Academic History
B.S.Lang., Russian Language, Georgetown University, 1973
M.A., Slavic Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 1975
M.A., Liberal Education, St. John's College, Annapolis, 1980
M.A., History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, 1983
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1984
Expertise
Moral Philosophy (including Just-War Theory)
The Relation between Science & Religion
Awards & Honors
Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, The Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, Spring, 2007
Templeton Foundation Science-Religion Course Program Grant, 1996-7
Selected Publications
God & Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism (Catholic University Press, 2006). A translation with Zuzanna Maślanka of Archbishop Józef Życiński's Bóg i ewolucja: Podstawowe Pytania Ewolucjonizmu Chrześciańskiego (TW KUL, 2002).
"Scientific Method & Appeal to Supernatural Agency: A Christian Case for Modest Methodological Naturalism," Logos 3 (2000): 2: 165-205.
"Euthanasia." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 (1998): 315-327.
"Faith as a Virtue in Theology, Philosophy, & Natural Science." Faith & Philosophy 15 (1998): 4: 462-477.
"Democritus." In Richard Olson & Roger Smith, eds., Biographical Encyclopedia of Science (Marshall Cavendish, 1998).
"Punishment as Just Cause of War." Public Affairs Quarterly 10 (1996): 4: 335-354.
Review article on John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, with Robert Kennedy. In Greek Orthodox Theological Review 41 (1996): 1: 57-80.
"The Possibility of Conflict Between Science & Christian Theology," in Jitse M. van der Meer, ed., Facets of Faith & Science (University Press of America, 1996), pp. 247-266.
"Personal Pacifism." Theological Studies 56 (1995): 1: 21-38.
"Speaking Falsely & Telling Lies," with Thomas Sullivan. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 67 (1993): 151-170.
"Conscientious Objection," Public Affairs Quarterly 7 (1993): 4: 303-324.
"Civil Supremacy: Its Nature & Limits," with Charles Hudlin. Armed Forces & Society 19 (1992): 1: 7-26.
"Morality & War," in Trevor N. Dupuy, ed., International Military & Defense Encyclopedia (Pergamon-Brassey's, 1992).
"Professional Military Ethics," in Trevor N. Dupuy, ed., International Military & Defense Encyclopedia (Pergamon-Brassey's, 1992).
"Military Research as a Civic Duty." Ethical Issues Associated with Scientific & Technological Research for the Military, Carl Mitcham & Philip Siekevitz, eds. (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 557 (1990)), pp. 115-121. Reprinted in: Edward Erwin et al., eds., The Ethics of Scientific Research (Garland, 1993).
