M. V. Dougherty

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy Department
Ohio Dominican University
1216 Sunbury Road
Columbus, OH 43219-2099 USA

Education

Ph.D., Marquette University (2003)
M.A., The Catholic University of America (1997)
B.A., The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (1995)

Monograph

Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought: From Gratian to Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Reviews: Ethics 123.2 (2013): 361–365; Speculum 88.1 (2013); The Review of Metaphysics 66.1 (2012): 144–146; Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.1 (2012): 138–140; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011.07.26; American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2012): 378–380; Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2012): 404–405; Ius Canonicum 52 (2012): 383–385; Lumen Veritatis 5 (2012): 122–124; .Studia Lulliana 52 (2012): 153; Philosophy in Review 32.6 (2012): 460–461.

Edited Book

Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Portuguese translation: Pico della Mirandola: Novos Ensaios, trans. Getulio Schanoski Jr. (São Paulo: Madras Editora, 2011).

Reviews: Speculum 86.2 (2011): 484–6; Diánoia 55.2 (2010): 236–44; Neo-Latin News 58.3-4 (2010): 235–7; Nexus 51.1 (2009): 180–4; The Thomist 72.3 (2008): 509–12; Renaissance Quarterly 61.3 (2008): 916–18.

Articles

“Richard Knapwell,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“40 Cases of Plagiarism,” co-authored with Pernille Harsting and Russell L. Friedman, Bulletin de Philosophie médiévale 51/2009 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 350–391.
“Ghazālī and Metaphorical Predication in the Third Discussion of the Tahāfut al-Falāsifa,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82.3 (2008), 391–409.
“Equivocation and the Socratic Elenchus: Another Look at Republic i,” Ancient Philosophy 27.1 (2007), 25–9.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Manifold Senses of Self-Evidence,” The Review of Metaphysics 59.3 (2006), 601–30.
“Aquinas and the Self-Evidence of the Articles of Faith,” The Heythrop Journal 46.2 (2005), 167–80.
“Descartes’s Demonstration of the Impossibility of Error in the Apprehension of Simples,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 22.2 (2005), 129–42.
“Aristotle’s Four Truth Values,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12.4 (2004), 585-609.
“Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck: Reckoning with the Thomistic Ethical Tradition,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 (2004), 233–46.
“The Irrationality of the Irrationality Argument Against Suicide,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 4.3 (2004), 485–9.
“The Comparative Set Fallacy,” Argumentation 18.2 (2004), 213–22.
“The Problem of Humana Natura in the Consolatio Philosophiae of Boethius,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78.2 (2004), 273–92.
“On the Alleged Subalternate Character of Sacra Doctrina in Aquinas,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 77 (2003), 101-110.
“Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 76 (2002), 153–64.
“Two Possible Sources for Pico’s Oratio,” Vivarium 40.2 (2002): 219–41.
“The Importance of Cartesian Triangles: A New Look at the Ontological Argument,” The International Journal of Philosophical Studies 10.1 (2002): 35–62.
“Perplexity Simpliciter and Perplexity Secundum Quid: A Look at Some Contemporary Appeals to St. Thomas Aquinas,” International Philosophical Quarterly 41.4 (2001): 469–80.

Contributions to Books

“Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, 2 vols. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011), 2: 423–6.
“Three Precursors to Pico della Mirandola's Roman Disputation and the Question of Human Nature in the Oratio,” in Pico della Mirandola: New Essays, ed. M. V. Dougherty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 114–51.
“Introduction,” in Pico della Mirandola: New Essays, ed. M. V. Dougherty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 1–12.
“Bibliografia del XIX e XX Secolo,” reprinted in 2007 by Leo S. Olschki Editore with editorial attribution to L. Quaquarelli and M. V. Dougherty. Originally published without attribution in: Pichiana: Bibliografia delle edizioni e degli studi, ed. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Zita Zanardi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005), 335–410.
“Introduction,” in The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius (New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2005), VII-XIV, 139–40.

Book Reviews and Shorter Publications

Review of: Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary, ed. Francesco Borghesi, Michael Papio, and Massimo Riva (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Renaissance Quarterly 66 (2013), forthcoming.
Review of: Philosophers of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Richard Blum (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010), in The Thomist 76.3 (2012),473–7.
Review of: Creighton Rosental, Lessons from Aquinas: A Resolution of the Problem of Faith and Reason (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011) in The Review of Metaphysics 66.3 (2013), 599–601.
Review of: Michael Barnwell, The Problem of Negligent Omissions: Medieval Action Theories to the Rescue. Investigating Medieval Philosophy, vol. 1. (Leiden: Brill, 2010), in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012), 161–3.
Review of: Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence, ed. Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw, and Valery Rees (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011), in Renaissance Quarterly 65.1 (2012), 185–6.
Review of: James V. Schall, The Modern Age (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2011), in The Review of Metaphysics, 66.2 (2012): 382–4
Review of: Avner Ben-Zaken, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidactism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, in Renaissance Quarterly 64.2 (2011), 583–4.
Review of: Angelo Poliziano’s Lamia: Text, Translation, and Introductory Studies, ed.Christopher S. Celenza (Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011), 162–3.
Review of: Paul Richard Blum, Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly, 63.4 (2010), 1347–8.
Review of: Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background, ed. Henrik Lagerlund (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly 63.3 (2010), 959–60.
Review of: The Recovery of Ancient Philosophy in the Renaissance: A Brief Guide, eds. James Hankins and Ada Palmer (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.2 (2009), 480–2.
Review of: Amos Edelheit, Ficino, Pico and Savonarola: The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2–1498 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.1 (2009), 277–9.
Review of: The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly 61.3 (2008), 912–14.
Review of: Pichiana: Bibliografia delle edizioni e degli studi, ed. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Zita Zanardi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005), in Renaissance Quarterly 60.3 (2007), 885–7.
Review of: Crofton Black, Pico’s Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), in Renaissance Quarterly 60.2 (2007), 509–11.
Review of: Imagination in the Later Middle Ages, eds. Lodi Nauta and Detlev Pätzold (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), in Renaissance Quarterly 59.2 (2006), 595–7.
Review of: Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. Mark C. Murphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), in The Review of Metaphysics 58.3 (2005), 678–80.
Review of: Steven vanden Broecke, The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), in Renaissance Quarterly 58.1 (2005), 290–92.
“Cajetan,” in Holy People of the World: An Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004), 155.
“Albertus Magnus,” in Holy People of the World: An Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004), 31–2.
“Augustine of Hippo,” in Holy People of the World: An Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004), 81–3.
“The Origins of Pragmatism,” The American Lawyer 23 (September 2001): 17–18.

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, Ohio Dominican University, 2009-present
Assistant Professor, Ohio Dominican University, 2003-2009
Resident Director of ODU Roma Program, Rome, Italy, Fall 2005
Instructor, Marquette University, 1997–2000, 2002–2003

Memberships

American Catholic Philosophical Association
Renaissance Society of America
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Conference Presentations

“Opining the Articuli Fidei: Thomas Aquinas on the Heretic’s Assent to the Articles of Faith,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2007.
“Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck: Reckoning with the Thomistic Ethical Tradition,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, November 5-7, 2004.
“On the Alleged Subalternate Character of Sacra Doctrina in Aquinas,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, October 31-November 2, 2003.
“On the Epistemic Foundation of Aquinas’s Doctrine of Self-Evident Propositions,” International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2003.
“Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November 1, 2002.
“On the Alleged Self-Evidence of the Articles of Faith in Thomas Aquinas,” International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2002.
“Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Central Division Meeting, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, March 9, 2002.
“Primary Texts, Secondary Texts, and Anthologies: Choosing Texts in Humanities Courses,” Preparing Future Faculty Teaching Philosophy Conference, Marquette University, WI, March 31,2001.
“Cartesian Triangles and Proving the Existence of God,” Society for Christian Philosophers, University of Dubuque, IA, March 17, 2001.

Research Fellowships/Grants

Humanities Development Grant, Ohio Dominican University, 2012
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican University, 2012
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican University, 2007
John P. Raynor, S. J. Research Fellowship, 2001-2002
Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar in Philosophy, Boston College, June 2–23, 2001
The Arthur J. Schmitt Research Fellowship, 2000-2001

Teaching

Medieval Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck
Renaissance Philosophy
Lives of the Philosophers
Ancient Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy
Theories of Ethics
Applied Ethics
Business Ethics
Issues in Philosophy
Philosophy of the Person
Philosophy of Human Nature
Philosophy of History
Philosophy in the Eternal City
Philosophy of Art and Beauty
Gods, Beasts, or in Between? Reflections on the Self
Philosophical Foundations of Theology (graduate)

Teaching Award

Conley Award, 2009 (“The Conley Award is voted on by the student body of Ohio Dominican University and is presented annually to the professor who is considered to excel in teaching ability and contribution to the university.”)

Service to the Profession

Manuscript referee, Oxford Bibliographies Online (2013)
Manuscript referee, The Thomist (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Manuscript referee, The Catholic University of America Press (2008, 2009)
Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2010-2012)

Websites

Editor, Pico in English: A Bibliography of the Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), with a List of Studies and Commentaries
Contributor, Pico della Mirandola: Conclusiones CM publice disputandae
Contributor, Thomistica.net

Updated April 2013