Publications - Books - Professional Ethics
Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle (with Giles Pearson), Oxford University
Press, 2011.
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Translated into Portuguese as, A Ética a Nicomaco: Uma chave de leitura,
Petrópolis, Brazil: Editora Vozes, 2020.
Nicomachean Ethics VIII and IX, translation with commentary, Clarendon Aristotle Series,
1998.
Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, Hackett, 1991.
Publications - Books - General Readership
Mary’s Voice in the Gospel According to John, Regnery Gateway, 2021
The Memoirs of St. Peter, Regnery Gateway, 2019.
The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God, Ignatius Press, 2011.
Understanding Accounting Ethics
Accounting Ethics and the Near Collapse of the World's Financial System
Publications - Books - Classical Philosophy
“Civic Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle,” in Trevor Shelley and Carol McNamara, eds.,
Renewing America’s Civic Compact, Lexington Books, 2023, chapter 16 (in press).
“Philosophy as a Path of Salvation in the Ancient World,” in Proceedings of the XIX Session
of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas, Serge-Thomas Bonino and Guido Mazzotta, eds.,
Urbiana University Press, 2020, pp. 11-27.
“’Rectification of Appetite’ as Education of Desire within ‘Moral’ Virtue,” in Desire and
Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Positive Psychology, Moral Education, and Virtue
Ethics, ed. Magdalena Bosch, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020, pp. 435-450.
“The Obviousness of the Kalon in Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Beauty and the Good: Past
Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance, Alice Ramos, ed., Catholic University
Press, 2020, pp.72-92.
“Emotions in Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Proceedings of the XVIII Session of the Pontifical
Academy of St. Thomas, Serge-Thomas Bonino and Guido Mazzotta, eds., Urbiana
University Press, 2019, pp. 29-46.
“Natural Inclinations in Aquinas’ Account of Natural Law,” in Natural Law Today: The
Current State of the Perennial Philosophy, ed. C. Wolfe and S. Brust, Lexington, 2018, pp.
19-32.
“Contempt in Classical Philosophy,” in The Moral Psychology of Contempt, ed. Michelle
Mason, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 17-36.
“Aristotle on God as Creator,” in Proceedings of the XVII Session of the Pontifical Academy
of St. Thomas, Serge-Thomas Bonino and Guido Mazzotta, eds., Urbiana University Press,
2018, pp. 29-46.
“Aristotle” in the Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Jens Timmermann and Sacha
Golob, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 42-56.
"Reading Aristotle," in James Warren and F.C.C. Sheffield, eds., The Routledge Companion
to Ancient Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.
“Structure and Method in Aquinas’s Appropriation of Aristotelian Ethical Theory”, in Tobias
Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams , eds., Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics,
Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Aristotle on Human Rights,” Ave Maria Law Review, vol. 10.1, Spring 2012.
“Mixed Actions and Double Effect”, in Michael Pakaluk and Giles Pearson, eds., Moral
Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 211-32.
“The Unity of the Nicomachean Ethics,” in Jon Miller, ed., Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A
Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
“Aristotle, Natural Law, and the Founders,” on the NEH supported website, Natural Law,
Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism, http://www.nlnrac.org/classical/aristotle.
“The Ultimate Final Argument,” Review of Metaphysics, 63.3, 643-677, 2010.
“The Great Question of Practical Truth—and a Diminutive Answer,” Acta Philosophica, 19.1,
2010. 145-59.
“Epieikeia in Aristotle’s Ethics: Response to Francesca Piazza: La Virtu di Emone, Riflessioni
sull’ epieikeia greca,” Aevum Antiquum, 2009.
“Friendship,” in Georgios Anagnostopoulos, ed., Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2009, pp. 471-82.
“Aristotle’s Ethics”, in M.L. Gill and P. Pellegrin, eds., Blackwell Companion to Ancient
Philosophy, Blackwell, 2006, 374-392.
“Socratic Magnanimity in the Phaedo,” Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2004, 101-117.
“The Meaning of Aristotelian Magnanimity,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Spring
2004, pp. 241-275.
“Degrees of Separation in the Phaedo,” Phronesis, vol. 48, 2003, pp. 1-27.
“On an Alleged Contradiction in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,” Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy , vol. 20 (spring), 2002, pp. 201-219.
“The Egalitarianism of the Eudemian Ethics,” Classical Quarterly, vol. 48, n. 2, 1998, pp.
411-432.
“Comments on Donald Morrison’s ‘Unity’,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in
Ancient Philosophy, volume 9, Netherlands: University Press of America, Incorporated,
1995, pp. 157-162.
“EN VIII.9, 1160a14-30,” Classical Quarterly, 44 (n.s.), 1994, pp. 46-56.
“Political Friendship, Ancient and Modern,” in Lee Rouner, ed., Proceedings of the Boston
University Institute for Philosophy and Religion, 1992-3, University of Notre Dame Press,
197-214.
“Comments on Stephen A. White, ‘Natural Virtue and Perfect Virtue in Aristotle’,
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, volume 8,
Netherlands: University Press of America, Incorporated, 1992, pp. 131-136.
“Friendship and the Comparison of Goods,” Phronesis 37, 1992, pp. 111-130.
Publications - Papers- Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
“The Classical Theory of Natural Law,” in Andrew T. Walker and Ryan Anderson, eds.
Natural Law: Five Views on Natural Law, (Critical Points Series), Zondervan (forthcoming,
2024).
“A Philosopher,” in J. Velez, ed. John Henry Newman, A Guide, The Catholic University of
America Press, 2022.
“Away from Omelas,” in T. Borland and A. Hillman, eds., Dissenting Philosophers, Rowman
and Littlefield, 2022.
“The Duty to Refuse in Dignitatis Personae,” with Peter Morin, MD, SSRN, November 18,
2021, SSRN ID 3929111.
“Reading John Henry Newman,” Newman Rambler: Faith, Culture and the Academy, April
4, 2021.
"Approaches to Reading Newman as a Philosopher," in A Guide to John Henry Newman
“Two Conceptions of Natural Law,” Divinitas, rivista internazionale di ricerca e di critica
teologica, 2021, pp. 319-336.
“The Contemporary Reception of St. Thomas on Law and Politics,” in Matthew Levering and
Macus Plested, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2021.
“On What a Theory of Natural Law is Supposed to Be,” Revista Persona y Derecho (Law
Review of the University of Navarre), no. 82, 2020, pp. 167-200.
“The Meaning of Sex Differences and Marriage in Maritain,” in Heidi Giebel, ed., The
Things that Matter: Essays on the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, The Catholic University of
America Press, 2018.
“From Natural Law to Natural Rights in John Locke,” in The Modern Turn, The Catholic
University of America Press 2017, pp. 89-111.
“A Glance at the Face of God,” in The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton, Peter J.
Bryson, ed., Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 89-96.
“The Significance of Sports,” chapter 5 in An American Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael
Novak, ed. Elizabeth C. Shaw, Sapientia Press, 2015, pp.61-69.
“Writing from Left to Right,” chapter 7 in An American Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael
Novak, ed. Elizabeth C. Shaw, Sapientia Press, 2015, pp. 83-90.
“Is the New Natural Law Thomistic?” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, June 2013, pp.
57-67.
“The Light of the Truth of the Gospels for the Common Good,” Proceedings of the XIII
Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Credere, amare e vivere
la verità, 21-23 June 2013 (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2014), pp. 183-193..
“Some Observations on Natural Law,” Diametros 38, December 2013, pp. 153-175.
“The Liberalism of John Rawls: A Brief Exposition”, in C. Wolfe and J. Hittinger, eds., Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Liberal Political Theory and Its Critics; Rowman and Littlefield, substantially revised, 2nd edition, 2003, 1-20.
“A Defense of Scottish Commonsense,” Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 52, 2002, 151-168.
(Reprinted in John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds. The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A
Collection of Essays, Blackwell, 2003.)
“Natural Law and Civil Society,” in Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, eds., Alternative
Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton University Press, 2001, 131-150.
“Is the Common Good of Political Society Limited and Instrumental?” Review of
Metaphysics, vol. 55, 2001, pp. 799-816.
“The Interpretation of Bertrand Russell’s Gray’s Elegy Argument,” in A. Irvine and G.
Wedeking, eds. Bertrand Russell and Analytic Philosophy, University of Toronto Press, 1993,
37-65.
“The Doctrine of Relations in Russell’s Principles of Mathematics,” Tópicos, Spring 1992,
153-182.
“Quine’s 1946 Lectures on Hume,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 27, 1989, pp.
445-459.
“Cleanthes’ Case for Theism,” Sophia, 27, pp. 11-19, April 1988.
“Philosophical ‘Types’ in Hume’s Dialogues,” in V. Hope, ed., Philosophers of the Scottish
Enlightenment, Edinburgh University Press, 1984, 116-132.
"Cleaving the Natural Law at Its Joints," The Thomist, January 2024
Publications - Papers- White Papers, Comment Letters in Accounting and Accounting Ethics Related Areas
Robert Warren and Michael Pakaluk, “Law Enforcement Agencies and Corporate Fraud,” in Corporate Fraud Exposed: A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach, edited by H. Kent Baker, Lynnette Purda, and Samir Saadi, Emerald Publishing Ltd, Bingley, UK, 2020, pp. 299-320.
“The Illusion of Insight in an Extended Auditor’s Report,” March 16, 2017, SSRN no.
2934682.
“Extended Auditor’s Reports in 2014 FTSE 100 Statutory Filings: The Brave New World of
Audit Reporting,” (with Bob Kueppers, CPA, and John Pakaluk, CPA), Audit Analytics White
Paper, December, 2016.
“Expanded Audit Reports in FTSE 100 Companies, 2013-2015: How Reports Change with
Change of Auditor,” Audit Analytics White Paper, December 2015.
Comment letter to the PCAOB regarding Rulemaking Docket No. 037—Concept Release
on Auditor Independence and Audit Firm Rotation (with Mark Cheffers), April 11, 2012,
https://pcaob-assets.azureedge.net/pcaob-dev/docs/default-source/rulemaking/
docket037/642_markcheffers_michaelpakaluk.pdf?sfvrsn=fc60acd3_0.
Comment letter to the SEC regarding the proposed amendments to Regulation D, Form D,
proposed in Release 33-9416, September 23, 2013, https://www.sec.gov/comments/
s7-06-13/s70613.shtml.
“Reply to Karpoff et al. (2012), 'A Critical Analysis of Databases Used in Financial
Misconduct Research',” August 8, 2012, SSRN no. 2127460.
Comment letter to the SEC regarding the Roadmap to IFRS convergence, April 7, 2009,
https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-27-08/s72708-93.pdf
Publications - Book Reviews
M. Malink, Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014.03.04.
J. Miller, The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics, in Ethics, Vol. 124, No. 3 (April 2014), pp.
645-64.
J. Echeñique, Aristotle’s Ethics and Moral Responsibility, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
2013.11.42.
E. Garver, Aristotle’s Politics: Living Well and Living Together, reviewed in Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Volume 92, Issue 1, January 2014, pages 190-192.
C. Shields, Aristotle, reviewed in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2012.
E. Salem, In Pursuit of the Good: Intellect and Action in Aristotle’s Ethics, in Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, 2010.04.06.
G.E.M. Anscombe, Faith in a Hard Ground, reviewed in New Blackfriars, July 2010.
C.C. W. Taylor, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II-IV, reviewed in Classical Review, 60:1, Fall
2009.
D. Sedley, ed., Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. XVII,Summer 2004, reviewed in
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2006 (3.10).
R. King, Aristotle on Life and Death, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2004 (6.10).
D. Sedley, ed., Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XVII, 1999, reviewed in Bryn
Mawr Classical Review, 2001 (7.22).
R. Weiss, Socrates Dissatisfied, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2000 (6.25).
J. Howland, The Paradox of Political Philosophy, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
2000 (2.36).
A. Tessitore, Aristotle on Virtue and Politics, reviewed in Ancient Philosophy 18, 1998.
P. Simpson, The Politics of Aristotle, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1998 (1.21).
M. McPherran, The Religion of Socrates, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1997
(12.11).
S. P. Menn, Plato on God as Nous, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1997 (12.12).
P. Vander Waerdt, The Socratic Movement, reviewed in Ancient Philosophy 17, 1997.
O. Leaman, ed. Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives, reviewed in the
Times Literary Supplement, March 21, 1997.
A. Kenny, Aristotle on the Perfect Life, reviewed in Ancient Philosophy 15, 1995.
D. Spadafora, The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain, reviewed in Review of
Metaphysics, 45, 1991.
A. Price, Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle, in Mind 1990.
Anthony Flew, Donald Livingston, George I. Mavrodes, and David Fate Norton, Hume’s
Philosophy of Religion, in Bulletin of the Hume Society, Fall, 1989, p. 6.
Presentations and Lectures
“How Public Choice Economics Can Inform Catholic Social Thought,” Southern Economic
Association, November 21, 2022.
“Lessons from Aristotle’s Ethics,” Thomas Aquinas College East Coast, Northfield,
Massachusetts, November 11, 2022.
“Four Practical Lessons of Aristotle’s Ethics,” Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, April 27, 2022.
“Prospects for Shared Rationality,” Department of Philosophy and Religion, Hillsdale
College, April 7, 2022.
“Limits on Methodological Individualism,” with Catherine R. Pakaluk, Public Choice Society,
Nashville, Tennessee, March 11, 2022.
“Cooperation, Formal and Material,” Seminar on Professional Ethics, Elmbrook Center,
Cambridge, Mass., March 5, 2022.
“John Henry Newman on the Development of Doctrine,” Thomistic Institute, Hillsdale
College, Hillsdale, MI.
“Remarks on Aristotelian Civic Friendship,” in conference on “Renewing America’s Civic Compact,” School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 25-26, 2022.
“The Gospel of St. John,” Honors Program Distinguished Lecture Series, Providence
College, Providence, RI, November 12, 2021.
“How to Teach Business Ethics,” Colloquium, Providence College, November 12, 2021.
“The De Incarnatione of St. Athansius,” three seminars, St. Louis Abbey (in conjunction with
Portsmouth Abbey), St. Louis, Missouri, November 5-7, 2021.
“The 20th Century Catholic Intellectual Renaissance,” Thomistic Institute, University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 26, 2021.
“Why I Am a Catholic,” Thomistic Institute, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas,
October 14, 2021.
“Comments on Andy Yuengert, ‘Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialog: The
Problem of Virtue,” CREDO Economics and CST Virtual Workshop, Lumen Christi Institute,
10 September 2021.
“On the Wrongness of the Possession and Use of Fetal Cell Lines Derived from Abortion,”
Department of Philosophy, Ave Maria University, April 15, 2021.
“Confidentiality,” Elmbrook Center Seminar on Professional Ethics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 5, 2020.
“Aristotle’s Methods of Ethics: Nicomachean Ethics, I.4,” International Aristotle Workshop,
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, Feb. 13, 2020.
“Aristotle on Liberty: Friend or Foe?” George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, Feb. 6,
2020.
“Introduction to John Henry Newman,” Thomistic Institute, Columbia University, Nov. 18,
2019.
“Love a Unitive and Binding Force: Nicomachean Ethics IX.3,” International Aristotle
Workshop, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 17, 2019.
“Introduction to John Henry Newman,” Thomistic Institute, New York University, October
10, 2019.
“Philosophy as a Path of Salvation in the Classical World,” Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas
Aquinas, Vatican City, Rome, June 14, 2019.
“Virtue’s Role in Civic Prosperity and Leo XIII and Adam Smith,” Ciocca Scholars
Conference, “Adam Smith Meets Leo XIII,” The Catholic University of America, April 13,
2019.
“Grisez’ Critique of Aquinas on the Ultimate End of Human Life,” Thomistic Institute, Duke
University, April 11, 2019.
“Aristotle on the Three Species of Friendship,” Aristotle Workshop, Union College, New
York, October 18, 2018.
“What Natural Law is Meant to Be,” Scherer Lecture, University of Dallas, March 22, 2018.
“The Kalon in Aristotle’s Ethics: Preliminary Considerations,” Ancient and Medieval
Aesthetics Workshop, Boston College, Aug 3, 2017.
“Aristotle on God as Creator,” Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican City,
Rome, June 17, 2017.
“Puzzles of Condolence: Why We are Pleased When a Friend Shares Our Sorrow,” Aquinas
Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford, May 20, 2017.
“Aristotelian Friendship,” Trinity Seminar, Christ Church College, Oxford, May 19, 2017.
“Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics,” Conference on “Unfettering Philosophy: Reading
Aristotle’s ‘Ethics’ in the 21st Century,” part of the Millennial Classics Series, in the
Department of Politics, sponsored by the Voegelin Institute and the Roger Hadfield Ogden
Honors College, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 31, 2017.
“Why the Nicomachean Ethics is a ‘Great Book’,” Keynote Address, Conference on
“Unfettering Philosophy: Reading Aristotle’s ‘Ethics’ in the 21st Century,” Millennial Classics
Series, in the Department of Politics, sponsored by the Voegelin Institute and the Roger
Hadfield Ogden Honors College, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
March 31, 2017.
“Conscience,” Elmbrook Center Seminar on Professional Ethics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 4, 2017.
“Identification and Identity in Aristotelian Friendship,” Fall Lecture Series on Friendship,
School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, September 30, 2016.
“Aristotle on Justice,” Prague Aristotle Workshop, Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic, September 14-17, 2016.
“The Founders and Aristotle,” Honors College Lecture Series, University of South Alabama,
Mobile, Alabama, April 15, 2016.
“The Meaning of Sex Differences and Marriage in Maritain,” Plenary Session, American
Maritain Association annual conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York,
February 27, 2016.
Response to Thomas Pink, “Law and the Normativity of Obligation,” Department of
Philosophy, Ave Maria University, December 8, 2015.
“Aristotle a Living Authority for the American Founders,” Torrey Honors Institute Lecture
Series, Biola University, November 9, 2015.
“Aristotle on Anger,” Honors Seminar, Biola University, Los Angeles, November 9, 2015.
“Aristotle on Mildness,” Aristotle Workshop, Union College, Schenectady, New York,
October 16, 2015.
“The Consistency of Rawlsian Liberalism with the Public Philosophy of the Founders,”
American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, September 4, 2015.
“The Significance of the Kalon in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Rice University, Houston, April 10, 2015.
“Aristotle on the Missing Sense,” University of St. Thomas, Houston, April 9, 2015.
“Aristotle on the Missing Sense,” Research Seminar in Ancient Philosophy, Department of
Philosophy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2, 2015
“The Significance of the Kalon in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Research Seminar in Ancient
Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, March 31,
2015.
“Aristotle a Living Authority for the American Founders,” Pembroke College, Oxford,
England, March 18, 2015.
“The Significance of the Kalon in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Aristotle Workshop, Catholic University
of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, December 19-21, 2014.
“The Declaration of Independence as a Paradigm of Appeals to Natural Law,” James Wilson Seminar on Jurisprudence and Natural Law, Washington, DC, May 3, 2014.
“A Glance at the Face of God”, conference on Roger Sruton on “The Sacred,” McGill University, Montreal, April 12-13, 2014.
“The Common Good of Humanity,” Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of St.
Thomas Aquinas, Vatican City, June 21-22, 2013.
“Nicomachean Ethics 1174b14-1175a3,” Workshop on Pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, February 14-15, 2012.
“Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean Reconsidered,” conference “In the Footsteps of the Ancients” in honor of Sarah Waterlow Broadie, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, Nov. 5-6, 2011.
“The Family as Containing the Archai of Political Society,” Wheately Institution, Brigham
Young University, September 15, 2011.
“From Natural Law to Natural Rights in John Locke,” Fall Lecture Series, “The Modern Turn,” The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2010.
“The Appeal to Nature and the Household in Aristotle, Politics I,” 10th Philosophy in Assos Conference, Assos, Turkey, June 29, 2010.
“The Definitional Priority of Agent to Act,” conference on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI: Intertwining Interpretations, University of Patras, Department of Philosophy 10th Anniversary Conference, Patras, Greece, June 26, 2010.
“Neuroscience and Friendship,” Newman Lecture Series, Potomac Institute, Arlington,
Virginia, May 21, 2010.
“The Sixth and Seventh Ways”, Thomistic Studies Colloquium, Institute del Verbo Incarnato (IVE), Washington D.C., March 12, 2010.
“Natural and Conventional Justice in Nicomachean Ethics V.7,” Campus Martius Seminar, Acton Institute, Rome, Italy, 28 May 2009.
“The Individuation of the Virtues in Aristotle’s Ethics,” ‘White Russians’ Seminar, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, 20 May 2009.
“The Great Question—and a Diminutive Answer: On ‘Practical Truth’ in Aristotle,” Faculty of
Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, 23 April 2009.
“Practical Truth in Anscombe and Aristotle”, International Conference on Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics, book VI, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15-17 October 2008.
“De Anima 404b7-30: Cognition as a Mark of the Soul”, Mayweek Seminar, Faculty of
Classics, Cambridge University, 27 May 2008.
“Observations on the Right to Property,” Conference on Competition and the Free Market,
Hayek Society, University of Vienna, 5 May 2008.
“Necessitation and Double Effect in Nic. Eth. III.1”, Philosophy Department, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, 18 April 2008.
“To Die For?—Happiness and Aristotelian Courage”, Philosophy Department, George
Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 28, 2008.
“Reply to ‘Aquinas on Judging Injustice’”, Eastern Division APA, Baltimore, MD, 29
December 2007.
“Aristotle and the Runaway Chariot Problem,” Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University,
24 April 2007.
“The Dignity of the Human Person and the Philosophy of John Rawls”, Conference on the
Philosophical Foundations of Human Dignity, Ralph McInerny Center, Washington, D.C., 3
March 2006.
“The Ultimate Final Argument”, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 17
November 2006.
“Magnitudo Animi in Cicero’s De Officiis”, Mayweek Seminar, Faculty of Classics,
Cambridge University, 31 May 2006.
“De Somniis 2,” Mayweek Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, 1 June 2005.
“Aristotle and Moral Absolutes” Department of Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana,
Mexico City, 28 January 2005.
“The Meaning of Aristotelian Magnanimity,” Department of Philosophy, University of Texas
at Austin, 2 March 2004; and B Club, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, 12 May
2003.
“Plato, Alcibiades I”, New York University, New York City Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,
New York, New York,11 October 2003.
“De Sensu 4,” Mayweek Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, 28 May 2003.
“‘Silencing’ in Platonic Ethics”, Eighth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 23 February 2003.
“The Ultimate Final Argument”, Conference on Mind and Nature in the Ancient World,
University of California, Davis, 4 October 2002.
“Degrees of Separation in the Phaedo”, 25th Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy,
University of Texas, Austin, 23 March 2002.
“Reply to Stephen Gardiner on ‘Basic and Non-Basic Virtues’,” American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 31 March 2001.
“Commentary on Jennifer Whiting,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,
Boston College, 30 November 2000.
“Nicomachean Ethics VIII.1-7,” New York City Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, New York
University, New York, New York, 14 October 2000.
“Commentary on John Sisko,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Brown
University, 16 March 2000.
“The Development of John Rawls' Political Philosophy,” Conference on Law and Religion,
Centre for Renewal in Public Policy, Chateau Montebello, Quebec, 15-18 October 1999.
“Is There a Specifically Political Common Good in Aquinas?” Conference on the Common
Good, University of Notre Dame Law School, 8 November 1997.
“Aristotle on Reflective Perception and Friendship: Nicomachean Ethics IX.9”, Brown
University Department of Classics, 16 April 1997.
“Plato’s Lysis and Platonic lysis,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Annual Meeting,
Binghamton, New York, 22 October 1995.
“How the Problem of Egoism and Altruism Appeared to Aristotle,” Brown University
Philosophy Department, 20 April 1995.
“Eudemian vs. Nicomachean Friendship,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy,
Binghamton, New York, 23 October 1993.
“Romantic Individualism: The Role of Individuality in Liberal Political Theory”, Conference
on Problems of Contemporary Liberalism, American Public Philosophy Institute, Princeton
University, 6 June 1992.
“Must All Relations Be Dyadic?” Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, San Diego, CA, 28 March 1992.
“Comments on Stephen A. White, ‘Doing Fine in Seeking Good: Aristotle on Virtuous
Motives,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Boston College, 6 February
1993.
“The Interpretation of Bertrand Russell’s Gray’s Elegy Argument,” Conference on “Bertrand
Russell and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy,” University of British Colombia, Vancouver,
Canada, June 1991.
“Quine’s Lectures on Hume,” Hume Society Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik,
Iceland, August 1984.
Editorial Consulting
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Cornell University Press
Dialogoi: Ancient Philosophy Today
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
European Journal of Philosophy
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Forum Philosophicum (University Ignatium in Krakow)
History of Political Thought Journal
Hume Studies
Idealistic Studies
Journal of Business Ethics
The Journal of Ethics
Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting
Journal of Moral Philosophy
Journal of Philosophical Research
Journal of Social Ontology
Mnemosyne
Modern Theology
Mind
Noûs
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Oxford University Press
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Phoenix
Review of Politics
Routledge
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Dean of Faculty (Associate Dean), Busch School of Business (2017-18)
Academic Integrity Committee (2016-17)
Faculty Adviser, Anscombe Society (2017-present)
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Executive Committee, (2018-present)
International Aristotle Workshop
Program Committee and Co-Director, (2013-present)
Friends of St. Thomas Aquinas
(a not for profit Nevada corporation)
Founding Director (2019-2020)
Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Director of Fiscal Sponsorship under the Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation
Ave Maria University
Chairman (Philosophy Department) (2010-16)
Academic Affairs Committee (2012-14)
Committee of Chairs (2010-16)
Faculty Adviser (Gyrene Gazette; Philosophy Club; In Vino Sanitas; Anscombe Society)
(2012-16)
Center for Cultural Renewal, Korcula Institute, Korcula, Croatia
Professor (2009-12)
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP)
Director (1993-2008)
Neuwaldegg Institute, Schloss Neuwaldegg, Vienna, Austria
Dean of Faculty (2005-8)
Clark University (1988-2008)
Admissions Committee
University Judicial Board
College Board
Honorary Degree Committee
Thomistic Institute
Classical versus Modern Ethics, Queens University, Ontario, Canada, March 6, 2023
What Study Means for a Christian, University of Kansas, February 23, 2023
Why I Am a Catholic, University of Arizona, November 1, 2022
The Catholic Intellectual Renaissance of the 20th Century, October 26, 2021
Introduction to John Henry Newman, Columbia University, November 18, 2019
Introduction to John Henry Newman, New York University, October 10, 2019
The Ultimate End of Human Life, Duke University, April 11, 2019
Wisdom from Aquinas in the Age of Social Media, US Naval Academy, November 13, 2018
Liberty Fund
Freedom and Responsibility in Puccini’s Tosca, St. Louis, MO, June 20-23, 2023
Publius and the Federalist Papers, Jekyll Island, GA, Nov 17-20
The Telos of the University, Boston, MA, Sept 29-Oct 2
History of the Concept of Value, Santa Marta, Colombia, July 6-10, 2022
Theories of Human Nature, Greenville, SC, June 23-26, 2022
Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics, Las Vegas, NV, March 31-April 3, 2022
Religious Liberty in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Houston, TX, January 15-18, 2022
John Rawls’ Theory of Justice, 50 Years Later, Miami, FL, November 21-24, 2021
Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, February 5-6, 2021
Grotius and the Origins of Natural Law, Cartagena, Colombia, November 28-Dec 2, 2018
Ropke-Wojtyla Fellowship - Faculty Fellow
Colloquium, February 2, 2018
Colloquium, February 10, 2018
Colloquium, October 27, 2018
Colloquium, June 22, 2019
Colloquium, October 23-24, 2020
Colloquium, October 23, 2021
Colloquium, October 29, 2022
James Wilson Institute - Senior Fellow
Seminar, October 20, 2016
Seminar, November 3-4, 2017
Seminar, January 19, 2017
Seminar, May 3-4, 2019
Seminar, November 1-2, 2019
Seminar, October 16, 2020
Seminar, April 13-14, 2021
Seminar, November 18-19, 2021
Seminar, May 6-7, 2022
Community Services
Worcester Public Library, Director (1994-2000)
Abby Kelley Foster Regional Charter School, Worcester, Mass., Founding Trustee
(1996-2002)
Awards and Honors
Ordinarius, Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (appointed Dec 8, 2011)
Ave Maria University “Refiner’s Fire” Award (for high standards in teaching), 2012
Ave Maria University Faculty Adviser of the Year, 2013
Marshall Scholar, 1980-82
Junior Year Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College
Academic References
Fr. Kevin Flannery, S.J., Gregorian University
flannery@unigre.it
Fr. Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P., Angelicum University
stbonino@gmail.com
Professor Max Torres, colleague, Busch School of Business
mbtj@me.com