The Rev. Louis Caruana, S.J. Curriculum Vitae

University of Cambridge, UK
Ph.D. in Philosophy, July 1997
Field: Philosophy of Science
M.Phil. in Philosophy of Science, July 1993

Institut Supérieur de Philosophie et Théologie, Centre Sèvres, Paris
S.T.L. (Theology), July 1992
B.A. (Theology), June 1990

Heythrop College, University of London
M.A. (Philosophy), September 1986

Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Dublin
B.A. (Philosophy), June 1985

University of Malta
B.Sc. (Mathematics and Physics), June 1979

Books (as author)

1. Nature: its Conceptual Architecture (Berner Reiher philosophischer Studien 49), Peter Lang, Bern, 2014.
    
2. Science and Virtue: An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character, (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.
    
3. Holism and the Understanding of Science: integrating the analytical, historical and sociological (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000.

Books (as contributing editor)

1. L’inizio e la fine dell’universo: orientamenti scientifici, filosofici e teologici [The beginning and end of the universe: scientific, philosophical and theological orientations] (Roma: G&BPress, 2016).
    
2. Darwin and Catholicism: The Past and Present Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter, Continuum, 2009.
    
3. Anorexia Nervosa, a multi-disciplinary approach: from biology to philosophy (edited by A. Mancini, S. Daini, L. Caruana), New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

Major Articles

“Electronic Persons?”, Gregorianum, vol. 101/3 (2020), pp. 593-614.

“Different religions, different animal ethics?” Animal Frontiers, vol. 10/1 (2020), pp: 8-14.

“Human evolution and religion. Some new developments”, Gregorianum, vol. 100/1 (2019): 115-131.

“Mechanistic trends in chemistry”, Substantia, vol. 2, No. 1 (2018), pp. 29-40,

“Nature, science, and critical explicitation: does conceptual structure reflect how things are?” International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 58 (2018), pp. 93-105, doi: 10.5840/ipq2018215103

“Science, Religion, and Common Sense”, European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion Vol. 4, No. 4 (2012), pp. 161-173.

“Is Religion undermined by Evolutionary Arguments?” European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion Vol. 2, No. 1 (2010).

“The Force of Counter-Evidence in Science and Religion”, International Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 49, No. 3, Issue 195 (September 2009).

“A neglected problem with Social Darwinism” Heythrop Journal 49/4 (2008): 652-8.

“Science and Ethics: tracing parallels and contrasts between Science, Relativism and Utilitarianism”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 62 (2006), pp. 119–36.

“God’s Eternity and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 61 (2005), pp. 89-112.

“Science interacting with Philosophy: the case of Ludwig Wittgenstein”, Gregorianum, 84/3 (2003), pp. 584-616.

“Science and Progress: some recent views”, Gregorianum 83, 1 (2002), pp. 145-163.

“Habits and Explanation” (1998), URL http://www.bu.edu/WCP/Papers/Cogn/CognCaru.htm#top

“Is Science eliminating Ordinary Talk?” Forum Philosophicum 4 (1999), 25 – 39; German trans. “Die Elimination der Alltäglischen”, in: Der Neue Naturalismus – eine Herausforderung an das christiliche Menschenbild, J. Quitterer, E. Runggaldier (Hrsg.), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1999, pp. 146 - 161.

“Questions concerning Science, Theology, and the Environment”, Gregorianum 79, 1 (1998), pp. 149 - 161.

“Beyond the Internal Realist’s Conceptual Scheme”, Metaphilosophy 27 (1996), 296-301.

“John von Neumann’s ‘Impossibility Proof’ in a Historical Perspective”, Physis 32 (1995), pp. 109-124.

In collaboration:

L. Caruana and G. Coyne, “L’inizio e la fine dell’universo alla luce di alcune teorie cosmologiche attuali” [The beginning and end of the universe in the light of some current cosmological theories], in: L’inizio e la fine dell’universo: orientamenti scientifici, filosofici e teologici [The beginning and end of the universe: scientific, philosophical and theological orientations] (Roma: G&BPress, 2016), pp. 17 – 37.

Y. Cho & L. Caruana, “Ethics: Euthanasia – Questions concerning Depression”, Cambridge Medicine, 11, 3 (1995), pp. 35-36.

Book Chapters

“The Limits of Causality” in The Insides of Nature: Causality and Conceptions of Nature, edited by A. Balsas and B. Nobre (Braga: Axioma – Publicacoes da Faculdade de Filosofia, 2020), pp. 31-54.

“The philosophy of expertise: the case of Vatican astronomers” in The Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo: 80th Anniversary Celebration, edited by G. Gionti, S.J., J-B. Kikwaya Eluo, S.J. (Springer International Publishing, 2018), pp. 245-252.

“Faith, reason and science: towards a renewed Christian humanism?” in Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition: The Eye of Love, edited by A. Abram, P. Gallagher and M. Kirwan (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 53-64.

“Nurturing the human face of science”, in Renewing the Church in a Secular Age: Holistic Dialogue & Kenotic Vision, ed. by Charles Taylor, José Casanova, G. F. McLean, and J. J. Vila-Chã (Washington DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2016).

“La fine e il fine dell’universo” [The end and aim of the universe], in L’inizio e la fine dell’universo: orientamenti scientifici, filosofici e teologici [The beginning and end of the universe: scientific, philosophical and theological orientations] (Roma: G&BPress, 2016), pp. 63 – 78.

“The Legacies of Suppression: Jesuit Culture and Science: What was lost? What was gained?” in The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: causes, events, and consequences, eds. J. D. Burson & J. Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 262-278.

“Somatic Semantics: anorexia and the nature of meaning”, in Anorexia Nervosa, a multi-disciplinary approach: from biology to philosophy, edited by A. Mancini, S. Daini, L. Caruana (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010).

“Darwinism, Mind and Society” in Darwin and Catholicism: The Past and Present Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter, (Louis Caruana editor) (Continuum, October 2009).

“The Jesuits and the quiet side of the Scientific Revolution”, in The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits, ed. By T. Worcester SJ, Cambridge University Press (2008), pp. 243-60.

“Wittgenstein and the status of Contradictions”, in Wittgenstein Today, ed by A. Coliva & E. Picardi, Padova: il Poligrafo, 2004, pp. 223-232.

“Realism and Rule-following”, in Normatività Fatti, Valori, ed. by R. Egidi, M. dell’Utri, and M. De Caro, Analisi Filosofiche Quodlibet, Macerata 2003, pp. 143-152.