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 3 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