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Eleonore Stump (Coordinator/Contact Person)
Saint Louis University
Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University, the Logos Institute and School of Divinity at St. Andrews, and York University; and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), and The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). In 2021, she was given the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Pinsent
Oxford University
Andrew Pinsent is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and is the former Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. Formerly a particle physicist on the DELPHI experiment at CERN, he has a doctorate in physics, degrees in philosophy and theology, and a second doctorate in philosophy. A major theme of his research is second-person (I-Thou) relatedness in science, philosophy, and theology. His publications include work in virtue ethics, neurotheology, science and religion, the philosophy of the person, insight, divine action, and the nature of evil. At Oxford, he has been Principal Investigator for more than $10M of research grants for projects involving scholars in more than forty countries. He currently teaches at the Athenaeum of Ohio, where he trains future Catholic clergy, and he is a regular contributor to public engagement with science and faith issues.
James Dominic Rooney, O.P.
Hong Kong Baptist University
Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP, is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, and a fellow of the Thomistic Institute (Rome) and of the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies (HKBU). He specializes in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and of Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics (Bloomsbury, 2022), as well as co-editor (with Patrick Zoll, SJ) of the forthcoming Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good (Routledge).
Stephan Steiner
Katholische Akademie in Berlin e.V.
Stephan Steiner is directing the philosophy program at the Catholic Academy in Berlin and founded “The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora”, a forum dedicated to foster an exchange between Jewish and Catholic intellectual traditions (https://intellectualdiaspora.org). He is the author of Weimar in Amerika. Leo Strauss’ Politische Philosophie (Mohr Siebeck, 2013), as well as co-editor (with Daniel Weidner) of Kulturkampf. Konflikt, Kultur, Konfession (Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024) and (with Aaron Langenfeld & Sarah Rosenhauer) Menschlicher Geist – göttlicher Geist. Beiträge zur Philosophie und Theologie des Geistes (Aschendorff Verlag, 2021).
Luca F. Tuninetti
Pontificia Universitá Urbaniana
Luca F. Tuninetti is Full Professor of Epistemology at the Pontificia Università Urbaniana in Rome, where is also currently serving as the Dean of the School of Philosophy. Prof. Tuninetti has published the books “Per se notum”. Die logische Beschaffenheit des Selbstverständlichen im Denken des Thomas von Aquin (1996), La ragione nei discorsi: linguaggio, logica, argomentazione (2010), and Persone che giudicano: lineamenti di epistemologia (2016). In November 2022, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
João J. Vila-Chã
Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Vila-Chã, João J. – Studied Philosophy and Theology in Portugal (1982-1987), Germany (1987-1991) and the United States (1991-1997) and concluded his PhD. in Renaissance Philosophy at Boston College in 1998 with a Thesis on Leone Ebreo and the Intelligibility of Love. From 1998-2008 taught History of Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion at the Catholic University of Portugal and since 2008 is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome (Italy). Director/Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (2000-2009) and member of the Editorial Board of journals such as Concilium (2012-2019), Síntese (Brasil), and Pensamiento (Spain). President of the European Association of Jesuit Professors of Philosophy (2002-2008) and President of the Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Catholiques Universitaires de Philosophie (COMIUCAP, 2013-2022). Since 2011, Vice-President of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (U.S.A.) and Director of the Post-Graduate International Seminar that the Council offers yearly to chosen Scholars from different parts of the world. Member of the Senate of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome (2010-2018). Recipient of the International Karl-Otto Apel Prize for Philosophy (2017).
Judith Wolfe
University of St Andrews
Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews, Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and a professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University. Born and raised in Vienna, and educated in Jerusalem and Oxford, Prof. Wolfe has previously taught in Berlin and Oxford. She works on the intersection of theology, philosophy, and the arts, with special interests in eschatology and theological anthropology. She has written and edited books on Martin Heidegger, C.S. Lewis, and 19th- and 20th-century theology, most recently The Theological Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She also edits Oxford Studies in Philosophical Theology. A short documentary about her work can be viewed at https://atthethreshold.com/.
Patrick Zoll, SJ
Munich School of Philosophy
Fr. Patrick Zoll, SJ, is Professor for Metaphysics at the Munich School of Philosophy in Germany. He is the author of Ethik ohne Letztbegründung? – Zu den nicht-fundamentalistischen Ansätzen von Alasdair MacIntyre und Jeffrey Stout (Königshausen & Neumann, 2010), Perfektionistischer Liberalismus: Warum Neutralität ein falsches Ideal in der Politikbegründung ist (Karl Alber Verlag, 2016), What It Is to Exist: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate (De Gruyter, 2022), as well as co-editor (with Jörg Alt, SJ) of Wer hat, dem wird gegeben? – Besteuerung von Reichtum: Argumente, Probleme, Alternativen (Echter Verlag, 2016) and (with James Dominic Rooney, OP) of the forthcoming Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good (Routledge). His articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, Heythrop Journal, Faith and Philosophy, Stimmen der Zeit, and Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie.
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