EducationPh.D. in French literature, New York University, 1979.
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 1985.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics, Ethics, and Aquinas
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics, and Kant
Alice Ramos is a Professor of Philosophy at St. John's where she has taught since 1987.
She has published a book in Spanish on contemporary semiotics and a metaphysics of the sign: "Signum": De la Semiotica Universal a la Metafisica del Signo (Pamplona: EUNSA, Coleccion Filosofica, 1987). She has edited Beauty, Art, and the Polis (American Maritain Association, 2000, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press), and co-edited Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Association, 2002, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press). She has also published over thirty-five articles dealing with issues in Thomistic metaphysics and ethics, Kantian ethical theology, MacIntyre's ethical inquiry, and Karol Wojtyla-John Paul II's Christian anthropology. Her present research projects deal with the foundations of ethics and the transcendentals in Aquinas. Dr. Ramos is also currently the President of the American Maritain Association (in honor of the French contemporary philosopher Jacques Maritain).
Prof. Ramos has received several fellowships and grants both in the United States and abroad. To name a few: she was a fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame in the spring semester of 1995, was awarded a grant for the study of Lublin Thomism at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, in the summer of 1997, and was the recipient of a summer seminar fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1991. She was also awarded St. John's University medal for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in 1998.