Home: 2848 59th Street Sarasota, FL. 34243 (941) 355-0083

Office: Division of Humanities New College 5800 Bayshore Road Sarasota, FL. 34243 (941) 487-4249/4360

Born:
October 28, 1950. San Antonio, Texas

Education:

Bishop Amat Memorial High School, La Puente, CA. (1964-68)

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. (1968-72)
B.A. Philosophy (and English) 1972

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. (1972-74, 75-76)
M.A. Religion, 1974
Ph.D. Religion, 1978 (Victor Preller, director)

University of California, Irvine (1974-75, 76-77)
M.A. Philosophy, 1978
Ph.D. Philosophy, 1982 (Nelson Pike, director)

Employment:

March 1975-June 1975	University of California, Irvine; Teaching Assistant
January 1976-June 1976	Princeton University; Teaching Assistant

September 1976-June 1977	University of California, Irvine; Teaching Assistant
December 1977-August 1978	New College of USF; Instructor in Philosophy and Religion

September 1978-June 1984	New College of USF; Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion
September 1980-June 1981	Harvard University; Mellon Faculty Fellow
September 1984-August 1990	New College of USF; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
September 1989-December 1989	University of Helsinki, Finland; Fulbright Lecturer/Research Fellowship
September 1990-	New College of USF; Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Administrative Experience and Service:

1978-79	Library Committee, Chair
1979-80	Admissions Committee; Student Life Committee
1981-83	Faculty Appointments and Status Committee
1983-85	Student Academic Status Committee
1985-88	Chairman, Division of Humanities
1985-88	Faculty Appointments and Status Committee
1988-90	Provost's Advisory Committee
1990-91	Chair of the New College Faculty
1991-93	Provost's Advisory Committee
1991-92	Chair, Executive Search Committee for the Chief Academic Officer of New College
1994-96	Project Director of "Origins and Cycles," a program of interdisciplinary seminars for first-year students.  funded thorugh a grant from NEH/NSF/FIPSE.
1996-97	Provost's Advisory Committee (Chair for Term 2, Module 1)
1997-98	Interim Dean and Warden of New College (Chief Academic and Fiscal Officer for New College).  Final authority for issues concerning residential life as well as other student issues.  Member of USF's Council of Deans and the President's Leadership Council.  Ex-officio member of the New College Foundation's Executive Committee.  Also served as Interim Campus Dean and Warden (two months) with responsibilities for New College, the physical plant and support offices of the Sarasota Campus, as well as oversight for the University Program on the Sarasota Campus
1998-99	Associate Dean and Warden of New College.  Provided oversight for New College during the transition year for the new office of Campus Dean and Warden

1999-2000	Member of the University Presidential Search Committee
2000-01	Chairman of the Student Academic Status Committee
2002	SACS Accreditation Project Leader
2002-05	Campus Space Committee
2006-07	Chairman of the Faculty; Member of the New College Board of Trustees; Member of the Advisory Committee for Faculty Senates

Courses Taught:

Problem of Evil
Medieval Philosophy and Religious Thought
Introduction to Buddhism
Religion and Its Critics
Free Will and Determinism
Kierkegaard
Chardin, Buber, and Tillich
Mysticism
Modern Philosophy
Logic
Aristotle
Arguments for the Existence of God
Classical Philosophy
Introduction to World Religions
Kant and Hegel
Medieval Art, Philosophy, and Religion (co-taught)
Anthropology of Religion (co-taught)
Catholicism
Philosophy of Religion
Theory of Virtue (co-taught)
Passions and Emotions
Conscience (co-taught)
Introduction to the Study of Religion
Conscience and Other Virtues
Introduction to Philosophy

Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards:

1968-72 California State Scholarship
1968-72 George F. Gamble Honors Scholarship (Stanford)
1972    Phi Beta Kappa
1972-74 Princeton University Fellow
1974-75 California Regents' Intern Fellowship
1975    Winner, Philosophy Graduate Student Essay
          Competition
1975-76 Princeton University Fellowship
1976-77 California Regents' Intern Fellowship
1977-78 California Regents' Intern Fellowship

1979 N.E.H. Summer Seminar, "The Unity of Learning in
the Later Middle Ages," at Harvard University
under the direction of Professor John E.
Murdoch

1980 Summer Institute on Medieval Philosophy and Logic
at Cornell University. Sponsored by The
Council For Philosophical Studies and the
National Endowment for Humanities and under
the direction of Professor Norman Kretzmann.

1980-81 Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University,
attached to the Committee on the Study of
Religion

1981 Summer Research Grant, Department of Assigned
Research, University of South Florida

1982 ACLS Grant to attend an international conference on
Medieval Philosophy in Louvain, Belgium

1983 F.E.H. Seminar on Power and Morality. June 20-22,
1984

1984 Summer Research Grant. Division of Sponsored
Research, University of South Florida

1985 F.E.H. Grant to direct two seminars for high school
teachers: "Uses and Abuses of Freedom" and
"The Quest for Human Dignity."

1987 ACLS Grant to attend an international conference on
Medieval Philosophy in Helsinki, Finland

1987 Division of Sponsored Research, USF, grant for
international travel.

1989 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Helsinki,
Finland

1992 Faculty Creative Scholarship for travel to the
Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy
(Ottawa, Canada)

1992 Teaching Enhancement Workshop on Active Learning,
July 13-24, USF, Tampa Campus

1993 Participant in Summer Strategic Planning Session for New College, June 3-22

1993 Faculty Enhancement Grant to pursue work on
Anselm's theory of freedom. Summer

1994 Faculty Enhancement Grant to pursue work on
Bonaventure's view of conscience. Summer

1994 Visiting Fellow to New College, Oxford (July/
August)

1995 Teaching Incentive Program Award for Distinguished
Teaching

1996 Faculty Enhancement Grant to work on book, Conscience and Other Virtues. Summer

2005  Faculty Enhancement Grant to prepare a new Introduction to Philosophy course. Summer
 

Miscellaneous Service:

N.E.H. Consulting Committee for selecting N.E.H. Summer Seminars (1981,1982)

Reviewer for Penn State Press, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Religious Studies, Catholic University Press

Reviewer of grants for N.E.H. Grants for Manuscript Publication (Editions and Translations)

Reviewer of article for Journal of Social Philosophy (2005)

Reviewer of grant proposal for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006)
 
 

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.

"Burrell's Misconstruals of Scotus," The New Scholasticism,
Volume LVII, I, Winter, 1983.

"Scotus' Departure from Anselm's Theory of the Atonement,"
Recherches de Theologie Ancienne et Medieval, Tome L.,
1983

"Scotus' Conception of Human Freedom," Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, 1986

"The Comical Kierkegaard," The Journal of Religious Studies,
Volume 12, Number 1, 1985.

"Scotus and Possible Worlds," Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Medieval
Philosophy, 1991

"Scotus' Doctrine of Intuitive Cognition," Synthese, July, 1993.

"The Western Philosophical Tradition" chapter in Concepts of Transmigration, edited by Steven Katz, Mellen Press, 1994.

"Scotus on the Relationship Between Conscience and Prudence,"
Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Ottawa, August 17-22, 1992.

"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

Reviews:
 

Review Note of Robert Young's Freedom, Responsibility, and God in Religious Studies Review, Volume 6 (1980)

A Review of Mortimer Adler's How To Think About God, USA
Today, March, 1981.

Review Note of James W. Woelfel's Augustinian Humanism:
Studies in Human Bondage and Earthly Grace in Religious
Studies Review, Volume 7 (1981).

Review Note of St. Thomas Aquinas On The Existence of God:
The Collected Papers of Joseph Owens in Religious
Studies Review, Volume 7 (1981).

Review Note of F. C. Happold's Religious Faith and Twentieth-
Century Man, in Religious Studies Review, Volume 8 (1982).

Review Note of Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions, in Religious
Studies Review, Volume 9 (1983).

Review of Michael J. McNally's Catholicism in South Florida
1868-1968 in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History,
Fall, 1987.

Review Note of Bartholomew De La Torre's Thomas Buckingham
and the Contingency of Futures in Religious Studies
Review, Volume 14 (1988).

Review Note for John L. Farthing's Thomas Aquinas and Gabriel Biel, in Religious Studies Review, Volume 15 (1991).
 
Review of Richard Cross's Duns Scotus.  Speculum, Volume 76, #3, July 2001.  

Review of Stephen P. Marrone's In the Light of Thy Countenance. Speculum, Volume 77, #4, October 2002.

Review of Risto Saarinen and Jill Kraye, editors,  Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity. Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 44, July 2006.

Papers Read:

"Scotus on Epistemology," New College-Ringling Museum
Conference on Medieval Studies, April, 1978

"The Supposed Incompatibility Between Kant's Two Refutations
of Idealism," Florida Philosophical Association,
October, 1978.

"Richman and the Argument from Evil," Southeastern Division
Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, March,
1979.

"Scotus' Criticisms of Aquinas' Analysis of Omniscience,"
Florida Philosophical Association, November, 1979.

"Scotus' Voluntaristic Analysis of God's Omniscience,"
15th International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, May 1980.

"An Inconsistency in Molina's Doctrine of Middle Knowledge,"
American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, December,
1981.

"Scotus'Conception of Human Freedom," Seventh International
Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium, September, 1982.

"Neoplatonic Elements in Anselm's Thought," Western Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
April, 1983, Chicago.

"Plantinga's Unfortunate Defence," Southeastern Division of
the American Academy of Religion, March, 1984,
Williamsburg, Virginia

"Scotus' Understanding of Intuitive Cognition," 20th
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May, 1985.

"The Fruit of the Vine: Modern American Catholicism,"
Humanities Forum, New College, April, 1986.

"Scotus and Possible Worlds," Eighth International Congress
of Medieval Philosophy, Helsinki, Finland, August, 1987.

"The Argument from Evil," Address to the Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, October, 1989.

"Three Theories of Our Knowledge of Individuals," Address to the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki,
November, 1989.

"Scotus' Conception of the Will," Humanities Forum, New College, January, 1991

"Scotus on the Relationship Between Conscience and Prudence,"
Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy,
August, 1992, Ottawa, Canada.

"An Implicit Distinction Between Freedom and Free Choice in
Anselm's Thought," 29th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May, 1994.

"Aquinas on Conscience, Weakness of Will, and the Virtues," World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August, 1998.

"Stoic Influences on the Analysis of the Relationship Between God's Omniscience and Human Freedom." 12th International Conference for Medieval Philosophy.  University of Palermo, Sicily, September 15-22.

References

Administrative:

Gordon E. Michalson, Jr. Former Dean and Warden of New College. Professor of Humanities and President New College of Florida. 5800 Bayshore Road, Sarasota, Fl. 34243
(941) 487-4310. michalso@ncf.edu

Charlene Callahan. Associate Professor of Psychology and former Chair of Division of Social Sciences. Former Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, New College,5800 Bayshore Road, Sarasota, Fl. 34243  (941) 487-4320. callahan@ncf.edu

Richard Coe.  Associate Professor of Economics.  Chair of Social Sciences.  5800 Bayshore Road, Sarasota, Fl. 34243  (941) 487-4380. coe@ncf.edu

Catherine Batsche.  Former Vice Provost of USF. Dean of Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MHC 1139.  Tampa, FL.  33612  813-974-7196. cbatsche@fmhi.usf.edu
 

 

Academic:
 

Gordon E. Michalson, Jr. Former Dean and Warden of New College. Professor of Humanities and President, New College, 5800 Bayshore Road, Sarasota, Fl. 34243 (941) 487-4310.

Calvin Normore. Professor of Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, UCLA.  390 Dodd Hall, UCLA, Dept. of Philosophy, LA, CA 90095 (310) 825-2291 normore@humnet.ucla.edu and Department of Philosophy, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, L5LIC6, Canada (416-978-3311 or 905-828-7010).

Marilyn Adams. Regis Professor of Theology.  Christ Church, Oxford University,  Oxford OX1 1DP, England  44 (o) 1865 286334. marilyn.adams@theology.ox.ac.uk

Simo Knuuttila. Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Department of Systematic Theology, P.O. Box 33, Aleksanterinkatu 7, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 358-0-1913024 FAX: 358-0-1913033. simo.knuuttila@helsinki.fi