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Michael Wiitala

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Kentucky, August, 2014.
M.A., Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville, magna cum laude, December, 2008.
B.Ph., Philosophy, Ave Maria College, magna cum laude, December, 2005.

Selected Publications:
  • "The Forms in the Euthyphro and Statesman: A Case against the Developmental Reading of Plato's Dialogues," International Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming 2014.
  • “Desire and the Good in Plotinus,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 21.4, 2013.
  • “Anselm’s Ontological Argument and Aristotle’s Elegktikōs Apodeixai,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 86, 2012.
  • “Negating the Image: The Apophatic Character of Philosophical Logos in Plato’s Phaedrus,” Kinesis: Graduate Journal in Philosophy, 37.1, 2010.
  • “It Depends on What One Means by ‘Eternal’: Why Boethius is not an Eternalist,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 84, 2010.
  • “Contemplation and Action within the Context of the Kalon: A Reading of the Nicomachean Ethics,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 83, 2009.
  • “The Metaphysics of Duns Scotus and Onto-Theology,” Philosophy Today, 53, Supplement, 2009.
  • Review Article, Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed, Gerald A. Press (New York: Continuum, 2007), American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 83.4, 2009.