Douglas C. Langston
Professor of Philosophy & Religion
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Stanford University
Recent Courses
Medieval Philosophy and Religious Thought
Free Will and Determinism
Kierkegaard
Modern Philosophy
Aristotle
Arguments for the Existence of God
Classical Philosophy
Introduction to World Religions
Kant and Hegel
Catholicism
Philosophy of Religion
Introduction to the Study of Religion
Conscience and Other Virtues
Introduction to Philosophy
Selected Publications
Books:
God's Willing Knowledge: The Influence of Scotus' Analysis of Omniscience, The Pennsylvania State University Press, April, 1986.
Conscience and Other Virtues: From Bonaventure to MacIntyre, The Pennsylvania State University Press, January, 2001.
Norton Critical Edition of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. Editor. Forthcoming, Fall 2009.
Articles:
"Scotus and Ockham on the Univocal Concept of Being," Franciscan Studies, 1979.
"The Supposed Incompatibility Between Kant's Two Refutations
of Idealism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Fall, 1979.
"The Argument from Evil: Reply to Professor Richman," Religious Studies, 16; January, 1980.
"The Comical Kierkegaard," The Journal of Religious Studies, Volume 12, Number 1, 1985.
"Scotus' Doctrine of Intuitive Cognition," Synthese, July, 1993.
"Did Scotus Embrace Anselm's Notion of Freedom?", Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Volume 5, #2, 1996.
"The Spark of Conscience: Bonaventure's View of Conscience and Synderesis", Franciscan Studies,1993, Volume 53.
"Medieval Theories of Conscience," in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu).
"Aquinas on Conscience, the Virtues, and Weakness of Will," in Paideia Archives (http://www.bu.edu/wcp/MainMedi.htm).
"The Stoical Aquinas: Stoic Influences on Aquinas's Understanding of Charity," in Grammar and Grace. Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein. Edited by Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain. SCM Press, 2004.
"The Aristotelian Background to Scotus's Rejection of the Necessary Connection of Prudence and the Moral Virtues." Forthcoming, Franciscan Studies.
Additional publications may be found on this professor's personal homepage.
