John F. X. Knasas Information
John Francis Xavier Knasas ( born 1948 ) is a leading Existential Thomist in the Neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realism[1][2][3] and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Fr. Joseph Owens.[4] He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston[5] and earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.[6]
Book-length works
- Jacques Maritain: The Man and His Metaphysics [1989]
- The Preface to Thomistic Metaphysics [1991]
- Thomistic Paper VI (Editor) [1994]
- Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists [2003]
Notes
- ^ Jeremy Wilkins, "A Dialectic of 'Thomist' Realisms: John Knasas and Bernard Lonergan," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 107–30
- ^ John F.X. Knasas, "Why for Lonergan Knowing Cannot Consist in 'Taking a Look'" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 131–50.
- ^ Condic, Samuel B. I, "How a priori Is Lonergan?" Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79 (2005), 103-16.
- ^ John F.X. Knasas, Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists, New York: Fordham UP, 2003.
- ^ "http://www.stthom.edu/Public/index.asp?page_ID=4621"
- ^ Knasas, John Francis Xavier, Title page, An Analysis and Interpretation of the "Tertia Via" of St. Thomas Aquinas (Ph.D. diss, University of Toronto: 1975), http://proquest.umi.com.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/pqdweb?did=756481651&sid=1&Fmt=1&clientId=2945&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
References
|
This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. |
External links
| Persondata |
| Name |
Knasas, John FX |
| Alternative names |
|
| Short description |
|
| Date of birth |
1948 |
| Place of birth |
|
| Date of death |
|
| Place of death |
|
|
This biography of an American philosopher is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
|
Categories:
|
The above information uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Sun Apr 8 01:56:15 2012.
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.
|
|
