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Published Works and Public Appearances:
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Books:
Soldier Boy: the War Between Michael and Lucifer (Victoria, B.C.:Trafford Publishing, 2007) |
| Anti-Abortionist at Large: How to Argue Intelligently about Abortion and Live to Tell About It. (Trafford Publishing, 2002) |
| Reason and Dignity (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981) |
| Christian Married Love, edited and with an introduction by Raymond Dennehy (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1981) |
| An Introduction to Metaphysics (1987). Unpublished manuscript for classroom use |
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Articles:
| "The Illusion of a Freedom Separated from Moral virtue" in THE JOURNAL OF INTERDISICPLINARY STUDIES, XIX No.1/2 2007, 19-39. Oleg Zinam Award for Best Essay in JIS for 2007 |
| "Abortion and Ideology" in THE HUMAN PERSON AND THE CULTURE OF FREEDOM (Washington, D.C.:Catholic University of America, forthcoming). |
| "Contraception and Homosexuality" in CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING NEWSLETTER, Summer, 2007. |
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| "Advice For Thomists," The Maritain Notebook (American Maritain Association Newsletter), Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring, 2005; Reprinted in Insight, "Peanuts and Thomists," http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/dennehy_thomists_june05.asp, June 2005. |
| "Cutting Through Anti-Life Rhetoric," CELEBRATE LIFE ,May-June, 2004 |
| "Can Jacques Maritain Save Liberal Democracy from Itself?" in Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain, edited by John G. Trapani, Jr. (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004) |
| "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Democracy" in the Journal of Interdiscplinary Studies, Vol. XV, No. 1/2 (September, 2003) |
| "The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology," in Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing, ed. by Douglas A. Ollivant (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, (2002) |
| "Maritain's Reply to Gilson’s Rejection of Critical Realism," A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Étienne a volume in honor of Armand Maurer, ed. by Peter Redpath, (New York, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2002) pp. 57-80 |
| "Ethical Challenges in the Next Millennium: Can the Church Stop the Drift Toward the ‘Culture of Death’ "? Catholic San Francisco, Feb. 8, 1999, 15 & 21 |
| "Peter Singer’s ‘The Moral Status of the Embryo’" National Catholic Register, April 25-May1, 1999 |
| "Advice for Thomists," Maritain Newsletter, Spring, 1999 |
| "Yves R. Simon’s Metaphysics of Action," Acquaintance with the Absolute, ed. by Anthony O. Simon (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998), 19-56 |
| "Confessions of an Aging Anti-Abortionist," Crisis Magazine, Jan. 1998, 20-21 |
| "Maritain's Realistic Defense of the Importance of the Philosophy of Nature to Metaphysics," 107-129 in THOMISTIC PAPERS VI, Edited by John F.X. Knasas (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St.Thomas, 1994) |
| "Bodenheimer’s Empirical Theory of Natural Law," Vera Lex XIV, nos. 1& 2 (1994), 18-21 |
| "Always the Metaphysician: Maritain’s Ontology of Anti-Racism , Jacques Maritain and the Jews, Robert Royal (ed.) (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), 36-50 |
| "Bodenheimer’s Theory of Natural Law: The Conflict of a Divided Intellectual Allegiance," University of California (Davis) Law Review 26, #3 (1993), 619-52 |
| "The Philosophical Catbird Seat: A Defense of Maritain’s Philosophia Perennis," The Future of Thomism, Deal Hudson (ed.) (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), 65-76 |
| "Being Is Better than Freedom" in Freedom in the Modern World, ed. by Michael D. Torre (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), pp. 253-262. |
| "Unreal Realism," The Thomist 55, 4 (1991), 631-55 |
| "Rescuing the Natural Law from the Rationalists" in Vera Lex, Vol. X, No. 1, 1990, 14-16 |
| "The Elimination of God in the Contemporary World," Creative Love; the Ethics of Human Reproduction, edited by John Boyle (Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 1989). |
| "Maritain's Intellectual Existentialism: An Introduction to His Metaphysics and Epistemology" in Understanding Maritain, edited by D. Hudson and W. Mancini (Atlanta: Mercer University Press, 1987). |
| "The Universality of the Analogy of Being in Contemporary Metaphysics," in Existential Personalism, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 60, 1986, pp. 65-76. |
| Introduction to G.K. Chesterton's St. Thomas Aquinas in C.K. Chesterton: Collected Works (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986), Vol. II. |
| "The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," Pope John Paul II Lecture Series in Bioethics, edited by F. Lescoe and D. Liptak (New Britain, CT: Mariel Publications, 1986), Vol. II, pp. 7-34. |
| "The Ontological Basis of Certitude," The Thomist, Vol. 50, No. 1, January 1986, pp. 120-150. |
| "Philosophy and Society" in Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality, edited by James W. Kidd (San Francisco: Golden Phoenix Press, 1984), pp. 77-87. |
| "Sex, Survival and Culture," The Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3, August 1983, pp. 262-271. (Reprinted in International Review of Natural Family Planning, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1984, pp. 44-56.) |
| "Liberal Education, Vocationalism, and Democracy," Thought, Vol. 57, No. 225 (June 1982), pp. 182-195. |
| "Reply to Mr. Schedler on Human Rights," The New Scholasticism, Vol. 55, Autumn 1981, pp. 488-494. |
| "The Social Encyclicals: What Has Heaven to Do with Earth," Faith and Reason, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1982, pp. 232-245. |
| "The Rosary and Human Progress," Intermountain Catholic, May 1, 1981, p. 11+ |
| "Laborem Exercens: John Paul II's Answer to Secular Humanism," The Migrant Echo, Fall 1981, pp. 488-494. |
| "The Pessimistic Origins of the Anti-Life Movement," Studies, Spring 1981, pp. 8-15. |
| "The Mission of the Catholic University," New Oxford Review, September 1980. |
| "The Philosophy of Human Experimentation," The New Scholasticism, Vol. 52 (1978), pp. 80-90. |
| "The Ontological Basis of Human Rights," The Thomist, No. 42 (1978), pp. 434-463. |
| "The Threat Posed by the Decline of Liberal Arts Education," San Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, June 9, 1976, p. 35 (guest editorial). |
| "Death and Dying: A Symposium." Papers edited and with an introduction by Raymond Dennehy and Francis Filice, The Camillian, February, 1975 |
| "Maritain's Theory of Subsistence: The Basis of His 'Existentialism,' " The Thomist, No. 39 (1975), 542-574. |
| "A Tribute to Jacques Maritain: Philosophical Activist," Social Justice Review, October 1973. |
| "The Social Encyclicals and the 'Population Bomb,' " Social Justice Review, October 1972. |
| "Love and Procreation," THE SANTA CLARA (University of Santa Clara campus paper), May 7, 1967. |
Book Reviews:
The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the Letters of Etienne Gilson & Henri Gouhier (1920-1936) Tr/Ed by Richard J. Fafara
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2007)in the Heythrop Journal (forthccming) |
| George Sher, IN PRAISE OF BLAME (Oxford University Press, 2006) INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. XLV11, No. 1, issue No. 185, 125-28 |
| DOES HUMAN RIGHTS NEED GOD? Elizabeth M. Bucar & Barbara Barnett (Eds.), DOES HUMAN RIGHTS NEED GOD? PHILOSOPHI CHRISTI vol. 9, no.1 (2007), 235-240 |
| Erik J. Wielenberg, VALUE AND VIRTUE IN A GODLESS UNIVERSE (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY March 2006, Vol.46, No.1. |
| Howard P. Kainz, Natural Law: an introduction and re-examination, The Review of Metaphysics, vol. LIX no.2 (December 2005) 434-435 |
| Jude P. Dougherty, Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April 2005 |
| James V. Schall, S.J., Roman Catholic Political Philosophy, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, (Winter, 2004) Vol. 27, Number 4, Winter 2004 |
| The Four Cardinal Virtues: Philip the Chancellor, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas, Tr. by R.E. Hauser (Toronto, Ontario: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2004) The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. LVIII, No. 3, Issue 231, March 2005 |
| Yves R. Simon, A Critique of Moral Knowledge, Catholic Social Science Review Vol. IX 2004 |
| Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: a pluralistic view, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue No. 176, December 2004 |
| Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of The Biotechnology Revolution, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol XVI no. 1/2 2004 |
| Jude P. Dougherty, Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile, Homilitic and Pastoral Review (forthcoming) |
| Candace Vogler, Reasonably Vicious, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.44, No. 2, June 2004 |
| Faith and the Life of Intellect. Edited by Curtis L. Hancock and Brendan Sweetman. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003) American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 77, Fall 2003, #4 |
| Richard Joyce, The Myth of Morals, International Philosophical Quarterly vol. 43, no. 2, June 2003 |
| Brendan Sweetman (ed.), The Failue of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy & Contemporary Pluralism American Catholic Philosophical Association Journal, vol. 75, no. 4, Fall 2001 |
| Brenda Almond, Exploring Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 1998 |
| John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, Crisis Magazine, May 1996 |
| James Arraj, Metaphysics and Maritain, ACPA Journal, Spring 1996 |
| Jacques Maritain, The Degrees of Knowledge (MacInerny edition), Maritain Newsletter, November, 1995 |
| Yves Simon, Introduction to the Metaphysics of Knowledge, The Thomist 56 #1 (1992) |
| George Weigel The Final Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1992) Albanian Catholic Bulletin, April Issue, 1993 |
| Peter Kreeft, A Summa of the Summa Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 1992 |
| Stanley Jaki, Science and Creation & The Only Chaos, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July 1992 |
| Jacques Maritain, Introduction to Philosophy, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, June 1990 |
| Deal W. Hudson & Matthew J. Mansini (eds.) Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Aug.-Sept. 1989 |
| Ernan McMullin (ed.) Evolution and Creation, The Thomist 52 #3 (1988) |
| James V. Schall, The Politics of Heaven and Hell, The World & I, Vol. I #1, 1985 |
| Jacques Maritain, Notebooks, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July 1985 |
| M.A. Krapiec, I-Man: An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Nov. 1984 |
| Robert Newton-Smith, The Rationality of Science, The Thomist 48 #3 (1984) |
| Charles Curran, Moral Theology, National Catholic Reporter 19 #17 (Feb. 18, 1983) |
| Yves R. Simon, Work, Society,and Culture, Notes et Documents, Institut International "J. Maritain," #14, Jan-Mar. 1979 |
Presentations:
| Respondent to Alasdair MacIntyre’s presentation, "Yves R.Simon: Thomist and Sans-Culotte" University of Chicago, Oct. 11, 2000 |
| "The Church and Homosexuality," public debate with Father David Rickey, an "openly gay" Episcopal Priest, University of San Francisco, April 10, 2000 |
| Abortion debate at University of California, Berkeley, before a class of 700 students, March 20, 2000; this was my 24th semester debating abortion before that class. |
| "The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology," 1999 International Meeting of the American Maritain Association:"Maritain, Gilson, and The Many Ways of Knowing," (Oct.21-24,1999) Berkeley,CA, Oct.23,1999 |
| "The Ugly, the Foul, the Disgusting, the Nasty, the Filthy, the Gluey, the Viscous, and the Nauseous," American Maritain Association International Conference, Newton, Massachusetts, Oct.24, 1997 |
| "Was Thomas Aquinas a Naïve Realist?" 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, May 1997 |
| "Is the Medieval Doctrine of the Primacy of the Common Good Utilitarian?," 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, May 10, 1996 |
| "Epistemology: Its Practical Importance for Seminary Education," American Catholic Philosophical Association Convention, Redondo Beach, CA, April, 1996 |
| "Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Democratic Incident," Fleishhacker Lecture in Philosophy, University of San Francisco, April 7, 1995 |
| Liberty Fund Conference on "Liberty, Punishment, and Responsibility" Ritz Carlton, Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, CA, Nov.4-6, 1995 |
| "Moral Absolutes in a Democracy"; one in a series of invited lectures on Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, The Gospel of Life, St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, Nov. 8, 1995 |
| "The Epistemology of Democracy," American Maritain National Conference at New York University, Nov.11, 1995 |
| "Reflections of an Anti-Abortionist," keynote address at the Northern California Collegiate Student Prolife Conference, Stanford University,Feb. 26, 1994 |
| Delivered 4 public lectures on moral virtue at Stanford University during the month of Oct,1994 sponsored by The Stanford Review and "Students United for Life." |
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"Moral Virtue in a Pluralistic Society"
"Chastity: The Much Misunderstood Virtue"
"Moral Virtue and the Natural Law"
"Personal Virtue and Public Policy: Does the Private Morality of Our Public Leaders Matter?" |
| "A Plea for Honesty," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars National Conference, Orange, CA, September 26,1993 |
| The Philosophical Catbird Seat: A Defense of Maritain’s Philosophia Perennis," American Maritain National Conference, Fordham University, Oct.25, 1993 |
| "The Return of the Vampire: Count Dracula’s Horrible Misdeeds with the Unborn for Fetal Tissue Transplants," Al Gelinas Memorial Lecture, St Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, April, 1991 |
| "Is There a Moral Justification for Abortion?," 2nd public debate with Mary Ann Warren, University of San Francisco, March, 1990 |
| "Abortion"; a public debate with Richard Grossball, counsel for the San Francisco ACLU, the University of California, Hastings School of the Law, San Francisco, November, 1999 |
| "Being is Better Than Freedom," American Maritain Association National Conference, University of Notre Dame, Oct. 1988 |
| Liberty Fund Conference on "Freedom in the Writings of Yves R. Simon" at the University of South Carolina, April, 1988 |
| "The Contemporaneity of Maritain’s Existence and the Existent," Presidential Address, American Maritain Association, Montreal, Oct. 1987 |
| "Abortion"; a public debate with Margaret Crosby, legal Counsel for the San Francisco ACLU, University of California, Hastings School of the Law, San Francisco, March 1987 |
| "The Universality of the Analogy of Being in Contemporary Metaphysics," American Catholic Philosophical Association Convention, Baltimore, April, 1986 |
| "The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," John Paul II Center for Bioethics, Hartford, CT, April 10, 1985 |
| "The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," James L. Hagerty Lecture,St. Mary’s College, Moraga,CA May14,1985 |
| "The Ontological Basis of Certitude," afternoon presentation to the St. Mary’s College Philosophy Dept., May 14, 1985 |
| "Maritain’s Theory of Natural Law," Maritain Session, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Long Beach, CA March 24, 1884 |
| "Maritain’s Respect for Truth and Freedom," Panel Discussion, American Maritain Association National Conference, Princeton University, Oct.28, 1983 |
| "The Changing and the Unchanging in Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Law Doctrine," 8th International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villinova University, Sept.24, 1983 |
| "Maritain and the Responsibility of the Philosopher in Society" and "Maritain on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology," Cardinal Newman College, St. Louis, MO, March 24-25, 1983 |
| "Sex, Survival, and Progress," symposium on sexuality and the family, University of San Francisco, Feb.26, 1983 |
| "Understanding Maritain," symposium honoring 100th year of Jacques Maritain’s birth, Gannon University, Erie, PA, Oct. 30, 1981 |
| "Intellect and Will in Society," American Maritain Association Conference on Human Rights, Washington, D.C., May,1978 |
| "Confessions of a Middle-Age Philosopher Or Life Inside the Existential Vise," Insight Lecture Series, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA, Oct.12, 1981 |
| "Abortion: Pro & Con," public debate with Mary Ann Warren, University of San Francisco, November 30, 1979. |
| "The Mission of the Catholic University in Contemporary Society," Inaugural Address for the St.Ignatius Institute, University of San Francisco, Nov. 11, 1976 |
Public Appearances:
| Many radio and television appearances, as well as talks before community groups, to discuss or debate ethical topics of contemporary interest, such as abortion,physician-assisted suicide, and laboratory reproduction. The following is a partial list. |
- Bay TV (San Francisco); debated Mike Marshall on the California "Defense of Marriage" ballot measure, January 28, 2000
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- PBS show "Uncommon Knowledge"; one of a three-member panel discussing the ethical and social aspects of cloning. Jan.21, 2000
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- "Mosaic" KPIX San Francisco: 60 minute interview explaining the Catholic Church’s position on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, January, 1999
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- "Sci-Fi Channel"; one of a three-member panel discussing the ethics issues involved in sperm banks, April, 1998
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- "Sci-Fi Channel," one of three-member panel discussing the ethics of cryonics, April, 1997
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- Bay TV (San Francisco); 2 successive appearances to discuss ethical aspects of 2 contemporaneous events: (1) had to do with the removal of one-half the brain of a 9 year old boy suffering from Rasmussen’s Enncephaly;(2)addressed the issue of moral responsibility regarding Gred Lougainis’ revelation that he was HIV positive when he bled into the diving pool, as a result of a head injury, at the Olympics but failed to disclose his condition to the officials.
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- "Nightcast" KGO TV (San Francisco); one of a three-member panel debating the "French abortion pill, July 1990
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- "Nightcast" KGO TV (San Francisco); one of four-member panel discussing "Ethics in Public Life," following the Congressman Jim Wright scandal, June, 1989
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- CNN; interviewed about the Pâgan case in New York City and the rights of parents to select the kind of treatment for their minor children, June, 1989
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- "People Are Talking" KPIX TV (San Francisco); panelist discussing the ethics of fetal transplants, October, 1988
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- "Express" KQED(San Francisco);debate with Derek Humphry on the "right to die," December 3, 1986
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- KGO TV (San Francisco);debate with Bill Press on "Should Contraceptives Be Made Available on High School Campuses?": December 1, 1985
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- "People Are Talking" KPIX (San Francisco); debate with a one, Mr. Pritchard, and his attorney over his efforts to obtain court permission to remove the feeding tube from Mrs. Pritchard who was in a persistent vegetative state, June, 1985
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- "You Decide" KPIX TV (San Francisco); "Should the Terminally Ill Be Allowed to Kill Themselves?": debate with Derek Humphery, October 2, 1983
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- VIACOM 20(Marin County); debate with Margaret Crosby, Legal Counsel for the San Francisco ACLU on the legalization of abortion, June 1981
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- "What Do You Think?" KGO TV (San Francisco); debate with Derek Humphry, Founder and President of the Hemlock Society, on the legalization of suicide for the terminally ill, June, 1980
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- "Viewpoint" KGO TV (San Francisco); Panelist discussing sex change operations, May, 1978
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Raymond Dennehy
