Member Profiles
James G. Hanink
Independent Scholar
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Michigan State University
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Anscombe’s Voting Paradox: A Test for Democracy.”
(2023) “Anscombe’s Sed Contra: Against Lewis on Naturalism.”
(2022) “From Language to Metaphysics: Anscombe’s First Person Provocation.”
(2020) “Anscombe, Causality, and the Play of Creation.”
(2019) “Wisdom, Metaphysics and Conscience.”
(2018) “First Principles, Common Sense, and Science: The Presence of a President Past.”
(2017) “Jacques Maritain and the Very Idea of Disputed Questions: A Case Study.”
Publications
Edited Books
(2019) In Search of Harmony: Metaphysics and Politics. Catholic University of America Press.
(2012) Aquinas and Maritain on Evil: Mystery and Metaphysics. Catholic University of America Press.
Academic Articles
(2018) “Being, Beauty, and Converging Intuition,” in The Things that Matter: Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi Marie Giebel. Catholic University of America Press.
(2010) “The Metaphysics of Moral Evil: Context, Truth, and Character,” Maritain Studies 26: 99-109.
(2007) “Justice, Piety, and Mercy: A Thomistic Inquiry,” Maritain Studies 23: 93-101.
(2001) “Wounds of the Intelligence,” Maritain Studies: 17: 103-111.
(1998) “Maritain and Ratzinger: Puzzles about the Person,” Maritain Studies: 14: 3-14.
(1998) “A Theory of Basic Goods: Structure and Hierarchy,” The Thomist 52 (2): 221-45.
(1989) “Childhood Betrayed: A Personalist Analysis,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 63: 54-71.
(1987) “What Euthyphro Couldn’t Have Said,” with Gary R. Mar, Faith and Philosophy 4 (3): 241-61.
(1987) “Some Questions About Proper Basically,” Faith and Philosophy 4 (1): 13-25.
(1986) “Thomas Reid and Common Sense Foundationalism,” New Scholasticism 60 (1): 91-115.
(1983) “A Worthy Fellow Wonders,” Method 1 (2): 201-3.
(1983) “Recovering the Resurrection,” New Scholasticism 57 (2): 145-69.
(1975) “Some Light on Double Effect,” Analysis 35 (5): 147-51.