Office Staff, Churchill Tower, Rm. 716
Secretary: Sharon S. Wiese
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Chair of Department of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Buffalo
Office:Tower 710
Phone: 888-2339
Areas of specialization:
- Ancient Philosophy — natural law foundation of Plato’s & Aristotle’s moral & political philosophy, Protagoras, Hippocratic epistemology & early natural science
- 19th Century Philosophy & Marxism
- Logic & History of Logic — Aristotle’s ancient logic and philosophy of logic
- Environmental ethics & social justice
- Dialectical logic & epistemology - Hegelian logic & its materialist interpretation
- The notion of paradox & paradox in ancient philosophy
- Informal logic & fallacy theory — a formal foundation for fallacy theory
- The clash of two value systems — maximizing market utility vs. realizing personhood
- “Humanist principles underlying argumentation philosophy”. 2006.
Informal Logic 26:2, pp 149-174. - “Subordinating truth — is acceptability acceptable?” 2005. Argumentation 19:187-238
- “Aristotle's Underlying Logic”. 2004. In Handbook of the History of Logic v 1, D. Gabbay & J. Woods (eds.) Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp101-246.
- “Aristotle on moral and social inequality”. 2000. In Political Equality and Justice in Aristotle and the Problems of Contemporary Society, D. N. Koutras (ed), Athens: Society for Aristotelian Studies, pp47-73.
- “The Logical Sense of ‘paradoxon’ in Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations”. 1993. Ancient Philosophy 13:1, pp 55-78.
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President of Canisius College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Areas of specialization:
- Kant
- Wittgenstein
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Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Toronto (Canada)
Office:HO 001D
Phone: 888-2322
Areas of specialization:
- Augustine
- Medieval Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Marquette University
Office:Tower 707
Phone: 888-2328
Dr Forest is a native of Detroit and was graduated from fellow Jesuit institutions The University of Detroit (B.A.) and Marquette University (Ph.D.). His scholarly interests are in the North American philosophical tradition, especially the theories of knowledge and cognition in Charles Peirce and Bernard Lonergan.
Dr Forest usually teaches multiple sections of the introductory course each semester. He also teaches the upper level AS 5 courses American Philosophy and Philosophy of Art & Beauty every year. He has also recently taught courses on Lonergan's Insight for the Philosophy programs and for the Honors Program.
Recent writings include the articles "Peirce and Semiotic Foundationalism" for Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and "Lonergan and the Classical American Tradition" for Method: The Journal of Lonergan Studies.
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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Gregorian University (Italy)
Areas of specialization:
- Philosophy of Person
- Philosophy of Religion
- 19th Century Philosophy
- Plato
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Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Catholic University of America
Office:Tower 708
Phone: 888-2324
Dr. Kelly has been a member of the philosophy faculty at Canisius since 1966. A native of Buffalo, Dr. Kelly graduated from St. Joseph Collegiate Institute and received his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto. He earned his advanced degrees in the School of Philosophy, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Kelly’s major academic interest is in metaphysics and ethics. His publications have focused on ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of medicine, and social political philosophy, with special emphasis on modern catholic social thought. He has presented numerous papers in the United States and at many international conferences in England at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.
Sample publications:
- “Virtue Based Ethics: A Unifying Moral Framework for the Physician-Patient Relationship,” in S. M. Natale and Mark Fenton (eds.), The Developing Professional: Maintaining Values in Practical Training, (Lanham, MD, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1997), 49-74
- The “Institutional” Responsibility of Medical Practitioners in a Market Economy,” in S. M. Natale (ed.), Corporate Structures, Business, and the Management of Values, Chapter 14, (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1998), 209-237
- The Subjectivity of Society and Vocational Relevance, in S. M. Natale (ed.), New Wine in Old Bottles, Chapter 15, (New York: University Press of America, 2000), 201-216
- “Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Organizing Principles for Corporate Leadership in the New Global Economy,” Journal of Business Ethics, 52: 283-295, 2004, (The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers)
- “The Changeable and Unchangeable Dimensions of the Common Good Tradition: Substantive Principles for the Transformation of the Labor Union Movement,” in S. M. Natale (ed.), The Fate of Empires: Education in a Consilient World, Chapter 19 (New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005), 279-307
Dr. George Lavere
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Laval University (Canada)
Areas of specialization:
- Augustine
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Office:Tower 715
Phone: 888-2329
Areas of interest:
- Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- Philosophy of Literature
- Postmodernism
- Phenomenology
Dr. Loughead has recently taught: Introduction to Philosophy, God and the World, Contemporary Philosophy, and Gender and Philosophy. She is also the interim Assistant Director of the Women’s Studies Program. She is currently researching the work of Enrique Dussel in reference to postmodernism, religion and social justice. She is working on a book entitled, Ethics from the Concrete: Essays in Global Phenomenology. She looks forward to a research and service trip to El Salvador and Guatemala during the Summer of 2007.
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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo
Areas of specialization:
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Law
- American Pragmatism
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Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo
Office:Tower 703
Phone: 888-2321
Teaching and research interests:
- Mediaeval philosophy, especially the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Ethics
- Logic
St. Thomas Aquinas, An Exposition of the “On the Hebdomads” of Boethius, Introduction and Translation (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001). Thomas Aquinas in Translation Series. Forthcoming is a book of the late Msgr. Synan's previously unpublished papers, edited and with an introduction by Dr. Schultz-Aldrich (Rodopi publishing house)
A few of the many articles she has published are:
- “Revisiting Aquinas on ‘Naturalism’: A Response to Patrick Lee,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2003), pp. 113-131
- “Love of Friendship and the Perfection of Finite Persons in Aquinas,” in Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E. A. Synan, ed. R. E. Houser (Houston, Texas: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1999), pp. 209-232
- “An Abelardian Reconstruction Reconsidered,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70.2 (Spring 1996), pp. 275-286
- “Thomistic Metaethics and a Present Controversy,” The Thomist 52.1 (January 1988), pp. 40-62
- “‘Ought’-Judgments: A Descriptivist Analysis from a Thomistic Perspective,” The New Scholasticism 61.4 (Autumn 1987), pp. 400-426.
Dr. Stanley Vodraska
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of London (Warburg Institute)
Office:Tower 711
Phone: 888-2326
Areas of specialization:
- Familial Philosophy
- Hume’s Moral Philosophy
- Deontic Logic
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Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Office:Tower 714
Phone: 888-2588
Areas of specialization:
- Philosophy of Religion
- Epistemology