Curriculum Vitae,
as of February 21, 2007
Jonathan J. Sanford
Philosophy Department
Work: (740) 284-5343
Home: (740) 282-7444
jsanford@franciscan.edu
Education
Ph.D.,
Philosophy, University at
Dissertation: Aristotle, Scheler, MacIntyre: The Metaphysical Foundations of Ethics, 355 pp.
Dissertation Committee:
Dr. Jorge J. E. Gracia B Director
Dr. Barry Smith
Dr. Jiyuan Yu
External Evaluator:
Dr. John F. Crosby
H.A.B. (Honors
B.A.),
Appointments
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Early (Pre-Tenured) Promotion, Franciscan University, 2006-
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy, Tenure Track, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2002-2006
Post-Doctoral Teaching
Fellowship, Fordham University, 2001-2002
Honors and Awards
Professional: Faculty Enrichment Grant—Fall 2006 (course reduction)
Summer Research Grant—Summer 2006 ($1,500)
NEH
Summer Institute: “Latin American
Philosophy: The Appropriation of European Ideas in
Fides et Ratio Grant Recipient, Spring 2005 – ($1,500, plus course reduction).
Graduate: Graduate Assistantship – (full tuition and stipend, four years)
Visiting Research Scholarship, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie in the Principality of Liechtenstein, Summer Semester, March 3 through June 26, 2000 (room, board, and travel stipend for my family and me)
Undergraduate: The Martin G. Dumler Philosophy Award, May 1997
H.A.B. Scholarship – (half tuition, four years)
Trustee Scholarship – (half tuition, four years)
Areas of Specialization
History of Philosophy: Ancient (especially Aristotle), Medieval (especially Anselm and Aquinas), Early Phenomenology (especially Scheler); Metaphysics and Ethics
Areas of Competence
Social and Political Philosophy, Modern, Epistemology, Logic, Applied Ethics
Languages
Greek, Latin, German, (very rusty French)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Catholic Philosophical Association
American Maritain Association
American Philosophical Association
Metaphysical Society of
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
University Faculty for Life
Courses Taught (or Teaching Now)
PHL 830, Epistemology.
PHL 820, Metaphysics.
PHL 730, Modern Political Philosophy.
PHL 730, Nietzsche and the
Greeks.
PHL 720, Texts of Alasdair
MacIntyre.
PHL 720, Texts of Plato.
PHL 720, Texts of Aquinas: Selections from ST I-II. Summer 2006.
PHL 720, Texts
of Aristotle.
PHL 465, Directed Study
Tutorial: Nietzsche, Scheler,
Heidegger: On Ressentiment and
the Question of Being.
PHL 465,
Directed Study Tutorial: Texts of Scheler.
PHL 423, Philosophy in
Literature: Dostoyevsky and Percy.
PHL 325, Thomistic
Tradition in Philosophy.
PHL 315, Renaissance
and Early Modern Philosophy.
PHL 312, Medieval Philosophy.
PHL 311, Ancient Greek Philosophy.
PHI 215, Introduction
to Deductive Logic. SUNY
PHL 211, Metaphysics.
HON 202, Honors Program, Second Year, Second Semester (Anselm through
Dante).
HON 102, Honors Program, First
Year, Second Semester (Plato
through Plutarch).
PHL 113, Philosophy of the Human Person.
PHI 1100, Philosophical Ethics.
PHI 108, Knowledge
and Reality. SUNY
PHI 107, Ethics. SUNY
PHI 107, Current Moral Issues.
PHL 103, Introduction to
Philosophy.
PHI 101, Introduction
to Philosophy. SUNY
PHI 1000, Philosophy
of Human Nature.
Graduate: M.A. Theses completed under my direction:
Hofmann, Stefan. “Thomas’ Dynamic Notion of Being (esse) and its Significance for Man and the Many”. Summer 2006.
Praasterink, J. D. “Aristotle vs. Nietzsche: On the Connection between Nature, Telos, and Virtue”. Spring 2006.
Russell,
Jesse. “Goodnight Sweet Ladies: A
Alvarado, C. Dominic. “Insufficiency of the Example: A Postscript on Shine and Show”. Summer 2005.
Tullius, Brian. “The Irreducible Character of the Meaning- Structures of the Life-World”. Summer 2004.
M.A. Thesis Committee Reader since Spring 2003.
Undergraduate: Senior Thesis direction for two or more students each semester since Fall 2002.
Publications
“Aristotle’s Divided Mind: Some Thoughts on Intellectual Virtue and Aristotle’s Occasional Dualism”. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, forthcoming.
“An
Aristotelian Critique of Gracia’s View of Metaphysics,” in Revisiting
Metaphysics: Essays on Jorge J. E.
Gracia=s
Metaphysics and Its Task. Edited by
Robert Delfino.
“Scheler vs. Scheler: The Case for a Better Ontology of the
Person,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Vol.
79: 1, 2005: 145-161.
Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays. Co-edited with Michael Gorman.
“Categories and Metaphysics: Aristotle’s Science of Being,” in Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays.
“Christ’s Choice: Could It Have Been Different?” in Gibson’s
Passion and Philosophy. Edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia. LaSalle:
“Of Spiderman, Spiderman II, and
Living Like a Hero,” in Movies and the Meaning of
Life. Edited by Kimberly Blessing
and Paul Tudico. LaSalle:
“Restoration and Rationality: St. Anselm on the Pursuit of Happiness,” Fides Quarens Intellectum, Vol. II., No. 2. Spring 2003.
“Affective Insight: Scheler on Feeling and Values,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 76, 2002.
“Jerome of
“Peter Damian,” in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages.
“Peter the Venerable,” in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages.
“Anselm: Ratio quaerens
beatitudinem,” coauthored with Jorge J. E. Gracia, in Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the
Early Latin Medievals.
Edited by Jiyuan Yu and
Jorge J. E. Gracia.
“The
Metaphysics of the Matrix,” coauthored with Jorge J. E. Gracia, in The
Matrix and Philosophy. Edited by William T. Irwin. LaSalle:
“La razón y la felicidad según San
Anselmo de Canterbury,” coauthored with Jorge J. E. Gracia,
in La filosofía medieval. Edited by Francisco Bertelloni and
Giannina Burlando.
Book Reviews
Deadly Vices. Gabrielle
Taylor (
Teleology and the Norms of
Nature. William J. FitzPatrick. (
Morality
and the Human Goods: An Introduction to
Natural Law Ethics. Alfonso Gómez-Lobo.
(Washington, D. C.:
Raskolnikov’s
Rebirth. Ilham Diman. (LaSalle:
Aristotle’s
Ethics. David Bostock. (
Presentations
“Classics and Philosophy”. Third in a Series of Talks on Classics and
the
“Christianity, Liberalism, and Some Contemporary
Confusions About Social Justice”. The
World and Christian Imagination. Lilly
Fellows Program, National Research Conference.
“Aristotle’s Divided Mind: Some Thoughts on Intellectual Virtue and
Aristotle’s Occasional Dualism”.
American Catholic Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting,
“Aristotle’s
Divided Mind: Some Thoughts on
Intellectual Virtue and Aristotle’s Occasional Dualism”. 24th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
“What Does ‘Social’ Add to Justice?”, Fides et
Ratio Presentation.
“What Does ‘Social’ Add to Justice?”. MA Philosophy Colloquium.
“Why Be Brave, Even Unto Death? Aristotle on Courage”. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
“Why Be Brave Unto Death? Aristotle on Courage”. Thomistic Institute.
“Juan Bautista Alberdi”. NEH Summer Institute: Latin American Philosophy: The
Appropriation of European Ideas in Latin America, University at
“Why Be Brave
Even Unto Death? Aristotle on
Courage”. Lecture Series
Colloquium.
Commentary on
William H. Harwood’s “On nous and the whole: the two sides of Anaxagoras’ Janus-faced phusis,”
Ancient Philosophy Society,
Commentary on Edward Furton’s “How Not to Cooperate with Evil: Catholic Bioethics in an Age of Irony, Hypocrisy, and Coercion,” Bioethics Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 3, 2004.
“Prudence,Wisdom and Anthropos Divided in Aristotle’s NE,” M.A. Philosophy Colloquium, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Spring 2003.
“Affective
Insight: Scheler on Values,” American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Annual Meeting,
“Some Unfinished Business in
Aristotle=s Nicomachean
Ethics,” Colloquium, Franciscan
“Ratio
quarens beatitudinem: Anselm on Rationality and Happiness,” co-authored
with Jorge J. E. Gracia. American
Philosophical Association, National Conference, Eastern Division,
“Some
Implications of Aristotle=s
Division of Intellectual Virtue in NE,” Colloquium,
“Hidden Value
and Divided Persons: Limitations in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,”
Colloquium,
Commentary on Charles W. Mills’
“White Supremacy and Racial Justice, Here and Now,” Graduate Philosophy Association Conference:
Recognition and Social Identification,
University at
“Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses in Aristotle=s Nicomachean Ethics,” Colloquium,
“Anselm: Ratio
quaerens beatitudinem,” co-authored with Jorge J. E. Gracia. The III Samuel P. Capen Symposium in
Philosophy: Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early
Medievals, University at
Commentary on
Dennis Patterson’s “Normativity and Objectivity in Law,” Philosophy Colloquium,
University at
“Metaphysics
and the Science of Categories: A Defense of an Aristotelian Conception of First
Philosophy,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy,
“The
Objectivity of Values,”
Commentary on
Jonathan Weidenbaum’s “Tragedy in the Tabernacle,” Graduate Philosophy
Association Conference, University at
“Does ‘Social’ Add Anything to Justice? A Thomistic Reflection on Social Justice”. Preliminarily accepted for a book on Aquinas and Justice, edited by Ed Houser, under contract with CUA Press.
Reviewing Who is My Neighbor? Personalism
and the Foundation of Human Rights, by Thomas
Williams, for Lay Witness.
In addition to preparing several articles on the cardinal virtues, I am at the early stages of work on a book on the role of the cardinal virtues with respect to human happiness.
Other Professional Activities
Member of the Program Committee for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Session Chair, 24th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Thomistic Institute,
Updated bibliography on Peter Damian for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition (MacMillan, forthcoming).
Assistant Editor, Fides Quarens Intellectum, Spring 2004-Present.
Referee for Fides Quarens Intellectum, 2003-Present.
Referee of a paper for International Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 2002.
Graduate Philosophy Association,
University at
Session Chair, The Metaphysical
Society of
Research Assistant, Spring 2000
Research Assistant, Spring 1999
Conference Chair,
Intra-Departmental Conference, University at
Research Assistant, Spring 1998
Research Assistant, Fall 1997
Co-Founder and Organizer (with David Kaspar), of the Buffalo Socratic Society, founded in Spring 1998 to provide a forum for presentations and debates.
Some Professionally Relevant Service to the Church,
University, and Local Community
Contributing author to Secularization
and the Secular World: Challenges
and Opportunities for the Church. This document was prepared by a group
of
Co-organizer of MA Program in Philosophy Conference, The Significance of Francisco Suarez, March 24-26, 2006.
Contributing author to Beauty and the Franciscan Tradition in the Life of the Church. This
document was prepared by a group of
Served as Interview Judge for Fr. Michael Scanlon Scholarship Competition. February 10, 2006.
Feature
Article for the University’s publication,
Served as Judge for Fr. Michael Scanlon Scholarship Competition, Spring 2005
Spoke to the Steubenville Women’s Club on “What is Philosophy?”, March 21, 2005.
Represented the University at the
Fides et Ratio Conference at
Invited Lecture to University men: “Acting Like a Man: The Path to Virtue”, February 18, 2005
Household Advisor for Ahim Adonai. December 2004-Present
Coordinator for many invited speakers on behalf of the Philosophy Department and M.A. Program in Philosophy, 2002-Present
Academic advising, 2003-Present
Letters of recommendation written on behalf of students since 2001, at FUS since Spring 2003
Assistance to the FUS Philosophy Club. 2002-Present.
Summer Advising, 2003, 2004, 2005
Educational Planning Committee, 2005-Present
Financial Aid Committee, 2004-2005
Library Committee, 2003-2004
Organized Disputed Question on the Eternity of the World for Franciscan Festival, Fall 2003
Panel Member, “Is War with