Member Profiles
Carl Vater
St. Vincent College
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (2017)
M.A., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (2014)
M.A., Theology, Villanova University (2011)
B.A., Philosophy and Theology, Saint Vincent College (2009)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “St. Bonaventure on Divine Ideas and What is ‘Really Real.’”
Publications
Books
(2022) God’s Knowledge of the World: Medieval Theories of Divine Ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham. Catholic University of America Press.
Academic Articles
(2021) “The Absence of Divine Ideas in the Summa Contra Gentiles,” New Blackfriars 102 (1102): 979-96.
(2020) “An Inconsistency in Aquinas’s De veritate Account of Divine Ideas,” Nova et Vetera 18 (2): 639–52.
(2018) “The Sources of Scotus’s Theory of Divine Ideas,” with Timothy B. Noone in Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought, eds. J. F. Falà and I. Zavattero. Aracane.
(2018) “The Role of the Virtus Formativa in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Account of Embryogenesis,” The Thomist 82 (1): 113–32.