Christopher Hugh Toner



Christopher Hugh Toner

University of Saint Thomas Home

Department of Philosophy 15248 Dunlin Court

2115 Summit Avenue, JRC #241 Apple Valley, MN 55124

St. Paul, MN 55105 Home Phone: (952)423-4291

Phone/Fax: (651)962-5355/5340 E-mail: christopher.toner@stthomas.edu

Academic Positions: Professor of Philosophy

University of Saint Thomas (Fall 2019 – Present)

Associate Professor of Philosophy

University of Saint Thomas (Fall 2012 – Present)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

University of Saint Thomas (Fall 2008 – Spring 2012)

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy

United States Air Force Academy (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008)

Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics

Air Command & Staff College (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008)

Assistant Professor of Leadership and Ethics

Air Command & Staff College (January 2003 – September 2007)

Editorial Position: Associate Editor, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

(January 2009 – Present)

Academic History:

• Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2003

Dissertation: Flourishing and Self-Interest in Virtue Ethics

Advisor: David Solomon

• M.A., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1999

• Military Service, U.S. Army, 1992-1997

• B.A., cum laude, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1992

Areas of Specialization: Moral Theory, Aquinas, Military Ethics

Areas of Competence: Aristotle, Ancient Ethics, Medieval Philosophy

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Philosophical Journals:

• “Home and Our Need for It,” Journal of Philosophical Research 44 (2019: 252-272).

• “Jane Austen on Practical Wisdom, Constancy, and Unreserve,” Philosophy and Literature 41 (2017): 178-194.

• “The Full Unity of the Virtues” The Journal of Ethics 18 (2014): 207-227.

• “The Dependence of Welfare upon Virtue,” Topoi 32 (2013): 161-169.

• “Evolution, Naturalism, and the Worthwhile,” Metaphilosophy 42 (2011): 520-546.

• “The Logical Structure of Just War Theory,” The Journal of Ethics 14 (2010): 81-102.

• “Virtue Ethics and the Nature and Forms of Egoism,” Journal of Philosophical Research 35 (2010): 275-303.

• “Sorts of Naturalism: Requirements for a Successful Theory,” Metaphilosophy 39 (2008): 220-250.

• “Just Cause and Proper Authority in the Just War Tradition: from Salamanca to K¨o nigsberg … and Back?” The Modern Schoolman 85 (2007): 1-19.

• “Was Aquinas an Egoist?” The Thomist 71 (2007): 577-608.

• “Military Service as a Practice: Integrating the Sword and Shield Approaches to Military Ethics,” Journal of Military Ethics 3 (2006): 183-200.

• “The Self-Centredness Objection to Virtue Ethics,” Philosophy 81 (2006): 595-617.

• “Aristotelian Well-Being: A Response to L.W. Sumner’s Critique,” Utilitas 18 (2006): 218-231.

• “Pascal’s First Wager Reconsidered: A Virtue Theoretic View” (with Patrick Toner), International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2006): 75-90.

• “Just War and the Supreme Emergency Exemption,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005): 545-561.

• “Angelic Sin in Aquinas and Scotus and the Genesis of Some Central Objections to Contemporary Virtue Ethics,” The Thomist 69 (2005): 79-125.

• “Just War and Graduated Discrimination,” the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (2004): 649-665.

• “Akrasia Revisited: An Interpretation and Defense of Aristotle,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (2003): 283-306.

Book Chapters

• “The Unity of the Virtues Revisited,” forthcoming in Handbuch Tugendethik (Cham:

Springer, 2020).

• “Intrinsic Aptness and the Embodied Self,” Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem

of Culture (Essays in Honor of W. David Solomon) (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2019): 9-23.

• “Sacrifice in Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics,” Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect

(Cham: Springer, 2019): 197-207.

• “Virtue Ethics and Egoism” in the Companion to Virtue Ethics (London: Routledge, 2015):

345-357.

• “Religion and Flourishing” in the Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2015): 356-369.

• “Vitoria’s Integral Realism: Proportionality, Totality, and the Realism/Liberalism Dichotomy” in Teaching, Faith and Service: The Foundation of Freedom (Portland: The University of Portland Press, 2006): 159-165.

• “Maritain and MacIntyre on Moral Education” in Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002): 224-241.

Other Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “With What Intense Desire She Wants Her Home: Jane Austen on Home as Telos,” Persuasions 36 (2015), on-line.

• “Militia vel Malitia? Or, How Can the Military Contribute to a Just Society?” Logos 13 (2010): 121-132.

• “Medieval Theories of Practical Reason,” the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010), on-line.

• “Catastrophe and Eucatastrophe: Russell and Tolkien on the True Form of Fiction,” New Blackfriars 89 (2008): 77-87.

• “A Critique of the Air Force’s Core Values,” Air & Space Power Journal 20 (2006): 99-108.

Review Essay:

• “The Virtues (and a few Vices) of Daniel Russell’s Practical Intelligence and the Virtues,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 8 (2011): 453-468.

Book Reviews:

• Brian Orend’s War and Political Theory, Ethics, April 2020.

• Gregory Reichberg’s Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 2018.

• Stewart Goetz’s A Philosophical Walking Tour with C.S. Lewis, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Winter 2016.

• Lorraine Besser-Jones’s Eudaimonic Ethics, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Fall 2015.

• Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Summer 2013.

• Linda Zagzebski’s Divine Motivation Theory, The Review of Metaphysics, September 2010.

• Anthony and Charles Kenny’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2007.

• Nancy Sherman’s Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 2006.

• Anthony Hartle’s Moral Issues in Military Decision Making, the Journal of Military Ethics, Summer 2005.

• Martin Cook’s The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military, Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2005.

• Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Just War Against Terror, Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2005.

Articles in Progress:

• “Home: A Missing Concept in Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics”

Conference Papers:

• “A Defense of Unfailing Civility.” Read at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic

Philosophical Association, 2018.

• “Intrinsic Aptness and the Embodied Conception of the Self.” Read at Virtue, Medicine, and Modern Philosophy: a Conference in Honor of David Solomon, 2014.

• “Must Eudaimonism be Secular?” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on Radical Emancipation, 2011.

• “Humility and Holy War.” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on The Virtues of Humility, Wonder, and Joy, 2010.

• “Aquinas on Free Decision.” Read at the Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting, 2010.

• “With what intense desire she wants her home: Virtues as Home-makers in Jane Austen’s Novels.” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on the Family, 2008.

• “Friendship and the Evolution of Morality.” Read at the Baylor University Conference on Friendship, 2007.

• “Authority in International Affairs: from Salamanca to K¨o nigsberg … and Back?” Read at the Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting, 2006.

• “How the Military Can Contribute to a Culture of Life.” Invited paper read at a conference on War and Peace at the University of Portland, 2006.

• “Aristotelian Well-Being: A Response to L.W. Sumner’s Critique.” Read at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 2005.

• “Vitoria on Proportionality and the Realism/Liberalism Dichotomy.” Read at the Foundations of Freedom Conference at the University of Portland, 2005.

• “Militia vel Malitia: Can the Military Contribute to a Culture of Life?” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on Formation and Renewal, 2003.

• “Just War and Supreme Emergencies.” Read at the Meeting of the International Maritain Association, 2002.

• “Thomism and Liberalism on the Supreme Emergency Principle.” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on Agendas for Reform, 2002.

• “The Life of Culture: Communion and the Connection of the Intellectual Virtues.” Read at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s Conference on A Culture of Life, 2001.

• “Politics as a Practice.” Read at the Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Meeting, 2000.

• “Universalism and Military Ethics” (with James Toner). Read at the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics, 2000.

• “The Degrees of Practical Knowledge and Moral Education.” Read at the Meeting of the International Maritain Association, 1999.

Courses Designed and Taught:

• University of St. Thomas:

o Advanced Ethical Theory

o Political Philosophy

o Thought of Aquinas

o Medieval Philosophy

o Introductory Ethics

o Philosophy of the Human Person

o Independent Study on Virtue Ethics

o Independent Study on Philosophy and Economics

• United States Air Force Academy:

o Great Philosophers—Augustine to Descartes

o Ethics

• Air Command and Staff College:

o Military Ethics

o Critical Thinking and Research Methodology

o Military Leadership and the Practice of Command

• University of Notre Dame (Graduate Instructor):

o Introduction to Philosophy

Service as Referee:

• American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

• Australasian Journal of Philosophy

• British Journal for the History of Philosophy

• Canadian Journal of Philosophy

• Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

• European Journal of Political Theory

• Faith and Philosophy

• Journal of the American Philosophical Association

• The Journal of Ethics

• Journal of Moral Philosophy

• Journal of Philosophical Research

• Journal of Social Philosophy

• The Journal of Value Inquiry

• Logos

• Res Philosophica

• Social Theory and Practice

• Southern Journal of Philosophy

• The Thomist

References:

W. Matthews Grant

Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy

University of St. Thomas

St. Paul, MN 55105

(651)962-5345

wmgrant@stthomas.edu

Sandra Menssen

Professor, Department of Philosophy

University of St. Thomas

St. Paul, MN 55105

(651)962-5365

slmenssen@stthomas.edu

W. David Solomon

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574)631-9656

Solomon.1@nd.edu

• Alfred Freddoso

Professor, Department of Philosophy

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574)631-7327

Freddoso.1@nd.edu

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