ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Degrees:
M. A. (First) (Mental Philosophy) (Edinburgh) 1986
Ph. D. (Philosophy) (Edinburgh) 1991

Awards:
Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland Scholarship 1986-1989
First in Junior and Senior Honours Years 1985 and 1986
Faculty Bursary Prizes 1983 and 1984
James Macfarlane Prize for Honours Essay 1985
Bruce of Grangehill Senior Award for First in Finals 1986
Leverhulme Travel Fellowship 1994-1996

PUBLICATIONS
Book Published
Beyond Virtue: Integrity and Morality, London: Macmillan, 1997

Books in Progress
People Playing: reclaiming leisure
Mediæval Philosophy: an introduction
Faith and Reason, Edited Conference Proceedings

Academic Articles Published (or certainly forthcoming)

• Analytic Thomism, New Blackfriars 80: 195-99, 1999
  
• Blackstone: The Natural Law in the Eighteenth Century, Bulletin of the Australian Society for the Philosophy of Law 20: 58-71, 1996
  
• Conscience: Aquinas-With A Hint Of Aristotle, Sophia, forthcoming December, 2001
  
• Demons, Psychopaths and the Formation of Conscience, International Philosophical Quarterly 40: 5-19, 2000
  
• Dignity, Respect and Compassion: Aquinas on Euthanasia, Sophia 36: 43-54, 1998
  
• Distinctive Moralities: the Value of Life & Our Duties to the Handicapped, Journal of Value Enquiry 32: 507-17, 1998
  
• Ethics and the Business World, Journal of Graduate Studies, UST, forthcoming, 2001
  
• Human Dignity, Death and Euthanasia Philippiniana Sacra 34: 247-72, 1999
  
• Mad, Bad, or Both: Natural Law, Psychopathy and the Vices, Philippiniana Sacra 36, Oct 2001
  
• Natural Virtue, Dialogue 37: 341-60, 1998
  
• Of Art and Blasphemy (with Anthony Fisher), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 3: 137-167, 2000
  
• Persons, Kantians and Natural Law, Ch. in book, ed., Robert George, forthcoming
  
• St Thomas Aquinas on Euthanasia in S. Australia, Bioethics Research Notes 9: 25-6, 1997
  
• Teaching, Philosophy and the Academic Vocation, Australian Catholic Record 78: 131-141, 2001
  
• The Bishop, the Artist, the Curator and the Crucifix (with Anthony Fisher), Quadrant 41: 48-54, 1997
  
• The Case of Tony Bland, Res Publica 4: 7-9, 1995
  
• The Natural Law: Reply to Scarlett, Pacifica 7: 347-52, 1994
  
• The Revival of Natural Law Theory, Philosophical Books 35: 153-61, 1994
  
• The Sacred and the Sublime (with Anthony Fisher, Michael Casey), Law, Text and Culture 5: 35-55, 2000
  
• The Philosophical Significance of Fides et Ratio, Philippina Sacra 100: 77-91, 1999
  
• Transcendence and Reason, Ratio 11: 55-65, 1998

Reviews Published (or certainly forthcoming)

• Aquinas' Natural Law Theory, New Blackfriars 78: 43-5, 1997
  
• Aristotle and the Doctrine of the Mean, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1997
  
• Atheism and Theism, New Blackfriars 78: 444-6, 1997
  
• Augustine and Aristotle on Freedom, New Blackfriars 77: 564-8, 1996
  
• Blackwell Companion to Legal Theory, Philosophical Quarterly 48: 401-4, 1998
  
• Human Lives: Non-Consequentialist Bioethics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1997
  
• Is It Rational to be a Christian? New Blackfriars 78: 96-7, 1997
  
• Metaphysics of Theism, New Blackfriars 78: 348-50, 1997
  
• Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, Scottish Journal of Religious Studies, 1993
  
• Political Theory for Mortals, Pacifica Review 10: 154-6, 1998
  
• Understanding Human Goods, New Blackfriars, Dec 1999

Archdiocese: Non-Academic Publications

• Stop, Think & Read¾40 weekly columns on philosophical topics
  
• Reason and Conscience: foundations of faith, Thomas More Bulletin, 1998
  
• Fides et Ratio, Kairos 9: 15, 1998
  
• Fides et Ratio, AD 2000, December, 1998: 10-11
  
• Pope Says: Don't Be Mushrooms, Archdiocesan Newsletter for Youth 6: 10, 1998
  
• Faith, Reason and Philosophy, Southern Cross Magazine, January, 1998
  
• Intrinsic Evil, Thomas More Bulletin, 1999
  
• Who Am I?, Beloved Church, 2000-1, series of 8 quarterly bulletins

MAIN TEACHING INTERESTS
Ethics: natural law and virtue ethics; Aristotelian-Thomist ethics; Kant; philosophy of action; legal and political philosophy; moral psychology
Ancient and Mediæval Philosophy: Plato's epistemology and ethics; Aristotle's metaphysics, psychology, and ethics; Augustine; philosophy & theology of Aquinas; analytic Thomism
Philosophical Psychology: personhood; body, mind, and soul; madness and irrationality; faith and reason; ethics and aesthetics; philosophy and the spiritual life; pedagogy

COURSE INVOLVEMENT AT THE INSTITUTE
2001
JP500/600 The Human Person
JP680 Research Method

2002
JP500/600 The Human Person
JP501/601 Being, Knowing and Choosing

2003
JP500/600 The Human Person
JP541/641 Virtues, Norms and Happiness
JP548/648 Natural Law, Life and the Family

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