Scott MacDonald
320 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone: (607) 255-6823
Email: macdonald@cornell.edu
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Professor MacDonald, the Norma
K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, specializes in medieval
philosophy and philosophy of religion. His interests also include ethics,
philosophy of action, and Aristotle. He has taught advanced courses in
recent years on Aquinas's moral psychology, the place of Aristotle's
Posterior Analytics in medieval philosophy, and divine goodness. He is
editor of the journal Medieval Philosophy and Theology. Before
joining the Sage School in 1995, he served on the faculty of the
University of Iowa.
Selected Publications
- "Divine Nature," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine,
ed. E. Stump and N. Kretzmann, Cambridge University Press (2001).
- Aquinas's Moral Theory , ed. with Eleonore Stump, Cornell University
Press (1998).
- "Primal Sin," in The Augustinian Tradition, ed. Gareth B. Matthews,
University of California Press (1998).
- "Aquinas's Libertarian Account of Free Choice," Revue Internationale
de Philosophie (1998).
- "Christian Faith," in Reasoned Faith, ed. E. Stump (1993).
- "Theory of Knowledge," in The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas,
ed. N. Kretzmann and E. Stump, Cambridge University Press (1993)
- "Goodness as Transcendental: The Early Thirteenth-Century Recovery of
an Aristotelian Idea," Topoi (1992).
- "Aquinas"s Parasitic Cosmological Argument," Medieval Philosophy
and Theology (1991).
- "Ultimate Ends in Practical Reasoning: Aquinas's Aristotelian Moral
Psychology and Anscombe's Fallacy", The Philosophical
Review (1991).
- Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and
Philosophical Theology, ed. Cornell University Press (1991)
- "Aristotle and the Homonymy of the Good," Archiv für Geschichte der
Philosophie (1989).
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