T H O M A S M. W A R D CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Philosophy | Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA, 90045 [email protected] | (562)-505-5487

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor (TT) Loyola Marymount University, 2012- Visiting Assistant Professor University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor Azusa Pacific University, 2011–2012

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011 -Dissertation: The Hylomorphism of John -Supervisor: Calvin Normore -Committee: Marilyn McCord Adams, John Carriero, Brian Copenhaver, Debora Shuger M.Phil. Theology, Oriel College, University of Oxford, 2006 -Passed with Distinction -Thesis: The Ontology of Relations According to Aquinas -Supervisor: Marilyn McCord Adams -Examiners: Richard Cross, Paul Fiddes B.A. Philosophy, Biola University, 2004 -Magna cum laude (3.89 gpa) -Visiting Student, Keble College, University of Oxford, 2002

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Medieval Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism. Brill, 2014.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

9. (Forthcoming) “Losing the Lost Island,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

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8. (Forthcoming) “Reconstructing Aquinas’s World: Themes from Brower,” Oxford Studies in 4.

7. (Forthcoming) “Voluntarism, Atonement, and Duns Scotus,” The Heythrop Journal.

6. (2016) “ and John Buridan on Hylomorphism and the Beginning of Life,” Res Philosophica 93:1, 1-17.

5. (2015) “Transhumanization, Personal Identity, and the Afterlife: Thomistic Reflections on a Dantean Theme,” New Blackfriars 96:1065, 564-575.

4. (2012) “Animals, Animal Parts, and Hylomorphism: John Duns Scotus’s Pluralism about Substantial Form,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 50:4, 531-558. -Winner, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founders’ Award, 2013

3. (2011) “Spinoza on the Essences of Modes,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:1, 19-46. -Winner, British Society for the History of Philosophy Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2009

2. (2010) “Relations without Forms: Some Consequences of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Relations,” Vivarium 48:3-4, 279-301.

1. (2006) “How Aquinas Could Have Argued that God is Really Related to Creatures,” Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 6, 95-107.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED BOOKS

8. (Forthcoming) “Parts, Wholes, and the Elements in Some Medieval Philosophers,” in On What There Was: Conceptions of Being 500–1650, East and West, vol.8: Parts and Wholes, ed. Andrew Arlig. Turnhout: Brepols.

7. (Forthcoming) “Scotus and Ockham on the Relations of Matter and Form,” in On What There Was: Conceptions of Being 500–1650, East and West, vol.3: Relations, ed. Christophe Erismann. Turnhout: Brepols.

6. (Forthcoming) “Forms,” in The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. Richard Cross and JT Paasch. London: Routledge.

5. (Forthcoming) “John Duns Scotus,” in T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, ed. Adam Johnson. T&T Clark, forthcoming.

4. (Forthcoming) “Logic and Ontological Commitment: Vincent Ferrer’s Theory of Natural Supposition,” in Modern Views of Medieval Logic, ed. Benedikt Löwe, Christoph Kann, and Sara Uckelman. Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.

3. (2015) “Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier,” with Brian Copenhaver, in Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters in Honor of John Monfasani, ed. A. Frazier. Leiden: Brill, 546-604.

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2. (2014) “Either Demons Exist or God Doesn’t,” in The Devil and Philosophy, ed. Robert Arp. Chicago: Open Court, 151-158.

1. (2011) “‘The Beauty of this Immense Light:’ The Place of God in the Meditations,” in The Great Books Reader, ed. John Mark Reynolds. Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 153-155.

BOOK REVIEWS

9. (Forthcoming) Edward Feser, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, for Pro Ecclesia

8. (Forthcoming) Michael Gorman, The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: a (not so) New Model of the Atonement, for The Heythrop Journal

7. (2015) John Duns Scotus, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle’s ‘De Interpretatione’, trans. Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko, for History and Philosophy of Logic.

6. (2015) Thomas Aquinas, Basic Works, ed. Jeffrey Hause and Robert Pasnau, for Comitatus 46, 305-307.

5. (2014) Katherine Lewis, Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval , for Comitatus 45, 272-273.

4. (2011) Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Virtue, trans. Jeffrey Hause and Claudia Eisen Murphy, for Comitatus 42, 223-225.

3. (2011) Alastair Minnis and Rosalynn Voaden (eds.), Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c.1100-c.1500, for Comitatus 42, 276-278.

2. (2010) John J. Conley, S.J., Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port Royal, for Comitatus 41, 241-244.

1. (2004) Leo Strauss, On Plato’s Symposium, for Philosophia Christi 6:2, 363-365

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

LMU Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, Summer 2015 LMU Academy for Catholic Thought and Imagination Fellowship, Spring 2015 Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founders’ Award, 2013 LMU Center for Teaching Excellence Core Course Development Grant, 2013 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2010-2011 UCLA CMRS Lynn and Maude White Fellowship, 2010-2011 (declined) British Society for the History of Philosophy Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2009 Harvey Fellowship, 2009-2011 UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship, 2008-2009 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2007, 2008, 2009 UCLA University Fellowship, 2006-2007 Oriel College Examination Prize, 2006 EKE (Biola’s baccalaureate honors society) Order of Sts. Peter and Paul, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola, 2004

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PRESENTATIONS

(‘*’ designates invited)

PAPERS

* “TBD” (TBD in Spring 2017) Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA

* “Modal Metaphysics ad Mentem Duns Scoti” (TBD in 2016) University of California, Irvine

* “Deiform Morality” (August 2016) New Theists conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

“Love, Obedience, and Divine Commands: Scotistic Reflections” (May 2016) The Meaning of Love conference, Biola University, La Mirada, CA * (June 2015) Journal of the History of Philosophy Master’s Class, University of Toronto

“Disabled Relative to What? Aquinas on Beatific Vision and Human Nature” * (April 2016) Philosophy of Disability Sympoisum, UNC Asheville (April 2016) Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN

* “Modes of Signifying without Ontology: The Strange Case of Symphorien Champier’s Isagoge” (Jan. 2015) Brian Fest, a Celebration of the Work and Career of Brian Copenhaver, UCLA

“Transhumanization, Personal Identity, and the Afterlife: Thomistic Reflections on a Dantean Theme” (July 2014) Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley

*“Hylomorphism, the Beginning of Life, and John Buridan” (Dec. 2013) Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Eastern APA, Baltimore

“Unity of Order in Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Substance” (Apri 2013) Unum Bonum Verum conference, Lisbon

* “Scotus and Ockham on the Relations of Matter and Form” (March 2013) Medieval Theories of Relation Workshop, Lausanne

“Doing a Part: Scotus on the Parthood of Matter and Form” (June 2010) Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic conference, Prague

“Logic and Ontological Commitment: Vincent Ferrer’s Theory of Natural Supposition” (June 2007) Medieval Logic and Applied Modern Logic workshop, Bonn

“How Aquinas Could Have Argued that God is Really Related to Creatures” (Oct. 2006) Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, ACPA, Granville, OH

“The Ontology of Relations According to Aquinas” (Feb. 2006) Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ

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RESPONSES

* To Jeffrey Brower, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World (March 2016) Author Meets Critic session, APA Central, Chicago (Oct. 2015) Author Meets Critic session, ACPA, Boston

* To Shane Wilkins, “How Unicity Theorists can recover the Elements from Material Substances” (Oct. 2015) Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics session, ACPA, Boston

* To Guy Consolmagno, “Science, Religion, and the Art of Storytelling” (March 2015) Academy for Catholic Thought and Imagination, Loyola Marymount University

To Ginger Clausen, “Virtue and the Right Apportionment of Affection” (Feb. 2010) USC/UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, USC

PAPERS FOR NON-SPECIALIST AUDIENCES

* “Of Gods and Butterflies: Dante’s Concept of Transhumanization” (Oct. 2015) Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

* “’Without God, Everything is Permitted’: Some Medieval Reflections on Morality and God’s Freedom” (Sept. 2015) Friday Faculty Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University

COURSES TAUGHT

COURSES TAUGHT AT LMU

Philosophy of Human Nature (x6) Philosophy of Religion Philosophical Inquiry (x3) Philosophy and Literature: Inklings Honors Philosophical Inquiry (x3) Justice in the Franciscan Tradition Ethics (x2) Duns Scotus (graduate seminar) First Year Seminar: Inklings (x6) Anselm (graduate seminar) Medieval Philosophy (x4)

ADDITIONAL COURSES TAUGHT

Historical Intro. to Philosophy (UCLA) Ancient Greek Philosophy (APU) Medieval Logic (UCLA, graduate seminar) Medieval Philosophy (APU) Introduction to Philosophy (APU, x5) Early Modern Philosophy (APU)

OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Study Abroad Instructor: LMU Summer in Oxford, 2015 LMU Summer in Rome, 2014 Senior Thesis Advisor: “Medieval Metaphysics of Light” Spring 2015

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“Don Quixote as Homo Hispanicus in 20th Century Spanish Philosophy” Fall 2014 Independent Study Instructor: Medieval Aesthetics, Spring 2014 Aquinas’s Legal Philosophy, Fall 2012 Modal Logic (APU), Spring 2012 Instructor, LMU Honors Program, Spring 2014, Spring 2016

LMU SERVICE

Director, MA Program in Philosophy, 2016- Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2016 Director of Catholic Studies, 2015-2016 Ignatian Service Corps Mentor, 2015-2016 Search Committee for Bellarmine Society Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2015 Huffington Ecumenical Institute Advisory Board, 2015- Majors Advisor, 2013-2015 Co-leader, Graduate Student Philosophical Writing Workshop, Fall 2014 Faculty Handbook Committee, Fall 2013-2015 BCLA Curriculum and Assessment Committee, 2013-2015 Philosophy Department Colloquium Coordinator, 2012-2016 Common Book Selection Committee, 2012-2014 Faculty in Residence (three semesters), 2012-2013

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Participant, LMU President’s Institute, 2014, 2016 Discussant, Moody Workshop in Medieval Philosophy, UCLA, February 2016 Participant, LMU Staff/Faculty Immersion Trip, El Salvador, January 2016 Participant, Journal of the History of Philosophy Master’s Class, University of Toronto, June 2015 Speaker, Discussion for Transformation Event, Wheatstone Academy, La Mirada, CA, March 2015 Speaker, Biola Education and Non-Profit Alumni Networking Night, Tustin, CA, January 2015 Co-Organizer, Marilynfest Conference (for Marilyn McCord Adams), Georgetown, March 2014 Referee: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vivarium, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Medioevo, USC/UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy Undergraduate TA Supervisor (APU), Fall 2011 Pew College Society Mentor (APU), Fall 2011 Graduate Student Researcher, for Terence Parsons, 2009 (Translation of logical texts by John Major) Acknowledged in Parsons, Articulating Medieval Logic (OUP, 2014), p.315 Participant, Grosseteste to Wycliff: The Shifting Focus of British Medieval Philosophy, Georgetown, 2009 Participant, Thomistic Seminar, Princeton, 2006, 2007, 2008 Scholar in Residence, The Kilns, Oxford, 2004-2006

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LANGUAGES

Research competence in Latin, Koiné Greek, French, Spanish, Italian

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Philosophical Association American Catholic Philosophical Association Society of Christian Philosophers Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

REFERENCES

Marilyn McCord Adams Calvin Normore John Carriero Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Rutgers University UCLA UCLA College Avenue Campus 390 Portola Plaza 390 Portola Plaza 106 Somerset St., 5th Floor 321 Dodd Hall 321 Dodd Hall New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 Los Angeles, CA, 90095 Los Angeles, CA, 90095 (848)-932-9861 (310)-825-4641 (310)-825-4641 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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