Daniel C. Wagner

Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D.

dcw002@aquinas.edu

Phone #1

(616) 632-2831

Associate Professor

Philosophy

Office #1

Holmdene 313

Director of Catholic Studies

Catholic Studies

Chair of Philosophy

Philosphy

Degree	Major Emphasis	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	Philosophy	Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas Dissertation: 鈥溝喯嵪兾瓜� 魏伪委蟿峤� 峒€谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓慰谓峒€纬伪胃蠈谓: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Human Good鈥� Director: John P. Hittinger	2018
M.A.	Philosophy	Gonzaga University Thesis: 鈥淎 Thomistic Critique of Occasionalism from Natural Causality, Divine Omnipotence, and the Psychology of Human Agency鈥� Director: Michael W. Tkacz	2010
B.A.	Philosophy	The University of Montana, cum laude	Spring, 2004
A.A.		Flathead Valley Community College	Spring, 2001

Philosophy of Nature and Science, Metaphysics, Philosophical Anthropology, and the principles of Ethics in St. Thomas 红桃视频 and Aristotle; Phenomenology in Edmund Husserl and Karol Wojty艂a; History of Philosophy.

鈥淧lato and Aristotle on the Good and the Beautiful (蟿蠈魏伪位蠈谓/to kalon) as Nature (蠁蠉蟽喂蟼/phusis): The Foundation of Thomistic Ethics & Aesthetics,鈥� in Thomism and Contemporary Ideologies (CUA Press, 2023).

鈥淒isputatio on the Distinction between the Human Person and Other Animals: The Human Person as Gardener,鈥� Co-authored with Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, in Studia Gilsoniana, 11, no. 3 (July鈥揝eptember 2022): 471鈥�530.

鈥淥n Karol Wojty艂a鈥檚 Aristotelian Method: Part I: Aristotelian Induction (峒愊€伪纬蠅纬萎) and Division (未喂伪委蟻蔚蟽喂蟼),鈥� and 鈥淥n Karol Wojty艂a鈥檚 Aristotelian Method: Part II: Induction and Reduction as Aristotelian Induction (峒愊€伪纬蠅纬萎) and Division (未喂伪委蟻蔚蟽喂蟼),鈥� in Philosophy and Canon Law, 2021, Vol. 7/1: Semicentennial of Karol Wojty艂a鈥檚鈥淧erson and Act鈥�: Ideas鈥擟ontexts鈥擨nspirations (I).

鈥淣o Cause, No Credo: Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Nature as Preambula Fidei鈥� Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 2, Spring 2022.

鈥淥n the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology & Thomism,鈥� in Studia Gilsoniana 10, no. 3 (July鈥揝eptember 2021): 579鈥�607.

鈥淎lbertus Magnus and St. Thomas on What is 鈥淏etter-Known鈥� in Natural Science,鈥� Co-written with John H. Boyer, in the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 93, 2020.

鈥�The Logical Terms of Sense Realism: A Thomistic-Aristotelian & Phenomenological Defense,鈥� in Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 1, Spring 2020.

鈥淩eality as Katharsis (魏峋拔肝毕佅兾瓜�),鈥� co-authored with Brian Kemple, in Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 1, Spring, 2020.

鈥淧enitential Method as Phenomenological: The Penitential 峒愊€慰蠂萎,鈥� in Studia Gilsoniana 7, no. 3 (July鈥揝eptember 2018): 487鈥�518.

The Intelligibility of Nature: The Wallace Reader, Co-Editor with John P. Hittinger and Michael W. Tkacza (CUA Press, 2023).

Thomas 红桃视频: Teacher of Humanity, Co-Editor with John P. Hittinger (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).