Member Profiles
John C. Cahalan
Independent Scholar
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (1969)
AMA Presentations
(2019) “Is the Trinity a Counterexample to the Transitivity of Identity?”
(2018) “Thomism’s Conceptual Structure: Maritain and Simon’s Revolutionary Insights.”
Publications
Books
(1985) Causal Realism: An Essay on Philosophical Method and the Foundations of Knowledge. University of America Press.
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.
(2006) “Wittgenstein as a Gateway to Analytical Thomism,” in Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue, eds. Craig Peterson and Matthew S. Pugh. Routledge.