PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
St. John Hall, Room 30-12
Queens Campus
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-5293
Fax: (718) 990-1907
georgem@stjohns.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- M.A., Pastoral Theology, St. Joseph's College of Maine, Maine,
2008
- M.A., Biology, Queens College, New York, 2002
- B.A., summa cum laude, Biology, Queens College, New York,
2000
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Laval University, Québec, 1987
- M.A., Philosophy, Laval University, Québec, 1982
- B.A., Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College, California,
1979
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Natural philosophy
- Philosophy of biology
- Science and religion
- Aquinas
- Aristotle
PROFILE
Marie George has been a member of the Philosophy Department since
1988. Professor George is an Aristotelian-Thomist whose
interests lie primarily in the areas of philosophy of nature and
philosophy of science. She has received several awards from
the John Templeton foundation for her work in science and religion,
and in 2007 she received a grant from the Center for Theology and
the Natural Sciences (CTNS) for an interdisciplinary project
entitled: “The Evolution of Sympathy and Morality.”
Professor George has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and
two books: Christianity and Extraterrestrials? A Catholic
Perspective (2005) and Stewardship of Creation
(2009). She is currently working on Aquinas’s “Fifth Way,”
and also on a variety of questions concerning living things
(self-motion, consciousness, evolution, etc.). Professor
George is a member of ten philosophical societies, including the
American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Society for
Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Society for Aristotelian
Studies.