Eleonore Stump

Last updated
Eleonore Stump
Born (1947-08-09) August 9, 1947 (age 76)
Alma mater
Era 20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions
Thesis Boethius's De Topicis Differentiis  (1975)
Doctoral advisor Norman Kretzmann [ citation needed ]
Notable studentsSee the section on former students on Eleonore Stump’s personal website
Main interests

Eleonore Stump (born August 9, 1947) is an American philosopher and the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992.

Contents

Biography

Eleonore Stump received her first degree, a B.A. in classical languages, from Grinnell College in 1969. [1] She was class valedictorian and received the Archibald Prize for scholarship. She has an M.A. in biblical studies (New Testament) from Harvard University (1971), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in medieval studies (medieval philosophy) from Cornell University (1975). In 1992 she joined Saint Louis University where she is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy. [2] Before coming to Saint Louis University, she taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Notre Dame. Currently, she also holds secondary or honorary appointments at Wuhan University, Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University, and University of York.

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), The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2016), Atonement (2018), The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2024). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), Joseph McCarthy Lecturer (Pontifical Gregorian University, 2004), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), the Aquinas Lecture (Marquette, 2016), the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018), the Dewey Lecture (the American Philosophical Association, 2023).

Among her honors are the Aquinas medal awarded by the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2013), American Maritain Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (2021), and the Edmund Campion Award by Saint Louis University (2024). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and she holds honorary doctorates from Marquette University (2006), Tilburg University (2017), Austral University in Buenos Aires (2021), and the Hochschule fuer Philosophie in Munich (2024). 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.

Among the grants she has held are grants from Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, the Pew Charitable Trust, the National Humanities Center, and the Issachar Fund. In addition, she has received several teaching awards, including, in 2004, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University. In 2013–15, together with John Greco, she held a $3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility.

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Alston</span> American philosopher (1921–2009)

William Payne Alston was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, and is also known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His views on foundationalism, internalism and externalism, speech acts, and the epistemic value of mystical experience, among many other topics, have been very influential. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, University of Illinois, and Syracuse University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scholasticism</span> Medieval school of philosophy

Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translated scholastic Judeo-Islamic philosophies, and thereby "rediscovered" the collected works of Aristotle. Endeavoring to harmonize his metaphysics and its account of a prime mover with the Latin Catholic dogmatic trinitarian theology, these monastic schools became the basis of the earliest European medieval universities, contributing to the development of modern science; scholasticism dominated education in Europe from about 1100 to 1700. The rise of scholasticism was closely associated with these schools that flourished in Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bonaventure</span> Italian theologian (1221–1274)

Bonaventure was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Analytical Thomism</span> Philosophical movement

Analytical Thomism is a philosophical movement which promotes the interchange of ideas between the thought of Thomas Aquinas, and modern analytic philosophy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Euthyphro dilemma</span> Ethical problem on the origin of morality posed by Socrates

The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" (10a)

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Étienne Gilson</span> French historian and philosopher (1884–1978)

Étienne Henri Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider himself a neo-Thomist philosopher. In 1946 he attained the distinction of being elected an "Immortal" (member) of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marilyn McCord Adams</span> American philosopher (1943–2017)

Marilyn McCord Adams was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School from 1998 to 2003 and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul of Venice</span>

Paul of Venice was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, logician and metaphysician of the Order of Saint Augustine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brian Davies (philosopher)</span> British philosopher

Brian Evan Anthony Davies is a British philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and friar. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, and author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, now in its fourth English edition, which has been translated into five languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Society of Christian Philosophers</span>

The Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) was founded in 1978. The society is open to anyone interested in philosophy who considers himself or herself a Christian. Membership is not restricted to any particular "school" of philosophy or to any branch of Christianity, nor to professional or academic philosophers. Terence Cuneo of the University of Vermont is currently President of the SCP, Justin McBrayer of Fort Lewis College is Executive Director, and Kevin Timpe of Calvin University is Treasurer.

Lambert of Auxerre was a medieval 13th century logician best known for writing the book "Summa Lamberti" or simply "Logica" in the mid 1250s which became an authoritative textbook on logic in the Western tradition. He was a Dominican in the Dominican house at Auxerre. His contemporaries were Peter of Spain, William of Sherwood, and Roger Bacon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Medieval philosophy</span> Philosophy during the medieval period

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, understood as a project of independent philosophical inquiry, began in Baghdad, in the middle of the 8th century, and in France and Germany, in the itinerant court of Charlemagne in Aachen, in the last quarter of the 8th century. It is defined partly by the process of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome during the Classical period, and partly by the need to address theological problems and to integrate sacred doctrine with secular learning. This is one of the defining characteristics in this time period. Understanding God was the focal point of study of the philosophers at that time, Muslim and Christian alike.

James Francis Ross was an American philosopher of religion, law, metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He was a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania from 1962 until his death in 2010.

Mary Twibill Clark was an American Roman Catholic nun, academic, and civil rights advocate. She was best known as a scholar of the history of philosophy, and was associated especially with Saint Augustine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert J. Henle</span> American Jesuit philosopher and academic administrator

Robert John Henle was an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and philosopher who was the president of Georgetown University from 1969 to 1976. Born in Iowa, Henle entered the Society of Jesus in 1927. He taught high school classics and published a series of instructional books on Latin, one of which became widely used. He then became a professor at Saint Louis University and was known as one of the leaders of the revival of Thomistic philosophy and theology. He also served as a dean and vice president for nearly 20 years. In this latter capacity, he oversaw Saint Louis University's growing independence from, but continuing affiliation with, the Jesuit order.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Augustinianism</span> Philosophical and theological system

Augustinianism is the philosophical and theological system of Augustine of Hippo and its subsequent development by other thinkers, notably Boethius, Anselm of Canterbury and Bonaventure. Among Augustine's most important works are The City of God, De doctrina Christiana, and Confessions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Cambridge Companion to Augustine</span>

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine refers to two volumes of essays about Augustine of Hippo and Augustinianism published in 2001 and 2014 by Cambridge University Press, with largely disjoint contents. The editors of the first version were Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, and for the second version Stump and David Vincent Meconi.

<i>The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas</i> 2012 reference work

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas is a book edited by the Catholic philosophers Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump. A reference work, it features a number of writers who provides scholarly essays on the life and views of the Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. The book, published on 25 January 2012 by Oxford University Press, was a part of the Oxford Handbook series, and was positively reviewed by critics, some deemed it a valuable introduction to Aquinas' thoughts, collectively known as Thomism.

<i>The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas</i> 1993 scholarly book edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas is a book edited by the American philosophers Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump. A reference work, it features a number of writers who provides scholarly essays on the thoughts of the Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas, collectively known as Thomism. The book was published on 28 May 1993 by Cambridge University Press. It received mixed responses from critics for being more focused to Aquinas' philosophy rather than his theology but has been deemed a valuable guide to the beginners by some.

Scott MacDonald is an American philosopher and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies at Cornell University. He is known for his works on philosophical theology.

References

  1. "Eleonore Stump". The Gifford Lectures. 2014-08-18. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
  2. "Prof Eleonore Stump". Blackfriars Hall. Retrieved 2023-06-14.