School of Philosophy

Dr. Kevin White
Associate Professor

Research Interests

Thomistic psychology and metaphysics; Aquinas's Aristotelian commentaries; Aquinas and
Augustine.

Books Edited and Translated

Editor, Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997.

Co-editor, with Guy Bedouelle and Romanus Cessario, Jean Capreolus et son temps, 1380-1444: Colloque de Rodez. Paris: Cerf, 1997.

Co-translator, with Romanus Cessario, John Capreolus on the Virtues. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

Translator, Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's "On sense and what is sensed". In Commentaries on Ariistotle's "On Sense and What Is Sensed" and "On Memory and Recollection". Translated with introductions and notes by Kevin White and Edward M. Macierowski. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005.

Articles and Book-Chapters

"The Meaning of Phantasia in Aristotle's De anima, III, 3-8". Dialogue 24 (1985): 483-505.

"The Leonine Commission". La Parola, nn.22-23 (1988-89): 20-22.

"St. Thomas Aquinas and the Prologue to Peter of Auvergne's Quaestiones super De sensu et sensato". Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 1 (1990): 427-56.

"Three Previously Unpublished Chapters from St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's Meteora: Sentencia super Meteora 2.13-15". Mediaeval Studies 54 (1992): 49-93.

"The Virtues of Man the Animal sociale: Affabilitas and Veritas in Aquinas". The Thomist 57 (1993): 641-53.

"Aquinas, St. Thomas (1224/25-74)". In Encyclopedia of Time. Edited by Samuel L. Macey. New York-London: Garland Publishing, 1994, 22-24.

"Aquinas on Solercia". In Les philosophies morales et politiques au Moyen Age: Actes du IXe Congrès international de Philosophie Médiévale. Edited by B. Carlos Bazán, Eduardo Andújar, Léonard G. Sbrocchi. New York-Ottawa-Toronto: Legas, 1995, 826-34.

"Individuation in Aquinas's Super Boetium de Trinitate, Q.4". American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (1995): 543-96.

"Aquinas on the Immediacy of the Union of Soul and Body". In Studies in Thomistic Theology. Edited by Paul Lockey. Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1996, 209-280.

"Saint Thomas et Durand de Saint-Pourçain: La question de la certitude de la foi". In Jean Capreolus et son temps, 1380-1444: Colloque de Rodez. Mémoire dominicaine, Numéro spécial, No.1. Edited by G. Bedouelle, R. Cessario and K. White. Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 1997, 165-75.

"Creation, Numbers, and Natures", in Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E. A. Synan. Edited by R. E. Houser. Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1999, 179-90.

"The Passions of the Soul (IaIIae, qq.22-48)". In Essays in the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas. Edited by S. Pope. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002.

"John Capreolus". In Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone. Malden, Massachesetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, 349-50.

"Observations on Time and Being in Thomistic Metaphysics". In Being and Thought in Aquinas. Edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett, William E. Murnion, and Carl N. Still. Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, 2004, 243-71.

"St. Thomas Aquinas on Prologues". Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. Miscellanea 98 (2005), 803-13.

"The Quodlibeta of Thomas Aquinas in the Context of His Work", in Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century. Edited by Christopher Schabel. Leiden: Brill, 2006, 49-133.

"Wanting Something for Someone: Aquinas on Complex Motions of Appetite". The Review of Metaphysics 61 (2007): 3-30.

"Aquinas on Oral Teaching". The Thomist 71 (2007): 505-28.

"Aquinas on Purpose". In Freedom, Will, and Nature. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 (2008): 133-47.

Recent Book Reviews

John P. O'Callaghan. Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2003. Reviewed in Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 414-21.

Thomas Aquinas. Lectura romana in primum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Ed. Leonard E. Boyle O.P. and John F. Boyle. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2006. Reviewed in Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 925-31.

Simo Knuuttila. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Reviewed in Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008): 316-7.

Adriano Oliva. Les débuts de l'enseignement de Thomas d'Aquin et sa conception de la Sacra Doctrina: Édition du prologue de son commentaire des Sentences de Pierre Lombard. Paris: Vrin, Bibliothèque Thomiste, 2006. Reviewed in The Thomist 72 (2008): 313-7.

Gabriele Taylor. Deadly Vices. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Reviewed in International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (2008): 120-22.

Graduate Courses Taught

Phil. 816 The Confessions of St. Augustine

Phil. 873 Aquinas and the De anima

Phil. 727 Aquinas's Aristotelian Commentaries

Phil. 744 The Notion of Time in Aquinas's Thought

Phil. 854 Aquinas's De ente et essentia

Phil. 821 Aquinas's Commentaries on Parva naturalia

Phil. 819 Aquinas's Treatise on the Passions of the Soul