Catherine Peters
Associate Professor of Philosophy Loyola Marymount University
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Biography
Education
The University of St. Thomas
PhD
Philosophy
2019
Dissertation: “The Causality of Nature in Avicenna’s Physics of the Healing.”
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Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
American Catholic Philosophical Association "Young Scholar"
2018-11-10
2018 ACPA Young Scholar,” best paper submitted by a scholar under the age of 36: “The Objective Relativity of Goodness.”
Courses
FFYS 1000: Sense & Synderesis
This seminar explores the central characters and themes of the novels of Jane Austen. The seminar will consist of a careful reading of her works and class discussions reflecting on the “cardinal virtues” within her novels.
PHIL 1800: Philosophical Inquiry
Philosophical Inquiry is an introductory exploration of central questions and interpretations of human existence, with special emphasis on theories of knowledge and theories of reality, carried on in light of the Catholic intellectual tradition.
PHIL 3520: Medieval Philosophy
This course is an introduction to the development of philosophical thought between the 4th and 14th century. The purpose of this course is to familiarize you with the method, terminology, and teachings of this period in order to advance and enrich our own philosophical endeavors. Course fulfills LMU “Faith & Reason” integration requirement.
PHIL 3137: The Ethics of Disability
This course introduces students to foundational and contemporary work on the ethics of disability. By the end of the course, students should have a grounding in key philosophical and ethical principles pertaining to disability and will be familiar with the resources needed to identify, evaluate, and respond to moral challenges related to ability and equity. Ethical traditions considered in this course include Virtue Ethics and Natural Law. While we will devote considerable time to the underlying theory of disability, our aim is ultimately practical: how can our understanding of “disability” be concretely lived and practiced?
PHIL 4240: The Philosophy of Disability
The heart of this course will be training students to critically examine arguments and to formulate their own cogent accounts of “disability” and “human dignity,” with an aim toward practical applications of theory to lived experience. This course aims at providing students with knowledge and understanding of foundational and contemporary work in this field.
PHIL 5998: Aquinas
An exploration of major themes in the thought of the 13th-century Dominican Thomas Aquinas through seminal works such as the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles. Our study will be guided by Thomas’ own order of study: the first third of this course will consider his work on Logic and Natural Philosophy; the second third of this course will consider his Moral Philosophy (i.e. Ethics); the last third of this course will consider Metaphysics and Natural Theology. At the end of the course, students should have a systematic understanding of Thomas Aquinas’ intellectual work.
PHIL 6001: Graduate Pro-Seminar (Disability)
The central goal of the pro-seminar is to offer incoming MA students the opportunity to acquire or develop the necessary habits of graduate studies in philosophy: reading, writing, and presentation. This seminar’s focus lies at the intersections of a number of areas of philosophical specialization: “disability.”
PHIL 6998: Medieval Science
This course surveys philosophical “science” as it was understood and practiced in the Medieval Period, focusing on the work of Ibn Sīnā (980-1037) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). We will begin with an ancient source of “science” (Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics) and then turn to investigate how physics, metaphysics, and theology were “sciences."
