Daniel C. Wagner

Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D.

dcw002@aquinas.edu

Phone #1

(616) 632-2831

Associate Professor

Philosophy

Office #1

Holmdene 313

Director of Catholic Studies

Catholic Studies

Chair of Philosophy

Philosphy

Degree	Major Emphasis	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	Philosophy	Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas Dissertation: “φύσις καί τὸ ἀνθρώπινον ἀγαθόν: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Human Good” Director: John P. Hittinger	2018
M.A.	Philosophy	Gonzaga University Thesis: “A Thomistic Critique of Occasionalism from Natural Causality, Divine Omnipotence, and the Psychology of Human Agency” Director: Michael W. Tkacz	2010
B.A.	Philosophy	The University of Montana, cum laude	Spring, 2004
A.A.		Flathead Valley Community College	Spring, 2001

Philosophy of Nature and Science, Metaphysics, Philosophical Anthropology, and the principles of Ethics in St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle; Phenomenology in Edmund Husserl and Karol Wojtyła; History of Philosophy.

“Plato and Aristotle on the Good and the Beautiful (τό καλόν/to kalon) as Nature (φύσις/phusis): The Foundation of Thomistic Ethics & Aesthetics,” in Thomism and Contemporary Ideologies (CUA Press, 2023).

“Disputatio on the Distinction between the Human Person and Other Animals: The Human Person as Gardener,” Co-authored with Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, in Studia Gilsoniana, 11, no. 3 (July–September 2022): 471–530.

“On Karol Wojtyła’s Aristotelian Method: Part I: Aristotelian Induction (ἐπαγωγή) and Division (διαίρεσις),” and “On Karol Wojtyła’s Aristotelian Method: Part II: Induction and Reduction as Aristotelian Induction (ἐπαγωγή) and Division (διαίρεσις),” in Philosophy and Canon Law, 2021, Vol. 7/1: Semicentennial of Karol Wojtyła’s “Person and Act”: Ideas—Contexts—Inspirations (I).

“No Cause, No Credo: Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Nature as Preambula Fidei” Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 2, Spring 2022.

“On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology & Thomism,” in Studia Gilsoniana 10, no. 3 (July–September 2021): 579–607.

“Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas on What is “Better-Known” in Natural Science,” Co-written with John H. Boyer, in the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 93, 2020.

“The Logical Terms of Sense Realism: A Thomistic-Aristotelian & Phenomenological Defense,” in Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 1, Spring 2020.

“Reality as Katharsis (κᾰθαρσις),” co-authored with Brian Kemple, in Reality, Issue 1, Vol. 1, Spring, 2020.

“Penitential Method as Phenomenological: The Penitential ἐποχή,” in Studia Gilsoniana 7, no. 3 (July–September 2018): 487–518.

The Intelligibility of Nature: The Wallace Reader, Co-Editor with John P. Hittinger and Michael W. Tkacza (CUA Press, 2023).

Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, Co-Editor with John P. Hittinger (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).