CURRICULUM VITAE Alice M

CURRICULUM VITAE Alice M. Ramos

EDUCATION: 1986, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 1979, Ph.D., French Literature, New York University 1971, M.A., French Literature, New York University 1970, B.A., French (Spanish minor), Marymount Manhattan College (summa cum laude)

EMPLOYMENT IN PHILOSOPHY: 2002-present Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York 1993-2002 Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured), St. John’s College, St. John’s University, Queens, New York 1988-1993 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s College, St. John’s University, Queens, New York 1987-1988 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Vincent’s College, St. John’s University, Queens, New York 1985-1986 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Book: Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012).

Refereed Book recently accepted for publication by The Catholic University of America Press, in November 2018: Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance. This book of which I am the editor contains fifteen essays written by scholars in ancient and medieval philosophy and theology.

Refereed Articles:  “The Human Person as Imago Dei and the Perfection of the Universe,” in Causality and Resemblance: Medieval Approaches to the Explanation of Nature, ed. Maria Jesus Soto Bruna (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018), pp. 145-58.  “Ratzinger on Faith, Philosophy, and Trust,” in The Things That Matter: Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi M. Giebel (American Maritain Association Volume, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2018).  “Creación y Conocimiento en una Metafísica del Verbo,” in Annales Theologici, 30 (2016), pp. 355-370.  “Los trascendentales del ser,” Philosophica, philosophical on-line encyclopedia of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, 16 pp.  “Anselm on Truth and Goodness,” Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 21 (2014), 85-94.  “A Metaphysics of the Logos in St. Thomas Aquinas: Creation and Knowledge,” Cauriensia, Revista anual de Ciencias Eclesiásticas IX (2014), pp. 95-111.  “Aesthetic Iconoclasm: Reasons, Origins, and Remedies,” in A Piercing Light: Beauty, Faith, and Human Transcendence, ed. James M. Jacobs (American Maritain Association, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2014), pp. 215-32.

 “La Causalidad del Bien en Santo Tomás,” Anuario Filosófico 44, no. 1 (2011), 11-27.  “Anselm on Truth,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 (2010), 183-97.  “Beauty and the Perfection of Being,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 (1997), 255-68.  “Ockham and Aquinas on Exemplary Causality,” Proceedings of the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (Augustinian Historical Institute, Villanova University) 19-20 (1994-1996), 199-213.  “A Metaphysics of the Truth of Creation: Foundation of the Desire for God,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 69 (1995), 237-48.  “Technologies of the Self: Truth, Asceticism, and Autonomy,” Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 6, no. 1-2 (Spring 1994), 20-29.

Articles accepted for publication:  “Martyrdom, Truth, and Trust,” 20 pp. ms., accepted for publication in Quaestiones Disputatae, journal of Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, in an issue dedicated to the anniversaries of Veritatis Splendor and Fides et Ratio. To appear in 2018.  “The Transcendentals, the Human Person, and the Perfection of the Universe,” 17 pp. ms., accepted for publication in a volume on The Discovery of Being: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Thomas Aquinas, which volume has been edited by Christopher Cullen, S.J. and Franklin Harkins, and has just been accepted for publication by The Catholic University of America Press (February 2018 with publication agreement).  “Shame, Honor, and Conscience,” 28 pp. ms., invited plenary session paper at the American Maritain Association International Conference to be held in New Orleans, March 2-5, 2017, which was accepted for publication in September 2017 by the editor of the volume of papers from the conference, who is James Hanink, Professor Emeritus of Loyola Marymount University.  “Gadamer and Aquinas on Language, Being, and the Beauty of Truth,” 28 pp. ms., accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the first Symposium Thomisticum, organized and edited by Professor Emeritus Fran O’Rourke (University College, Dublin) held in Paris, France, June 2016.  “Aquinas on Measure,” 24 pp., forthcoming in Aquinas and His Sources, edited by Timothy Smith (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press).

Non-refereed Books:  Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century, co-edited with Marie I. George, with an introduction by Robert Royal (American Maritain Association publication, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2002).  Beauty, Art, and the Polis, ed. Alice M. Ramos, with an introduction by Ralph McInerny (American Maritain Association publication, CUA Press, Washington, D.C., 2000).  Signum: De la Semiótica Universal a la Metafísica del Signo (Pamplona: EUNSA, Colección Filosófica, 1987).

Non-refereed Articles (partial list):  “Magnanimity and the Law of Superabundance,” in Vir Fidelis Multum Laudabitur, ed. Pablo Gefaell (Rome: Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, 2014), vol. 2, pp. 37-55. 2

 “Beauty and the Real,” 23 page article, published on the website of The Catholic Artists Society, New York City, December 2013: http://www.catholicartistssociety.org  “The Rediscovery of Moral Beauty, Truth, and Hope: Awakening the Moral and the Religious Sense,” Studia Bioethica 5, no. 1 (2012), 85-89.  “Lo Bueno y lo Bello: El Reconocimiento de la Belleza Moral,” in La Bondad del Vivir, ed. María Jesús Soto (Pamplona: CEICID, 2012), 59-79.  “El Bien y lo Eterno,” in La Bondad del Vivir, ed. María Jesús Soto (Pamplona: CEICID, 2012), 80-88.  “Toward a Recovery of the Moral Sense,” in The Renewal of Civilization, ed. Gavin Colvert (American Maritain Association publication, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2010), 99-109.  “Transcending Bodily Existence and Vulnerability,” in Jacques Maritain and America, ed. Christopher Cullen and Joseph Allan Clair (American Maritain Association publication, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2009), 179-191.  “Verdad y Libertad en San Anselmo,” in Metafísica y Libertad, ed. David González Ginocchio (Pamplona, Spain: Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, (November) 2009), 311-321.  “Art, Truth, and Morality: Aesthetic Self-forgetfulness versus Recognition,” in Mimesi, Verità, Fiction, ed. Rafael Jiménez Cataño and Ignacio Yarza (Rome: EDUSC, Summer 2009), 89- 106.  “The Meaning of the Concept of Personhood,” 22 pp., and “The Dignity of the Human Person,” 27 pp., two chapters for an on-line graduate program of studies at the Institute of Advanced Family Studies at the International University of Cataluña, Barcelona, October 2008. See http://www.iesf.es  “La Confrontación entre el Amor y la Incapacidad de Amar,” in Identidad Cristiana, ed. Antonio Aranda (Pamplona: EUNSA, 2007), 117-128.  “Belleza y Perfección del Ser en Santo Tomás,” epilogue to Belleza y Valores, ed. María Jesús Soto (Pamplona: CEICID, 2006), 81-94.  “The Human Person and the ‘Conquest of Freedom,’” Universitas, 2006, 35-46.  “Studiositas and Curiositas: Matters for Self-Examination,” Educational Horizons 83, no. 4 (Summer 2005), 272-281. “Letter to the editors” regarding this article in Educational Horizons 84, no. 2 (Winter 2006), 86-87.  “Mensura: Un Concepto Neoplátonico en Tomás de Aquino,” in Metafísica y Antropología del Siglo XII, ed. María Jesús Soto (Pamplona: EUNSA, 2005), 349-64.  “The Human Person as Image and Sign,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Christian Humanism in the Third Millennium: The Perspective of Thomas Aquinas: 21-25 September 2003, vol. 2 (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, 2005), 101-110.  “Unity of Ordinary Life: The Quest for the Good and the Divine,” in Figlio di Dio nella Chiesa, ed. Paul O’Callaghan (Rome: Edizioni Università della Santa Croce, 2004), 45-60.  “Moral Beauty and Affective Knowledge in Aquinas,” Acta Philosophica 13, no. 2 (2004), 321- 337.  “From Literature to Philosophy: Faith’s Impact on my Work,” in Faith and the Life of the Intellect, ed. Curtis Hancock and Brendan Sweetman (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), 210-230.  “Evil and Providence: Toward a New Moral Order,” in Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the

21st Century, ed. Alice Ramos and Marie I. George (American Maritain Association, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2002), 269-279.  “The Dignity of Man and Human Action,” Acta Philosophica 10, no. 2 (2001), 315-21.  “Human Life and the Primacy of Contemplation,” in The Battle for the Catholic Mind, ed. William May and Kenneth Whitehead (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine Press, 2001), 404- 416.  “Beauty, Mind, and the Universe,” in Beauty, Art, and the Polis, ed. Alice Ramos (American Maritain Association, distributed by CUA Press, Washington, D.C., 2000), 70-84.  “The Enlightened Mentality and Academic Freedom,” in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Daniel McInerny (American Maritain Association, distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1999), 35-47.  “Tradition as ‘Bearer of Reason’ in Alasdair MacIntyre’s Moral Enquiry,” in Freedom, Virtue, and the Common Good, ed. Curtis L. Hancock and Anthony O. Simon (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), 179-193.  “Kant as Precursor of Liberationist Hermeneutics,” Filosofia Oggi 16 (April-December 1993), pp. 317-328.  “Ethical Theology and Its Dissolution in Kant,” Acta Philosophica 1, no. 2 (1992), pp. 325-339.  “The Divine Ideas and the Intelligibility of Creation: A Way Toward Universal Signification in Aquinas,” Doctor Communis 43, no. 3 (September-December 1991), 250-265.  “Activity and Finality in St. Thomas,” Angelicum 68 (1991), 231-254.  “Human Life and the Primacy of Contemplation,” Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (Pittston, Pennsylvania: Northeast Books, 1990), 174-184.  “Foundations for a Christian Anthropology,” Anthropotes 2 (1989), pp. 225-257.  “Verbo interior y Verbo divino,” Proceedings of Congress on the Sixteenth Centenary of St. Augustine’s Conversion (Pamplona: EUNSA, Colección Teológica, 1988), 219-229.  “Interiority and Intellection: Foundations for a Philosophy of Religion,” in Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of Philosophy on “Philosophy and Culture” (Montreal: Editions Montmorency, 1988), 349-353.  “Reflexiones sobre el lenguaje literario desde una perspectiva fregeana,” Sapientia 146 (1982), 269-276.  “Trasfondo filosófico de la semiótica,” Anuario Filosófico 14, no. 2 (1981), pp. 197-201.

Book Reviews (partial list):  Review of Aquinas on Beauty by Christopher Scott Sevier, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 90, no. 4 (2016), 115-118.  Review of Ultimate Normative Foundations: The Case for Aquinas’s Personalist Natural Law by Rose Mary Hayden Lemmons, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 86, no. 4 (2012), 708-711.  Review of Beauty by Roger Scruton (Oxford University Press, 2009), Quaestiones Disputatae 1, no. 1 (Fall 2010), 261-263.  Article-Review of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Edith Stein. Philosophical Prologue: 1913-1922, The Review of Metaphysics 60, no. 3 (March 2007), 570-573.  “Triumph of the Will,” review of Michael Gillespie’s Nihilism after Nietzsche, The Review of Politics 58 (Winter 1996), 181-184.  “A ‘Modernist’ Semiotician Visits Natural and Positive Law,” a review of Introducción a la

Teoría del Derecho by Gregorio Robles, Vera Lex 12, no. 2 (1992), 21-23.  Sémiotique et Philosophie by Georges Kalinowski, Anuario Filosófico 19, no. 2 (1986), 265-267.

PROGRAM APPEARANCES (partial list, 1999-2018):  “What Can We Learn from the Hope of Martyrs,” invited paper at the European Society for Moral Philosophy, at Warsaw, Poland, October 18-20, 2018.  “Aquinas on Human and Divine Language,” paper presented at the International Linguistics Association annual conference on the topic of Language and Religion at St. John’s University (Queens campus) on April 20-22, 2018

 Respondent to Robert Sweetman’s paper “Admiratio, Imitatio, and the Vita Christi section of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae” at the Boston Colloquy of Historical Theology (Prof. Sweetman teaches at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada), August 3-6, 2017.  “Beauty and the Real: Purifying Our Vision and Our Loves,” short version, presented at the workshop organized by Prof. Boyd Coolman, Associate Professor of Theology at BC, and by me at the Connors Center of Boston College, August 2-3, 2017.  Dean’s Symposium on the Reformation: I was the discussant and commented on the four presentations made by faculty members on March 20, 2017.  “Shame, Honor, and Conscience,” invited plenary session paper at the American Maritain Association Conference held in New Orleans on February 23-25, 2017.  Participated in a Philosophy Department Colloquium on Gadamer, together with Matthew Knotts of the University of Leuven (Philosophy and Theology major at SJU; graduated six years ago and is now working on his Ph.D. in theology on Gadamer) and with Dr. Paul Fry of Yale University. I presented a shortened version of my research on Gadamer and Aquinas on Nov. 16, 2016.  Invited paper: “Gadamer and Aquinas on Language, Being, and the Beauty of Truth,” 28 pp., at the first Symposium Thomisticum in Paris, France, June 23, 2016  “Faith, Philosophy, and Trust,” 15 pp., paper presented at the American Maritain Association International Conference, at Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus, Feb. 26, 2016  Seminar presented to professors on “Language, Being, and the Beauty of Truth: Gadamer and Aquinas,” 23 pp., at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, November 12, 2015  Invited scholar to take part in a workshop for teachers of religion organized by the Sophia Institute for Teachers Series on the Sacraments for the Archdiocese of NY in Villa Barone Manor in the Bronx: two 40 to 45 minute presentations written on: “Becoming a New Creature in Christ: Impediments to the Gift of Grace and Examples of a Sacrificial Love,” 17 pp., and “Conscience, Sin, and God’s Mercy,” 15 pp., February 11, 2015.  “A Metaphysics of the Logos in St. Thomas Aquinas: Creation and Knowledge,” invited paper to the LXI Reuniones Filosóficas at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, November 25, 2014  “Magnanimity and the Law of Superabundance,” invited paper at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, March 2014  “Beauty and the Real,” invited paper in a series of lectures on the Arts of the Beautiful, at the New York University Catholic Center, December 2013  “A Metaphysics of the Logos in St. Thomas Aquinas,” seminar given at the University of Navarra, May 2013  “Aesthetic Iconoclasm: Origins, Reasons, and Remedies,” plenary session paper at the American

Maritain Association conference, in Philadelphia, October 2012  Seminar given at the University of Navarra on my book Dynamic Transcendentals, May 2012  “The Affections and the Life of the Mind,” invited paper to the Society of Thomistic Personalism at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting in St. Louis, October 2011  Response to “The Meaning of Art: A Neothomistic Investigation,” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association conference in Baltimore, November 2010  “Anselm on Truth,” paper accepted for publication and presentation at the national conference of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in New Orleans, November 2009  “Verdad y Libertad en San Anselmo,” invited paper at the Metaphysics and Freedom conference at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, April 27-29, 2009  “Anselm on Truth,” invited lecture at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, January 2009  “Art and Beauty: A Way to the True and the Good,” paper presented at the American Maritain Association conference at the University of Notre Dame, October 2007  “Art, Truth, and Morality: Aesthetic Self-Forgetfulness versus Recognition,” plenary session paper for a conference on Aristotle’s Poetics, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, March 2007  “La Confrontación entre el Amor y la Incapacidad de Amar,” invited paper, interdisciplinary colloquium on Christian Identity, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, September 2006  “Studositas and Curiositas: Matters for Self-Examination,” invited paper for the Sullivan lecture, Fordham University, November 2005  “The Affections and the Life of the Mind,” paper presented at the international conference of the American Maritain Association in Washington, D.C., October 2005  “The Good and the Beautiful: Why the Man Who is Not Virtuous Can Recognize the Beauty of a Good Act,” invited paper at a Thomistic Institute of the University of Notre Dame, July 2005; also presented as a work in progress at the Erasmus Institute, June 2005  “Toward a Recovery of the Moral Sense,” paper presented as the presidential address at the conference of the American Maritain Association in Atlanta, October 2004  “Moral Beauty and Affective Knowledge in Aquinas,” invited paper at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, March 2004  “Freedom for Excellence versus Freedom of Indifference,” paper presented at the conference of the American Maritain Association in Chicago, October 2003  “Man as Image and Sign,” paper presented at the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas in Rome, Italy, September 2003  “Aquinas and Ockham on Freedom,” paper presented at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies International Conference at Villanova University, September 2003  “Transcending Bodily Existence and Vulnerability,” paper presented at the conference of the American Maritain Association at Princeton University, October 2002  “The Unity of Ordinary Life: The Quest for the Good and the Divine,” invited paper at a conference of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, January 2002  Comments presented as a member of a dissertation defense jury at the University of Navarra, Spain (Title of Dissertation: “La Presencia de la Ausencia: Modelos de Construcción de Estructuras Cinematográficas de Naturaleza Metafórica”), June 2001  “Evil and Providence: Toward a New Moral Order,” paper presented at the American Maritain Association International Conference at the University of Notre Dame, October 2000  “The Dignity of Man and Human Action,” World Meeting of University Professors in Rome,

Italy, paper presented at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, September 2000  “Aquinas on Measure,” paper read at the Thomistic Institute held at the University of Notre Dame, July 2000  “Aquinas on the Good and Glory,” paper read at the XXIVth International Congress on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, October 1999  “Aquinas on Moral Beauty and Order,” paper presented at the International Medieval Conference at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999  Invited to comment on “The Virtues, Human Character, and Divine Life,” paper written by Romanus Cessario, O.P., in a colloquium at New York University on Contemporary Controversies Concerning Aquinas, sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Department of New York University, April 1999

ACADEMIC AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS (partial list): 2018 Faculty Recognition Award at St. John’s University for scholarly work 2015 Faculty Recognition Awards at St. John’s University for scholarly work, given almost every year since 1992 2011 Elected to the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (three-year term 2012-2014) 2005 Participant in a Thomistic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, July 5-10, organized by the Jacques Maritain Center; invited to other Thomistic Institutes at Notre Dame in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001; stipend awarded and expenses paid 2005 Participant in Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar led by Alasdair MacIntrye on Practical Rationality at the University of Notre Dame, June 11-25 2005 Elected to the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (three-year term 2006-2008) 2005 Elected to the Executive Committee of the Metaphysical Society of America, 2006-2008 2001 Homeland Foundation Grant (for publication costs of an American Maritain Association volume edited by me) 2001 Elected President of the American Maritain Association (three-year term) 2001 Named to the Comité d'Honneur for the Bibliothèque de Philosophie Comparée, Éditions de Bière, Bordeaux, France 2001 Student Government Teaching Award at St. John’s University 1998 Faculty Summer Research Grant, awarded by St. John’s University for one summer session 1998 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Medal, awarded by St. John’s University 1997 Elected to the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (three-year term) 1997 Elected to the Executive Committee of the American Maritain Association (three-year term) 1996 Research grant from the Kosciuszko Foundation (for research on Lublin Thomism at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland, May 22-June 22, 1997) 1995 Post-doctoral Fellowship with the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, awarded in April 1994, for the spring semester of 1995 1991 NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers. Title of Seminar: “What is Enlightenment?” An Eighteenth-Century Question and Twentieth-Century Answers,”

under the direction of James Schmidt, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Boston University, June 10-Aug. 2, 1991 1989 Faculty Summer Research Grant awarded by St. John's University for Summer Session II; topic: “Technological and Ethical Perspectives on the Human Person” 1985 Award for outstanding doctorate in philosophy (“Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado”), University of Navarra 1970 Grunsfeld Scholarship from the Alliance Française de New York for graduate study in Paris, awarded for the academic year 1970-1971

MEMBERSHIPS: American Catholic Philosophical Association American Maritain Association Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Metaphysical Society of America

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Metaphysics, Ethics, Thomas Aquinas, History of Medieval Philosophy AREAS OF CONCENTRATION: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, History of Modern Philosophy, Kant, Gadamer

LANGUAGES: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, some German, and some Greek

COURSES TAUGHT IN PHILOSOPHY: Undergraduate: Graduate: Epistemology Fundamental Problems in Ethics Ethics (Core and Honors) Philosophy of Religion History of Medieval Philosophy History of Modern Philosophy Metaphysics (Core and Honors) Philosophy of the Human Person Philosophy of Religion Senior Seminar in Philosophy