I am professor of philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I have worked since 1982. I completed my dissertation at the University of Toronto in Philosophy and Medieval Studies in 1981. Since Fall 2010 I have been affiliated also with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in the Philosophy Institute’s De Wulf – Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. There I co-teach Aquinas in Context annually with Prof. Andrea Robiglio using live video technology. Biennially we also include a graduate course on Aquinas and the Arabic Tradition at Marquette, combining the two courses into one. For Fall 2020 we will be focusing on First Principles. For information, click HERE.
Current CV with Recent & Forthcoming Publications Click HERE.
Current Teaching
2023 Fall MU & KUL Between Belief and Knowledge: Aquinas’s Commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate, with study of the Arabic tradition for the thought of Aquinas: http://richardctaylor.info/2022-fall-mu-kul-aristotle-aquinas-on-divine-being/
2022 Fall MU & KUL Aristotle & Aquinas on Divine Being, with study of the importance of the Arabic tradition for the thought of Aquinas: http://richardctaylor.info/2022-fall-mu-kul-aristotle-aquinas-on-divine-being/
2021 Fall MU & KUL Aristotle and Aquinas on the human soul, with study of the importance of the Arabic tradition for the thought of Aquinas: http://richardctaylor.info/aristotle-aquinas-on-the-human-soul/
2020 Fall MU & KUL. Aquinas and the Arabic Tradition /Aquinas in Context: First Principles
Arabic and Latin Reading Groups Fall 2020 & Spring 2021http://medievalarabicandlatin.weebly.com
Phil 1001 Foundations in Philosophy, Marquette University (forthcoming)
Activities
Editor, Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions of the Middle Ages
Vice president, SIHSPAI: forthcoming
Director, Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group.
Current Research
forthcoming