JOHN D. KRONEN

September 29, 2008

1787 Grand Avenue, # 11

St. Paul, MN 55105

(651) 695-1837

POSITION: Professor

University of St. Thomas Saint Paul,

MN September 1, 1990--Present

EDUCATION:

State University of New York at Buffalo Ph.D Philosophy, September 1990 Dissertation: The Substantial Unity of Material Substances Dissertation Committee: Jorge J.E. Gracia, Daisy Radner, Peter H. Hare

Marquette University, Milwaukee Wisconsin Bachelor of Arts--Teaching Certificate, May 1985 Majors: Philosophy and English Minor: Education Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma Washington September 1980 to May 1982 Major: Philosophy

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN: Introductory logic, Introductory Ethics, Philosophy of the Human Person, Metaphysics, The Philosophy of Religion, The Modern Tradition, Freedom, Culpability and Punishment, Modern Philosophers on God and Religion, Ancient Philosophy, Indian Philosophy

State University of New York at Buffalo: Medical Ethics,World Civilization, Medieval Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Knowledge and Reality

Canisius College, Buffalo: Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Metaphysics, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Protestant Scholasticism

AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

The History of Philosophy Through Kant, Ethics, Zoroastrian Philosophy, Indian Philosophy

PRESENTATIONS:

Comments on Michael Gorman's "Rethinking Essence and Accident". The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, October 2005

"Theism, Dualism, and Evil." Paper Prestented to the Minnesota Philosophical Society.  The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, October 28, 2000

"Francis Suarez's Influence on Lutheran Scholasticsim."  Paper Presented at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Society Conference.  Villinova University, Villinova, PN, October 9, 1999

"Aquinas and Suarez on First Matter," with Sandra Mennsen and Thomas Sullivan. Paper presented to the Canadian Philosophical Association, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, April 1998

"And they are not One God but Many Gods." Paper presented to the Minnesota Philosophical Society, October, 1997

"Can God Feel?" Paper presented to the American Catholic Philosophical Society, Buffalo, New York March 24, 1997

"Belief and the Plurality of Religions." Paper presented to the Minnesota Philosophical Society, Bethel College, St. Paul Minnesota, October, 1996

"Why God Made Gays." Paper presented to the Minnesota Philosophical Society, St. Olaf College, October 18, 1995

"God Saves All." Paper presented to the Society of Christian Philosophers Midwestern Regional Conference, Wheaton University, Wheaton IL, January 21, 1994

"All Imperfect Beings must be Caused." Paper presented to The Society of Christian Philosophers Intermountain Regional Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, March 13, 1992

"Essentialism Old and New: Suarez and Brody." Paper presented to the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Boston MA, Spring, 1991

"The Immateriality of the Soul According to Suarez." Paper presented to the 22nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Michigan, May 1987

"Substantial Unity in Two Essentialist Theories." Paper presented at the regional Conference of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York, November 1989

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

On Formal Unity: Metatphysical Disputation XV of Francis Suarez. Co-translator, Jeremaih Reedy. Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 2000

Ariticles:

Review of Duns Scotus on God, by Richard Cross, Faith and Philosophy, Volume 24, 4 (October 2007, pp. 481-486

"Spirits and Things': A Reexamination of Ritschl's Critique of Metaphysics," in Revising Metaphysics: Essays on Jorge J.E. Gracia's "Metaphysics and its Task", ed. Robert Delfino (Rodopi: New York, 2006), pp. 145-177

"Talbott's Universalism and the Argument from Justice", with Eric Reitan, Religious Studies,Volume 40, (2004), pp. 249-268

"John Wyclif", in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia and Peter Noone (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 407--408

"Subatances are not Windowless: A Suarezian Critique of Monadism," Leibniz, in The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy, ed. by Catherine Wilson (Burlington: Ashgate, 2001).  Orignally printed in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

"The Problem of the Continuant: Aquinas and Suarez on Prime Matter and Substantial Generation," with Sandra Menssen and Thomas Sullivan, The Review of Metaphysics, Volume LIII, # 4 (June, 2000), pp. 863-885

"The Idea of Hell and the Classical Doctrine of God," The Modern Schoolman, Volume LXXVII, # 1 (November, 1999) pp. 13-34

"Homosexuality, Misogyny and God's Plan," with Eric Reitan, Faith and Philosophy, Volume16, # 2 (April, 1999) pp. 213-232

"Can God Feel?", Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXXI (1997) pp. 101-111

"Substances are not Windowless: A Suarezian Critique of Monadism," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume LXXI, Winter 1997, No. 1, 53-81

"The Substantial Unity of Material Substances According to John Poinsot," The Thomist, October, 1994, vol. 58, no. 4, 599-615

"Can Leclerc's Composite Actualities be Substances?", Process Studies, vol.21, no. 1, Spring 1992

"The Importance of the Concept of Substantial Unity in Suarez's Argument for Hylomorphism," The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, LXV, Summer 1991, 335-360

"Essentialism Old and New: Suarez and Brody," The Modern Schoolman, LXVIII, January 1991, 123-151

Review of Meaning and Inference in Medieval Philosophy: Studies in Memory of Jan Pinborg, ed. by Norman Kretzmann, The Review of Metaphysics, September 1989 (Jorge J.E. Gracia, co-author)

"John of St. Thomas," Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650, with Gorge J.E. Gracia, (State University of New York: Albany, 1994), 511-533

WORK IN PROGRESS:

           "A Hindu Design Argument for God's Existence”, with Sandra Menssen

            "A Nyaya-Vaisesika Defense of Essentialism", with Joy Laine

"The Defensibility of Zoroastrian Dualism " with Sandra Menssen

“Composite Substances as True Wholes: Toward a Modified Nyaya Vaisesika Theory of Composite Subsancs”, with Jacob Tuttle, currently under review by The Canadian Journal of Philosophy

 God's Final Victory: The Case for Universalism, with Eric Reitan

Selections from Francisco Suarez's De Anima, with Jeremiah Reedy

HONORS AND AWARDS: The Perry Prize for Best Philosophy Dissertation, 1991, Four Year Academic Scholarship at SUNY Buffalo, Phi Betta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu, 1985 Entry in The National Dean's List, Marquette's Francis X Bodin Award for the Outstanding Philosophy Student of 1985

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association, American Catholic Philosophical Association