ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
DaSilva Hall, Room 336
Staten Island Campus
St. John’s University
300 Howard Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: (718) 390-4048
Fax: (718) 390-4347
delfinor@stjohns.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo,
2001
- B.A., Philosophy, St. John’s University, 1994
- B.A., English, St. John’s University, 1994
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Metaphysics, especially naturalism and personal identity
- The relationship between science and metaphysics
- Philosophy of science
PROFILE
Robert A. Delfino has been a member of the Philosophy
Department since 1999. His current research interests include
metaphysics, especially naturalism and personal identity, the
relationship between science and metaphysics, philosophy of
science, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He has published
articles on Aristotle, metaphysics, philosophy of science, human
rights, medieval philosophy, and aesthetics, and he has edited
three books: Plato’s Cratylus: Argument, Form, and
Structure (2005), Understanding Moral Weakness
(2006), and What are We to Understand Gracia to Mean?: Realist
Challenges to Metaphysical Neutralism (2006). He is the
editor of “Studies in the History of Western Philosophy (SHWP),” a
special series within the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS), and he
maintains the official webpage of the American Maritain
Association. He will deliver the Jacek Woroniecki Philosophy
Lectures in May 2010 at the John Paul II Catholic University of
Lublin, Poland.