Curriculum Vitae, Patrick Lee

Professor of Philosophy
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Steubenville, OH 43953

office: 740-283-6245 x 2361
home: 740-284-8614
email: plee@franciscan.edu
website: www2.franciscan.edu/plee

Date of Birth: 5/28/52

Religion: Catholic

Degrees:

  • Ph. D., Marquette University, 1980
  • M.A., Niagara University, 1977
  • B.A., University of Dallas, 1974

Teaching Experience:

  • Professor, 1996 to present, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • Associate Professor, 11 yrs., University of St. Thomas and Franciscan University, 1984-1995
  • Assistant Professor, 3 yrs., University of St. Thomas, 1981-1984
  • Instructor & Assistant Professor (promoted to Asst. Prof. in 1980), 3 yrs., St. Francis de Sales College, Milwaukee, 1978-81
  • Teaching Assistant, 2 yrs., Marquette University, 1976-78
  • High School Teacher, 1 yr., Bishop Lynch High School, Dallas, 1975-76
  • Teaching Assistant, 1 yr., Niagara University, 1974-75

Memberships:
American Catholic Philosophical Association, Society of Christian Philosophers

Publications:
Book: Abortion and Unborn Human Life, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1996.

Articles in Refereed Journals or Books:

  1. "Theology and Thomistic Ethics," Faith and Reason 3 (1979), 47-68.
  2. "St. Thomas and Avicenna on the Agent Intellect," The Thomist 45 (1981), 41-61.
  3. "The Permanence of the Ten Commandments: St. Thomas and His Modern Commentators," Theological Studies 42 (1981), 422-443.
  4. "Aquinas and Scotus on Liberty and Natural Law," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56 (1982), 70-78.
  5. "Language about God and the Theory of Analogy," New Scholasticism, 58 (1984), 40-66.
  6. "The Relation Between Intellect and Will in Free Choice According to Aquinas and Scotus," The Thomist 49 (1985), 321- 342.
  7. "Aquinas on Knowledge of Truth and Existence," New Scholasticism 60 (1986), 46-71.
  8. "Existential Propositions in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas," The Thomist 52 (1988), 605-626.
  9. "Reasons and Religious Belief," Faith and Philosophy, 6 (1989), 19-34.
  10. "Etienne Gilson's Thomist Realism, A Review Article," New Scholasticism, 43 (1989), 81-100.
  11. "Principles of Catholic Scholarship," in Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1988.
  12. "Personhood, the Moral Standing of the Unborn, and Abortion," Linacre Quarterly 57 (1990), 80-89.
  13. "Self-Consciousness and the Right to Life," in Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Responses, ed. Stephan Heaney (Braintree, Massachusetts: Pope John Center, 1992), 73-84.
  14. "Evidentialism, Plantinga, and the Rationality of Religious Belief," in Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology, ed. Linda Zagzebski (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1993), 14-167.
  15. "Existence, Truth and Realism," in Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars, ed. R.A. Herrera, James Lehrberger, O.Cist., M.E. Bradford (Peter Lang: New York, 1993), 95-106.
  16. the following articles in Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine: Absolute Moral Norms, Capital Sins, Cardinal Virtues, Choice, Conscience, Consequentialism, Cooperation, Deontology, Double Effect, Formation of Conscience, Free Choice, Hedonism, Human Goods, Human Virtues, Legalism, Modes of Responsibility, Natural Law, Passions, Positivism, Practical Reason, Probabilism, Proportionalism, Relativism, Subjectivism, Synderesis, Teleology, Utilitarianism, Vices.
  17. "Human Beings are Animals," International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1997), 291-304.
  18. "Is St. Thomas's Natural Law Theory Naturalist?" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1997), 567-588.
  19. with Robert P. George, "What Sex Can Be: Self-Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union," American Journal of Jurisprudence 42 (1997), 135-157.
  20. "The Goodness of Creation, Evil, and Christian Teaching" The Thomist 64 (2000), 239-270.
  21. "Personhood, Dignity, Suicide, and Euthanasia," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2001), 329-344.
  22. "Germain Grisez’s Christian Humanism," American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2002), 137-152.
  23. "Does God Have Emotions," in God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God, eds. Douglas Huffman and Eric Johnson (Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan, 2002), 211-230.
  24. with John Haldane, "St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Ensoulment," Philosophy 78 (2003), 255-278.
  25. “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo,” in Nicholas Lund-Molfese and Michael Kelly, eds., Human Dignity and Reproductive Technology (New York: University Press of America, 2003), 71-80.
  26. with John Haldane, “Rational Souls and the Beginning of Life,” Philosophy 78 (2003), 532-540.
  27. "The Pro-Life Argument from Substantial Identity: A Defense," Bioethics (2004), 249-263.
  28. “Are There Exceptionless Moral Norms?” in Nicholas C. Lund-Molfese and Michael Kelly, eds., Bioethics: A Culture War (New York: University Press of America, 2004), 31-41.
  29. with Robert P. George, “The Wrong of Abortion,” in Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2005), 13-26.
  30. “Abortion and Christian Bioethics: The Continuing Ethical Importance of Abortion,” Christian Bioethics 10 (2004), 1-31.
  31. “The Human Body and Sexuality in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II,” in C. Tollefsen, (ed.), John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics (The Netherlands: Springer, 2004), 107-120.
  32. “Soul, Body and Personhood,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 49 (2004), 87-125.
  33. “Accepting God’s Offer of Personal Communion, in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church,” in Mark J. Cherry, ed., The Death of Metaphysics; the Death of Culture (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005).
  34. “Evil as Such is a Privation,” forthcoming in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
  35. “Marriage and Acts Reproductive in Kind,” Vera Lex, Journal of the International Natural Law Society 6 (2005), 163-182.

Some Recent Articles in Popular Journals:

  1. with Robert P. George, a series of three articles in National Review Online, July 21 through September 10, 2002, on the dignity of the human embryo and the stem cell research controversy: "Reason, Science, and Stem Cells," "The Stubborn Facts of Science," "Embryology, Philosophy, and Human Dignity," and "Cellular Truths."
  2. with Robert P. George, "Acorns and Embryos," The New Atlantis, Fall, 2004, 90-100.
  3. with Robert P. George, "Dualistic Delusions," First Things, February 2005, 5-8.
  4. “Pluripotent Promises,” National Review Online, June 21, 2005.
  5. “Human-Embryo Liberation,” National Reiview Online, January 25, 2006.

Book Reviews:

  • Review: John T. Noonan, A Private Choice, Abortion in America in the Seventies, Linacre Quarterly 47 (1980), 184- 186.
  • Review: Philip E. Devine, The Ethics of Homicide, Linacre Quarterly 47 (1980), 370-373.
  • Review: E. Gratsch, et al., Principles of Catholic Theology, Faith and Reason 8 (1982), 87-89.
  • Review: Anthony Battaglia, Toward a Reformulation of Natural Law, Linacre Quarterly 49 (1982), 281-283.
  • Review: Jeffrey Stout, The Flight from Authority, The Thomist 48 (1984), 483-489.
  • Review: Peter Klein, Certainty: A Refutation of Scepticism, The Thomist 48 (1984), 690-694.
  • Review: Paul Weiss, Privacy, Modern Schoolman, 43 (1986), 149-51.
  • Review: Bernard Doering, Jacques Maritain and the French Intellectuals, Modern Schoolman, 44 (1986), 60-61.
  • Review: Richard T. DeGeorge, Authority, in Modern Schoolman 45 (1987).
  • Review: Joseph Seifert, Back to Things in Themselves, Review of Metaphysics, 1988.
  • Review: John C. Ford, S.J., Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William E. May, The Teaching of Humanae Vitae: A Defense, Reflections, Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1 & 10.
  • Review: Benedict Ashley, Theologies of the Body, in Linacre Quarterly, 2000.
  • Review: Robert P. George, Making Men Moral, in Review of Metaphysics, 2001.
  • Review: Robert P. George, Natural Law Theory, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2001.
  • Review: John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas, in Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001), 127-131.

Some Recent Talks:

  • "Embryo-Killing and Stem Cell Research," the annual John Heiser lecture, Niagara University, February 7, 2005.
  • "End of Life Decisions: Ordinary and Extraordinary Care," Catholic Medical Association of Pittsburgh, May 15, 2005.
  • “Love of God, Neighbor, and Self in St. Thomas Aquinas,” University of Notre Dame, Maritain Center Conference, July 6, 2005.
  • “Comment on John Finnis’s Foundations of Practical Reason Revisited,” Princeton University, John Madison Program Conference on John Finnis’s Natural Law and Natural Rights, September 18, 2005.
  • “What Sex Can Be: Self-Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Unity,” the Anscombe Society, Princeton University, October 17, 2005.
  • “The Embryo Question,” Keynote Lecture at the Medical Ethics Conference on Bioethics, Baylor University, October 21, 2005.
  • “Body-Self Dualism and the Question of Euthanasia,” the annual President’s Catholic Intellectual Tradition Lecture, University of St.Thomas, Houston, November 10, 2005.
  • “Human Nature and Moral Goodness,” St. Edwards University, November 18.
  • “Debate: Should Embryo-Destructive Research be Governmentally Funded,” Lexicon Industries, Houston, Texas, January 17, 2006.

Other Work:

--- A book entitled " Body-Self Dualism and Contemporary Ethical Issues," co-authrored with Robert P. George, treating the nature of the human person, abortion, euthanasia, sex ethics and drug-taking, completed and in the review process at a publishing house.