Selected Publications

Books

Stewardship of Creation:  What Catholics should know about Church teaching on the environment (Indianapolis:  Saint Catherine of Siena Press, 2009).

Christianity and Extraterrestrials? A Catholic Perspective (New York:  iUniverse, 2005). 

Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century.  Edited by Marie I. George and Alice Ramos (American Maritain Association publication, distributed by Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2002).

Articles

“The Biologist’s Need for Philosophy as Seen through a Comparison of Aristotle’s Views on Living Things with Those of Modern Biologists,” forthcoming in Science and Religion…and Philosophy?

“On the Occasion of Darwin’s Bicentennial:  Finally Time to Retire the Fifth Way?” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

“Aristotle vs. the Neo-Darwinians:  Human Nature and the Foundations of Ethics,” in Virtue's End, edited by Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua P. Hochschild, and Jeffrey Langan (South Bend:  St. Augustine’s Press, 2008).

“Thomas Aquinas Meets Nim Chimpsky:  On the Debate about Human Nature and the Nature of Other Animals,” The Aquinas Review, 10, 2003, 1–50.

“On the Tenth Anniversary of Barrow and Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle:  Thomistic Reflections on Anthropic Principles,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 72, 1, Winter 1998, 39–58.

“Aquinas on Reincarnation,” The Thomist, 60, 1, January 1996, 33–52.

“Wonder as Source of Philosophy and of Science:  A Comparison,” Philosophy in Science (Tucson:  Pachart Publishing House, 1995), 97–128.

“Imagination as Source of Falsehood according to Aquinas,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 67, 1993, 187–202.