Member Profiles
Caitlin Smith Gilson
Professor, University of Holy Cross
Education
Doctorate, Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (2007)
Licentiate, Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (2006)
B.A., Philosophy, St. Francis College (2002)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Maritain and Aquinas: The Image and Christ in the Polis.”
(2023) “Waking from the Cartesian Nightmare: Maritain and the Intellectual Nexus of Transgenderism.”
(2017) “Re-Approaching Immediacy: Moving Through and Beyond Maritain’s Intuition of Being.”
Publications
Edited Books
(2011) Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World: A Confrontation between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger. Continuum.
Books
(2024) Monotheism and Paradise. Cambridge University Press.
(2024) All This, and Heaven Too: A Guide for All Souls. Cascade Books.
(2022) As It Is in Heaven: Some Christian Questions on the Nature of Paradise. Cascade Books.
(2020) Subordinated Ethics: Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky. Cascade Books.
(2017) Immediacy and Meaning: J. K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics. Bloomsbury Academic.
(2015) The Political Dialogue of Nature and Grace: Toward a Phenomenology of Chaste Anarchism. Bloomsbury Academic.
(2015) The Philosophical Question of Christ. Bloomsbury Academic.
Selected Academic Articles
(2023) “William Desmond and the Death of Death Metaphysics and the Heideggerian Predicament After Being,” in A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible, ed. Steven E. Knepper. Cascade Books.
(2023) “The Haunting Apologetic of Jean Louis Chrétien: Woundedness, Hope, and the Resurrected Body,” in Finitude’s Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien, eds. Philip John Paul Gonzales and Joseph Micah McMeans. Cascade Books.
(2020) “The Heart’s Spectacular Silence: Convergences in Time and Memory in Paul Ricoeur and Cyril O’Regan,” in Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O'Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity, ed. Philip John Paul Gonzales. Cascades Books.
(2014) “The Metaphysics of Mystery: A Thomistic Appreciation of Shestov’s Critique of Metaphysics,” Lateranum.
(2013) “Husserl and the Crisis of Europe,” Anamnesis. / (2006) Modern Age.