The American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA) is an organization of

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s established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an

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consonant with Catholic tradition. Among the means used to achieve this objective, the organization strives to develop philosophical

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, to improve the teaching of philosophy, and to communicate with other individuals and groups with similar aims. The organization sponsors an annual conference and several scholarly publications, including a peer-reviewed journal, ''

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'', and the '' Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association''. Individual and institutional members of the ACPA receive online access to all ACPA publications as a benefit of membership. Memberships, conference registrations, and continuing publication of the journal and proceeding, in both print and electronic formats, are managed for the ACPA by the

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Publications

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'', 1990–present * '' The New Scholasticism'', 1927–1989 * '' Philosophical Studies of the American Catholic Philosophical Association'', 1938–1952 * '' Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association'', 1927–present

Presidents

* 1926–1928 Edward A. Pace * 1929 John F. McCormick * 1930 James H. Ryan * 1931 Gerald B. Phelan * 1932 James A. McWilliams * 1933 Charles C. Miltner * 1934 Francis Augustine Walsh * 1935 John O. Riedl * 1936 John J. Toohey * 1937 William T. Dillon * 1938 Ignatius Smith * 1939 William P. O'Connor * 1940 Francis E. McMahon * 1941

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* 1942 Joseph Schabert * 1945 Leo R. Ward * 1946 * 1947 Joaquin Garcia * 1948

Vernon J. Bourke Vernon Joseph Bourke (1907–1998) was a Canadian-born American Thomist philosopher and professor at Saint Louis University. His area of expertise was ethics, and especially the moral philosophy of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. Early l ...

* 1950 Ernest Kilzer * 1951 Gerard Smith * 1952 Francis X. Meehan * 1953 * 1954 James Collins * 1955 Charles J. O'Neil * 1956 Vincent E. Smith * 1957 George P. Klubertanz * 1958 Allan Wolter * 1959 Lawrence E. Lynch * 1960 Robert Lechner * 1961 William M. Walton * 1962 Carl W. Grindel * 1963 Donald Gallagher * 1964 James A. Weisheipl * 1965 John A. Oesterle * 1966 Joseph Owens * 1967

Ernan McMullin Ernan McMullin (October 13, 1924 – February 8, 2011) was an Irish philosopher who last served as the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He was an internationally respected philosopher of science who has wr ...

* 1968 Robert J. Kreyche * 1969 W. Norris Clarke * 1970 William A. Wallace * 1971 Louis Dupré * 1972

Ralph McInerny Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny's most popular mystery novels featured Father Dowling, and was later adapted into the '' ...

* 1973 Gerald Kreyche * 1974 Thomas Langan * 1975 Jude P. Dougherty * 1976 Desmond J. FitzGerald * 1977 Mary T. Clark * 1978 Kenneth L. Schmitz * 1979 Armand A. Maurer * 1980 Henry B. Veatch * 1981 Leo Sweeney * 1982 John T. Noonan * 1983 Marc Griesbach * 1984

Germain Grisez Germain Gabriel Grisez (September 30, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was a French-American philosopher. Grisez's development of ideas from Thomas Aquinas has redirected Catholic thought and changed the way it has engaged with secular moral philosophy. ...

* 1985 Cornelius F. Delaney * 1986 Francis J. Lescoe * 1987 John F. Wippel * 1988

John D. Caputo John David Caputo (born October 26, 1940) is an American philosopher who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. Caputo is a ma ...

* 1989 Joseph Boyle * 1990 Gerald A. McCool * 1991 Frederick J. Crosson * 1992 Mary F. Rousseau * 1993 Lawrence Dewan * 1994

Thomas R. Flynn Thomas Robert Flynn (born June 2, 1936) is an American philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2011). Flynn was ordained in 196 ...

* 1995 Robert E. Wood * 1996 Thomas C. Anderson * 1997

Linda Zagzebski Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (born 1946) is an American philosopher. She is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. She wr ...

* 1998 Jorge J. E. Gracia * 1999 Thomas A. Russman * 2000

Eleonore Stump Eleonore Stump (born August 9, 1947) is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. Biography Stump received a BA in classical languages from Grinnell College (1969), where she was va ...

* 2001 James F. Ross * 2002 Patrick L. Bourgeois * 2003 David B. Burrell * 2004

Nicholas Rescher Nicholas Rescher (; ; born 15 July 1928) is a German-American philosopher, polymath, and author, who has been a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh since 1961. He is chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and was for ...

* 2005 James L. Marsh * 2006 Anthony J. Lisska * 2007 Timothy B. Noone * 2008 William Desmond * 2009 Mary Beth Ingham * 2010 Therese-Anne Druart * 2011 Dominic Balestra * 2012 Richard Taylor (Marquette University) * 2013 John O'Callaghan * 2014 Daniel Dahlstrom * 2015 Jorge L. A. Garcia * 2016 Kevin Flannery * 2017 Thomas Hibbs * 2018 Francis Beckwith * 2019 Jean De Groot

References

External links

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''American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly''

''The New Scholasticism''

''Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association''

''Philosophical Studies of the American Catholic Philosophical Association''

Philosophy Documentation Center
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