richard.taylor@marquette.edu or richard.taylor@kul.be

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 information, see the links below.

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

International Series of Six Lectures on the Christian West and the Islamic East: Theology, Science and Knowledge academic year 2020-21

Editor, Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions of the Middle Ages

Vice president, SIHSPAI 2019-

Director, Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group.

Current Research

See current CV link above.