Member Profiles
Travis Dumsday
Associate Professor, Concordia University of Edmonton
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Calgary (2010)
M.A. Philosophy, University of Waterloo (2006)
B.A. Philosophy and Political Science, Carleton University (2005)
Diploma, Liberal Arts, Augustine College (2001)
AMA Presentations
(2025) “Jacques Maritain and H. D. Lewis on the Problem of Conflicting Mystical Experience.”
(2024) “God as a Bird? A Scholastic Engagement with Wallace’s Christian Animism.”
(2023) “Ecumenical Neo-Scholasticism: An Anglican Thomist’s Take on Palamism and the Essence/Existence Distinction.”
(2020) “Alexander of Hales on the Irremediable Demons.”
(2019) “Transubstantiation Through the Lens of Spacetime Substantivalism.”
(2018) “Alexander of Hales on Panentheism.”
Publications
Books
(2024) Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual: Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Bloomsbury Academic.
(2022) Assisted Suicide in Canada: Moral, Legal, and Policy Issues. University of British Columbia Press.
(2018) Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science. Cambridge University Press.
Edited Books
(2022) The Wisdom of Youth: Essays Inspired by the Early Work of Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. Catholic University of America Press.
Select Academic Articles
(2024) “Is the abstract vs concrete distinction exhaustive & exclusive? Four reasons to be suspicious,” Analytic Philosophy 65 (3): 393-405.
(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.