The 2011 Thomistic Seminar:
Themes in the Philosophy of Peter Geach and Thomas Aquinas
John Haldane, Director
August 7-13, 2011
Themes in the Philosophy of Peter Geach and Thomas Aquinas
John Haldane, Director
August 7-13, 2011
Faculty Profiles
John Haldane is a Professor in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs. His research interests include central issues in philosophy of mind; the history of philosophy; theoretical and normative issues in social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics; and artistic, educational, and theological issues approached through the methods of those disciplines rather than through philosophy. Haldane has received numerous awards and grants, as well as fellowships from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Pittsburgh. His published books include Atheism and Theism (1996), An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (2003), Seeking Meaning and Making Sense (2008), Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Society, and Culture (2009), and Reasonable Faith (2010). Haldane has served as an editor of several academic journals and has also written numerous articles for such journals. Prior to his career in academic philosophy he studied and taught art, and he continues to contribute to the study of art and art history. Haldane completed both his bachelors degree (1980) and his doctorate (1984) in philosophy at the University of London.
E. J. Lowe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. He has published over 150 articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. Some of his books include: Kinds of Being (1989), Locke on Human Understanding (1995), Subjects of Experience (1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (2000), A Survey of Metaphysics (2002), Locke (2005), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), and Personal Agency (2008). His recent awards include a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2003-4). He is a General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy monograph series.
Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham and Head of the Department of Education. He is the editor of the journal Philosophy and Honorary Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. His publications include Karl Popper (1980), What Philosophy Is (1985), The Element of Fire (1989), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1990), Beyond Evolution (1997), After Progress (1999), Introducing Christianity (2000), Philosophy in the New Century (2001), and Plato's Children (2006).
Candace Vogler is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particulary the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant's ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002) and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas.
John Haldane is a Professor in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs. His research interests include central issues in philosophy of mind; the history of philosophy; theoretical and normative issues in social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics; and artistic, educational, and theological issues approached through the methods of those disciplines rather than through philosophy. Haldane has received numerous awards and grants, as well as fellowships from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Pittsburgh. His published books include Atheism and Theism (1996), An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (2003), Seeking Meaning and Making Sense (2008), Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Society, and Culture (2009), and Reasonable Faith (2010). Haldane has served as an editor of several academic journals and has also written numerous articles for such journals. Prior to his career in academic philosophy he studied and taught art, and he continues to contribute to the study of art and art history. Haldane completed both his bachelors degree (1980) and his doctorate (1984) in philosophy at the University of London.
E. J. Lowe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. He has published over 150 articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. Some of his books include: Kinds of Being (1989), Locke on Human Understanding (1995), Subjects of Experience (1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (2000), A Survey of Metaphysics (2002), Locke (2005), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), and Personal Agency (2008). His recent awards include a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2003-4). He is a General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy monograph series.
Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham and Head of the Department of Education. He is the editor of the journal Philosophy and Honorary Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. His publications include Karl Popper (1980), What Philosophy Is (1985), The Element of Fire (1989), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1990), Beyond Evolution (1997), After Progress (1999), Introducing Christianity (2000), Philosophy in the New Century (2001), and Plato's Children (2006).
Candace Vogler is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particulary the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant's ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002) and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas.
