John P. Doyle (Ph.D., Toronto, 1966) is professor of philosophy. His main interest is late medieval philosophy. His recent publications include:

Five volumes translated from Latin, with Introductions and Notes:

• Francisco Suarez, A Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004
• Francisco Suarez, S.J., The Metaphysical Demonstration of the Existence of God, South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, 2004
• THE CONIMBRICENSES: Some Questions on Signs, Marquette, 2001
• Francisco de Vitoria O.P.: On Homicide, Marquette, 1997; Francisco Suarez, S.J., On Beings of Reason, Marquette, 1995.

Various articles and contributions to books including:

• "Wrestling with a Wraith: André Semery, S.J. (1630-1717)
• "On Aristotle's Goat-Stag and Knowing the Unknowable," in The Impact of Aristotelianism on Modern Philosophy, edited by Riccardo Pozzo, in vol. 39: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 84-112
• "The Borders of Knowability: Thoughts From or Occasioned by Seventeenth-Century Jesuits," in Die Logik des Transzendentalen: Festschrift fur Jan A. Aertsen zum 65. Geburtstag, hrsg. von Martin Pickave, in vol. 30: Miscellanea Mediaevalia (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003), pp. 643-658
• "Gedankendinge bei den Jesuiten des 17. Jh.," in Imagination -- Fiktion -- Kreation: Das kulturschaffende Vermögen der Phantasie, hrsg. von Thomas Dewender und Thomas Welt (München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003), pp. 213-228;
• "Francisco Suárez, S.J. on Human Rights," in Menschenrechte: Rechte und Pflichten in Ost und West; Strukturen der Macht: Studien zum politischen Denken Chinas, hrsg. K. Wegmann (Münster/Hamburg/Berlin/London, 2001), pp. 105-132
• "On the Pure Intentionality of Pure Intentionality," The Modern Schoolman, LXXIX (November, 2001), pp. 57-78
• "Koimbrskie scholastiki o semioticheskom charaktere zerkalnich otrazhenij," Verbum, 5 (St. Petersburg Society of Philosophy, 2001), pp. 93-109
• "Suárez on the Truth of the Proposition, 'This is My Body,'" The Modern Schoolman, LXXVII (January, 2000), pp. 145-63.
• "Supertranscendental Being: On the Verge of Modern Philosophy," in Meeting of the Minds: the Relations between Medieval and Classical Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen F. Brown, Brepols, 1998/9, pp. 297-315
• "Supertranscendental Nothing: A Philosophical Finisterre," Medioevo, XXIV (1998), pp. 1-30
• "Francisco Suarez on the Law of Nations," in Religion and International Law, ed. Mark W. Janis and Carolyn Evans, Lancaster, UK: Kluwer, 1999, pp. 103-120
• "The 'Conimbricenses' on the Semiotic Character of Mirror Images," The Modern Schoolman, 76, n. 1 (November, 1998), pp. 17-31;
• "Vitoria on Choosing to Replace a King," pp. 45-58, in Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery, ed. Kevin White, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997
• "Silvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) on Four Degrees of Abstraction," International Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1996): 461-74
• "Two Thomists on the Morality of a Jailbreak," The Modern Schoolman 74 (1997): 95-115
• "Another God, Chimerae, Goat-Stags, and Man-Lions: A Seventeenth-Century Debate about Impossible Objects," Review of Metaphysics 48 (1995): 771-808
• "Between Transcendental and Transcendental: The Missing Link?" Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 50 (June, 1997), pp. 783-815
• "Reflections on Persons in Petri Dishes," The Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 4 (November, 1997): pp. 62-76

Encyclopedia articles:

• "Supertranszendent," in Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie, X (1999), cols. 643-649
• In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
  • "Collegium Conimbricense," II, pp. 406-408.
  • "Fonseca, Pedro da (1528-99)," III, pp. 688-90.
  • "John of St. Thomas (1589-1644)," V, pp. 117-120.
  • "Soto, Domingo de (1494-1560)," IX, pp. 37-40.
  • "Suarez, Francisco (1548-1617)," IX, pp. 189-196.
  • Toletus, Franciscus (1533-96), IX, pp. 433-435.

He received the Nancy McNeir Ring Award from the Jesuit honor society in 2002.

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