Fr. Robert Lauder

Areas of Specialization
Personalism, Existentialism, Philosophy of God,

Areas of Competence
Personalism, Existentialism Philosophy of God and Philosophy of Human Nature

Dr. Lauder has lectured in South Korea, Europe and South America as well as throughout the United States.  He has an international reputation as a film scholar and has had several essays on film in The New York Times.

In addition to having written more that fifteen hundred weekly (popular) essays in newspapers Dr. Lauder has written ten book and numerous scholarly articles.  Some of those articles are:

• "Review of Self, God and Immortality:  A Jamesian Investigation," in Contemporary Philosophy, May/June and July/August 2002 pp. 26-32.
  
  
• "Business, Cinema and Sin," in Journal of Business Ethics, 2000.
  
  
• "Maritain: Philosophy, the Catholic University and Truth," in The Common Things:  Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Daniel McInerny, pp. 118-127.  (American Maritain Association; Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999)
  
  
• "It's a Wonderful Life" in Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics (Paulist Press, New York, 1992) pp. 135-144.
  
  
• "On Being or Not Being a Thomist," in The Thomist, April 1991, circa 23 pages.
  
  
• "W.T.Harris' Philosophy as Personalism in Idealistic Studies, January 1990, Vol XX, #1, pp. 43-60.
  
  
• "The Accuracy of Atheism and the Truth of Theism," in Sophia, October 1989, pp. 40-48.
  
  
• "Woody Allen: Camus' Existentialism as Comedy," in Philosophy and Theology, summer, 1988, Vol. II, #4, pp. 362-373.
  
  
• "Philosophy and the Catholic Experience," in Cross Currents, spring, 1987, Vol. XXXVIII, #1, pp. 87-92.
  
  
• "Creative Intiution in American Film: Maritain at the Movies," in From Twilight to Dawn, pp. 133-141. Peter A. Redpath, Editor (American Maritain Association, 1990).
  
  
• "The Human Person as Transcendent Movement Toward God: Kark Rahner's Philosophy of Person," in Proceedings of the Second World Congress of Christian Philosophy, 1986, pp. 191-199.
  
  
• "The Philosophy of Loneliness," in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XI. #6, October 15, 1986, pp. 14-15.
  
  
• "Howison's Post Hegelian Personalism and the Conception of God's Disucssions" as the lead article in The Owl of Minerva, Vol. 18, #2, spring 1987, pp. 131-144.
  
  
• "Ingmar Bergman:  The Filmmaker as Philosopher," in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 11, #1, fall 1987, pp. 46-56.
  
  
• "Person in the World: A Call to God," in Proceedings of American Catholic Philosophical Association, Spring 1983, ACPA Vol. 57: pp. 60-67.
  
  
• "Walker Percy:  The Existential Wayfarer's Triumph over Everydayness," in 1982 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, in Spring 1982ACPA, Vol. 56, pp. 41-49.
  
  
• "Priest as Existence:  An Essay on the Philosophy of Person," in The Priest. (An essay on this general topic appeared in four issues of The Priest) December 1976-March 1977.

Dr. Lauder is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Maritain Society and has been given the Faculty Achievement Award by St. John's University.