WALLACE, William A.
Professor Emeritus

Books

 

The Scientific Methodology of Theodoric of Freiberg. A Case Study of the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy. Studia Friburgensia, New Series, no. 26. Fribourg, Switzerland: The University Press, 1959.

 

The Role of Demonstration in Moral Theology. A Study of Methodology in St. Thomas Aquinas. Texts and Studies, no. 2. Washington, D.C.: The Thomist Press, 1962.

 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, vol. X (la. 65-74) Cosmogony. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1967. Edited Latin text, English translation, notes and appendices, with glossary and index.

 

Causality and Scientific Explanation, vol. I Medieval and Early Classical Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972.

 

Causality and Scientific Explanation, vol. II Classical and Contemporary Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974.

 

Galileo’s Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and Paleographical Commentary. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1977.

 

The Elements of Philosophy. A Compendium for Philosophers and Theologians. New York: Alba House, 1977.

 

From a Realist Point of View: Essays on the Philosophy of Science. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. Second edition, 1983.

 

Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo’s Thought. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. LXII, Dordrecht-Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981.

 

Causality and Scientific Explanation, vol. I. Medieval and Early Classical Science; vol. II. Classical and Contemporary Science. Washington: University Press of America, 1981. Reprint of 1972 (vol. I) and 1974 (vol. II) edition by University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo’s Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

 

Editor, Reinterpreting Galileo. Studies in Philosophy and History of Philosophy 15, Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986.

 

Galileo Galilei, Tractatio de praecognitionibus et praecognitis and Tractatio de demonstratione. Transcribed from the Latin autograph by W.F. Edwards, with an introduction, notes, and commentary by W.A. Wallace. Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1988.

 

Galileo, the Jesuits and the Medieval Aristotle. Collected Studies Series, CS346. Aldershot (UK): Variorum Publishing, 1991, xiv + 336 pp., index.

 

Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof. The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 137. Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.

 

Galileo’s Logical Treatises. A Translation, With Notes and Commentary, of His Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 138. Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.

 

Editor, Albertus Magnus. Special issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No. 1, 1996.

 

The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996.

 

“Domingo de Soto and the Iberian Roots of Galileo’s Science,” in Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery. ed. by Kevin White. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 29. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997.

 

“Is Finality Included in Aristotle’s Definition of Nature,” in Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs, ed. by Richard Hassing. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 30. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997.

 

“Domingo de Soto’s ‘Laws’ of Motion: Text and Context,” in Texts and Contexts in Medieval Science, ed. by Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.

 

Articles

 

“Newtonian Antinomies Against the Prima Via.” The Thomist, vol. XIX, 1956, pp. 151-92.

 

“Some Demonstrations in the Science of Nature.” The Thomist Reader 1957, Washington, D.C.: The Thomist Press, 1957, pp. 90-118.

 

“Gravitational Motion According to Theodoric of Freiberg.” The Thomist, vol. XXIV, 1961, pp. 327-352. Reprinted in The Dignity of Science, ed. by J.A. Weisheipl. Testimonial Volume in Honor of W.H. Kane, O.P. Washington, D.C.: The Thomist Press, 1961, pp. 191-216.

 

“St. Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, and Einstein.” The Thomist, vol. XXIV, 1961, pp. 1-22.

 

“Theology and the Natural Sciences.” Contribution to a Symposium entitled Theology in the Catholic College, ed. by R. Masterson. Dubuque: The Priory Press, 1961, pp. 167-204.

 

“The Cosmogony of Teilhard de Chardin.” The New Scholasticism, vol. XXXVI, 1962, pp. 353-367.

 

“Science and Religion in the Twentieth Century.” The Homiletic and Pastoral Review, vol. LXIII, 1962, pp. 23-31.

 

“Place of Science in Liberal Arts Curriculum.” The Catholic Educational Review, vol. LX, 1962, pp. 361-376.

 

“Metaphysics and the Existence of God.” The New Scholasticism, vol. XXXVI, 1962, pp. 529-531.

 

“Natural Philosophy and the Physical Sciences.” Philosophy and the Integration of Contemporary Catholic Education, ed. by G.F. McLean. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1962, pp. 130-157, 292-297.

 

“Mathematics in Business Education.” Business and the Liberal Arts, ed. by J.J. Clark and B.J. Opulente. Thought Patterns no. 10. Jamaica, New York: St. John’s University Press, 1962, pp. 17-32, 122-128.

 

“The Morality of Nuclear Testing.” Bulletin of the Albertus Magnus Guild, vol. IX, no. 8, May 1962.

 

“Existential Ethics: A Thomistic Appraisal.” The Thomist, vol. XXVII, 1963, pp. 493-515. Reissued as Vatican II: The Theological Dimension, ed. by A.D. Lee. Washington, D.C.: The Thomist Press, 1963, pp. 493-515.

 

“The Thomistic Order of Development in Natural Philosophy.” Teaching Thomism Today, ed. by G.F. McLean. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1963, pp. 247-270; also with T.C. O’Brien. Seminar Report on AThe Nature of Thomism.” Ibid., pp. 333-338.

 

“Modern Science: A Challenge to Faith?” Proceedings of the Society of Catholic College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine, vol. IX, 1963, pp. 96-117.

 

“Nuclear Weapons, Morality, and the Future.” Dominicana, vol. XLVIII, no. 1, 1963, pp. 7-21.

 

“Philosophy in The New Catholic Encyclopedia.” The New Scholasticism, vol. XXXVIII, 1963, pp. 225-229.

 

“Science and Revealed Religion.” College Outlines of Sacred Doctrine, National Newman Chaplain’s Association, ed. by J.M. Wyss, O.P. Dubuque: The Priory Press, 1963, pp. 19.

 

“Radiation and Social Ethics.” America, vol. CVIII, no. 25, June 22, 1963, pp. 880-883.

 

“A Thomist Looks at Teaching Machines.” Dominican Educational Bulletin, vol. IV, no. 1, Winter 1963, pp. 13-23.

 

“St. Thomas and the Spirit of Modern Science.” The Catholic University Bulletin, vol. XXX, no. 4, April 1963, pp. 3-4, 8.

 

“The Reality of Elementary Particles.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. XXXVIII, 1964, pp. 154-166.

 

“Theodoric of Freiberg on the Structure of Matter.” Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of History of Science, Ithaca, New York, 1962. Paris: Hermann, 1964, (2 vols.) vol. 1, pp. 591-597.

 

“St. Thomas and the Pull of Gravity.” J.A. Shannon, W.A. Wallace, and F.D. Rossini, The McAuley Lectures, 1963. Science and the Liberal Concept, West Hartford, Connecticut: St. Joseph College, 1964, pp. 143-165.

 

“Cybernetics and a Christian Philosophy of Man.” Philosophy in a Technological Culture, ed. by G.F. McLean. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1964, pp. 124-145. Also Seminar Report: APhilosophy of Science.” Ibid., pp. 307-314.

 

“Catholics and the Science Explosion.” The Catholic World CC, no. 1, November 1964, pp. 109-115.

 

“Progress Report: Philosophy in the NCE.” The New Scholasticism, vol. XXXVIII, 1964, pp. 214-217.

 

“The Measurement and Definition of Sensible Qualities.” The New Scholasticism, vol. XXXIX, 1965, pp. 1-25.

 

“Some Moral and Religious Aspects of Nuclear Technology.” Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. LV, 1965, pp. 85-91.

 

“Pluralism in Modern Science.” Dominican Educational Bulletin, vol. VI, no. 1, Winter 1965, pp. 15-23.

 

The New Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1967, Articles on: “Action at a Distance”; “Atomism”; “Choice”; “Color (Part 2)”; “Cybernetics (Philosophical Analysis)”; “Drives and Motives”; “Einstein, Albert (Religion and Philosophy)”; “Emanationism”; “Form (History of the Concept)”; “Friendship”; “God and Modern Science”; “Hylomorphism”; “Hylosystemism”; “Logic Symbolic”; “Measurement (in General)”; “Monism”; “Nifo, Agostino”; “Passion”; “Person (in Philosophy)”; “Philosophy, Articles on”: “Psychology, Articles on”: “Science (Scientia)”; “Science (Philosophy of)”; “Sound (Part 2)”; “Theodoric Borgognoni of Lucca”; “Theodoric (Dietrich) of Freiberg”; “Theology, Natural (Natural Theology and Metaphysics)”; “Thing”; “Thomas Aquinas, St.”; “Uncertainty Principle (Part 2)”; “Witelo.” Note: As staff editor of the New Catholic Encyclopedia, edited (with extensive rewriting required in many cases) some 900 articles comprising about 1,375,000 words (3 years full-time, 1 year part-time).

 

“The Concept of Motion in the Sixteenth Century.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. XLI. Washington, D.C.: 1967, pp. 184-195.

 

“The Enigma of Domingo de Sota: Uniformiter Difformis and Falling Bodies in Late Medieval Physics.” Isis, vol. LIX, 1968, pp. 384-401.

 

“Elementarity and Reality in Particle Physics.” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science III, ed. by R.S. Cohen and M.W. Wartofsky. New York: Humanities Press, 1968, pp. 236-271.

 

“Toward a Definition of the Philosophy of Science.” Mélanges à la mémoire de Charles De Koninck, Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 1968, pp. 465-485.

 

“Philosophy of the Physical Sciences: Some New Perspectives.” Philosophy and Contemporary Man, ed. by George F. McLean, O.M.I. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1968, pp. 50-64.

 

“Thomism and Modern Science: Relationships Past, Present, and Future.” The Thomist, vol. XXXII, 1968, pp. 67-83.

 

“Educational Challenges of the Space Age.” The Divine Synthesis: Some Lectures of the Conference on Christian Humanism, 1961-1964, Asheville, North Carolina: 1968, pp. 71-86.

 

“The ‘Calculatores’ in Early Sixteenth-Century Physics.” The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. IV, part III, no. 15, June 1969, pp. 221-232.

 

“The Case for Developmental Thomism.” Presidential Address, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. XLIV, 1970, pp. 1-16.

 

“Mechanics from Bradwardine to Galileo.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. XXXII, 1971, pp. 15-28.

 

“The Cosmological Argument: A Reappraisal.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. XLVI, 1972, pp. 43-57.

 

“Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages.” Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 4 vols., ed. by P.P. Wiener. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973, vol. II, pp. 196-205.

 

“Three Classics of Science. The Reviews of Three Great Books: Galileo, Two New Sciences; Gilbert, The Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies; and Harvey, The Motion of the Heart and Blood.” The Great Ideas Today, ed. by John Van Doren. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1974, pp. 211-272.

 

“Theodoric of Freiberg: On the Rainbow.” Translated and annotated by William A. Wallace, O.P. A Source Book in Medieval Science, ed. by Edward Grant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974, pp. 435-441.

 

“Galileo and the Thomists.” St. Thomas Aquinas Commemorative Studies, 1274-1974, ed. by Armand Maurer. 2 vols. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1974, vol. II, pp. 293-330.

 

“Aquinas on the Temporal Relation Between Cause and Effect.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXVII, 1974, pp. 569-584.

 

“Aquinas on Creation: Science, Theology, and Matters of Fact.” The Thomist, vol. XXXVIII, 1974, pp. 485-523.

 

“Ellis A. Johnson, 1906-1973.” Operations Research, co-authored with Thornton Page and George S. Pettee, vol. XXII, 1974, pp. 1141-1155.

 

New Catholic Encylopedia, vol. XVI, Supplement 1967-1974. Washington, D.C. and New York: Publishers Guild, Inc., in association with McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974. Articles on “Cosmological Argument.” pp. 105-108; “Philosophers, Contemporary.” pp. 341-48; “Philosophy, Recent Developments in.” pp. 348-351.

 

“The First Way: A Rejoinder.” Reply to John King-Farlow’s “The First Way in Physical and Moral Space.” The Thomist, vol. XXXIX, 1975, pp. 375-382.

 

“Galileo and Reasoning Ex Suppositione: The Methodology of the Two New Sciences.” Proceedings of the 1974 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, ed. by R.S. Cohen et al., Synthese Library 101, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. XXXII. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976, pp. 79-104.

 

“Buridan, Ockham, Aquinas: Science in the Middle Ages.” The Thomist, vol. XL, 1976, pp. 475-483.

 

“Six Studies of Causality on the Bicentenary of David Hume.” The Thomist, vol. XL, 1976, pp. 684-696.

 

“El enigma de Domingo de Soto: ‘Uniformiter difformis’ y la caida do los cuerpos in la tardia fisica medieval.” Studium, vol. XVI, 1976, pp. 343-367. Translated from the English into Spanish by Antonio Gonzales Pola, O.P.

 

“Galileo Galilei and the Doctores Parisienses.” New Perspectives on Galileo, ed. by R.E. Butts and J.C. Pitt. Dordrecht: D. Reidel & Co., 1978, pp. 87-138.

 

“The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science.” Science in the Middle Ages, ed. by David C. Lindberg. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978, pp. 91-119.

 

“Causality, Analogy, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge.” Tommaso d’Aquino nel suo settimo centenario. Atti del Congresso Internazionali, Rome-Naples, 1974, vol. IX, Naples: Edizioni Domenicane Italiane, 1978, pp. 26-40.

 

“Galileo’s Knowledge of the Scotistic Tradition.” Regnum Hominis et Regnum Dei. Acta Quarti Congressus Scotistici Internationalis, Patavii, 24-29 Setembris 1976, ed. by Camille Bérubé. Rome: Societas Internationalis Scotistica, 1978, vol. II, pp. 313-320.

 

“Causes and Forces in Sixteenth-Century Physics.” Isis, vol. LXIX, 1978, pp. 400-412.

 

“Philosophy Programs for Later Vocations.” Philosophy in Priestly Formation, ed. by Ronald Lawler. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1978, pp. 70-89.

 

“Medieval and Renaissance Sources of Modern Science: A Revision of Duhem’s Continuity Thesis, based on Galileo’s Early Notebooks.” General Address, Proceedings of the PMR Conference, vol. II, 1977, Villanova, Pennsylvania: Augustinian Historical Institute, 1979, pp. 1-17.

 

“Immateriality and Its Surrogates in Modern Science.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association for 1978, ed. by G.F. McLean. Washington, D.C.: ACPA, 1979, vol. LII, pp. 28-38.

 

“Philosophical Pluralism” and “Thomism.” New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XVII. New York and Washington, D.C.: McGraw-Hill and Publishers Guild, Inc., 1979, pp. 510-512, pp. 665-666.

 

Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. by C.C. Gillispie, 16 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970-1980. Articles on: “Albertus Magnus”; 1:99-103, “Thomas Aquinas”; l:196-200, “Bernard of Le Treille (Trilia)”; 2:20-21, “Theodoric Borgognoni of Lucca”; 2:314-315, “Francesco Buonamici”; 2:590-591, “Juan de Celaya”; 3:171-172, “Pedro Ciruelo”; 3:280, “Luis Nuñez Coronel”; 3:420-421, “Dietrich von Freiberg”; 4:92-95,”Jean Dullaert of Ghent”; 4:237-238, “Gerard of Silteo (Sileto)”; 5:361, “Giles (Aegidius) of Lessines”; 5:401-402, “Gaspar Lax”; 8:100, “John Major”; 9:32-33, “Domingo de Soto”; 12:547-548, “Alvaro Thomaz”; 13:349-350, “Ulrich of Strassburg”; 13:534, “Vincent of Beauvais”; 14:34-36, “William of Auvergne”; 14:388-389.

 

“Albert Magnus on Suppositional Necessity in the Natural Sciences.” In J.A. Weisheipl, (editor), Albertus Magnus and the Sciences, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980, pp. 103-128.

 

“Galileo’s Citations of Albert the Great.” The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, vol. X, 1980, pp. 261-283. Reprinted in Albert the Great: Commemorative Essays, ed. by F.J. Kovach and R.W. Shahan. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980, pp. 261-283.

 

“The Scientific Methodology of St. Albert the Great.” Albertus Magnus Doctor Universalis 1280-1980, ed. by Gerbert Meyer and Albert Zimmermann. Walberberger Studien, Philosophische Reihe, Band 6. Mainz: Matthias-Grunewald-Verlag, 1980, pp. 385-407.

 

“Maritain and the Notion of Scientific Progress.” Notes et Documents, Institut International ‘J. Maritain,’ (Rome). Part I: vol. XIX, Avril-Juin 1980, pp. 21-26; Part II: vol. XX, Juillet-Septembre 1980, pp. 28-35.

 

“Galileo and Scholastic Theories of Impetus.” In Studi sul XIV secolo in memoria di Anneliese Maier, a cura di A. Maierù e A. Paravicini Bagliana, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1981, pp. 275-297.

 

“Aristotle and Galileo: The Uses of Hupothesis (Suppositio) in Scientific Reasoning.” In Studies in Aristotle, ed. by D.J. O’Meara. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. IX, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1981, pp. 47-77.

 

“St. Thomas’ Conception of Natural Philosophy and Its Method.” In La Philosophie de la nature de Saint Thomas d’Aquin, ed. by Leo Elder. Studi Tomistici 18, Pontifica Accademia di S. Tommaso, Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1982, pp. 7-27.

 

“Aristotle in the Middle Ages.” In Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols., ed. by Joseph R. Strayer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982, vol. I, pp. 456-469.

 

“Comment” on J.A. Weisheipl’s “Aristotle’s Concept of Nature: Avicenna and Aquinas.” Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages, ed. by L.D. Roberts. Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982, pp. 161-169.

 

“Aristotelian Influences on Galileo’s Thought.” In Aristotelismo Veneto e Scienza Moderna, 2 vols., ed. by Luigi Olivieri. Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1983, vol. I, pp. 349-378.

 

“Influssi aristotelici sul pensiero di Galileo.” Aristotelismo Veneto e Scienza Moderna, 2 vols., ed. by Luigi Olivieri. Padua: Editrici Antenore, 1983, vol. I, pp. 379-403.

 

“The Problem of Causality in Galileo’s Science.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXVI, 1983, pp. 607-632.

 

“Galileo’s Early Arguments for Geocentrism and His Later Rejection of Them,” Novità Celesti e Crisi del Sapere, ed. by Paolo Galluzzi. Florence: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, l983, pp. 31-40.

 

“Aquinas, Galileo, and Aristotle.” (Medalist Address), Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. XVII, 1983, pp. 17-24.

 

“Galileo’s Science and the Trial of 1633.” The Wilson Quarterly, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 154-164.

 

“Galilée et les professeurs jésuites du Collège romain à la fin du xvi siècle.” Galileo Galilei: 350 ans d’histoire, 1633-1983, ed. by P. Poupard. Tournai: Desclée International, 1983, pp. 75-97.

 

“The Philosophical Formation of Dominicans.” Angelicum vol. XLVI, 1984, pp. 504-510.

 

“The Intelligibility of Nature: A Neo-Aristotelian View.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXVIII, 1984, pp. 33-56.

 

“Galileo and the Continuity Thesis.” Philosophy of Science, vol. XI, 1984, pp. 504-510.

 

“Galileo e i Professori del Collegio Romano alla fine del secolo XVI,” Galileo Galilei, 350 anni di storia (1633-1983), ed. by P. Poupard. Rome: Edizioni Pieme, 1984, pp. 76-97.

 

“Galileo’s Concept of Science: Recent Manuscript Evidence,” The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science, ed. by G.V. Coyne, M. Heller, and J. Zycinsk. Vatican City: The Vatican Observatory, 1985, pp. 15-35.

 

“Nature as Animating: The Soul in the Human Sciences.” The Thomist, vol. XLIX, 1985, pp. 612-648.

 

Dietrich von Freiberg: De miscibilibus in mixto, Latin text with critical apparatus, in his Opera omnia, Tomus IV, Schriften zur Naturwissenschaft. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1985, pp. 27-47.

 

“In Remembrance of James A. Weisheipl, O.P., 3 July 1923-30 December 1984.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. LIX, 1985, pp. 348-349.

 

“Aitia: Causal Reasoning in Composition and Rhetoric.” Rhetoric and Praxis: The Contribution of Classical Rhetoric to Practical Reasoning, ed. by J.D. Moss. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986, pp. 107-133.

 

“Galileo’s Sources: Manuscripts or Printed Works?” Print and Culture in the Renaissance: Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe, ed. by G.B. Tyson and Sylvia Wagonhein. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1986, pp. 45-54.

 

“The Certitude of Science in Late Medieval and Renaissance Thought.” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. III, 1986, pp. 281-291.

 

“Galileo and His Sources.” [Reply to A.C. Crombie], The Times Literary Supplement, 3 January 1986 (No. 4318), pp. 13-23.

 

“The Early Jesuits and the Heritage of Domingo de Soto.” History and Technology, vol. IV, 1987, pp. 295-314.

 

“Thomas Aquinas on Dialectics and Rhetoric.” A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Essays in Honor of Arthur Hyman, ed. by S. Link-Salinger. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987, pp. 244-254.

 

“Galileo and the Professors of the Collegio Romano at the End of the Sixteenth Century.” In Galileo Galilei: Toward a Resolution of 350 Years of Debate -- 1633-1983, ed. by Paul Poupard, tr. Ian Campbell. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987, pp. 44-60.

 

“Science and Philosophy at the Collegio Romano in the Time of Benedetti.” In Cultura, Scienze e Techniche nella Venezia del Cinquecento, Atti del Convegno Internationale di Studio AG. B. Benedetti e il suo tempo,” Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1987, pp. ll3-126.

 

“Randall Redivivus: Galileo and the Paduan Aristotelians.” Journal of the History of Ideas, 49.l, 1988, pp. 133-149.

 

“Traditional Natural Philosophy.” The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by C.B. Schmitt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 201-235.

 

“Newton’s Early Writings: Beginnings of a New Direction.” Newton and the New Direction in Science, ed. by G.V. Coyne et al. Vatican City: The Vatican Observatory, 1988, pp. 23-44.

 

“Mechanics from Bradwardine to Galileo.” History of Physics: Selected Reprints, ed. by Stephen G. Brush. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physics Teachers, 1988, pp. 10-23; reprint of 1971.

 

“The Problem of Apodictic Proof in Early Seventeenth-Century Mechanics: Galileo, Guevara, and the Jesuits.” Science in Context, vol. III, 1989, pp. 67-87.

 

“Nature, Human Nature, and Norms for Medical Ethics.” Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals: Foundational Issues, ed. by E.D. Pellegrino, J.P. Langan, and J.C. Harvey. Philosophy and Medicine, vol. XXXIV, Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989, pp. 23-53.

 

“Aristotelian Science and Rhetoric in Transition: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” Rhetorica 7.1, 1989, pp. 7-21.

 

“Thomism and Its Opponents,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, 13 vols. N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989, 12:38-45.

 

“The Dating and Significance of Galileo’s Pisan Manuscripts.” Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences. Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake, ed. by Trevor Levere and W.R. Shea. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. CXX, Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990, pp. 3-50.

 

“Duhem and Koyré on Domingo de Soto.” Synthese, vol. LXXXIII, 1990, pp. 239-260.

 

“Galileo’s Science and the Trial of 1633.” World History, vol. II, 1500 to 20th Century, 2nd ed., ed. by David McComb. Guilford, CN: Duskin Publishing Group, 1990, pp. 25-30, reprint of 1983.

 

“Aquinas and Newton on the Causality of Nature and of God: The Medieval and Modern Problematic.” Philosophy and the God of Abraham, ed. by R.J. Long. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991, pp. 255-279.

 

“A History of Science and Faith,” in Transfiguration: Essays on Faith and Science, ed. by S. M. Postiglione and Robert Brungs, S.J. St. Louis, Missouri: ITEST Faith/Science Press, 1993, pp. 1-44.

 

“Aquinas’s Legacy on Individuation, Cogitation, and Hominization,” in Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy, ed. by David Gallagher. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 28. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1994, pp. 173-193.

 

“Circularity and the Demonstrative Regressus: From Pietro d’Abano to Galileo Galilei,” Vivarium 33, 1995, pp. 76-97.

 

“Antonio Riccobono: The Teaching of Rhetoric in Sixteenth-Century Padua,” in Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice. Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy, ed. by Winifred Horner and Michael Leff. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995, pp. 149-170.

 

“Late Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Manuscripts Relating to Galileo’s Early Notebooks,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 51, 1995, pp. 677-698.

 

“St. Thomas on the Beginning and Ending of Human Life,” in Thomas Aquinas: Doctor humanitatis hodiernae. [Essays in Honor of Fr. Abelardo Lobato, O.P.] Rome: Società Internazionale Tommaso d’Aquino, 1995, pp. 394-407.

 

“Galileo’s Trial and Proof of the Earth’s Motion,” Catholic Dossier 1, 1995, pp. 7-13.

 

“A Place for Form in Science: The Modeling of Nature,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. LXIX, 1995, pp. 27-38.

 

“Albert the Great’s Inventive Logic: His Exposition of the Topics of Aristotle,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 70, 1996, pp. 11-39.

 

“Telos,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition, ed. by Theresa Enos. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1996, p. 722.

 

“Thomism and the Quantum Enigma,” The Thomist, 61.3. July 1997: 455-467.

 

Articles Forthcoming

 

“Zabarella and Galileo: The Transmission of Paduan Methodology.” To appear in the proceedings of the Convegno di Studi nel IV Centenario della morte di G. Zabarella, Padua: Editrice Antenore.

 

“Galileo’s Jesuit Connections and Their Influence on His Science.” To appear in The Jesuits and the Scientific Revolution, ed. by Mordechai Feingold. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

“Galileo’s Regressive Methodology: Its Prelude and Its Sequel,” to appear in the proceedings of a seminar on Method in Sixteenth-Century Aristotle Commentaries sponsored by the Foundation for Intellectual History and held in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, in September of 1992.

 

“Dialectics, Experiments, and Mathematics in Galileo,” to appear in the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici on Scientific Controversies, held at Vico Equense (Naples), in June of 1993.

 

“Galileo’s Pisan Studies in Science and Philosophy: A Portent for the Future,” to appear in The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, Cambridge University Press.

 

“Aquinas, Thomas and Thomism” to appear in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, ed. by G. B. Ferngren, et al., Garland Publishing Co.

 

“Baliani,” “Benedetti,” “Buonamici,” “Causality,” “Commandino,” “Collegio Romano,” “Demonstration,” “Society of Jesus,” to appear in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Wilbur Applebaum, Garland Publishing Co.

 

“Foreword,” in Albert the Great: On Animals, 2 vols., translated by Kenneth Kitchell and Irven Resnick, with notes and commentary, Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

“Thomas Reid’s Philosophy as a Basis for Rhetoric,” in Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric and Its American Influence, ed. by Lynee Gaillet and Winifred Horner, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

“J. M. Bochenski’s Logic and W. V. O. Quine’s Ontology: A Retrospective View,” in Logic, Philosophy and Idelogy: Essays on the Work of J. M. Bochenski, ed. J. Kozak, S. M. Norkowski and J. Wolenski, to be published by the Swiss journal Studia philosophica.

 

Monographs

 

Saint Albert and Modern Science. Grand Rapids: Aquinas College, 1960.

 

St. Thomas in the Atomic Age. New York: Manhattan College Press, 1961.

 

Einstein, Galileo and Aquinas. Three Views of Scientific Method. Washington, D.C.: The Thomist Press, 1963.

 

Religion and Science: Must There Be Conflict? Third Annual Moreau Lecture. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: King’s College, 1982.