
Member Profiles
Donna West
SUNY Cortland
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University (1986)
M.A., Linguistics, Cornell University (1986)
B.A., Spanish, Roanoke College (1977)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Maritain’s Protocol for Visionary Insight.”
(2019) “Eidetic Images as Instruments of Suprasubjectivity: Insights from Maritain
and Deely.”
(2018) “Potency within the Sign Versus Thirdness within the Felt Interpretant:
Maritain’s Versus Peirce’s Semiotic.”
Publications
Academic Articles
(2022) “Natural Knowledge of God: Reason as Faith’s Steadfast Ally,” Saint Anselm Journal 18 (1): 1-16.
(2017) “‘It is Right and Just’: Ontological Poverty and the Duty of Religion,” in Engaging the Times: TheWitness of Thomism, ed. Joshua Schulz. Catholic University of America Press.
(2014) “Maritain on Art and Faith Conspiring Towards Heaven,” in A Piercing Light: Beauty, Faith, and Human Transcendence, ed. James M. Jacobs. Catholic University of America Press.
(2013) “Contemplata aliis tradere: The Universal Call to Contemplation and Its Implications,” in Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics, ed. Peter Koritansky. Catholic University of America Press.