Mark M. Moes
Mark M. Moes
Department of Philosophy 547 Cherry St. SE #5N
Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Allendale, MI 49401-9403 USA (616) 826 3365
(616) 331-3637; moesm@gvsu.edu
1/15/2019
General Information
Current Appointment
Full Professor of Philosophy
Education
University of Notre Dame: Ph.D (1991), Philosophy
Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis: M.A. (1978), Philosophic Theology & Philosophy of
Religion
University of Notre Dame: B.A. summa cum laude (1973), Philosophy, Program of Liberal
Studies
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of History, History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion,
Ethics of Virtue and Natural Law, Political theory
Honors and Awards
John and Mary Boyle Dailey Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Notre Dame, 1969-73.
Member Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, inducted 1973.
Teaching
Experience
At Grand Valley State University (1991-2017):
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Introduction to Philosophy (taught 55 semesters in 8 versions; taught twelve times in summer; current versions: (1) close reading of Plato’s Republic with supplementary articles;
(2) Philosophy and mythology: Plato, Berkeley, Jung, Eliade, Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien.
(3) Plato’s Apology, Phaedo, and Timaeus. (4) Plato’s Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Protagoras. (5) Aristotle’s Poetics, articles on tragedy, tragic aspects of a number of Platonic dialogues.
Ethics (taught eight semesters in two versions)
Aesthetics (taught once)
Ancient Philosophy (taught eighteen times, and five times as an Independent Study); one
version focuses upon middle dialogues Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Republic; another
version focuses upon late dialogues Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist or Statesman or
Philebus, another the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, another Phaedrus, Symposium, and
Augustine’s Confessions, another on Plato and Greek tragedy, focusing upon Sophocles’
Oedipus Rex, Aristotle’s Poetics, Plato’s Charmides and Crito. (Pre-Socratics sometimes
treated.)
Philosophy of History (focusing on Kant, Hegel, John Acton, Christopher Dawson) (taught
five times as a class and once as an independent study)
Philosophy of Religion (describing the emergence of the modern tradition of philosophy of
religion and expositing and criticizing relevant writings of Hume, Kant, and Hegel, the
founders of the tradition) (taught 12 times). One version does a close reading of Hume’s
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Natural History of Religion and a reading of
Christopher Dawson’s Progress and Religion, with one third of semester spent on a
standard textbook, e.g. William Wainwright Philosophy of Religion (Wadsworth, 1998) or
Michael Murray & Michael Rea, Introduction to Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, 2009).
Emphasis on analytic philosophers Plantinga, Geach, van Inwagen, Barry Miller, etc.
Classical World (covering Greek art, poetry, drama, history, philosophy) (taught 3 times)
Capstone, Senior Thesis Seminar, taught twice. (Discussion of Kenneth Baynes,ed.,
AfterPhilosophy, Alasdair MacIntyre’s Encyclopedia, Geneology, and Tradition: Three
Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, and Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge.
Plato’s Theaetetus (Independent Study)
At University of Notre Dame as sole instructor (1985-91):
History of Natural Science I
Introduction to Philosophy
Freshman Writing Seminar (Topic: Introduction to Biblical Narratives)
Philosophy and Fantasy Literature: critiques of materialism in Plato, Berkeley, Kant; critiques
of technology misuse in Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis. (taught six times)
At University of Notre Dame as assistant to professor (1981-85):
Introduction to Philosophy (taught three times)
Philosophy and Fantasy Literature (taught six times)
Medical Ethics
Introductory German (taught four semesters)
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At Trinity Prep School, South Bend, Indiana (1986-7):
Seminar in Classical Greek Thought I (Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides)
Seminar in Classical Greek Thought II (Plato’s Euthyphro, Meno, Apology, Crito, Phaedo,
Republic. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation. Gregory
of Nyssa’s Address on Religious Instruction.)
Some Additional Areas of Teaching Interest:
Hermeneutics & theories of interpretation
Philosophy and Literature
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, and Film Noir Generally
Political Philosophy and Theory, especially Religion and Public Life
The Works of the social and moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre
The Works of philosopher of history Christopher Dawson
The Works of Charles Taylor
The Works of Jacques Maritain
Unit and University Service and Committees
Member Grand Valley General Education Category A Peer Review Committee 1992-2000.
Arts & Humanities Divisional Curriculum Committee, member 1992-3; chairman 1993-97,
1998-2000, member 2001-4.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2007-2008, 2008-2009. 2009-
2010.
Hiring Committee, 4 positions to 1997-1999, 1 position 1999-2000, 2 positions 2000-2001,
2 positions 2005-2006, 2 tenure-track positions and one affiliate position in philosophy and 1
tenure-track Classics, 2007-8.
Interviewer for Philosophy Department, New York APA meeting, 1991, 2000, 2005
Philosophy Club Advisor, 1991-4
Advisor, Catholic Student Group CARO, 2003-2005
Grader and Judge, Dewey Hoitenga Philosophy Student Essay Contest, April, 2003, April
2004, April 2007, April 2008, April 2013, April 2014.
Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition Interviews, on February 17, 2007, 2:00-3:00
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pm., Student Services Building, GVSU. Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition
Interviews, on February 19, 2011, Student Services Building, GVSU. Awards of Distinction
Scholarship Interviews, February 6, 2016.
Freshman Orientation, Summer 2007, Summer 2008.
Organizer and host of 7th Annual conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean
Enquiry: “Crafts, Traditions, Ideologies: Theory and Practice in the Thought of Alasdair
MacIntyre,” held July 25-28, 2013, at the Eberhard Center of Grand Valley State University.
Represented Philosophy Department at Laker Experience Days on October 10, 2015.
Served in Fall 2016 as Coordinator for the 3-year review of Philosophy Unit Head John
Uglietta, including authoring the unit head review report. Served as Coordinator of the
nomination and election of Uglietta to another term as unit head.
Completed GVSU Cyber Safety Certificate on February 22, 2017.
Spent almost a month compiling my promotion file for promotion to Full Professor in July and
August, 2017.
Represented Philosophy Department at Laker Experience Days, October 14, 2017.
Received Promotion to Full Professor from CLAS Personnel Committee and Dean in
November, 2017.
Assessed PHI 343 Philosophy of Religion course for General Education Subcommittee.
Submitted my CAR, Course Assessment Report, on December 23, 2017.
Participated in Hiring interviews, class visits, colloquia, etc. for the hiring of new Biomedical
Ethics TT position in Philosophy Department, Winter 2018.
Served in Fall 2018 on the Affiliate Review Committee for the review of Professor Robert
Hogg’s last six years of teaching and research.
Represented Philosophy Department at Laker Experience Days, October 13, 2018.
Research
Publications
Books
Plato's Dialogue Form and the Care of the Soul (Peter Lang Publishing, February, 2000)
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in the series New Perspectives in Philosophical Scholarship: Texts and Issues,
edited by James Duerlinger.
Articles
“Simone Weil and the Natural Symbolism of Gender.” in Robert N. Fisher, editor, Becoming
Persons: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Persons (Oxford: Applied Theology
Press, 1994).
“The Ethics of Reading.” Grand Valley Review X, (Spring, 1994): 22-27.
"Mimetic Irony and Plato's Defense of Poetry in the Republic," in Journal for Neoplatonic
Studies. Volume V. No. 1, (Fall, 1996), 43-74.
“Plato’s Conception of the Relation Between Moral Philosophy and Medicine,” Perspectives in
Biology and Medicine. (Summer, 2001).
“Medicine, Philosophy, and Socrates’ Proposals to Glaucon About Gumnastike in Republic
403b-412b,” in Gary Allen Scott, ed., Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato’s Many Devices
(Northwestern University Press, 2007).
"Health at the Centre of Health Systems Reform: How Philosophy Can Inform Policy," with
Joachim Sturmberg, M.D., Carmel Martin, M.D., Perspectives in Biology and Medicine,
Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2010, pp. 341-356.
“Dialectical Rhetoric and Socrates’ Treatment of Mimetic Poetry in the Ion and in Book 10 of
the Republic,” Philosophy Study Volume 1, Number 1, (June 2011), 1-21.
“Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy,” Introduction to Frederick J. Crosson, Ten
Philosophical Essays in the Christian Tradition, edited by Michael J. Crowe and Nicholas
Ayo, tribute by Mary Katherine Tillman (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming 2015).
“Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Theology in Plato’s Theaetetus 151d-187e and in Maritain’s
Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism,” in Travis Dumsday, editor, The Wisdom of Youth:
Essays Inspired by the Early Work of Jacques and Raissa Maritain (Washington D.C.:
Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming Spring 2016).
“Maritain, Mascall, Pendergast, and Ashley: Untrammeled Approaches to the Doctrine of
Original Sin in Evolutionary Perspective” in Heidi Giebel, editor, The Things that Matter:
Essays on the Later Work of Jacques Maritain (Washington DC: Catholic University of
America Press, forthcoming Spring 2018).
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“Intimations in Plato’s Republic of Some Doctrines of Maritain’s The Person and the
Common Good,” for an American Maritain Association volume to come out in 2019:
(Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, Spring 2019).
Reviews
Review of Nalin Ranasinghe, The Soul of Socrates (Cornell University Press, 2000),
in International Studies in Philosophy XXXVI, no. 1 (2004), 258-60.
Review of Albert Rijksbaron (ed.), Plato. Ion. Or On the Iliad. Amsterdam Studies in
Classical Philology, 14. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2007, in Ancient Philosophy Spring 2010.
Review of Sandra Peterson, Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 293, in Journal of Hellenic Studies (forthcoming
in 2013).
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
"The Unity of Plato's Philebus," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Grand Valley State
University, February, 1992.
“Diagnosis and Cure in Plato’s Symposium,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Grand
Valley State University, October, 1992.
“The Unity of Plato’s Philebus,” January,1993 Meeting of the Pacific Division of the Society
of Christian Philosophers, Los Angeles.
“Simone Weil and the Natural Symbolism of Gender,” at the Second Conference on Persons
sponsored by The Personalist Forum, St. Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana, September
1993.
“The Ethics of Reading,” 1994 Ethics Symposium, sponsored by the Grand
Valley Review and the Honors Program, Grand Valley State University, February 9, 1994.
“Mimetic Ironies in Plato’s Republic,” invited paper delivered to philosophy faculty and
students at Calvin College, March 1, 1994. Also delivered at the Grand Valley State
University Philosophy Department colloquium, March 25, 1994.
“Republic Book 5 and Feminism,” at the meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts
& Letters at Michigan State University on March 11, 1994.
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"Mimetic Ironies in Plato's Republic," to the Grand Valley State University Philosophy
Department Colloquium, March 25, 1994.
“World ‘Overpopulation’: What We Didn’t Hear About the Cairo Conference,” presented to
the Grand Valley State student Pillar Society meeting on Oct. 21, 1994.
“God and the Natural Symbolism of Gender,” at the Aquinas College Lunchtime Series, Nov.
10, 1994.
“Socrates, Traditional Morality, and the Will to Power,” to the Grand Valley State University
Philosophy Department colloquium, Nov. 13, 1994.
“Socrates’s Critique of Corrupt Patriarchy in Book 1 of the Republic,” at the Michigan
Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters meeting at Ferris State University on March 10, 1995.
“Beginning to Read the Republic,” to the Grand Valley State Classical Studies Group on April
2, 1995.
“The Method Underlying All Rational Craftsmanship According to Plato’s Late Dialogues,”
commenting on Kelly Parker’s paper “Plato’s Influence on Peirce,” before the Grand Valley
State University philosophy department colloquium, Sept. 29, 1995.
“The Fatherhood of God and the Patriarchal Family in History,” to the Grand Valley State
student Pillar Society meeting on Oct. 14, 1995.
“Mimesis and Catharsis in Book 10 of the Republic,” to the conference on Global and
Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Social Thought, held at
State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, Oct. 20-22, 1995, co-sponsored by
the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
“God and the Natural Symbolism of Sex,” to the Grand Valley State University Philosophy
Department colloquium, Nov. 17, 1995.
"God and the Natural Symbolism of Sex," to the Midwest regional meeting of the Society of
Christian Philosophers at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, on March 7-9, 1996
"Plato and John Acton on Totalitarianism and the Political Uses of Falsehood." Invited paper
to the Acton Academic Seminars sponsored by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion
and Liberty, Grand Rapids, MI, on April 30, 1996.
"The Therapeutic Significance of Plato's Philebus," invited paper to the Fourth Annual
Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy sponsored by the University of Minnesota and
the Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle, held at Augsburg College, St. Paul, MN, on May
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11, 1996.
"Psuche and Eros: Reflections on Some Passages Concerning Eros in Plato's Republic and
Symposium," to the conference on Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy and Social Thought, held at the State University of New York,
Binghamton, New York, Oct. 25-27, 1996, co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek
Philosophy.
"Fathers and Sons: A Psychotherapeutic Theme in Plato's Republic," to the conference on
Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Social
Thought, held at the State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, Oct. 24-26. 1997,
co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
"Resurrection, Reincarnation, and the Immateriality of Thought: Puzzles About and
Implications of the View that the Soul is the Substantial Form of the Body." Delivered to the
Annual Retreat of the New York Fellowship at Trinity Retreat Center, New Cornwall,
Connecticut on November 15, 1997.
"Plato's Dialogues and Greek Medicine," to the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 17th
Annual Conference on the Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy and Social and Literary Thought, held at the State University of New York,
Binghamton, New York, Oct. 23-25, 1998.
“Does Plato’s Comparison Between Philosophy and Medicine Rest on a Mistake?” to the
meeting of the Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism at the Pacific Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Society at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California,
April 1, 1999.
Chair and Moderator of a Session on History of Theories of Personhood (Locke, Kant,
Aristotle) at the Fifth International Conference on Persons at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, held on August 3-8, 1999.
"True Femininity and False: A Reading of the Refutation of Agathon in Symposium 199c-
201c," at the conference “Second Sailing: Plato for the New Millenium,” the 5th Annual
Lewis University Philosophy Conference on February 24-25, 2000, in Chicago, Illinois. On
panel on Feminism with Dr. Julie Ward of Chicago Loyola, and Dr. Catherine McKeen of
SUNY Brockport. Keynote speaker: Adrian Peperzak.
“Being and Having: Socrates’ Refutation of Agathon in Symposium 199c-201c,” to the Grand
Valley State University Philosophy Department colloquium, April 14, 2000.
“Spiritual Pregnancy and Plato’s Refutation of Agathon in the Symposium,” to the conference
on Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Social
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Thought, held at the State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, Oct. 27-29. 2000,
co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
“Philosophical and Theological Notes on Friendship and Preferential Love,” Retreat of New
Canaan Society, Wequassett Inn, Cape Cod Masachusetts, May 19, 2001. Delivered in proxy
due to a bad cycling injury.
“Nichomachean Ethics: Book I on Happiness,” talk and seminar with the Grand Forum, June
27, 2001.
“Medicinal Rhetoric in the Republic: Socrates’ Proposals to Glaucon Concerning Gymnastic
Education” delivered at Pyrgos, Greece, ten miles from Olympia, to the 12 International
Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture of Athens, July 30, 2001, first
day of a five-day conference.
“Plato’s Medical Philosophy,” talk and seminar with Grand Forum, August 21, 2001.
“Six Issues Which Must Be Discussed Separately in the Fetal Tissue Debate,” to the Grand
Forum, August 28, 2001.
“The Unity of the Phaedrus in Light of the Parallel Dialectical Structures of 231a-257b and
259e-274b,” to the conference on Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy and Social Thought, the State University of New York, Binghamton,
New York, Oct. 26-28, 2001, co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
“Medicinal Rhetoric in the Republic: Socrates’ Proposals to Glaucon Concerning Gymnastic
Education” to the Grand Valley State University Philosophy Department colloquium,
November 30, 2001.
“The Bible and the mythology of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: Twenty-Five Parallels,” to a
colloquium of the New York Fellowship Leadership Foundation, 232 E. 32nd Street, NY, NY,
December 21, 2001.
“Medicinal Rhetoric in the Republic: Socrates’ Proposals to Glaucon Concerning
Gymnastic Education” new version, invited paper to the Tenth Annual Minnesota
Conference on Ancient Philosophy sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the
Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle, held at Heller Hall of the University of Minnesota on
April 20, 2002.
“Friendship in the Classical World and in the Gospel of John,” to a colloquium of the New
Canaan Society Spring 2002 Men’s Retreat at Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, Long Island, May 17,
2002.
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“The Ring of Power: Tolkien’s Use of Indo-European Myths of Creation, Fall, Redemption,
and Apocalypse,” to a colloquium of the New York Fellowship Leadership Foundation, 232
E. 32nd Street, NY, NY, December 20, 2002.
“The Soul-State Analogy in the Republic: The Dialectical Refutation of Bad Politics,” to the
11th Annual Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy, sponsored by the Minnestoa
Ancient Philosophy Circle, on April 19, 2003 at Heller Hall of the University of Minnesota.
“The Soul-State Analogy in the Republic: The Dialectical Refutation of Bad Politics,” to the
Second Annual Conference on Conflict Resolution: Religion, Diplomacy, Peace: A Dialogue
Among Diplomats, University Presidents, Clergy, and Scholars: Transnational and
Comparative Perspectives and Dialogues, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
City, March 29, 2003.
“Tolkien, the Bible and the Ring of Power: a Reflection upon the Themes of Creation, Fall,
Redemption, and Apocalypse in Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings” to the Summer
2003 Institute of Spirituality at the Dominican Center at Marywood, Grand Rapids, MI, on
June 26, 2003.
“Socratic Discussions of Thumos in the Republic” to the Society for Ancient Greek
Philosophy meeting at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City, on November 2,
2003.
“Thumos as a Leitmotif of the Republic,” peer reviewed paper to the 11th Annual Minnesota
Conference on Ancient Philosophy, sponsored by the Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle:
The Minnestoa, held at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 1, 2004.
“Rules, Virtues, and the Common Good in Republic 423d-427a,” to the International
Conference On Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133
W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 24, 2004.
“Issues in the Relations Between Philosophy and Medicine,” a ninety-minute taped
telephone interview with Doctors Leon Piterman and Joachim Sturmberg of the
Postgraduate Program in Family Medicine in the Department of General Practice at
Monash University, Australia. My paper “Plato’s Conception of the Relations Between
Moral Philosophy and Medicine,” along with the taped interview, is part of the required study
material for the Introduction to Family Medicine course in the Program. Interview questions
included: (1) What is Philosophy and how does it help to understand a subject or discipline?
(2) How does an understanding of moral philosophy contribute to the understanding and
practice of medicine? (3) What comparisons are to be made between roles of shaman, priest,
philosopher, and physician? (4) What are some influential definitions of health and disease?
(5) How does specialization and singularity of interest (e.g. in particular body parts or in
molecular biology) fit into or conflict with a holistic philosophy of medicine? (6) What is the
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common good and is medicine a common good? (7) What are the social responsibilities of
the medical profession? Two months of preparation and literature review.
“Tolkien’s Logos: Myth and Morality in the Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings,” to Lori
Witthaus’s class in Scriptures as Literature on March 23, 2004.
“Tolkien and the Bible,” a reflection upon the themes of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and
Apocalypse in Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings, discussing both overall plot
parallels with and specific allusions to Biblical texts in these two works, including inquiry
into Tolkien’s use of Logos Christology and of the doctrine of the imago Dei in spiritual
creatures, and a reflection upon twelve symbolic meanings of the Ring of Power, to the Friday
evening meeting of student group CARO (Catholics Aspiring to Reach Others) on April 16,
2004.
"Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis: The Prayerful Hermeneutics of a Mystic and
Scholar," the tenth in a year-long series of talks entitled Praying With the Mystics:
Companions for the Journey under the auspices of the Institute of Spirituality at the
Dominican Center at Marywood, 2025 East Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI, on May 5, 2005.
"Interpreting Hamlet," a workshop conducted with Roger Ellis and the cast of the 2005 Grand
Valley State University Shakespeare festival production of Hamlet, on September 20, 2005.
“Virtues, Rules, and Goods in Republic 345b-350d,” to the International Conference On
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New
York, NY on October 15, 2005.
"Health and the Health Care System: From an Individual Dynamic Balance of Health Model
Towards the Health Care Vortex," coauthored by Sturmberg, J.P., Martin, C.M., and Moes,
M., to the Complexity, Science, & Society Conference, Liverpool, England, 2005 (by proxy).
"Appreciating Health From a Complex Individual Perspective," coauthored by Sturmberg,
J.P., Martin, C.M., and Moes, M., to the 33rd Annual Meeting of the National Association of
Primary Care Givers, Quebec, 2005, (by proxy).
"Virtues, Rules, and Goods: The Craft Analogy in Republic 345b-350d," to the Grand
Valley State University CLAS Faculty Symposium on February 17th, 2006, held in
the Kirkhof Center, GVSU.
"A Cumulative Case Argument for Theism, With Reference to Hume's Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion," to Catholic Connect, a Grand Rapids Fellowship of young Catholics at
Holy Spirit Parish Hall on Wednesday March 22, 2006.
“Rules, Virtues, and the Common Good: How the Craft Analogy explains Socrates'
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Intentions in Republic 423d-427a,” delivered at Pyrgos, Greece, to the XVIIth
International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture, July 30-
August 4, 2006.
"Is the Craft Analogy at Work in Socrates' Critique of Writing in the Phaedrus?," to
the International Conference On Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham
University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 21, 2006.
"Statesmanship and the Craft Analogy in Plato's Republic and Statesman," to the
Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association held in Boston, MA,
November 8-12, 2006.
"The Contemporary Relevance of Plato's Craft Analogy: Newman, Polanyi, and MacIntyre" to
Grand Rapids Catholic Men's Reading Group on November 17, 2006.
"Epistemological and Metaphysical Implications of Plato's Craft Analogy," to the Grand
Valley State University Philosophy Department Capstone PHI 395 class on March 22, 2007.
"The Craft Analogy and Socrates' Elenchus of Thrasymachus at Republic 347e- 350d," to the
15th Annual Meeting of the Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy,
May 5, 2007, University of Minnesota, 135 Nicholson Hall.
"Plato's Craft Analogy in Timaeus and Statesman: Anticipations of Maimonides and
Aquinas," a keynote address opening the International Conference On Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York,
NY, on October 19, 2007. Participation on the plenary panel following the address.
"The Craft Analogy and Plato's Political Theology," to a session on Plato and Aristotle:
Ethics and Politics, at the International Conference On Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 21, 2007.
"Human Freedom and Plato's Political Theology," to a session on Socratic Political
Philosophy at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association
and International Studies Association-Northeast, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, November 16th, 2007.
"The Craft Analogy in the Timaeus and Statesman," to the 16th Annual Meeting of the
Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy, May 10, 2008,
University of Minnesota, 135 Nicholson Hall.
"Plato's Craft Analogy in Timaeus and Statesman: Anticipations of Maimonides and
Aquinas," to the Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic
Studies, on June 22, 2008.
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"Tolkien as Neoplatonist: The Ainulindale and Plato's Timaeus," to the Notre Dame
Alumni Reunion Conference at the University of Notre Dame, 125 DeBartolo Hall,
on Saturday, May 31, 2008.
"Homoiosis theou in the Theaetetus Digression," to the International Conference On
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W.
60th St., New York, NY on October 25, 2008.
"The Craft Analogy as a Central Leitmotif of Plato's Late Dialogues" to a session on
Ancient Political Philosophy at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political
Science Association and International Studies Association-Northeast, at the Omni
Parker Hotel Downtown Boston, MA, November 15th, 2008.
"Aquinas on Atonement," to the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading Group
on April 25, 2008.
"Catholic Responses to Hume's Secular Humanism in an Age of Science and Technology,"
to the Young Adult's Day Retreat at the the Catholic Center in Westphalia, MI on June 7,
2008.
Panel presentation, Teaching the Crito, to the Grand Valley State Philosophy Colloquium,
Jan. 23, 2009.
"The Craft Analogy: Some Platonic Roots of MacIntyre's Moral Philosophy" to the
International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, Third Annual Conference, University
College, Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, March 9, 2009.
"Birth of Modern Atheism: Hume and His Critics," at the Grand Dialogue Annual
Conference, Grand Valley State Pew Campus, Saturday, March 14, 2009.
"J.R.R. Tolkien's Ainulindale, Plato's Timaeus, and Zagzebski's Divine Motivation Theory,"
to the C.S. Lewis and Inlkings Society, Twelfth Annual Conference: Inklings: Dinosaurs
or Contemporaries, March 27, 2009, held at Calvin College.
"Plato's Craft Analogy and the Theaetetus Digression," to the 17th Annual Meeting of the
Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy, May 9, 2009, at the
University of Minnesota, 135 Nicholson Hall, Minneapolis, MN.
"Hume's Humanistic Moral Philosophy: Some Assessments" to the Grand Rapids Catholic
Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on May 29th, 2009.
"Plato's Ion as Dramatic Preparation for the Treatment of Poetic Mimesis in the
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Republic and Statesman," to the International Conference On Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on
October 17, 2009.
"Plato and the Arts: A Reading of Socrates' Treatment of Mimetic Poetry in Book 10 of the
Republic," to a session on Ancient Political Philosophy at the Forty-First Annual Meeting
of the Northeastern Political Science Association, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphis,
PA, on November 19th, 2009.
"Comments on Anna Greco's 'Plato on Pleonexia and Adikaiosune'" to a session, chaired by
myself, on Virtues and Vices in Plato, at Forty-First Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphis, PA,
on November 19th, 2009.
“Notes Toward a Reading of Plato’s Ion” to the Grand Valley State Philosophical
Society on February 26, 2010.
Panel presentation entitled “MacIntyre’s Larger Project,” on the GVSU Philosophy
Department’s Panel on Alasdair MacIntyre’s “Does Applied Philosophy Rest on a
Mistake?” on March 5, 2010.
"Plato, Jacques Maritain, and Dorothy Sayers on the Imago Dei" to the Grand Dialogue
Annual Conference at Grand Valley State University on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Plato,
Maritain, and Sayers all published profound reflections upon both theology and poetry.
This talk showed a remarkable convergence of their insights in both areas, and focused
especially upon their shared view that "man is made in the image of God."
"Dialectical Rhetoric and Socrates' Treatment of Mimetic Poetry in the Republic" to the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, meeting at Calvin College on March 26-
27, 2010.
"Plato and the Arts: A Reading of Socrates' Treatment of Mimetic Poetry in Book 10 of the
Republic," to the Grand Valley State Philosophy Department Colloquium on Friday, April
2, 2010.
"The Trinitarian Structure of the Act of Poetic Creation: Jacques Maritain's Essay on Art
and Dorothy Sayers' The Mind of the Maker" accepted for the 13th Annual C.S. Lewis and
Inklings Conference at Oklahoma City University on April 9-10, 2010. Because of travel
funding limitations, I could not attend and paper was presented by proxy.
"Plato's Four Arguments Against Mimetic Poetry in the Republic: A Non-standard
Reading" to to the 17th Annual Meeting of the Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on
Ancient Philosophy, May 8, 2010, University of Minnesota. Sandra Pederson, Elizabeth
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Belfiore, Eugene Garver, and Norman Dahl, all avid and well-known Plato scholars,
constituted an interesting audience.
"The Trinitarian Structure of the Act of Poetic Creation: Jacques Maritain's Essay on Art
and Dorothy Sayers' The Mind of the Maker" to the Grand Rapids Catholic
Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on June 18, 2010.
Commentator on Alasdair MacIntyre’s “Designing Our Descendents: Seven Traits For the
Future,” at the GVSU Philosophy Society Meeting on October 1, 2010.
"R. G. Collingwood's Reading of Republic 10: An Appreciative Critique,” to the
International Conference On Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University,
Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 17, 2010.
“The Bible and the Ring of Power: The Christian Philosophy of History,” invited
presentation to the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Symposium, Aquinas College, Grand
Rapids, MI, on October 27, 2010.
"A Theory of Imitation (Representation) in Plato’s Republic" to a session on Ancient
Political Philosophy at the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association, at the Omni Parker Hotel, Boston MA, on November 11th, 2010.
“Alasdair MacIntyre’s Return to Virtue Ethics,” to the Catholic Scholars Colloquium of the
Russell Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI, on December 11, 2010.
“Erotic Love and the Possession of Goods in Common: What Socrates Teaches Agathon in
the Symposium and Glaucon in the Republic” to the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts,
and Letters, meeting at Saginaw Valley State University on March 11, 2011.
“Pieper’s Epistemology of Religious Belief and the Platonic Craft Analogy,” on April 2,
2011, to a conference at Viterbo University, LaCrosse, WI: “Faith: A Conference on the
Theological Virtues,” held on March 31-April 2, sponsored by the D.B. Reinhart Institute
for Ethics in Leadership.
“Pieper, Polanyi, and Plato: Three Convergent Views about Rationality, Belief, and
Knowledge in Religion and Science,” to the Grand Dialogue Annual Conference at Grand
Valley State University on Saturday, April 16, 2011. All three authors published profound
reflections about epistemology. This talk showed a remarkable convergence of their
insights.
“Pieper, Polanyi, and Plato’s Craft Analogy: Faith and Knowledge Ancient and Modern,” to
the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on March 20, 2011.
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“The Craft Analogy and the Role of Narrative in Epistemology: Some More Platonic Roots of
MacIntyre’s Philosophy,” to the International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, Fifth
Annual Conference, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, July 28-31, July 30,
2011.
“The Dialectical Structure of Plato’s Republic,” the Grand Rapids Catholic
Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on August 7, 2011.
“Alasdair MacIntyre on the Narrative Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of Tradition,”
to the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on September 23, 2011.
“Plato’s Dialogues in Light of Socrates’ Critique of Writing in the Phaedrus and of the
Seventh Letter,” to the Grand Valley State Philosophical Society on October 14, 2011.
“Erotic Love and the Possession of Goods in Common: What Socrates Teaches Agathon in
the Symposium and Glaucon in the Republic” to the International Conference On Ancient
and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New
York, NY on October 23, 2011.
“Charles Taylor’s Diagnosis of Modernity in A Secular Age,” to the Twelfth Annual
Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, held at the University of Notre
Dame on November 10-13, 2011, talk given on November 11.
”Plato’s Craft Analogy and the Theaetetus Digression” to the Annual Conference of the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, at Alma College on March 2, 2012.
“Cultural Perspectives on Hope and Despair: Josef Pieper and Charles Taylor,” to a
conference at Viterbo University, LaCrosse, WI: “Hope: A Conference on the
Theological Virtues,” held on March 29-31, 2012, sponsored by the D.B. Reinhart
Institute for Ethics in Leadership.
“Perspectives on Hope and Despair: Josef Pieper and Charles Taylor” to the Grand Dialogue
Annual Conference at Grand Valley State University on Saturday, March 24, 2012. This talk
connects Pieper’s On Hope to certain motifs of Charles Taylor’s magnum opus A Secular
Age.
“Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor: Five Common Themes” to the International
Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, Sixth Annual Conference at the University of
Nottingham, Nottingham UK, July 19-21, 2012.
“Medicine and Justice: The Doctor and the Trainer as Models for the Judge and the
Legislator in Republic 403b-412b,” to a Conference of the Western Michigan University
Medical Humanities Workgroup held at Kalamazoo, MI on September 27-8, 2012.
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“Socrates on Ta Megista in the Apology,” to the International Conference On Ancient
and Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New
York, NY on October 19-21, 2012.
“Love, Power, and Redemption: Three Pervasive Themes in the Lord of the Rings and in
the Tolkien Nachlass,” to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology
Reading Group on February 8, 2013.
“Love Ancient and Modern: Plato and Von Hildebrandt,” to the conference entitled “Love:
A Conference on the Theological Virtues,” held at Viterbo University, LaCrosse, WI,
sponsored by the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership, on March 14-16, 2013,
“Two Critics of the Enlightenment: Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Rise of
Secular Modernity,” to the Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts,
and Letters, at Hope College on March 22, 2013.
“The Historiography of Modern Philosophy in Charles Taylor and Alasdair
MacIntyre,” to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading
Group on July 12, 2013.
“The Ancient Craft Analogy and Charles Taylor’s Diagnosis of Modernity in A Secular Age”
to the Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, at
the Eberhard Center of Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, July 27, 2013.
“Comparing Socrates’ Digressions in the Theaetetus and in Republic 5-7,” to the 31st annual
joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of
Islamic Philosophy and Science at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St.,
NewYork, NY on October 11-13, 2013.
“Dietrich von Hildebrandt’s The Nature of Love,” to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids
Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading Group on February 21, 2014.
“David Hume as a Founder of Secular Liberalism,” to the meeting of the Catholic
Professional Mentor Program of Grand Valley State University, held at the Kirkhof Center on
Monday, February 24, 2014.
“Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Theology in Plato’s Theaetetus 151d-187e and in Maritain’s
Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism,” to the Thirty-Seventh Annual International Meeting
of The American Maritain Association at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island on
February 28, 2014.
“A Phenomenologist’s Approach to the Nature and Varieties of Love: Dietrich von
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Hildebrandt’s The Nature of Love,” Grand Canyon College Honors Program Skype Lecture
delivered on March 7, 2014.
“Goods-Internal-to-Crafts-or-Practices as Constitutive of Happiness” to the conference
entitled “Happiness and the Virtues,” held on April 10-12, 2014 at Viterbo University,
LaCrosse, WI, sponsored by the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership, on Friday,
April 11, 2014.
"A Tale of Two Digressions: How the Eleatic Stranger’s Digressive Myth of Cronos in the
Statesman ‘Un-tells the Lie’ of Socrates’ Digression on Philosophy in the Theaetetus" to the
21st Annual Meeting of the Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy,
held at the University of Minnesota on May 3, 2014.
“MacIntyre on America” to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-
Theology Reading Group, on July 18, 2014.
“Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Rise of Secular Modernity: Five Common
Themes,” to the Eighty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association held October 9-12, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill,
Washington, DC, on Saturday, October 11, 2014.
“A Tale of Two Digressions: How the Eleatic Stranger’s Digressive Myth of Cronos in the
Statesman ‘Un-tells the Lies’ of Socrates’ Digression on God, Philosophy and Politics in the
Theaetetus,” Friday evening keynote address to the 32nd annual joint meeting of the
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy
and Science at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on
October 24-26, 2014.
"God, Politics, and Philosophy in Plato’s Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman Trilogy" to the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, meeting at Andrews University on March
13, 2015.
“Jacques Maritain on Natural Mysticism and Infused Contemplation,” to the Inquisitors, the
Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on May 15, 2015.
“Interpreting the Christian Classics,” talk delivered as part of the Fortnight for Freedom
series at Saint Isidore Church Grand Rapids on June 27, 2015.
“MacIntyre, the American Ideology, and the Democratic Faith,” to the Ninth Annual
Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, at St. Louis University,
St. Louis, MO, on July 24, 2015.
“Esotericism or Pedagogical Rhetoric?: Interpreting the Classics of Literature” to the
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Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on August
1, 2015.
“Plato’s Conception of the Relations Between Moral Philosophy and Medicine,” to the
5th Annual Medical Humanities Conference sponsored by the Western Michigan
University Medical Humanities Workgroup held at the Fetzer Center in Kalamazoo, MI
on September 27-8, 2015.
Panel member discussing the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-
Theology Reading Group, on WKTU television with James Thorndyke, on October 13,
2015.
“Mimetic Irony and the Rhetorical-Dialectical Compositional Structure of Plato’s
Republic” to the 33rd annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science at Fordham University,
Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 24, 2015.
“Ideological Conceptions of Equality, Religion, and Freedom in Rosseau, Dewey, and
the Education Establishment,” to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic
Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on December 11, 2015.
“Free Will Theodicy and the Fall of Man: Reflections Upon Maritain’s Suggestions
About Angels, Evolution, and the Transmission of Original Sin,” to the 39th Annual
International Meeting of the American Maritain Association in co-operation with the
Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, “Along Unbeaten Pathways: Jacques
Maritain’s Pursuit of Wisdom in Untrammeled Approaches,” on Friday, February 26,
2016.
“Maritain on the Role of the Angels in Administering the Evolutionary Process,”
to the Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading
Group, on April 22, 2016.
"Neither an ‘Exact Grasp’ Nor a ‘Complete Falsehood’: The Status and
Function of the Tripartite Model of City and Soul in the Republic," to the 23rd Annual
Meeting of the Minnestoa: The Minnesota Conference on Ancient Philosophy, held at
the Saint Catherine’s University on April 30, 2016.
“Theology, Psychology, and the Thomistic Conception of the Atonement” to the
Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on
October 21, 2016.
“Neither an ‘Exact Grasp’ Nor a ‘Complete Falsehood’: The Status and
Function of the Tripartite Model of City and Soul in the Republic,” to the
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34th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the
Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science at Fordham University,
Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 29, 2016.
"The Tripartite Soul Doctrine in the Republic: a Diagnosis Not a Prescription" to
a session on Ancient Political Philosophy at the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of
the Northeastern Political Science Association, at the Omni Parker Hotel, Boston
MA, on November 12th, 2016.
Presented “Intimations in Plato’s Republic of Some Doctrines of Maritain’s The Person
and the Common Good,” to the 40th Annual International Meeting of the American
Maritain Association in co-operation with the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association,
“Metaphysics and Politics: Jacques Maritain’s Existence and the Existent and The
Person and the Common Good” on Friday, March 3, 2017 at the Holiday Inn
Downtown in New Orleans.
Presented “Alasdair MacIntyre: Aristotelian and Anti-Heideggerian,” to the 2017
Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, held at Sangren
Hall at Western Michigan University on Friday, March 10, 2017.
Presented “Not an ‘Exact Grasp’ but not a ‘Complete Falsehood’: The Truth Status and
Rhetorical Function of the Tripartite Model of City and Soul in the Republic,” to the
Grand Valley State Philosophy Department Colloquium on April 14, 2017.
“Diagnosing and Curing Bourgeois Individualism in Plato’s Republic” to the
Inquisitors, the Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on
July 21, 2017.
“Beyond Ousia: Socrates’ Form of the Good in Light of the Digression on Being in
Plato’s Sophist” to the 35th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek
Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science at
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 133 W. 60th St., New York, NY on October 22,
2017.
"The Transcendence of Being in the Digression on Being in Plato’s Sophist" to
a session on Ancient Political Philosophy at the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of
the Northeastern Political Science Association, at the Loews Downtown Hotel,
Philadelphia, PA, on November 12th, 2017.
“The Transcendence of Being in Plato Plato’s Sophist,” to the Inquisitors, the
Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on December 15, 2017.
“The Theory of Being in Plato’s Republic and Sophist” to the Inquisitors, the Grand
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Rapids Catholic Philosophy-Theology Reading Group, on
January 26, 2018.
“Matter and Time in Charles DeKoninck’s Cosmos,” to the 41st Annual International
Meeting of the American Maritain Association in co-operation with the Canadian
Jacques Maritain Association, “Thomism and Science” on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA. Charles de Koninck’s 1935 Cosmos,
a set of illuminating reflections upon physics and evolutionary theory from a Thomistic
perspective, puts a number of metaphysical themes from the Platonic-Aristotelian-
Thomistic tradition into a new key. This paper picks out two such themes—the nature
of prime matter in relation to possible natural forms and the difference between
physical temporality and biological temporality—and shows how they can be taken to
be positive developments of germinal ideas found in some Platonic dialogues,
especially in the Timaeus.
“The Form of the Good in Light of the Digression on Being in the Plato’s
Sophist,” to the 2018 Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and
Letters, held at central Michigan University on Friday, March 9, 2018.
“Plato’s Republic and Maritain’s The Person and the Common Good,” to the
Conference “Personalism and its Relation to the Christian Intellectual Tradition” held at
Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, OH on May 18, 2018.
"The Common Good in Plato’s Republic and Statesman” to a session on Ancient
Political Philosophy at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association at the Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, on November 9, 2018.
Conferences and Meetings Attended Without Presenting or Chairing
"Theology and the New Physics" conference at Calvin College, April 16-17, 1999.
Symposium on the Relations Between Western Philosophy and Eastern Philosophy, Grand
Valley State University, March 16, 2000.
“The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus,” conference held at the University of Notre Dame, March
30-April 1, 2000.
Harry Jellema Lectures at Calvin College: “Scepticism and Religion in Ancient Thought” by
Julia Annas of the University of Arizona, April, 12-13, 2000.
“Florentine Platonism and Humanism in the Renaissance,” at the Newberry Library Center for
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Renaissance Studies, Chicago, IL, June 10, 2000.
“Plato and the Poets,” held at the University of Notre Dame, Sept. 23, 2000. Keynote
speakers John Sallis, Catherine Zuckert, Mary Nichols.
“Virtue Epistemology,” held at University of Notre Dame, Sept. 22-23, 2000. Keynote
speakers Alasdair MacIntyre, Alvin Plantinga, Julia Annas, Linda Zagzebski.
Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association held in New York City,
Dec. 27-30, 2000. Conducted sixteen interviews and attended the meeting of the Society for
Ancient Greek Philosophy (Brad Inwood and Julius Moravcsik), the meeting of the Society
of Christian Philosophers (John Caputo and Nicholas Woltersdorff), book discussion of
Charles Kahn’s Plato and the Socratic Dialogue (Christopher Rowe, Sarah Broadie, Charles
Kahn).
Notre Dame Conference on Teaching the Great Books, sponsored by the Notre Dame Program
of Liberal Studies, April 4-5, 2001.
Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses: “The Wider
World of Core Texts and Courses,” April 5-8, 2001.
Calvin College Fall Conference: Biology and Human Purpose: Altruism, Morality, and
Human Nature In Evolutionary Theory, November 7-9, 2002.
Russell Kirk Center Conference on Alexander Solzhenitzen, John Henry Newman, and G.K.
Chesterton in Mecosta, MI, on April 12, 2003.
Colloquium on Leo Tolstoi’s “Death of Ivan Ilych” held by the General Program of Liberal
Studies of The University of Notre Dame, June 7, 2003.
Attended Philsophy of Math Reading Group on Morris Kline's Mathematics: The Loss of
Certainty, Fall 2003.
Audited in its entirety Jacob Heidenreich’s course in the Math department: Logic and the
Infinite, an introduction to set theory, model theory, transfinite mathematics, and the
philosophical puzzles related to the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem, Winter 2004.
“Science, Philosophy, Ethics,” conference held at the De Vos Campus auditorium on April 3,
2004.
“Plato’s Statesman: A Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy,” held at the University
of Notre Dame on September 17-18, 2004.
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“Russell Kirk, Theology and the American Founders,” conference held at the Russell Kirk
Center in Mecosta, Michigan on Sept. 25, 2004, included talks by Arminian Orthodox
theologian Vegan Gourian on the theology of Kirk’s ghost stories.
“Why Science Does Not Threaten Consciousness, Freedom, or Miracles,” presentation by
Steven Horst, philosopher of mind and chairman of Philosophy at Wesleyan University of
Connecticut, at Calvin College on Oct. 8, 2004.
Seminars on Comparative Religion held by Peter Kreeft at King’s College, New York City on
Oct. 27, 2004 and Nov. 3, 2004.
Workshop: "Praying With Saint John of the Cross," eighth in a year-long series of talks
entitled Praying With the Mystics: Companions for the Journey under the auspices of the
Institute of Spirituality at the Dominican Center at Marywood, 2025 East Fulton Street, Grand
Rapids, MI, on March 17, 2005.
Workshop: "Praying With Saint Teresa of Lisieux," ninth in a year-long series of talks entitled
Praying With the Mystics: Companions for the Journey under the auspices of the Institute of
Spirituality at the Dominican Center at Marywood, 2025 East Fulton Street, Grand Rapids,
MI, on April 21, 2005.
Attended Philosophy of Math Reading group discussing Platonism and Anti-Platonism in
Mathematics by Mark Balaguer, Fall 2005.
Seminar on "Evolutionary Psychology and Scripture Scholarship: More Similar Than You
Might Have Thought," by Alvin Plantinga, at the Conference The "Nature" of Belief:
Evolutionary Explanation, Biological Function, and Divine Purpose, hosted by Alvin
Plantinga (University of Notre Dame), and Jeffrey Schloss (Westmont College), at Calvin
College, November 5, 2005.
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Thursday, December 29, 2005, 9am-12pm, in the Clinton Suite of
the New York Hilton. Chair, Tony Preuss, Binghamton U.; Hallvard Fossheim, U. of Oslo,
"On Plato's Use of Socrates as a Character in his Dialogues"; Havard Lokke, U. of Oslo, "True
and False Emotions in the Philebus"; Thornton Lockwood, Fordham University, "Phusis and
Nomos in Aristotle's Ethics."
Audited Mark Pestana's Metaphysics course Fall, 2005
GVSU Philosophy of Mathematics Reading Group, meeting weekly during the
Winter 2006 semester, discussing George Lakoff and Rafael Nunez, Where
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Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being.
Peter Jones 300-level Classics class, translating Euripides' Ion from the Greek,
meeting three times weekly during the Winter 2006 semester.
Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion, a Spring Conference on April 1, 2006, at the
Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Valley State University, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids
Campus. Keynote Address "Darwin, Intelligence, and Religion: How Much Can
Evolution Explain?" by John Haught, Georgetown University, and breakout sessions.
A Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion, Annual Conference on February 24, 2007, at the
Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Valley State University, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids
Campus. Keynote Address "Body, Mind, and Spirit: Emerging Perspectives in Science and
Religion" by Philip Clayton of the Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
University, and breakout sessions.
A Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion, Annual Conference on February 9, 2008, at the
Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Valley State University, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids
Campus. Keynote Address "Is the Cosmos All There Is?" by Howard Van Till, Emeritus
Calvin College, and breakout sessions.
Plato's Republic: The Thirteenth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy at the
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 15th-17th, 2008.
"Philosophy as a Way of Life: Foucault and Hadot," by Tom Flynn of Emory University, at
Calvin College, Feb. 21, 2008.
Second International Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean
Enquiry, Saint Meinrad Abbey, Saint Meinrad, IN, July 30-Aug. 3, 2008.
Celebrating Alasdair MacIntyre at 80, a conference at University College, Dublin,
March 6-8, including a keynote address by MacIntyre, "What Happened In and To Moral
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?" on Saturday evening, March 7, 2009.
Keynote Address "Why Do People Believe in Gods?" by Dr. Brian Malley, University of
Michigan, at Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion Annual Conference, on March 14, 2009, at the Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Valley State University, Robert C. Pew Campus.
Address by Alvin Plantinga, "Science and Religion: Where the Conflict Really Lies," at
Calvin College, April 24, 2009.
Address by Kwan Kai Man, "Why Believe in the Self? Western and Eastern Exploration of
the Self, the No-Self, and the Divine," at Calvin College, April 30, 2009.
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Hosted Grand Rapids Catholic Philosophy/Theology Reading Group discussion of Edward
Feser's "Austrian Economics and Catholic Social Teaching," on November 13, 2009..
Attended the Symposium: Alasdair MacIntyre and Idea of a Catholic University, sponsored
by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and Notre Dame College of Arts and
Letters on April 22, 2010. Included panel papers discussing MacIntyre’s 2009 God,
Philosophy, Universities and response from MacIntyre.
Chaired Panel on Plato at the Xth Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, April 24, 2010. Papers on Protagoras, Cratylus, and Phaedo by Christopher Long of Penn State, Geoffrey Bagwell of Xavier University, and Benjamin Frazer of DePaul.
Attended Conference “Prospects for Cultural Renewal: Reflections by Catholic Scholars,”
held at Russell Kirk Center Library, Mecosta, MI on December 11, 2010.
Michael J. Murray, “Does Evolution Explain Religion?” and “ Evolution Matters: Death,
Predation, Extinction and….a Loving Creator?” held at Calvin College Fine Arts Recital
Hall, April 13-14, 2011.
Nancey Murphey, “Do Humans Have Souls?” held at Loosemore Auditorium on Saturday,
April 16, 2011 for the Grand Dialogue.
Attended the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and
Culture, held at the University of Notre Dame on November 9-10, 2012. Conference Theme:
Justice. Included addresses by Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Robert George.
Attended the 21st Annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture “The Problem of Suffering: A
Thomistic Approach,” by Eleanore Stump, Ph.D., Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy,
Saint Louis University, on January 27, 2012.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker Series talk “John Paul II, Ex Corde
Ecclesiae, and the Future of Catholic Higher Education” at Aquinas College, April 11, 2012.
Chaired Session 7A on the Republic at the regional meeting of the International Plato Society,
“Plato’s Psychology,” at the University of Michigan on October 6, 2012.
Attended the 22nd Annual Aquinas Lecture, “Can the Complementarity of Man and Woman
Be Proved?” by Sr. Mary Prudence Allen, Ph.D. at Aquinas College Wege Ballroom, January
31, 2013.
Dr. George Lopez, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, “Global Intervention and the
Responsibility to Protect: Always? Everywhere?” on February 18, 2013, at the Aquinas
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College Performing Arts Center, sponsored by the World Affairs Council of West Michigan.
Oleh Kindy, Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic College, “Salvation of the Creation: The
Teaching of the Church Fathers on Environment,” on April 3, 2013 at the Wege Ballroom of
Aquinas College
First Annual Joint Undergraduate Philosophy Conference of Grand Valley State University
and Calvin College, held at Calvin College on April 13, 2013.
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, held at the
University of Notre Dame on November 7-9, 2013. Conference Theme: “Fearfully and
Wonderfully Made: The Human Body and Identity,” with keynotes Charles Taylor, Alasdair
MacIntyre, John Finnis, Robert George, Gilbert Meilander, Jonathan Lear, and Gretchen
Reydams-Schils.
Attended the 23rd Annual Aquinas Lecture “Searching for the Elusive Saint: Francis of
Assisi” by Augustine Thompson OP at Aquinas College, January 30, 2014.
Attended the lecture “The Redeeming Power of Beauty,” by Rob Johansen at the Authenticum
Lecture Series at Sacred Heart Parish, Grand Rapids, MI, on February 6, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker Series Talk “The Alluring Beauty of
Art” by Raymond Arroyo, held at Aquinas’ Wege Ballroom on February 25, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker Series Talk “The Two Shall Become
One Flesh: The Bodily Truth About Marriage,” by Eduardo J. Eccheverria, Ph.D., held at
Aquinas’ Wege Ballroom on March 3, 2014.
Attended the lecture “The Augustinian Response to the Problem of Evil,” by GVSU
Philosophy Professor Mark Pestana at the Authenticum Lecture Series at Sacred Heart Parish,
Grand Rapids, MI, on March 6, 2014.
Attended the Second Annual Calvin College-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
held at the GVSU Kennedy Center for Engineering on March 22, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Spring 2014 Colloquium in Catholic Studies Talk “Turning
Worshipper into Gods: The Christian Understanding of Salvation,” by Jared Ortiz, held at
Aquinas College Wege Ballroom on March 26, 2014.
Attended talk at Hauenstein Center seminar on politics and education “Liberal Learning, the
Human Person, and Plato’s Meno,” by Eva Brann, tutor at St. John’s College, Annapolis, on
June 11, 2014.
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Attended talk at Hauenstein Center seminar on politics and education “Is There a Cure for
Campus Illiberalism?” by Robert George, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University,
on June 12, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker Series Talk “The Catholicism of the
Lord of the Rings,” by Joseph Pearce, held at Aquinas College Wege Ballroom on September
9, 2014.
Attended discussion on Catholic Colleges and Universities between David Solomon,
Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame and Wilson Miscamble, Professor of
History University of Notre Dame, held at Aquinas College Wege Ballroom on afternoon of
October 2, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Debate “The Most Controversial Decision in
History: Should President Truman Have Dropped the Bomb?” between David Solomon,
Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame, Wilson Miscamble, Professor of
American History University of Notre Dame, and Robert Marko, Professor of Theology at
Aquinas College, held at Aquinas College Wege Ballroom on evening of October 2, 2014.
Attended the Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker Series Talk “The Reformation Era
and the Makings of Modernity,” by Brad Gregory, Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early
Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame, held at Aquinas College Wege
Ballroom on October 15, 2014.
Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, held at the
University of Notre Dame October 30-November 1, 2014. Conference Theme: “Your Light
Will Rise in the Darkness: Responding to the Cry of the Poor,” with keynotes by Nobel
Laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago, Gerhard Cardinal Muller, Prefect for
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church, and Center
distinguished fellows John Finnis and Alasdair MacIntyre, concluding with the Colloquoy
“Catholic Social Teaching and American Capitalism: Are They Compatible?” featuring
Hadley Arkes, Patrick Deneen, James Mumford, and John Tomasi.
Attended the lecture “Tocqueville on Democracy in America,” by Patrick Deneen, Professor
of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, at the Authenticum Lecture Series at
Sacred Heart Parish, Grand Rapids, MI, on December 4, 2014.
Attended the talk by Alfred Mele “Does Free Will Exist?” on January 22, 2015, at GVSU
Loosemore Auditorium, sponsored by the Hauenstein Center.
Attended the Authenticum Lecture “Truth is Always Pastoral” by J.D. Flynn of the Catholic
Lawyer’s Association of West Michigan, held at Sacred Heart Hall, Grand Rapids on March
5, 2015.
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Attended a full day of talks at 42nd Annual Convention of Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy held at the Courtyard Marriott, Grand Rapids on March 6, 2015. Talks
concerned Charles Sanders Peirce and the philosophy of religion and American Naturalism.
Attended the Third Annual Calvin College-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
held at the Calvin College on March 28, 2015.
Attended the Calvin College Meeker Center Lecture “Revelation: Ontology and
Epistemology” by Dr. William Abraham given on April 9, 2015.
Attended two afternoon breakout sessions of the Grand Dialogue on Science and Religion
Conference on June 13, 2015. “What Happened to Original Sin?” by John Kenny of the
Catholic Information Center, and “How the Christian God Could be Darwinian” by John
Schneider, Calvin College Emeritus and Grand Valley State University.
Attended Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario from June 15-18, 2015.
Authenticum Lecture “Anti-Catholicism and the American Identity,” with a summary of his
new book Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War
by John Pinhiero of Aquinas College history department, held at Sacred Heart Hall, Grand
Rapids on September 3, 2015.
Authenticum Lecture “Flannery O’Connor” by Steve Ayers of Baker Books, held at Sacred
Heart Hall, Grand Rapids on October 1, 2015.
“Economic Morality and Catholic Teaching,” inaugural lecture of the Center for Markets,
Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, by Albino Barrera, on October 12, 2015 at Wege Ballroom,
Aquinas College.
“Beyond Chesterton and Lewis: Malcolm Muggeridge as Christian Apologist,” Aquinas
College Catholic Studies Speaker Series, Wege Ballroom, Aquinas College on October 14,
2015.
“The Justification of Coercion and Constraint,” talk given by Alasdair MacIntyre to the Notre
Dame Conference of the Center for Ethics and Culture “For Freedom Set Free,” on November
20, 2015.
Attended the Authenticum Lecture “Truth and Truth-telling” by GVSU Philosophy professor
Mark Pestana, held at Sacred Heart Hall, Grand Rapids, on January 7, 2016.
Attended the January series panel “Renaissance of Christian Thought” with Rich Mouw,
Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Woltersdorff, and George Marsden, at the Fine Arts Center at
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Calvin College on January 7, 2016.
Attended the Abrahamic Interreligious Dinner and Talks on Violence and Religion at the
Islamic Mosque and Religious Institute on East Paris, Grand Rapids on January 28, 2016.
Attended William Cook’s lecture “Sacred Architecture in Southeast Asia,” in the Aquinas
College Catholic Studies Speaker Series, Wege Ballroom, Aquinas College on January 28,
2016.
Attended Hauenstein Center sponsored lecture by Alan Charles Kors, “The Legacy of the
Enlightenment and the Heart of Academic Freedom,” at the Loosemore Auditorium, March
16, 2016.
Attended Robert Johansen, “Liturgy: The Basis of Western Culture,” at the Spring 2016
Colloquium in Catholic Studies at the Wege Auditorium of Aquinas College, Grand Rapids,
on April 4, 2016.
Attended Chad Pecknold, “Freedom for Truth: The Fate of Religious Liberty in Liberal Social
Orders,” Saint Benedict Forum, Hope College, April 7, 2016.
Attended the Third Annual Calvin College-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
held at GVSU Eberhard Center, Saturday April 9, 2016.
Attended Common Ground Summit “Progressive/Conservative,” at GVSU Loosemore
Auditorium, April 16, 2016.
Attended Paul Murray O. P., “Aquinas: Philosopher and Poet,” Catholic Studies Speaker
Series, Wege Auditorium, Aquinas College, September 8, 2016.
Attended Peter Zhang, “Deleuze and Zen: An Interological Adventure,” Philosophy
Colloquium, GVSU, September 23, 2016.
Attended online the keynote addresses for the Notre Dame Ethics and Culture Center 2016
Fall Conference Your are Beauty, held on November 10-12, 2016, including Alasdair
MacIntyre, “Poetic Imaginations, Catholic and Otherwise,” David Bentley Hart, “Beauty: The
First Transcendental,” William Hurlbut, “Evolution, Beauty, and Medicine,” Thomas
Williams, “Thrones, Rings, and the Catholic Imagination: What George R.R. Martin Cound
Not Steal,” Gilbert Meilander, “The Catholic Vision of C. S. Lewis,” John Haldane, “Beauty
Then and Now: Contrasting Pre-modern Christian and Modern Secular Views,” and Mary
Ann Glendon, “Wallace Stevens, Beauty, and the Catholic Imagination.”
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Tinkering in Today’s Healthcare Factories:
Pursuing the Renewal of Medicine,” by Dr. Abraham Nussbaum, chief education officer of
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Denver Health, on January 10, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Until All Are Free: A Look at Slavery Today
and the Church’s Invitation to End It,” by Gary Haugen, founder of International Justice
Mission, author of The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence,
on January 11, 2017. (Slavery a $150 billion dollar “industry” today, with owned human
beings forced to work for others. Slavery is more prevalent today than ever, most of it in only
ten countries.)
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “I’ll Push You: A Story of Radical
Friendship, Overcoming Challenges, and the Power of Community,” by Justin Skeesuck and
Patrick Gray, on January 12, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “The EU and Global Governance,” by Todd
Huizinga, author of The New Totalitarian Temptation, on January 13, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “How Did We Get Here? A Historical
Perspective on Our Wild 2016 Election,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Bully
Pulpit, on January 17, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Overrated: Are We More in Love With the
Idea of Changing the World than Actually Changing the World?” by Eugene Cho, on January
18, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “How to Find and Live Your Calling: Lessons
From the Psychology of Vocation” by Bryan Dik, author of Make Your Job Your Calling, on
January 20, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “The World is a Scary Place, Love Anyway”
by Jeremy Courtney, author of Preemptive Love, on January 23, 2017.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “The Royal Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on
the Cross” by Nicholas Thomas Wright, author of The Day the Revolution Began, on January
24, 2017.
Attended Janet Smith, “Theology of the Body,” Aquinas College Catholic Studies Speaker
Series, Wege Ballroom, Aquinas College on January 26, 2017.
Attended Jeffrey Byrnes, “Nihilism and the Self” in the series “Back to Basics: The Liberal
Arts and Sciences as Common Ground for Meaningful Engagement,” sponsored by Koeze
Business Ethics Initiative, GVSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, GVSU Philosophy,
and the Hauenstein Center, held on March 28, 2017, at the Eberhard Center.
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Attended the 2017 Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion Annual Conference on Saturday
May 13, 2017 held at 301 Michigan St. NE, Grand Rapids, MI.
Attended the 19th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, held at the
Grand Rapids Courtyard Marriott on October 5-6, 2017.
Attended online the keynote address for the Notre Dame Ethics and Culture Center 2017 Fall
Conference Through Every Human Heart, held on November 10, Alasdair MacIntyre, “From
Grammar to Metaphysics: From Adjectives to Evils.”
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the
Real World” by Laura Sumner Truax, January 11, 2018.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death,
and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo, January 16, 2018.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Hamilton, Hope, and Change” by Jeremy
McCarter, January 18, 2018.
Attended Calvin College January Series lecture “Still Waters Run Deep: Reimagining
Dementia and Humanness” by John Swinton, January 23, 2018.
Attended Authenticum Lecture “The Lady and the Dragon: the History and Future of the First
Gospel Genesis 3:15,” at Sacred Heart Academy, Grand Rapids, February 1, 2018.
Attended the Progressive/Conservative Summit of the Hauenstein Center at the Loosemore
Auditorium April 13, 2018, with presentations by Patrick Deneen of Notre Dame University
and Mark Lilla of Columbia University.
Attended Authenticum Lecture “Going Home With Homer: Christianity and the Epics” at
Sacred Heart Academy, Grand Rapids, May 3, 2018.
Attended talk by Dr. Mark Ruff, Professor of History at Saint Louis University, “Turning a
Pope’s Reputation Upside Down: Pope Pius XII and Nazi Germany,” part of the Aquinas
College Catholic Studies Series, on October 10, 2018.
Attended the Annual Fall Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture,
“Higher Powers,” from November 1 to November 3, 2018.
Other Activities
Book Manuscript Referee for Peter Lang Press, book called Endoxic Method in Ethics by
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Sherwin Kline, 1999.
Referee for journal Ancient Philosophy, refereed paper on Timaeus and on Symposium, 1999.
Gave presentations "J.R.R. Tolkien's epic romance as a retelling of the Bible" to Grand
Rapids Homeschooling groups, December, 1999.
Study in May 1999 of all papers published by Alasdair MacIntyre between 1991 and 1998.
Ongoing study of the works of Hegel and philosopher of history Christopher Dawson, in
connection with my Philosophy of History Course.
Careful reading of Husserl’s Logical Investigations and of four books on Husserl by James
Mensch and two by Robert Sokolowski, Spring and Summer 2001.
Study of three books on Heidegger by John Caputo, Spring 2001.
Three-week trip to Greece and Rome, July 27 to August 16, 2005: meetings in Athens with
Athenian philosopher of science Evangelios Geronikolas Attended conference on Greek
philosophy and medicine in Pyrgos in Peloponnese. Visited museum and ruins at old
Olympia, Acropolis, Archaeological Museum, Piraeus, Epidauros, Mycenae, Pylos in the
Argolid, Eleusis, and island of Aegina, including monastery of Saint Nektarios. In Rome,
visited Vatican, Capitoline Hill, Forum and Colisseum, Church of San Clemente, the
Aventine at Santa Sabina, Trastavere and the Jewish Ghetto, viewed frescos, paintings. Day
trip to Florence to see art of the Renaissance.
Study review of Athenazae: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book I, Summer 2001.
Participation in Diane Rayor’s advanced Greek translation seminar, translating excerpts from
Hesiod’s Works and Days, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Book I of Herodotus’ History, Fall
Semester, 2001.
Reader’s Report for Rowman & Littlefield on manuscript Plato’s Forms: Varieties of
Interpretation, summer 2001.
Reader’s Report on Ben Hutchins’ “The Conservative Self” for Annette Kirk and The
University Bookman, Fall, 2001.
Refereeing of “The Role of Thumos in Plato’s Psychology,” for Ancient Philosophy,
December, 2001, January 2002.
Philosophical Apprenticeship Program with Mike Swartz, Winter, 2002.
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Study review of Athenazae: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book II, Summer 2002.
Philosophical Apprenticeship Program with Christopher Barker, Winter, 2003.
Bronze II student of dance (Ballroom and Latin) at Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, summer 2002-Fall 2005.
Refereed and composed reader report for Edwin Mellen Press on a 700-page manuscript by
Professor Martha Beck entitled Plato’s Dialogues and Greek Tragedy.
Prepared a draft of a paper in collaboration with Joachim Sturmberg, entitled “From Socrates
to the 21st Century—Health is a Question of Personal Experience.” Reworked the paper after
Sturmberg added his contributions, Winter 2005.
Review study of the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, Winter 2004.
Study of the last fifteen years of annual Aquinas Lectures at Marquette University
Read 360 out of 400 pages of the Oxford Greek text of Plato's Republic before the end of
2004-5 sabbatical in August 2005.
Prepared new lectures on Plato's Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Statesman for Fall 2005
Ancient Philosophy course.
Attended Faculty Teaching and Learning Center Seminar "Helping Students Learn on Their
Own," Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 3:00-5:00 pm., Kirkhof Center GVSU.
Attended first half of Kelli Rudolph's Greek translation class on Plato's Crito, Winter, 2009.
Performed foxtrot dance routine, partly self-choreographed, at the Arthur Murray Dance
Showcase, Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 3, 2009, and performed new foxtrot dance
routine, partly self-choreographed, at the Arthur Murray Dance Showcase, Grand Rapids,
Michigan on October 18, 2009.
Took Introductory French 101 and 102, and Intermediate French 201 during the summer
session at Grand Valley State University, Summer 2009, in preparation for reading Anne
Balansard's Techne Dans Les Dialogues de Platon.
Participated in Philosophy Department Greek Reading Group on Aristotle's Metaphysics,
weekly during Summer 2009.
Performed salsa dance routine, partly self-choreographed, at the Arthur Murray Kentwood
and Plainfield Combined Dance Studio Spotlight Session at the Kentwood Studio, Grand
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Rapids, Michigan, on January 15, 2010, and bolero routine on August 20, 2010.
Participated in Philosophy Department Greek Reading Group on Aristotle's Metaphysics,
fortnightly, during Summer 2010.
Served as an outside reviewer and assessor on behalf of the Tenure and Promotion Comittee for the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at Sam Houston State University in
Huntsville, Texas, for Marshell Bradley, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, who is under review for promotion to the rank of Full Professor. I had been asked by the Department to read and review Bradley's book on the Greek text of the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew: Poet, Historian, and Dialectician. I studied the text and composed a five-page letter of assessment reviewing the book and suggesting a number of interesting paths of inquiry opened by the work. Bradley is a Plato scholar as well as a New Testament scholar, and I learned a great deal from his use of methods derived from Plato, especially from the
Phaedrus, in application to the Gospel of Matthew. I sent the letter of review to SHSU on January 26, 2010.
Interviewer for Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition, Feb. 19, 2011.
Monthly attendance at Grand Rapids Catholic Men’s Reading Group Friday night meetings.
Hosted the group at my apartment throughout Summer, 2011.
I served as an external reviewer and evaluator on behalf of the Tenure and Promotion Comittee for the Department of Philosophy at State University of New York at New Paltz for Daniel Werner, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who is under review for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. I read Werner’s book Myth and Philosophy in Plato’s Phaedrus (Cambridge, 2012), his personal narrative, and the following four articles: “Myth and the Structure of the Euthyphro” in International Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2012), “Plato on Madness and Philosophy in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2011), “Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato’s Phaedrus” in Greece and Rome 57 (2010), and “Plato’s Epistemology in the Phaedrus” in Skepsis 18 (2007). I produced a twelve-page letter of evaluation concerning the issues addressed in his work, the quality and originality of the work, the methodology, the future lines of inquiry opened up by the work, and indications of continuing development as a scholar. I sent this to Bruce Milem, Chair of Philosophy, SUNY New
Paltz, on December 27, 2012. Werner is an excellent Plato scholar trained at Vassar and the University of Indiana, and I learned a great deal from his work.
Passed test qualifying as Level Silver II dancer at the Arthur Murray Kentwood Dance
Studio, Grand Rapids, Michigan, on February 1, 2014.
Referee and commentator for journal Ancient Philosophy concerning a paper entitled
“Socratic Euporia and Aporia in Plato’s Lysis, 2015.”
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Writer of an eight-page evaluation and reader’s report and review of Plato and the Elements
of Dialogue for the publisher Lexington Books in 2015. This document treated the books
discussions of character, setting in time, dramatic date, setting in place, narrative frames, the
“critique of writing” in the Phaedrus, the depth of the book’s scholarship, the book’s
intended audience, similar competitor books. It also suggested possible revisions.
90-minute interview in New York City concerning my views on Plato’s craft analogy,
modern epistemology, and contemporary writers on crafts, interviewed by Maggie Jackson,
Boston Globe reporter and author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming
Dark Age, on February 27, 2016. We discussed, among many other things, Matthew
Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of
Distraction.
Served as external tenure reviewer in Summer 2016 for the Philosophy Department at
Wesleyan College in Connecticut, evaluating the activities and writings of Professor Tushar
Irani on rationality and rhetoric in Plato’s dialogues. This included reading Irani’s new book
Plato on the Value of Philosophy: The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus
(Cambridge, 2017) and Irani’s papers “Philosophy and the Self-Motion of the Soul in Plato”
and “Reason and Value in Plato.” It also included composing a 14-page report discussing
Irani’s teaching and work and offering constructive criticisms of his research and writing.
Served in May and June, 2017, as referee for deciding which papers delivered at the February
2017 meeting of the American Maritain Association in New Orleans will be included in the
February 2019 volume of essays on Jacques Maritain on the Person and the Common Good.
This volume will be published by the Catholic University of America Press under the
auspices of the American Maritain Association.
Served in 2017 as referee for a paper submitted to the journal Ancient Philosophy entitled
“The Ontic Structural Realism of Plato’s Sophist.” Made recommendation and 20 pages of
comments on the paper for the editor and author.
Recorded in May 2018 a 60-minute podcast on “How to Read Plato” for Andrew
Zwernemann, President of Cana Academy in Falls Church, Virginia, an academy that serves
to equip humanities teachers in teaching the classics, on April 7, 2018.
Produced during Summer of 2018 my Sabbatical Proposal for my upcoming Fall 2019
sabbatical, which was approved by the Philosophy Department in Fall 2018.
Worked out revisions in Fall 2018 to a paper accepted for publication in 2019 by the
American Maritain Association, “Intimations in Plato’s Republic of Some Doctrines of
Maritain’s Person and the Common Good.”
Produced in December 2018 a 35-page draft of “Gilson’s Unity of Philosophical Experience
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and Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion” to be presented at the 2019 Maritain
conference and submitted for publication.
Manuscripts or Conference Presentations Waiting to be Worked into Form for Submission
Partial manuscript for a book-length reading of the Republic, entitled The Medicinal Rhetoric
of Plato's Republic.
“Spiritual Pregnancy and Plato’s Refutation of Agathon in the Symposium.”
“Dialectic and Medicinal Rhetoric in Four Erotic Dialogues.”
“The Unity of the Phaedrus in Light of the Parallel Dialectical Structures of 231a-257b and
259e-274b”.
“Thumos as a Leitmotif of the Republic,” peer reviewed paper to the 11th Annual Minnesota
Conference on Ancient Philosophy, sponsored by the Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle:
The Minnestoa, held at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 1, 2004.
Early stages of a book (or course) entitled (something like) The Craft Analogy
Ancient and Modern: Plato, Aristotle, Newman, Maritain, Polanyi, and MacIntyre.
Ph.D. Dissertation
Plato’s Dialogue Form and the Cure of the Soul
Ph.D. Committee
Kenneth Sayre, Director; Alasdair MacIntyre, David Burrell, David O’Connor.
Specialized Oral Examination
Topic: History of Ethics and Contemporary Approaches to Ethics
Director: Professor Kenneth Sayre
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Written Comprehensive Exams
History of Science (grade: excellent). History of Philosophy. Epistemology and Philosophy
of Science. Ethics and Political Philosophy.
Graduate Courses and Seminars
At University of Notre Dame:
History of Physical Theory (M. Crowe) Ethical Theory (D. Solomon)
Religion and Science (E. McMullin) Philosophy of Mind (K. Sayre)
19th Century Biology (P. Sloan) Aquinas and Boethius (R. McInerny)
Symbolic Logic I (P. Maddy) Teaching Philosophy (V. McKim)
Intermediate Logic (P. Maddy) Teaching Practicum (V. McKim)
Analytic Philosophy (V. McKim) Audits:
History of Philosophy of Science (E. McMullin) Consequentialism (M. Wachsberg)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences (V. McKim) Wittgenstein (K. Sayre)
Kant’s First Critique (K. Ameriks) Absolutes in Ethics (J. Garcia)
Philosophy of Science (E. McMullin) Philosophy of Language (Wettstein)
Directed Readings in Plato (R. McClelland) Plato (K. Sayre)
Topics in Epistemology (R. Foley) Episodes in Ethics (A. McIntyre)
At Aquinas Institute
Biblical Studies I (P. Kjeseth) Agnosticism & Atheism (R. Powell)
History of Spirituality (R. Weber, O.P.) Hebrew Wisdom Literature
Grace and Revelation (T. O’Meara, O.P.) Christology (D. Goergen, O.P.)
Medical Moral Problems (B. Ashley, O.P.) Moral Thinking (R. Powell O.P.)
Biblical Studies II (P. Kjeseth) Philosophy of Religion (C. Kiesling)
Writings of Saint Paul (B. Viviano, O.P.) Patristics (R. Weber, O.P.)
Comprehensive Exam Topics at Aquinas
(1) Concept of Inspiration
(2) Hermeneutics (theory of meaning; senses of Scripture; source criticism, form criticism;
traditional-historical criticism; nature and history of doctrine)
(3) Philosophy of Time (J.T. Fraser’s philosophy of the physics and metaphysics of time;
biblical notions of time)
(4) Rahner’s trinitarian theology
(5) Aquinas’ theory of analogy
Tutorials at Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England
Readings in Patristics (P. Jones)
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Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Beryl Smalley)
Languages
Reading knowledge of Greek. Reading knowledge and some speaking competence in German.
Passed reading exams in French and German. Reading knowledge of French.
Other Information
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences
Membership in Community Organizations
Member Grand Rapids Philosophic Theology Reading Group, 1992-2013.
Member Cell Group System at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 1992-97.
References
Professor Kenneth Sayre, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Professor David Burrell, C.S.C., Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Professor David O’Connor, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Professor Steven Horst, Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Kerry Koller, President, Trinity Prep School, South Bend, IN; Ph.D. in Philosophy from
University of Notre Dame
Professor Mark Pestana, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University
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