Eleonore Stump

Eleonore Stump
Born	(1947-08-09) August 9, 1947 (age 77)
Alma mater	Grinnell College (AB) Harvard University (AM) Cornell University (MA, PhD)
Institutions	Saint Louis University
Thesis	Boethius's De Topicis Differentiis  (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Kretzmann [ citation needed ]
Notable students	Jennifer Hart Weed Jason Eberl Kevin Timpe Michael Rota Timothy Pawl Eric Silverman Andrew Pinsent Adam Green Stephen Chanderbhan Yong Li Faith Glavey Pawl Donald J. Bungum Robert J. Hartman Jeremy W. Skrzypek Matthew Shea James Kintz Kevin Cutright Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP. Alexandra Romanyshyn Adrian Patrick McCaffery Fr. David Paternostro
Main interests	Medieval Philosophy Metaphysics Philosophy of Religion

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.

Biography

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She received a B.A. in classical languages from Grinnell College (1969), where she was 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). Before coming to Saint Louis University, she taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, and Notre Dame.

She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Among her many books are 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). Her work has been translated into Polish, Russian, Chinese, Swedish, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Among other named lectures, she has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018), and the Dewey lecture (American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2023).

She has received grants from the Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the National Humanities Center, and the Pew Charitable Trust. Together with John Greco, she has held a $3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility. In addition, she has received several awards for her teaching, including the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University.

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). In 2013, the American Catholic Philosophical Association awarded her the Aquinas medal.

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.

Bibliography

Books

• Stump, Eleonore (1978). Boethius's De topicis differentiis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1988). Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1989). Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (collected essays). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2003). Aquinas. London: Routledge.
• Stump, Eleonore (2010). Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2016). The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers, Aquinas Lecture. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2018). Atonement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2022). The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2023). Philosophical Theology and the Knowledge of Persons (collected essays). Eugene: Wipf and Stock.
• Stump, Eleonore (2024). Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Medieval Philosophy

• Stump, Eleonore (1981). "Roger Swyneshed's Theory of Obligations." Medioevo 7: 135–174.
• Stump, Eleonore (1985). "The Logic of Disputation in Walter Burley's Treatise on Obligations." Synthese 63: 533–374.
• Stump, Eleonore (2006). "Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution: Aquinas on the Soul." In Die menschliche Seele: Brauchen wir den Dualismus? Edited by Bruno Niederbacher and Edmund Runggaldier, 157–171. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
• Stump, Eleonore (2010). "The Problem of Evil." In Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, vol. 2. Edited by Robert Pasnau, 773–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2011). "The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas's Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions." Faith and Philosophy 28.1
• Stump, Eleonore (2019). "Dante on the Evil of Treachery: Narrative and Philosophy." In Evil: A History. Edited by Andrew Chignell, 252–257. New York: Oxford University Press.

Philosophy of Religion (including work on Eternity)

• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1981). "Eternity." Journal of Philosophy 78: 429–458.
• Stump, Eleonore (1986). "Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of God." The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16: 181–198.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1991). "Prophecy, Past Truth, and Eternity." Philosophical Perspectives 5: 395–424.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1992). "Eternity, Awareness, and Action." Faith and Philosophy 9: 463–482.
• Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1996). "An Objection to Swinburne's Argument for Dualism." Faith and Philosophy 13: 405–412.
• Stump, Eleonore (1997). "Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil." Faith and Philosophy 14. 523–549.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "God's Simplicity." In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Faith, Wisdom, and the Transmission of Knowledge through Testimony." In Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue. Edited by Timothy O'Connor and Laura Frances Callahan, 204–230. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2021). "The True Self and Life After Death in Heaven." In Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life. Edited by T. Ryan Byerly, 65–81. London: Routledge.

Free Will and Metaphysics

• Stump, Eleonore (1988). "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will." Journal of Philosophy 85: 395–420.
• Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Persons: Identification and Freedom." Philosophical Topics 24: 183–214.
• Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Libertarian Freedom and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities." In Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today. Edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Jeff Jordan, 73–88. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: The Flicker of Freedom." The Journal of Ethics 3: 299–324.
• Stump, Eleonore (2000). "The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61: 459–466.
• Stump, Eleonore and John Martin Fischer (2000). "Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility." Philosophical Perspectives 14: 47–55.
• Stump, Eleonore (2000). "Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities." In Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities. Edited by Michael McKenna and David Widerker, 139–158. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics." In Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism. Edited by Ruth Groff and John Greco, 46–68. New York: Routledge.
• Stump, Eleonore (2018). "The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will." In Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism. Edited by Benjamin H. Arbour. New York: Routledge.

Other

• Stump, Eleonore (1994). "The Mirror of Evil." In God and the Philosophers. Edited by Thomas Morris, 235–247. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Orthodoxy and Heresy." Faith and Philosophy 16: 487–503.
• Stump, Eleonore (2004). "Personal Relations and Moral Residue." History of the Human Sciences: Theorizing from the Holocaust: What is to be Learned? 17.2/3: 33–57.
• Stump, Eleonore (2007). "Beauty as a Road to God." Sacred Music 134.4: 11–24.

External links

• Eleonore Stump – Personal page
• Eleonore Stump Homepage at Saint Louis University
• Eleonore Stump on Philpapers
• Henry Stob Lectures (1998)