CURRICULUM VITAE
as of Spring, 2005

for
John F. Crosby

Home:
415 Belleview Blvd.
Steubenville, OH 43952

Tel: 740-282-4227

Work:
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Steubenville, OH  43952

Tel: 740-283-6245, ex. 2362
cell: 740-632-7202
email: jcrosby@franciscan.edu
fax: 740-283-6401

PERSONAL:
  • Born November 5, 1944, Washington, D.C.
  • married to Pia Wenisch, six children.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

  • 1962-1966:  Georgetown Univeristy, B.A., cum laude

  • 1966-1970:  University of Salzburg, Austria, Ph.D
    • Title of Dissertation: "Zur Kritik der marxistischen Anthropologie" 
      ("Critique of the Marxist Philosophy of Man"), part of which was published as "Evolutionism and the Ontology of the Human Person:  Critique of the Marxist Theory of the Emergence of Man," in Review of Politics, vol. 38, no. 2, April, 1976, 208-243.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
  • First Assistant and then Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas, from 1970 to 1987, with the exception of spring semester, 1972

  • Gastdozent, University of Salzburg, Austria, Spring, 1972

  • Visiting Professor, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Lateran University of Rome, for 1-2 weeks in each spring semester from 1983-1993

  • VisitingProfessor, International Academy of Philosophy, Principality of Liechtenstein, 1987-90

  • Prince Franz Josef and Princess Gina Chair for Ethics, International Academy of Philosophy, 1997-98

  • Professor of Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 1990-present

  • Chair of Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 1990-2000; Director of M.A. philosophy studies, 1992-1998; 2000-2005.

HONORS:
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1966

  • Dietrich von Hildebrand dedicated to me his last major work in ethics, his Moralia  (Stuttgart, 1979)

  • Senior Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 1997

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
  • American Catholic Philosophical Association (also elected to the Executive Committee of the Association, 1992-1994; 2000-2002)

  • American Philosophical Association

  • Venerable John Henry Newman Association

  • University Faculty for Life

SOME OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • I was one of the founders of the graduate philosophy program at the University of Dallas in 1973, and I played a major role in setting up the curriculum and in developing the program.

  • I collaborated with Josef Seifert in the founding of the International Academy of Philosophy in Dallas, 1980.

  • I am a founding editor, and presently associate editor, of the new international journal of philosophy, Aletheia.  I structured and organized all of vol. III of Aletheia.

  • Member of the Senate of the International Academy of Philosophy (1987-present)

  • Director of the International Symposium on the Philosophical Legacy of Dietrich von Hildebrand, International Academy of Philosophy, Liechtenstein, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1989

  • Director of the Symposium on the Legacy of Cardinal Newman, Franciscan University of Steubenville, October 7-8, 1990

  • Member of the Board of Advisors, Center for Christianity and the Common Good, University of Dallas, 1990-1993

  • I founded the M.A. philosophy program at Franciscan University of Steubenville, 1992.

  • Director of the Colloquium on Person and Relation, April 8-10, 1994, Franciscan University of Steubenville

  • Director of the Conference on the Philosophical Legacy of John Henry Newman, October 19-20, 2001, Franciscan University of Steubenville

  • Director of the Conference on the Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics, April 3, 2004, Franciscan University of Steubenville

PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Translations:

    • Translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Zoelibat und Glaubenskrise; published as Celibacy and the Crisis of Faith (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1971), 116 pp.

    • Translation of Edmund Husserl's obituary notice for A. Reinach, Kant-Studien 113 (1919); published in Aletheia III (1983), pp. xi-xiv

    • Translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Introduction to Adolf Reinach's Gesammelte Schriften; published in Aletheia III (1983), pp. xv-xxvi

    • Translation of selections from H. Conrad-Martius' Introduction of Adolf Reinach's Gesammelte Schriften; published in Aletheia III (1983), pp. xxx-xxxi

    • Translation of selections from Edith Stein's memoirs, Aus dem Leben einer juedischen Familie; published in Aletheia III (1983), pp. xxvii-xxix

    • Translation of Adolf Reinach's "Die apriorischen Grundlagen des buergerlichen Rechts" (first published English translation); in Aletheia III (1983), pp. 1-141

    • Translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Das Wesen der Liebe, 500 pp.; to be published in 2006.

  2. Miscellaneous Philosophical Pieces:

    • "The Social Conscience of Conservatives," The Hoya, 1965

    • "Eric Voegelin's Contribution to Political Philosophy," in Viewpoint, VI/2 (Spring, 1965), 3-15.

    • Essay on Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy of religion, in Der Fels, April, 1971, pp. 110-112.

    • "In Memoriam Gabriel Marcel," in The Constantin Review, Winter, 1974, pp. 4-6

    • "The Odd Couple:  Conservatism and the West" (an essay on the relation between the natural law and tradition), in Triumph, April, 1975, pp. 14-17, p. 23; 9 columns

    • "The Relation of Philosophy to Its Text," in Roundtable, November, 1975, pp. 95-99

    • Essay (together with Josef Seifert) on Dietrich von Hildebrand as a philosopher, on the occasion of his death, in Aletheia, I, 1 (1977), pp. 221-226

    • Comment of L. Langsdorf's "Meaning and Reference," in Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, XI, no. 1 (1980), p. 162

    • Introduction to A. Reinach as philosopher, and to his monograph on the negative judgment, in Aletheia II (1981), pp. 9-14

    • Abstract of my "Why the Human Person Has Rights" in Human Rights:  Abstracts of the Papers at the Tenth Interamerican Congress of Philosophy (Florida State University, 1982), p. 28

    • "A Brief Biography of Adolf Reinach," in Aletheia, III (1983), pp. ix-x

    • "Is the Fetus a Human Person?" in Laywitness VII (6), 1986, pp. 3-7

    • "Response to Dr. Gallup on Animal Rights," Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 6 (2), 1986, 113

    • "Thoughts on the Use of Texts in the Teaching of Philosophy," Aletheia, IV (1990), 272-278.

    • "Christian Reflections on the Danger of Aestheticism in the Intellectual Life," Faith and Reason (1988), XIV/2, 133-145

    • "The Conversion of the Jews: a Correspondence," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter, 12/1 (December, 1988), 15-16.

    • "Critique of Proportionalism," Anthropotes, 1987/2, 195-199; also published in Acts of 1986 International Congress of Moral Theology in Rome (Rome, 1988), 195-200; also republished as #168 in series A of "Catholic Position Papers," May, 1989, by Seido Foundation of Japan.

    • "Empfaengnisverhuetung und Bevoelkerungswachstum," Liechtensteiner Volksblatt, April 27, 1990, p. 4; also in Liechtensteiner Vaterland, April 12, 1990, p. 4.

    • "Education and the Mind Redeemed," First Things, 18 (December, 1991), 23-28.

    • “Introduction” to Aletheia, V: The Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (Peter Lang, 1992), 2-3.

    • "Remarks on the Christian Humanism of a Catholic University," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter, 16, 3, (June, 1993), 11-15.

    • "Response to W. Pannenberg on Religious Toleration," First Things, "Correspondence," February, 1995.

    • "Shouldn't We Have a Core Curriculum at Franciscan University?" The Concourse, Feb. 13, 1996, 1, 8-9; September 18, 1996, 7-8

    • "Thomism in Franciscan University's Philosophy Department," The Concourse, April 23, 1996, 3-4, 9; May 7, 1996, 13-15.

    • "Laudatio auf Viktor Frankl," together with Josef Seifert, in Viktor Frankl, Sinn als anthropologische Kategorie (Universitaetsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1996), 18-29.

    • "Sins of the Flesh," Crisis, July/August, 1997, 24-28.

    • "Doubts about distance education," The Concourse, III/2 (October, 1997), 1-9.

    • "Doubts about distance education that won't go away," The Concourse, III/3 (December, 1997), 3-5.

    • "Oral traditions and distance education," The Concourse, III/4 (January, 1998), 3-6

    • “John Paul II to Franciscan University: be not afraid of the surrounding culture,” The Concourse

    • “John Paul II as Prophet of the Mystery of ‘Fair Love,’ Catholic World Report, April, 1999, 52-58.

    • “The Personalist Philosophy of John Paul II,” ten-part series in Laywitness, 2000.

    • “The Witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand,” First Things, 2006

  3. Articles on John Henry Newman:

    • Essay on religious fear in the thought of Cardinal Newman, in Triumph, April, 1972, 37ff

    • Review article on Cardinal Newman in His Age, H.L. Weatherby, in Triumph, December 1973, under the title, "The Place of Newman in the Catholic Tradition"

    • "God as Mysterium Tremendum in Newman," in Internationale Cardinal Newman-Studien, X (Glock und Lutz, Heroldsberg bei Nuernberg, 1978), ed. H. Fries and W. Becker, pp. 105-119

    • "Newman's Protest Against the Spirit of Liberalism," John Henry Newman, papers from the 1979 International Newman Symposium in Rome (Rome: Urbaniana Unversity Press, 1981), pp. 99-126

    • "Die Einheit von scheinbaren Gegensaetzen:  die Lehre und das Zeugnis John Henry Newmans, Internationale Cardinal Newman-Studien XII (Glock und Lutz, 1988), 207-218.

    • "Emancipazione delle scienze e compiti dell'universita:  Sull'idea di universita in Newman" ("The Christian Humanism in John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University") Il nuovo Areopago, Winter, 1988, 65-79.

    • "`Das schoepferische Prinzip aller Religion':  das Gewissen bei Kardinal Newman," Forum katholischer Theologie 5 (Heft 3/1989), 188-205.

    • "What is Anthropocentric and What is Theocentric in Christian Existence?  The Challenge of John Henry Newman," Communio 16 (Summer, 1989), 244-255; also in German translation in the German Communio, "Anthropozentrismus und Theozentrismus im christlichen Leben," 19. Jahrgang, September 1990, 444-453.

    • "The coincidentia oppositorum in the Thought and in the Spirituality of John Henry Newman," in Anthropotes, 1990/2, 187-212.

    • "Newman on Mystery and Dogma," in Strolz and Binder (eds.), John Henry Newman:  Lover of Truth (Rome, 1991), 37-60.

    • "Newman come `Intelleto imperiale'.  La comprensivita della sua mente e del suo cuore," in Grassati (ed.), John Henry Newman:  L'idea di ragione (Atti del III Colloquio Internazionale del Pensiero Cristiano) (Milan, 1992), 131-145.

    • "The Mystery of Newman," Laywitness, XVI/9 (1995), 1, 16-18.

    • "The Place of Philosophy in a Catholic University," in Proceedings of the Newman Conference Ballina, July 1996, 60-62.

    • "The Personalism of John Henry Newman," in The Newman Rambler, V/1 (2001), 1-10.

    • “Newman on Personal Influence,” First Things, 2002 (August/September), 43-49

  4. Philosophical Studies:

    • "The Role of Receptivity in the Formation of Personality," in the Festschrift for Dietrich von Hildebrand on his 80th birthday, Wahrheit, Wert, Sein (Regensburg:  Habbel, 1972), 253-261

    • "Refutation of Skepticism and General Relativism," in the Festschrift for Balduin Schwarz on his 70th birthday, ed. Dietrich von Hildebrand, Rehabilitierung der Philosophie (Regensburg:  Habbel, 1974), 103-122

    • "Evolutionism and the Ontology of the Human Person:  Critique of the Marxist Theory of the Emergence of Man," in Review of Politics, vol. 38, no. 2, April, 1976, 208-243

    • "On Deriving What Ought to Be from the Nature of What Is," in Vom Wahren und Guten, ed. Morscher (Salzburg, 1982) pp. 187-204.  Spanish translation: Hacia la fundamentacion de lo que debe ser en la naturaleza de lo que es," Revista de Filosofia, V, 8 (1992), 393-418.

    • "Adolf Reinach's Discovery of the Social Acts," in Aletheia, III (1983), 143-194

    • "Are Good and Being Really Convertible:  A Phenomenological Inquiry," in The New Scholasticism, vol. 57, no. 4 (1983), pp. 465-500.  Spanish translation, "Son Ser y Bien realmente convertibles?" in Dialogo Filosofico 17 (1990), 170-194.

    • "Towards an Axiological Realism," in Realismo Pluridimensional, Festschrift for S. Ladusans, S.J. (Cordoba, 1983), 199-206

    • "Reflections on the Foundations of Karol Wojtyla's Philosophy of the Person," in Karol Wojtyla:  Filosofo Teologo, Poeta, Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Christian Thought (Rome, 1984), 25-37

    • "The Encounter of God and Man in Moral Obligation," in The New Scholasticism, LX, 3, 1986, 317-355

    • "Are Some Human Beings Not Persons?" in Anthropos, II/2 (Winter, 1986), 215-232.

    • "Critique of Value Relativism," Philosophy and Culture, III, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of Philosophy (Montreal, 1988), 387-391.

    • "Karol Wojtyla on the Objectivity and the Subjectivity of Moral Obligation," Servo Veritatis (Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland), Varia CCXXIX (1988), 155-164.  Also in Christian Humanism, ed. Francis (New York, 1995), 27-36.

    • "The Creaturehood of the Human Person and the Critique of Proportionalism," in Persona, Verita e Morale:  Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Teologia Morale (Roma, 7-12 aprile, 1986) (Rome, 1987), 195-200.  Also published in Anthropotes (1987/2), 195-199.

    • "Dialektyka podmiotowosci i transcendencji w osobie ludzkiej" ("The Dialectic of Subjectivity and Transcendence in the Human Person"), Ethos (University of Lublin, Poland), nr. 2/3, 1988, 57-65

    • "Autonomy and Theonomy in Moral Obligation:  Reply to Tollefsen," (Tollefsen, "Crosby on the Origin of Prescriptive Force," The New Scholasticism LXI/4 (1987), 262-276), in The New Scholasticism LXIII/3 (1989), 358-370.

    • "The Personalist Foundations of Bioethics," The Lineacre Review, 1988; also printed under the title, "Man as Person:  A Personalist Approach to the Spiritual Nature of Man," in Creative Love, (ed.) Boyle (Front Royal, 1989), 87-105.

    • "The Personalism of John Paul II as the Basis of His Approach to the Teaching of Humanae Vitae," Anthropotes 5, 1 (May, 1989), 47-69.  Reprinted in Russell Smith (ed.), Trust the Truth (Braintree, Mass., 1991), 37-64.  Also reprinted in Janet Smith (ed), Why Humanae Vitae Was Right (San Francisco, 1993), 195-227.

    • "Der menschliche Embryo:  artspezifisches menschliches Leben ohne Personalitaet?" in Bonelli (ed.), Der Status des Embryos (Vienna, 1989), 81-91.

    • "Family, Marriage, and the State:  Neglected Insights of Dietrich von Hildebrand," The International Review, XIII, 1/2 (1989), 23-41.

    • "Speech Act Theory and Phenomenology," in Burkhardt (ed.), Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle (Berlin, New York, 1990), 62-88.

    • "The Dialectic of Autonomy and Theonomy in the Human Person," in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXIV (1990), Annual Supplement, 250-259.  Polish: Dialektyka autonomii i teonomiii w osobie ludzkiej," Ethos (Catholic University of Lublin), 15/16, 1991, 49-58.  German: Das dialektische Verhaeltnis zwischen Autonomie und Theonomie in der menschlichen Person," Ethos, Sonderausgabe 1993, 63-74.

    • "Moral und fehlbare Vernunft, oder der sokratische Sokrates:  Vorlaeufer oder Kritiker des kritischen Rationalismus?" in Leser et al. (eds.), Die Gedankenwelt Sir Karl Poppers (Heidelberg, 1991), 110-130.

    • "The Philosophical Achievement of Dietrich von Hildebrand," in Aletheia V (1992), 121-132.

    • "Dankbarkeit und ihre Hindernisse:  Reflexionen ueber Kierkegaards Analyse der Verzweiflung," in Seifert (ed.) Danken und Dankbarkeit (Heidelberg, 1992), 173-186.

    • "The Personhood of the Human Embryo," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 18 (1993), 399-417.

    • "The Dialectic of Selfhood and Relationality in the Human Person," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (1993), Annual Supplement, 180-189.

    • "The Incommunicability of Human Persons," The Thomist, 57, 3, (July, 1993), 403-442.  Italian by Carlo Caffarra: L'incommunicabilita della persona umana," Anthropotes (1993), 159-187.

    • "Superego and Conscience:  Phenomenological Analysis of Their Difference and Their Relation," The Nature and Tasks of a Personalist Psychology, ed. James DuBois (Lanham, MD., 1995), 47-58.  Expanded version in Logos (1997), I/2, 125-139.

    • "Max Scheler's Principle of Solidarity and the Future of Europe," Ethos (1996), special edition no. 2, 37-46

    • "Max Scheler's Principle of Solidarity and Its Implications for the Pro-Life Movement," in Life and Learning V:  Proceedings of the Fifth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington, D.C., 1996), 384-397.

    • "The Teaching of John Paul II on the Christian Meaning of Suffering," Christian Bioethics (1996), vol. 2, no. 2, 154-171.

    • "Max Scheler's Principle of Moral and Religious Solidarity," Communio, XXIV/1 (Spring, 1997), 110-127.

    • "Response to Kendler's 'Psychology, Ethics, and the Naturalistic Fallacy,'" in DuBois (ed.), Moral Issues in Psychology (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1997), 112-119.

    • "Response to Kendler's Response," in DuBois (ed.), Moral Issues in Psychology (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1997), 125-128.

    • Entries on "the human person," "theology of the body," "immortality," "the natural end of man," and "body and soul," "phenomenology," in Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine (Huntington, Indiana:  Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1997), ed. Russell Shaw.

    • "The Estrangement of Persons from Their Bodies," Life and Learning VI: Proceedings of the Sixth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington, D.C., 1997), 117-127; slightly revised in Logos (1997), I/2, 125-139.

    • "Zum Personalismus Max Schelers," in Crespo (ed.), Menschenwuerde: Metaphysik und Ethik (Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag C. Winter, 1998), 225-247.

    • "The Individuality of Human Persons:  A Study in the Ethical Personalism of Max Scheler," Review of Metaphysics (Sept. 1998), LII/1, 21-50.

    • "There is No Moral Authority in Medicine:  Response to Cowden and Tuohey," Christian Bioethics, IV/1 (1998), 63-82.

    • “The Human Person Exists in Freedom Under the Truth,” Life and Learning VII: Proceedings of the Seventh University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington, D.C., 1998), 54-64.

    • "Introduction to the Reading of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics," Trinity Guide to the Classics (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998), 63-66.

    • "Marcel and Kierkegaard on Hope and Despair," Values and Human Experience: Essays in Honor of the Memory of Balduin Schwarz (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), 209-218.

    • “Why Persons Have Dignity,” Life and Learning IX: Proceedings of the Ninth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington, DC, 2000), 79-92.

    • “Person and Consciousness,” Christian Bioethics, 6/1 (April, 2000), 37-48

    • “Inference and Intuition in the Understanding of Other Persons,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 73 (1999), 137-146.

    • “Dietrich von Hildebrand–filozof wolnosci” (“Dietrich von Hildebrand as a Philosopher of Freedom”), Ethos (Lublin, Poland), 49/50 (2000), 262-271.

    • “How Is It Possible Knowingly to do Wrong?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 74 (2000), 325-333.

    • “The Twofold Source of the Dignity of Persons,” Faith and Philosophy, 18/3 (2001), 292-306.

    • “The Truth about Good–Pretext for Coercion?” in the Festschrift for Tadeuez Styzcen, Codzienne pytania Antygony (Lublin, 2001), 87-91.

    • “Is All Evil Really Only Privation?” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 75 (2002), 197-209.  Translated into Polish in Ethos (2004), 59-73

    • “Does Plato in Republic IV Surpass His Intellectualism?” New Images of Plato, Reale and Scolnicov, eds. (St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2002), 347-355.

    • “Dietrich von Hildebrand: Master of Phenomenological Value Ethics,” in Drummond and Embree (eds.), Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics (Kluwer, 2002), 475-496.

    • Debate with Fulvio di Blasi on how deliberate wrongdoing is possible: Sensus Communis (2004), vol. 5, no. 13, 233-254.

    • “Karol Wojtyla on Treating Patients as Persons,” in John Paul II’s Contributions to Catholic Bioethics (Springer, 2004), 151-168.

    • “Person and Obligation: Critical Reflections on the Anti-authoritarian Strain in Scheler’s Personalism,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2005), vol. 79, no. 1, 91-119.

    • “Life and Work of Max Scheler,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2005), vol. 79, no. 1, 1-11.

    • “The Equality of Human Beings and the Unity of the Human Family,” in Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (ed.), Peace and Intercultural Dialogue (Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2005), 49-56.

    • “John Paul II on the Complementarity of Man and Woman,” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2004 annual meeting of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

    • “On Proposing the Truth and Not Imposing It: John Paul II’s Personalism and the Teaching of Dignitatis Humanae,” forthcoming in collection on Dignitatis Humanae to be published by Sheed and Ward, 2006, ed. by Ken Grasso.  A somewhat shortened version of this paper has appeared in Polish in Ethos

    • “Dietrich von Hildebrand,” forthcoming in Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, Kluwer, 2006, ed. by Lester Embree

    • “Dietrich von Hildebrand,” forthcoming in Dictionary of American Philosophers

  5. Books and book-length monographs, translations, editions:

    • "The Idea of Value and the Reform of the Traditional Metaphysics of Bonum," in Aletheia, I, 2 (1978), 221-336

    • Issue editor of Aletheia III (1983):  Philosophy of Law (the 246 pp. of this issue consist almost entirely of my translation of Reinach's work on the civil law and of my study of Reinach).

    • The Selfhood of the Human Person (Washington, D.C.:  Catholic University of America Press, 1996), 313 pp.  (Chapters 1, 3, and 6 of this book have been translated into Ukrainian and published in a Ukrainian collection entitled, Anthology of Personalistic Thought, Lvov, 2000).

    • Personalist Papers (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), 274 pp.

    • Issue editor of special issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly on the thought of Max Scheler, 2005, vol. 79, no. 1.

    • Translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand, Das Wesen der Liebe, 500 pp.; to appear as The Nature of Love in 2006

  6. Television productions related to philosophy:

    • In July, 1999, I taped a series of 13 half-hour programs for EWTN on the personalist philosophy of John Paul II; the series was aired repeatedly throughout 2000 and 2001, and even now is sometimes aired.