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2018 ACPA Young Scholar,” best paper submitted by a scholar under the age of 36: “The Objective Relativity of Goodness.”

American Catholic Philosophical Association "Young Scholar"

Dissertation: “The Causality of Nature in Avicenna’s Physics of the Healing.”

FFYS 1000: Sense & Synderesis

PHIL 1800: Philosophical Inquiry

PHIL 3520: Medieval Philosophy

PHIL 3998: The Philosophy of Disability

PHIL 4720: Aquinas

PHIL 6998: Medieval Science

PHIL 6001: Graduate Pro-Seminar (Disability)

Catherine Peters is a tenured associate professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She earned her doctorate from the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas) under the supervision of Jon McGinnis in 2019. Peters is a specialist in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā). Her work centers on issues of philosophical anthropology, metaphysics, and natural theology. She is passionate about translating medieval thought into modern terms and applying its insights to perennial questions such as “Who am I?” “What should I do?” and “Is there a God?” At present, she is particularly concerned with how Thomistic philosophy might enrich contemporary debates concerning "disability." A frequent presenter in both the United States and Europe, her scholarship has been published in numerous volumes and journals, including The Thomist, New Blackfriars, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Journal of Islamic Philosophy, European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas, Lex Naturalis, and Jesuit Higher Education. When not in the classroom, she can often be found in local coffee shops, at the dog park, or in a HIIT class.

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