John O'Callaghan

Permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas 

President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2012-2013)

Aquinas Medalist, University of Dallas

BS in Physics, St. Norbert College, 1984.  MS in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 1986.  PhD in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1996.  Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. Permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. His areas of scholarly interest include Medieval Philosophy, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomistic Metaphysics and Ethics.

Representative Publications

“What’s in a Name? The Logic of ‘God’, Existence, and The Five Ways,” Forthcoming Journal of the History of Philosophy.

“The Divine Mercy of Creation: A Manifest Contradiction in Aquinas?,” The Thomist

“Are There Failed Persons? Misericordia as Human Friendship,” Nova et Vetera

“Misericordia as a Passion,” Doctor Communis: Journal of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

“Fearless Mercy Beyond Justice: Aquinas and Nussbaum’s Pity Tradition,” in Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Culture.