worship" - address for the Christifideles organization, April 24, 1994, Marriott Hotel, Manhattan
• "Authority and Obedience" - New York Catholic Forum, Sept. 14, 1994
• "So Many Words!  What Did Pope John Paul II Really Say in His Encyclicals?" - address to "Americans United for the Pope" at Massapequa, NY, Oct.14, 1994
• "The Creed: Part I of the New Catechism of the Catholic Church" - lecture at St. Thomas More Church, Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1994
• "Blessed Peter Favre" - lecture to the Fordham Alumni Sodality, Nov. 19, 1994
• "Papal Authority" - lecture to the Christifideles Association, St. Agnes Chapel, Manhattan, Nov. 27, 1994
• "Examination of Conscience" -  lecture at St. Anthony's Church, Hawthorne, N.J. - March 12, 1995.  Same lecture at the Midwest Catholic Home Education Conference, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, September 2, 1995; at the Inter-Varsity Christian Grad Fellowship, Columbia University, Feb. 9, 1996; at St. Mary's Parish, Katona NY, April 25, 1996; at Queen's Court Residential College, Fordham University, October 24, 1996; at Milwaukee Family Life Council meeting, October 4, 1997; Thornwood Conference
  Center, New York, November 15, 1997; Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Massapequa Park NY, March 21, 1998; at the Fairfield County Chapter of Legatus, Greenwich CT, June 8, 1999
• "Grace, Sin, and Guilt" - lecture to the Wall Street Catholic Young Adult Club, Manhattan, March 15, 1995
• "Scholarship, Loyalty and Service: The Example of Father Joseph Fitzpatrick, S.J." - address at the Alpha Sigma Nu induction ceremony on March 27, 1995, Fordham University
• "The Problem of Evil and the Book of Wisdom" for the College At Sixty Lecture Series, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, March 28, 1995. Same lecture delivered on April 9th for the "Spring Conference" for high school seniors accepted to Fordham College and their parents, and in a modified version for the "Fordham Firsthand" programs on March 31 and April 21st, and on May 9th for the Fordham University Kiwanis Club
• "Human Rights and the Natural Law" - lecture at Dean's Day, Fordham University, April 22, 1995
• "On Being Men and Women for Others After Graduation" - after-dinner speech at the Senior Awards Banquet, Fordham University, May 1, 1995
• "The Mystery Hidden for the Ages in God" - eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Helmsley Hotel, New York City, March-May 1996.
• "In the Footsteps of Dante and Aquinas" - lecture at the Alumni College Day, Fordham University, April 20, 1996
• "The Meaning of the Human Body" - keynote address at the Natural Family Planning Conference, St. Cloud MN, September 7, 1996
• "Holiness of Life" - address to "Americans United for the Pope" at Massapequa NY, September 12, 1996
• "Bringing Original Sin Out of the Repair Shop" - lecture for the Fordham University Kiwanis Club, October 23, 1996
• "The Four Last Things" - 1st annual "Last Lecture" for the Fordham University Honors Program, Nov. 21, 1996; same lecture for Fordham Alumni Sodality, May 18, 1997
• "Priestly Celibacy" - interview on "The Crier Report," Fox News Channel, Jan.16, 1997
• "The Sanctity of Life" - lecture for the Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship" at Columbia University, February 14, 1997
• "Loyalty: Some Insights from Dante" - address at the Alpha Sigma Nu induction ceremony on March 20, 1997 at Fordham University.
• "Biblical Wisdom Literature" - eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Helmsley Hotel, New York City, March-May 1997.  Summary of this material as a lecture at the Phi Sigma Tau (National Honor Society in Philosophy) Induction Ceremony at Fordham University, May 2, 1997.
• "Dante's Inner Journey" - lecture at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, Monticello NY, in the New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities Program, July 16, 1997
• "The Bible's Wisdom Books" - lecture at the "Alumni College Day XVII" at Fordham University, Bronx NY, Sept. 27, 1997
• "Contraception: Why Not" - lecture for the Marquette University Respect Life Club, Milwaukee WI, October 3, 1997
• "The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality" - lecture for the Respect Life Group of St. Catherine of Bologna Parish, Ringwood NJ, October 11, 1997
• "Salvation and the Sacraments" - keynote lecture at the Conference on Evangelization at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 31, 1997
• "Is Everything in the Bible True?" - lecture for the Narnia Club, New York City, November 4, 1997; same lecture at St. Gregory's Parish, New York City, November 15, 1997
• "The Reliability of the Gospels" - lecture at St. Gregory's Parish, Manhattan, March 4, 1998
• "Augustine's Confessions VII: Philosophical Discoveries Remove a Roadblock for Faith" - lecture at the "Alumni College Day XVIII" at Fordham University, Sept. 26, 1998
• "Even Philosophy Can Be a Way to the Father: An Introduction to the Thought of Pope John Paul II" - lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA, October 16, 1998
• "Christian Philosophy Through the Eyes of a Poet: Dante’s Purgatorio Canto 18" - lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA, October 16, 1998
• "Fides et Ratio: Pope John Paul II’s Latest Encyclical" - lecture to the Fordham Alumni Sodality, October 18, 1998
• "Praying through Scripture" - lecture at St. Gregory's Parish, Manhattan, February 24, 1999
• "Christian Art" -  address for the Fordham University Communion Breakfast, February 28, 1999;  same lecture at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Bronx NY, June 11, 2000
• "Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture" - eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, New York City, March May 1999
• "Dante’s Inner Journey" - lecture at the Maspeth Public Library, Queen NY (New York Council for the Humanities Lecture Program), March 27, 1999
• "The Attributes of God"  and "The Worship of the Father" - a pair of addresses at the Seventh Annual New York Archdiocesan Rosary Congress - "One God and Father of Al" - Spellman High School, Bronx NY, April 23-24, 1999
•  "Dante's Divine Comedy: How to Solve a Mid-Life Crisis" - lecture at the "Alumni College Day XIX" at Fordham University, Bronx NY, Sept.25, 1999
• "Paolo Segneri: the Seventeenth-Century Background" - lecture at SUNY-Stony Brook, Book Presentation at the Center for Italian Studies, February 24, 2000
• "St. Thomas More and Catholic Humanism" - eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, New York City, February-April 2000
• "The Cosmological Vision of C.S. Lewis in The Discarded Image" - invited lecture for the C.S. Lewis Society of New York, March 10, 2000
• "Too Embarrassed to Pray? Techniques of Personal Prayer" - lecture for the St. Michael's Men's Association, Greenwich CT, March 15, 2000
• "Examination of Conscience" - lecture for the Legatus Chapter of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids MI, March 23, 2000; same lecture for the Marian Conference held at St. Gertrude's Parish, Bayville NY, March 25, 2000; same lecture at the Church of the Magdalen, Pocantico Hills, NY, April 2, 2000; same lecture for the Legatus Chapter of St. Louis Missouri, April 18, 2000; same lecture at the St. John Neumann Residence, Bronx NY, October 7, 2000.
• "The Spirituality of Dante's Divine Comedy" -  four lectures at Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti MI, November 10-11, 2000
• "Thomas More's Utopia" - lecture for the Golden Jubilee of the Church of St. Thomas More, Manhattan, December 6, 2000
• "Karol Wojtyla's Love and Responsibility" - invited lecture for the Catholic Campus Ministry at Columbia University, February 15, 2001
• "St. Thomas More: Patron of Statesmen" - invited lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, February 23, 2001
• "Catholic Social Teachings" - invited lecture at the Archdiocesan Young Adults Congress, April 28, 2001, Manhattan
• "Inspiration from Christian Art" - address for the Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony, Fordham University, May 11, 2001
• "Marriage and the Theology of the Body" - invited lecture of the Manhattan Chapter of Legatus, Union League Club, New York City, April 5, 2001; same lecture at the Morris County Chapter of Legatus, Morristown NJ, May 31, 2000
• "St. Thomas More and Conscience" - invited lecture at the Church of St. Thomas More, Manhattan, June 26, 2001 and at the Church of St. Gregory the Great, Manhattan, April 3, 2003
• "John Paul II on Culture" - invited lecture at The Kosciuszko Foundation, Manhattan, November 30, 2001
• "St. Thomas More: A Model and Patron for Lawyers" - invited lecture at the Todd Lincoln House, Manhattan, December 13, 2001
• "The Hidden Treasure of Catholic Social Teachings" - presentation for the Induction Ceremony of the Fordham Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu, April 15, 2002
• "Matteo Ricci and The Art of Memory" - presentation for the Matteo Ricci Society at Fordham University, April 26, 2002
• "Biblical Wisdom-Literature and the Problem of Evil" - a lecture sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities: delivered at the Mid-Island YJCC, Plainview NY on May 8, 2002; same lecture at the Gomez Mill House, Marlboro NY on July 28, 2002; same
  lecture at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, Monticello NY on July 31, 2002.
• "Christian Art and the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit" - a lecture delivered at St. Mary's in Katonah NY, May 11, 2002
• "On Forming a Catholic Conscience" - a lecture for "Theology on Tap" - Stamford CT on Feb. 13, 2003 and in Manhattan NY on March 10, 2003
• "John Paul II's Views on Human Personhood" for the "Spirituality and Medicine Conference" of the Philadelphia Catholic Medical Association, Philadelphia PA on June 28, 2003
• "The Courageous Witness of St. John Fisher" - invited lecture of the Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Church of Our Savior, Manhattan NY, Oct. 3, 2003
• "The Legacy of Pope John Paul II" - invited lecture at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT, October 23, 2003; same lecture for "Theology on Tap" - Manhattan NY on October 27, 2003; same lecture at Begen Community College, December 11,
  2003.