John F. X. Knasas
American philosopher (born 1948)
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John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realism[1][2][3] and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Fr. Joseph Owens.[4] He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston[5] and earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.[6]
Bibliography
- Jacques Maritain: The Man and His Metaphysics [1989]
- The Preface to Thomistic Metaphysics [1991]
- Thomistic Paper VI (Editor) [1994]
- Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists [2003]
- Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013).
- Thomistic existentialism and cosmological reasoning. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America. 2019.
