Education
B.A., Depaul University (Chicago), 1962
M.A., Depaul University (Chicago, 1963
Ph.D., St. John's University (New York), 1969

Expertise
Metaphysics
Ethics
Aquinas
Philosophy of Religion

Selected Recent/Forthcoming Publications
Books
The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint (co-author: Sandra Menssen), Eerdmans Publishing, 2007.

How to Read Aquinas's Summa, and Why, with Russell Pannier, forthcoming.

Articles
"Active and Passive Euthanasia:  An Impertinent Distinction?" originally published in The Human Life Review, Vol. III, No. 3 (Summer 1978), pp. 40 46; reprinted in many anthologies, and forthcoming in Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

"Consciousness and the Intentional Awareness of Instantiables," with Russell Pannier, in Mind and its Place in the World, Batthyany and AvshalomElitzur (Frankfurt and Paris: Ontos Verlag, 2006), pp. 77-100.

"The Bounds of Metaphysics," and "Gracia on the Ontological Status of Categories," with Russell Pannier, in Revisiting Metaphysics and Its Tasks: Studies in the Thought of Jorge Gracia, ed. Robert Delfino, a volume in Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, ed. Peter A. Redpath (Amsterdam and New York: Value Inquiry Book Series).

"The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims" (co-author:  Sandra Menssen), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 331-347.