Member Profiles
Marie I. George
Professor, St. John’s University
Education
M.A., Pastoral Theology, St. Joseph’s College of Maine (2008)
M.A., Biology, Queens College (2002)
B.A., Biology, Queens College (2000)
Ph.D., Philosophy, Laval University (1987)
M.A., Philosophy, Laval University (1982)
B.A., Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College (1979)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Philosophers of Mind Would Do Well to Keep Aquinas’s Teachings in Mind.”
(2019) “What Would Thomas Aquinas Think about Near-Death Experiences?”
(2018) “Does Might Make Right in the Animal Kingdom or Do Some Animals Act on Moral Grounds?”
Publications
Books
(2009) Stewardship of Creation: What Catholics Should Know about Church Teaching on the Environment. Saint Catherine of Siena Press.
(2005) Christianity and extraterrestrials? A Catholic Perspective. iUniverse.
Edited Books
(2017) 100 Books to Read Before the Four Last Things: The Essential Guide to Catholic Spiritual Classics. Angelico Press.
(2002) Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century, with Alice Ramos. Catholic University of America Press.
Select Academic Articles
(forthcoming) “A Defense of the Distinction Between Plants and Animals,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
(2021) “Is Nicanor Austriaco’s Reformulation of Hylomorphism in Terms of Systems Biology Successful?” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 95: 181-94.
(2021) “Does Knowing What Things Are Require Language (as a System of Physical or Imaginable Signs)?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (1): 131-44.
(2020) “Aquinas’s Teaching on Concepts and Words in His Commentary on John contra Nicanor Austriaco,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (3): 357-78.
(2019) “Is Eco-theologian Thomas Berry a Thomist?” Scientia et Fides 7 (1): 47-71.
(2018) “What are we to make of Maritain’s view that Angels are Intermediary Causes in Evolution?” in The Things that Matter: Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi Marie Giebel. Catholic University of America Press.
(2018) “A Critique of Richard Sorabji’s Interpretation of Aristotle,” Proceedings of the 23rd Worlds Congress of Philosophy 2 (2): 113-7.
(2016) “Thomistic Rebuttal of Some Common Objections to Paley’s Argument from Design,” New Blackfriars 97 (1067): 266-88.
(2016) “Evolution in Court: A Federal Judge Defines Science,” Scientia et Fide 4 (2): 397-415.
(2013) “Environmentalism and Population Control: Distinguishing Pro-Life and Anti-Life Movements,” Catholic Social Science Review 18: 71-90.
(2012) “Aquinas on the Goodness of Creatures and Man’s Place in the Universe: A Basis for the General Percepts of Environmental Ethics,” The Thomist 76 (1): 73-124.
(2009) “Descartes’s Language Test for Rationality,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 107-25.
(2006) “Aquinas on the Nature of Trust,” The Thomist 70 (1): 103-23.
(2001) “Aquinas on Intelligent Extra-Terrestrial Life,” The Thomist 65 (2): 239-58.