Kevin White

School

  • School of Philosophy
  • Expertise

  • Aquinas
  • Aristotle
  • Augustine
  • Philosophy of Human Nature
  • Biography

    Kevin White studied at St. Michael’s College, Toronto (B.A.), the University of Saint Paul, Ottawa (L.Ph.), and the University of Ottawa (M.A., Ph.D.)  As a member of the Leonine Commission, he has studied the manuscript tradition of Aquinas’s commentary on Aristotle’s Meteora, and has published an edition of three previously unpublished chapters of this commentary.  His other publications include an English translation of Aquinas’s commentary on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato, a study of Aquinas’s quodlibetal questions, and articles on Aristotle and T. S. Eliot.  His research and teaching interests include the writings of Augustine, Boethius, and Dante, and philosophical questions concerning human nature and human knowledge.  In 2015 he delivered the Maynooth Aquinas Lecture.

    The Center for Thomistic Studies 2020 Aquinas Lecture: "Aquinas’s Discovery of Aristotle’s Rhetoric.”

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    Commentaries on Aristotles On Sense and What Is Sensed” and On Memory and Recollection cover

    Commentaries on Aristotle’s “On Sense and What Is Sensed” and “On Memory and Recollection”

    Thomas Aquinas. Commentaries on Aristotle’s “On Sense and What Is Sensed” and “On Memory and Recollection.”

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    John Capreolus on the Virtues cover

    John Capreolus on the Virtues

    John Capreolus on the Virtues

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