Contributors BENEDICT M. AsHl-EY, O.P. is Professor Emeritus at the Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis. Missouri. He is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. the Catholic Theol.ogical Society, and the American l\1aritain Association. He has published Theologies ol the Body: Humanist and Christian ( 1985), Spiritual Direction in the Dominican Tradition ( 1995), Justice in the Church: Gender und Participation (1996). and with Kevin O'Rourke, Ethics of Health Care (2nd ed., 1994). JOHN M. PALMS has served as president of the University of South Carolina since March 1991. He has authored more than one hundred scholarly publications, focusing his scientific work on low-energy basic atomic and nuclear physics and the effects of radiation on humans and the environment. For twenty-three years he served as the Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Physics and as an administrator at Emory University. While there he received Emory's highest award for leadership and service, the Thomas Jefferson Award. HERBERT I. LONDON is John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University, President of the Hudson Institute, and fomer Dean of the Gallatin Division of New York University. He is a prolific author, internationally recognized scholar. nationally syndicated columnist. radio and television personality, and a leading political force in New York State. where he previously ran for governor. ALICE RAMOS holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain. She has published in the areas of semiotics, Thomistic metaphysics, Kantian ethical theology, Macintyre's ethical inquiry, and Karol Wojtyla-John Paul Il's Christian anthropology. She is presently working on a project in Aquinas and the transcendentals, and she is also editing the vol- 271
272 CONTRIBUTORS ume of papers presented at the 1997 Maritain conference on ' Maritain and the Arts."' FRANCIS SLADE is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, where he was chairman of the department for many years. DONAI.D DEMARCO is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Jcromc s College in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of twelve books, including Biotechnology and the Assault on Parcnrhood and The f/eurt of Virtue. He is an Associate Editor of Child and Familv Quarterly and an advisor editor for Social.Justice Review. An extensive lecturer. he also has numerous publications in a vmiety of scholarly journals. CURTrS L. HANCOCK is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst College, Kansas City. Missouri. He is co-author of How Should I Live?, a book on ethics, and co-editor of Freedom, Virtue, and the Common Good, a book on political philosophy also produced by the American Maritain Association. He is cunently president of that association. He has published articles on Plotinus and Maritain and on topics pertaining to political philosophy and ethics. GREGORY J, KERR is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. He is editor of The Maritain Notebook. the newsletter of the American Maritain Association, and has written chronicles of past meetings of the AMA for both Notes et Docum.ents and Vera Lex. RoBERT J. McLAUGHLIN, Ph.D. Toronto, is cunently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York. He has written before on Jacques Maritain 's philosophy as well as on various topics connected with ancient and medieval philosophy. FR. ROBERT LAUDER is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's Univer sity in New York. He is the author of ten books. His articles on film and theater have appeared in the Times, Conunon' 1.oeal and America. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He has taught in the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of San Francisco. He has written over sixteen books, among which
CONTRIBUTORS 273 are Another Sort of' Learning. Reason, Revolution and the Foundations of' Political Philosophy, and Redeeming the Time. GREGORY M. REICHBERG has taught at The Catholic University of America and Fordham University. where he is presently Associate Professor of Philosophy. After predoctoral studies in France at the Univcrsite de Toulouse and The Centre Independent de Recherche Philosophique, he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 1990. He has published articles in the ethics of knowing, philosophical issues in theology, and the philosophy of science. JOSEPH W. KOTERSKI, S.J. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He also serves as editor-in-chief of lmernarional Philosophical Quarterly and Director of the M.A. Program in Philosophical Resources for Jesuits at Fordham. FATHER ROMANUS CESSARIO. a Dominican priest of the New York Province, is currently Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. After studies in philosophy and theology within the Dominican Order, he taught at Providence College in Rhode Island, and later completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In addition to that degree he holds the M.A. and STL. For more than fifteen years he taught at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the author of ten books and many articles, which include special studies in Thomism. Father Cessario lectures widely in the United States and Europe. He presently serves as general editor of a fivevolume series in moral theology at The Catholic University of America. PETER A. REDPATH is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University. He is editor of the Studies in the History of Western Philosophy and deputy executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series for Editions Rodopi, B. V. He is also author of seven books, the most recent of which is entitled Masquerade of' the Dream Walkers: Prophetic Theology from the Cartesian.\' to Hegel. He is former Vice President of the American Maritain Association. DANIEL MCINERNY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas/Center for Thomistic Studies in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from The Catholic University of America. He works primarily in ethics, with a concentration on themes Aristotelian and Thomistic. He has also published on Aristotle's psychology and scientific method.
274 CONTRIBUTORS ERNEST S. PIERUCCI practices corporate law in San Francisco, California. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America and has served on the Board of Trustee of St. Mary's College of California. Mr. Pierucci has taught business law. philosophy of law and the Collegiate Seminar <Great Books Program) at St. Mary"s College of California. He has lectured and published internationally on the relationship among liberal arts, business education, and Catholic social thought. \l!chael W. STRASSER received his Ph.D. from Toronto in I Y6J,,vhcre he wrote on St. Thomas's critique of Platonism in the Liher de Causis. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Duquense University. He was chairman of that department during the [ 9:-12-83 academic year. In 1984 he was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nigeria. He has published several articles concerning themes at the intersection of metaphysics and the liberal arts. WALTER RAUBICHECK is Professor of English at Pace University in New York. He has published a number of articles on film, detective fiction, and American literature. He has also written about Jacques.Maritain 's aesthetics. HENK E.S. WOLDRING studied sociology and philo~ophy at the state university in Groningen, the Free University in Amsterdam. and the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany. He is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. In 1990-91 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has published several books in Dutch on the political philosophy of the Christian Democratic movement in Europe. fn 1987 he published Karl Mannheim: The Development of His Thought (St. Martin's Press). JEROME MERIC PESSAGNO received his Ph.D. from Yale in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, specializing in philosophy and theology. He has lectured widely throughout Europe, including the Sorbonne. He has published numerous articles in philosophy and Islam. MARIO RAMOS-REYES is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Asuncion, Paraguay. He received his J.D. from the same institution in 198l and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1996. Since 1990 he has worked on the history of
CONTRIBUTORS 275 Christian political thought and Latin American philosophy. His latest book is Filosofia v Pensamiento /Jenwcrarico (Catholic University of Asuncion Press, l9ljr). He has also published on Thomism and liberation theology and John Paul II's social thought. Currently, Professor Ramos-Reyes is Consul General of the Republic of Paraguay to the State of Kansas. CHARLES DECHERT received his doctorate from The Catholic University of America in 1952 with a dissertation on the social and political thought of Thomas More. After work in the social and behavioral sciences within the defense establishment he taught at the International University of Social Studies. Rome, 1957-1959, Purdue University 1959-1967, and The Catholic University of America 1967-present. He has published Ente Nazionale ldrocarburi: Pn~flle of a State Corporation, The Social bnpact of C_vbernetics, Sistem.i-Paradigmi-Societa, plus numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as International Philosophical Quarterly. La Civiltll Cattolica, Orbis, and Contemporary Philosophy.