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Laura L. Garcia CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Philosophy Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02143 [email protected] (617) 251-4483 EDUCATION Ph.D. Philosophy, 1983, University of Notre Dame M.A. Philosophy, 1979, University of Notre Dame B.A. Philosophy, 1977, Westmont College, summa cum laude, honors in philosophy TEACHING EXPERIENCE Boston College Scholar in Residence 2011-Present Boston College Adjunct Assistant Professor 1999-2005 Rutgers, State University of New Jersey Part-Time Lecturer 1993-1999 Georgetown University Visiting Assistant Professor 1988-1992 The Catholic University of America Visiting Lecturer 1986-1987 The University of Notre Dame Adjunct Assistant Professor 1984-1986 University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN) Instructor 1982-1984 Calvin College Instructor 1979-1980 St. Mary’s College (South Bend, IN) Instructor Spring 1979 COURSES TAUGHT Philosophy of Religion History of Metaphysics Philosophy of Being and God Introduction to Philosophy Religion and the Challenge of Science Philosophy of the Person Metaphysics of God Critical Thinking and Informal Logic Does God Exist? Symbolic Logic Faith and Reason Introduction to Ethical Theory Religion and Morality Analytic Philosophy Miracles and Immortality Contemporary Metaphysics PUBLICATIONS Books Editor and Introduction, Truth, Life and Solidarity: The Impact of John Paul II on Philosophy (New York: Crossroads, 2010). Articles and Book Chapters “An Inference Model of Basic God Beliefs,” under consideration at a reviewed journal. “Equality and Freedom” in Erika Bachiochi, ed. Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching (Boston: Pauline Books, 2010). "Does Maritain Solve the Problem of Evil?" in James Hanink, ed. Maritain Conference Papers (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming). “Moral Perfection” in Thomas Flint and Michael Rea, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009): 217-238. “Ethics on One Wing” in Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua Hochschild and Jeffrey Langan, eds. Ethics Without God? The Divine in Contemporary Moral and Political Thought (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2008). “Human Rights and Natural Kinds” in Joseph Koterski, SJ, ed. Life and Learning XVI: Proceedings of the Sixteenth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington: University Faculty for Life, 2008). “Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion” in National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 8 (Summer 2008): 265-273. “Ontological Arguments for God’s Existence” in Kelly Clark, ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed. (Buffalo: Broadview Press, 2008). “Catholic Philosophical Theology” in Paul Copan and Chad Meister, eds., Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (New York: Routledge, 2007). “Design Arguments” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 2006). “Toward a Personalist Feminism” in William Hund, CSC and Margaret Monahan Hogan, eds. Teaching, Faith and Service: The Foundation of Freedom (Portland: University of Portland Press, 2005). “Worth Dying For: Narnian Lessons on Heroism and Altruism” in Jerry Walls and Gregory Bassham, eds. Philosophy and Narnia (Chicago: Open Court Books, 2005): 67-78. “The Personalist Feminism of John Paul II,” published for student use by the University of St. Thomas Bookstore, St. Paul, MN as part of a collection called John Paul II and the Vocation of the Professional Woman, September 2005. “A Personalist Understanding of Human Work,” Proceedings of the American Maritain Association, 2005. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Role of Conscience in John Paul II’s Moral Philosophy” in Joseph Koterski, SJ, ed., Life and Learning XIV: Proceedings of the Fourteenth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 2005): 171-181. “Protecting Persons” in Christopher Tollefsen, ed. John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics (Heidelberg: Springer (formerly Kluwer), 2004): 93-105. "Ethics on One Wing" in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter 26 (Fall 2003): 13-23. "Christians and the Joy of Sex" in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (Summer 2003): 257-264. "Response to John Stuart Mill: The Importance of Parental Choice" in Logos 6 (2003): 172-174. “The Role of the Family in Promoting a Culture of Life” in Luke Gormally, ed. Culture of Life, Culture of Death (London: Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, 2002): 180-192. “St. John of the Cross and the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness” in Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser, eds., Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 83-97. “Can the Marketplace Serve the Family?” in Lee Edwards, ed. The Global Economy: Changing Politics, Society and Family (St. Paul: Professors World Peace Academy, 2001): 149-167. “Globalization of Family Planning,” The World and I (December 2000): 259-277. “Religious Values and Politics,” Religious Values at the Threshold of a New Millennium: Proceedings of the Theology Institute (Villanova University) 31 (1999). “Religious Pluralism and Natural Theology” in Thomas Hibbs and John O’Callaghan, eds., Recovering Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph Mclnemy (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999): 179-199. “The Primacy of Persons: Edith Stein and John Paul II,” Logos 1 (1997): 90- 99. “Teleological and Design Arguments” in Charles Taliaferro and Philip Quinn, eds. Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 1996): 338-344. (Revised and expanded for the 2nd ed., 2008.) “Philosophy and Faith” in Thomas Morris, ed. God and the Philosophers (Oxford, 1994): 173-181. “Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses,” Journal of Philosophical Research 18 (1993): 65-82. 2 “Natural Theology and the Reformed Objection” in Steven Evans and Merold Westphal, eds., Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge (Eerdmans, 1993): 112-133. “Divine Freedom and Creation,” Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 191-213. “Can There Be a Self-Explanatory Being?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1987): 479-88. “The Essential Moral Perfection of God,” Religious Studies 23 (1986): 137-44. “A Response to the Modal Problem of Evil,” Faith and Philosophy 1 (1984): 378-88. Book Reviews Nicholas Rescher, Issues in the Philosophy of Religion in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (December 11, 2007), accessible at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11944. Ralph Mclnerny, Characters in Search of Their Author in Faith and Philosophy 20 (2003): 247-249. Richard Swinburne, Is There a God? in First Things, no. 81 (March 1998): 54-57. Elizabeth Radcliffe and Carol White, eds., Faith in Theory and Practice in Faith and Philosophy 14 (1997): 113-116. Paul Helm, Eternal God: A Study of God without Time in Review of Metaphysics 43 (1990): 634-36. PRESENTATIONS “Why We Need Natural Theology” presented to the American Maritain Association Meeting at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Minneapolis, MN, March 2011. “The New Feminism” presented to a panel on ProLife Feminism at The Yale Club, New York, NY, October 2010. "Does Maritain Solve the Problem of Evil?" presented to American Maritain Association Conference at St. Thomas University, Houston, TX, October 2009. “Theology of the Body” presented to a conference on The Christian Worldview at Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ, November 2007. “Human Rights and Natural Kinds” presented to a conference on Human Life: Its Beginning and End at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, October 2007. “The Vicious and the Mean” presented to a workshop on the vices at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, July 2007. “Abortion and Natural Kinds” presented to University Faculty for Life Conference at Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, June 2007. “Mary: Model for the Working Woman” presented to the Edith Stein Symposium at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, February 2006. “A Personalist Understanding of Work” presented to American Maritain Association at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York, NY, December 2005. “Toward a Personalist Feminism” presented to a conference on Teaching, Faith, and Service: The Foundation of Freedom at the University of Portland, Portland, OR, June 2005. “Persons and Relations” presented to a conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 2005. “Love’s Labor: The Poetry of John Paul II” presented to a conference on Epiphanies of Beauty at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, November 2004. “Marcel’s Case for a Personalist Morality” presented to the Gabriel Marcel Society at the annual meeting of the American Maritain Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2004. “Women and Work: A Response to Prudence Allen” presented to a meeting of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2004. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Role of Conscience in John Paul II’s Moral Philosophy,” presented to the University Faculty for Life Conference at University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN, June 2004. 3 “The Personalist Feminism of John Paul II” presented to a conference on John Paul II and the Vocation of the Professional Woman at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2004. “Sex and Self-Giving” presented to a conference on Renewal and Formation at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, October 2003. "Reason and Respect for Persons" presented to a conference on Transformation and Renewal, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September