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Mark D. Morelli - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Mark D. Morelli

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Professor Mark Morelli is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He taught Philosophy at LMU for 40 years.

Education (3)

University of Toronto: Ph.D., Philosophy 1979

University of Toronto: M.A., Philosophy

Santa Clara University: B.A., Philosophy

Areas of Expertise (4)

Lonergan

Hegel

Plato

Philosophy's Cultural Role

Accomplishments (7)

Director (professional)

Los Angeles Lonergan Center

Lonergan Fellow (professional)

Boston College, 2007 and 2009

General Editor (professional)

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies , 1983-2013

Director, Graduate Program in Philosophy (professional)

Loyola Marymount University

Taylor Chair in Philosophy (professional)

Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

Founder and Editor of Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies (professional)

1982-2013

Program Chair

West Coast Methods Institute, 1996-2021

Affiliations (5)

  • American Catholic Philosophical Association
  • Lonergan Philosophical Society
  • Association of Philosophers in Jesuit Education
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Founding Member West Coast Methods Institute

Languages (4)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Greek

Research Grants (2)

Lonergan Post-Doctoral Fellow

Lonergan Institute at Boston College 

2007-09-01

Resident at BC for the fall semester.

Lonergan Post-Doctoral Fellow

Lonergan Institute at Boston College 

2009-09-01

Resident at Boston College for the fall semester.

Courses (5)

Philosophical Inquiry

An Introduction to Philosophy

German Idealism

Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel

Hegel

An Introduction of Hegel

Lonergan's Insight

The fundamental work of Bernard Lonergan

Graduate Seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

A close reading of the propaedeutic to Hegel’s System

Articles (17)

Lonergan's Reading of Hegel

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

"Lonergan's Reading of Hegel," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88, 3 (summer 2014): 513 - 534.

La lectura lonerganiana de Hegel

Revista de Filosofia

"La lectura lonerganiana de Hegel," Revista de Filosofia 135 (julio-diciembre 2013): 199 - 226.

Meeting Hegel Halfway: The Intimate Complexity of Lonergan's Relation to Hegel

Lonergan Resource

"Meeting Hegel Halfway: The Intimate Complexity of Lonergan's Relation to Hegel," Invited Paper presented at the Conference on Lonergan, Philosophy, and Theology at Marquette University in March 1, 2012; web-published on Lonergan Resource (www.lonerganresource.com), 2012.

Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism

ATF Theology

“Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism,” in Fifty Years of Insight, eds. Neil Ormerod Robin Koning, David Braithwate [Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2011]: 1-16.

Consciousness Is Not Another Operation

Lonergan Workshop Journal

"Consciousness Is Not Another Operation," Lonergan Workshop Journal 21, ed. Fred Lawrence. forthcoming, 2010.

Lonergan's Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism

Meaning and History in Systematic Theology

"Lonergan's Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism," ed. John Dadosky, Meaning and History in Systematic Theology [Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2009]: 403-421.

Going Beyond Idealism: Lonergan’s Relation to Hegel

Lonergan Workshop Journal

“Going Beyond Idealism: Lonergan’s Relation to Hegel,” Lonergan Workshop Journal 20, edited by Fred Lawrence [Boston: Lonergan Institute at Boston College, 2008]: 305-336.

Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning

The Importance of Insight

“Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning,” in The Importance of Insight, eds. Liptay and Liptay [Toronto: U of T Press, 2008].

The Realist Response to Idealism in England and Lonergan’s Critical Realism

Journal of Lonergan Studies

“The Realist Response to Idealism in England and Lonergan’s Critical Realism,” Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 20, 1 [2003].

Lonergan's Unified Theory of Consciousness

Journal of Lonergan Studies

"Lonergan's Unified Theory of Consciousness," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 18, 1 [2000].

Authentication of Common Sense from Below Upwards: Mediating Self-correcting Folk Psychology

Lonergan Workshop Journal

"Authentication of Common Sense from Below Upwards: Mediating Self-correcting Folk Psychology," Lonergan Workshop Journal 15 [1999], ed. Fred Lawrence.

Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin

Lonergan Workshop Journal

"Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin," Lonergan Workshop Journal 12 [1996], ed. Fred Lawrence.

The Polymorphism of Human Consciousness and the Prospects for a Lonerganian History of Philosophy

International Philosophical Quarterly

"The Polymorphism of Human Consciousness and the Prospects for a Lonerganian History of Philosophy," International Philosophical Quarterly, XXXV, 4 [1995].

Reversing the Counter-position: Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue

Lonergan Workshop Journal

"Reversing the Counter-position: Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue," Lonergan Workshop Journal 6 [1986], ed. Fred Lawrence.

Plato's Gorgias: Exposing the Spiritual Corruption of a Respectable Man

Heythrop Journal

2021-03-17

A new interpretation of the structure of Plato's famous dialogue.

"Hegel as a Transitional Figure: Lonergan's Critique," in eds. hg. v. B. Bowman, M. Gerhard, J. Zovko, Hegel-Jahrbuch 2019.

Hegel Jahrbuch

Bowman, Gerhard

2023-07-07

Presentation at the International Hegel Conference, Tampere, Finland

"Newman, Lonergan, and the Vision of the Whole," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, n.s., 11, no. 1 (2020): 57-69.

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies

2020-10-06

On Lonergan's debt to Newman