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FACULTY
Robert Gallagher
I joined CVSP in January 2007.
I obtained my doctorate in Classics and Ancient
Philosophy from the Ohio State University in 1998 after earning an
A.B. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A.
in Classics from the University of Maryland. My research papers on
Aristotle, Plato, Euripides and Cicero have been published by
Classical Quarterly, Ancient Philosophy and the
Society for Ancient Philosophy.
I have twice been a Summer Scholar at the
Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC), and
I have been a Guest Scholar at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies (Toronto). In 2004, I participated in a U.S. National
Endowment of Humanities Summer Seminar on “Soul and substance in
Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition,” under the leadership of
Christopher Shields (Oxford). Since then, I have been developing a
systematic treatment of evidence in Aristotle’s writings that there
exist essential differences among human beings. At the same time, I
am investigating the departure of Thomas Aquinas from the views of
Aristotle and the impact that departure had on the development of
modern philosophy of human nature (e.g., Locke, Marx). This
reexamination of Aristotle’s views is leading towards the
development of a new, contemporary philosophy of human nature.
I teach CSVP 201 and 202 and plan to
teach 203 soon.
Concepts in Logic
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book vii
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.7.vii.html
Metaphysics Book 12
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.12.xii.html
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book ii
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.2.ii.html
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book iii
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html
Thomas Aquinas
from "Summa contra gentiles":
Arguments of those who deny God's knowledge of singulars
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc1_63.htm
Reasons for the Eternity of the World on the part of Creatures
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc2_33.htm
Aristotle,
"Politics," Book 2
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.2.two.html
Epicurus, Principal Doctrines
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/doctrines/
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