Articles

1. "Transcendental Unity in Petrus de Trabibus, OFM". Franciscan Studies. 39 (1979) 49-104.
2. "The Place of the First Principle of Demonstration in Avicennian Metaphysics". Proceedings of the Mid-Atlantic States Conference in Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. 6 (1981) 117-134.
3. "Philosophical Development through Metaphor: Light among the Greeks". Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Washington, DC: 1990. 75-85.
4. "The De virtutibus cardinalibus and Aquinas' Doctrine of Happiness". Studi Tomistici 42 (1991) 250-259.
5. "The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas and the Fathers". Les philosophies morales et politiques au Moyen Age: Actes du ixe Congres international de Philosophie Medievale, Ottawa, du 17 au 22 aout 1992, ed. B. Bazan, E. Andujar, L. Sbrocchi (Ottawa: Legas, 1995) 2.699-708.
6. "Chronos and Logos: Rhetoric and the Rise of Philosophy", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Annual ACPA Proceedings 68(1994) 247-258.
7. "Plato: The Human Person as Spirit". c. 1 of Images of the Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious Context. ed. H. Brown, D. Hudecki, L. Kennedy, J. Snyder. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995, 1-47.
8. "Aristotle: The Human Person as a Besouled Body". c. 2 of Images of the Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious Context. ed. H. Brown, D. Hudecki, L. Kennedy, J. Snyder. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995, 49-87.
9. "Transforming Philosophical Water into Theological Wine: Gilson and Aquinas." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Annual ACPA Proceedings 69 (1995) 103-116.
10. "Let Them Suffer into Truth: Avicenna's Remedy for Those Denying the Axioms of Thought." Issue on "Medieval Islamic Thought," ed. T.-A. Druart. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. 73 (1999) 107-133.
11. "Bonaventure's Threefold Way to God." Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E.A. Synan. In the series Thomistic Papers VII, ed. R.E. Houser. Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1999, 97-154.
12. "Courage (IIa IIae, 123-140)" Solicited and accepted for Stephen J. Pope, ed., Essays on the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2002. 304-320.
13. "Dominicus Gundissalinus," Blackwell's Companion to Mediaeval Philosophy, ed. J. Gracia and T. Noone. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. 247-248.
14. "Philip the Chancellor," Blackwell's Companion to Mediaeval Philosophy, ed. J. Gracia and T. Noone. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. 534-535.
15. "Matthew of Aquasparta," Blackwell's Companion to Mediaeval Philosophy, ed. J. Gracia and T. Noone. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. 423-431.
16. "Avicenna, Aliqui, and the Thomistic Doctrine of Creation," accepted for proceedings of Thomistic Summer Institute, University of Notre Dame, 2000.
17. "The Real Distinction and the Principles of Metaphysics: Avicenna and Aquinas." Accepted for the Maurer Festschrift, ed. R.E. Houser.

Book Reviews

Books

Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E.A. Synan. Thomistic Papers VII. Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies; South Bend: University of Notre Dame, 1999. Pp. Xiii; 287.

Laudemus viros gloriosos: Essays in Honor of Armand Augustine Maurer C.S.B. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press. Scholars contributing to this Festschrift are: Stephen Brown, Boston College; R. James Long, Fairfield; Girard Etzkorn, Franciscan Institute; John Rist, University of Toronto; Richard Taylor, Marquette University; R.E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies; Leo Elders, Rolduc, Holland; Lawrence Dewan, Ottawa; David B. Twetten, Marquette University; Mary C. Sommers, Center for Thomistic Studies; James P. Reilly, Pontifical Institute, Toronto; John Wippel, Catholic University of America; Timothy B. Noone, Catholic University of America; Calvin Normore, UCLA; Norman Wells, Boston College; and A.A. Maurer, Pontifical Institute, Toronto. At the editing stage.

The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas, Albert, Philip the Chancellor. Translation, with introduction, notes, and appendices of the following texts: Philip, Summa de bono, selections on the nature of the cardinal virtues. Albert, De bono from the Summa parisiensis, selection on the nature of the cardinal virtues. Albert, Commentarium in libris Sententiarum, dd. 33 and 36. Aquinas, Quaestio disputata de virtutibus cardinalibus. This book is in press.

Current Projects

with Timothy Noone: Bonaventure: Philosophical Themes from the Sentences: God and Creation. translation, with introduction and notes, of texts from Bonaventure's Commentary on the Sentences Books 1 and 2. Texts translated are from: Bk 1: d. 3, 8, 22, 35, 38, 43, 45; Bk. 2: d. 1, 3, 12, 13. This volume has been solicited by the Franciscan Institute Press for The Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series.

The Friar and the Vizier: Metaphysics across two Medieval Cultures. A study of the metaphysics of Avicenna (the vizier) and Aquinas (the friar). Approximately half written.

A book length study of Aquinas's Roman Commentary on the Sentences. This volume will be based on the critical edition of the Latin text by John. Boyle and Leonard Boyle op^. The book will consist in a distinction by distinction commentary, by different authors. This volume is being done in close consultation with the editors of the Latin text. The Director of Publications, Center for Thomistic Studies, agreed in principle in 1998 to publish this book.

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