Gregory R. Beabout (Ph.D., Marquette, 1988) is the faculty advisor to The Philosophy Club at Saint Louis University, an undergraduate student organization. He received the Helen Mandeville Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003 and the Nancy McNeir Ring Outstanding Faculty Award in 1999. He teaches philosophy courses for the Micah House program, a service learning program at SLU. His teaching and research is in the areas of ethics, social philosophy, Kierkegaard, and Catholic social thought.

Books:

• Beyond Self Interest: A Personalist Approach to Human Action. (With Ricardo Crespo, et. al.)
• A Celebration of the Thought of Pope John Paul II: On the Occasion of the Papal Visit to St. Louis. (Editor)
• Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair.
• Applied Professional Ethics. (Co-authored with Daryl Wennemann.)

Recent Articles:

• "Personhood as Gift and Task: The Place of the Person in Catholic Social Thought," Catholic Social Science Review. 2004.
• "The Role of Christian Anthropology in Welfare Reform," Policy Forum Spring 2003.
• "The Culture of Consumerism: A Catholic and Personalist Critique," with Eduardo J. Echeverria, Journal of Markets and Morality. Fall 2002 (5:2) 339-384.
• "Socially-Responsible Investing: An Application of Catholic Social Thought," with Kevin Schmiesing, Logos, Winter 2003 (6:1).
• "Drawing Out the Relationship Between Anxiety and Despair in Kierkegaard's Writings," in S¿ren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume II, ed. Daniel W. Conway. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 35-48.
• "Morphine Use with Terminal Cancer Patients: An Application of the Principle of Double Effect," in The Doctine of Double Effect: Philosophers Debate a Controversial Moral Principle, Edited by P. A. Woodward, (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) 298-311.
• "The Primacy of Culture," Journal of Markets and Morality 4:2 (Fall 2001) 344-50.
• "The World at 2000: Globalization in Politics, Economics and Culture," in The Global Economy: Changing Politics, Society and Family, edited by Lee Edwards, (St. Paul: Paragon House, 2001) 51-76. Originally published in The World and I. October 2000, 273-300.
• "A Challenge to the 'Solitary Self' Interpretation of Kierkegaard," with Brad Frazier. History of Philosophy Quarterly. January 2000, 17:1, 75-98.