Member Profiles
Daniel Wagner
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of St. Thomas (2018)
M.A., Philosophy, Gonzaga University (2010)
B.A., Philosophy, University of Montana (2004)
A.A., Flathead Valley Community College (2001)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “The Order of Intention and Being after Parental Abandonment: A Thomistic-Augustinian Analysis.”
(2023) “Reason, Nature, & the Human Good.”
(2022) “Plato & Aristotle on the Good & the Beautiful.”
(2020) “Disputatio on the Uniqueness of the Human Person as Gardener: A Case Study in ‘Living Thomism.’”
Publications
Edited Books
(2023) The Intelligibility of Nature: The Wallace Reader, with John P. Hittinger and Michael W. Tkacza. Catholic University of America Press.
(2015) Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, with John P. Hittinger. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Academic Articles
(forthcoming) “Plato and Aristotle on the Good and the Beautiful (to kalon) as Nature (phusis): The Foundation of Thomistic Ethics & Aesthetics,” in Thomism and Contemporary Ideologies. Catholic University of America Press.
(forthcoming) “Nature, Creation, and the Dignity of the Human Person,” in Human Dignity across the Islamic and Christian Traditions. Bloomsbury Academic.
(2024) “On the Elegance of APo, II.19 as Platonic Division,” Reality 1 (3).
(2022) “Disputatio on the Distinction between the Human Person and Other Animals: The Human Person as Gardener,” with Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, Studia Gilsoniana 11 (3): 471–530.
(2022) “No Cause, No Credo: Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Nature as Preambula Fidei,” Reality 1 (2).
(2021) “On Karol Wojtyła’s Aristotelian Method: Part I: Aristotelian Induction and Division,” and “On Karol Wojtyła’s Aristotelian Method: Part II: Induction and Reduction as Aristotelian Induction and Division,” in Philosophy and Canon Law 7 (1).
(2021) “On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology & Thomism,” in Studia Gilsoniana 10 (3): 579–607.
(2020) “Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas on What is “Better-Known” in Natural Science,” with John H. Boyer, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 93.
(2020) “The Logical Terms of Sense Realism: A Thomistic-Aristotelian & Phenomenological Defense,” Reality 1 (1).
(2020) “Reality as Katharsis,” with Brian Kemple, Reality, 1 (1).
(2018) “Penitential Method as Phenomenological: The Penitential epokhe,” Studia Gilsoniana 7 (3): 487–518.