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.
UniversitéLaval is a public research university in Quebec City,Quebec,Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec,founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663,making it the oldest institution of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university,which was founded in Old Québec,moved to a new campus in the 1950s in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge. It is ranked among the top 10 Canadian universities in research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs.
Aquinas College is a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Grand Rapids,Michigan. The Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids formed it as the Novitiate Normal School in 1886. It has also been known as Sacred Heart College,Maywood College,and Catholic Junior College. The college has more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offers 61 majors,awarding bachelor's degrees and master's degrees. Alicia Cordoba is the ninth and current president of the college.
Louis-Albert Vachon,was a Canadian educator,cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church,and Archbishop of Quebec.
Thomas Aquinas College is a private Catholic liberal arts college with its main campus in Santa Paula,California. A second campus opened in Northfield,Massachusetts,in 2018. Its education is based on the Great Books,and students are instructed via the seminar method. It is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.
Louis LeBel was a Canadian jurist who was a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He served on the Court from 2000 to 2014.
Brother Jean-Paul Desbiens,Frère Pierre-Jérôme,F.M.S.,OC was a Quebec writer,journalist,teacher and member of the Catholic institute of Marist Brothers.
Robert Christner Trundle,Jr. is an American philosopher,author,and college professor. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fate Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in Ufology in 2005 based on his book Is E.T. Here? and an article published in Science and Method in the Netherlands.
The Universitéde Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit,in the borough of Outremont. The institution comprises thirteen faculties,more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools:the Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal. It offers more than 650 undergraduate programmes and graduate programmes,including 71 doctoral programmes.
Marcus Berquist was one of the founders of Thomas Aquinas College,a professor,and an expert on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
George John Blewett was a Canadian philosopher and theologian.
Jean-Marie De Koninck,is a Canadian mathematician. He has served as a professor at UniversitéLaval since 1972 and is the creator of the road safety program Opération Nez Rouge,or "Red Nose Operation",a system preventing people from drinking and driving.
Ralph Matthew McInerny was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny's most popular mystery novels featured Father Dowling,and was later adapted into the Father Dowling Mysteries television show,which ran from 1987 to 1991.
Michel Gervais,was the 22nd rector of UniversitéLaval from 1987 to 1997.
Robert Emmet Barron is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire,and was the host of Catholicism,a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.
Vernon Joseph Bourke (1907–1998) was a Canadian-born American Thomist philosopher and professor at Saint Louis University. His area of expertise was ethics,and especially the moral philosophy of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
Christian Genest is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University,where he holds a Canada Research Chair. He is the author of numerous research papers in multivariate analysis,nonparametric statistics,extreme-value theory,and multiple-criteria decision analysis.
Luc Langlois is a Canadian philosopher,writer,and translator. He is a professor of philosophy at Laval University. He served as the francophone editor of the journal Dialogue:Canadian Philosophical Review.
Taylor Reed Marshall is an American Catholic writer and YouTube commentator. A former Episcopal Church priest,Marshall converted to Catholicism and became an advocate of traditionalist Catholicism. He is the author of multiple books,including Infiltration:The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within and his bestselling historical fiction series Sword and Serpent. Marshall currently teaches at the New Saint Thomas Institute,an online Catholic education institute that he founded in 2013 with students from over 70 nations.
Bruce D. Marshall is a Catholic theologian and Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. His work focuses primarily on Trinitarian theology,Christology,the relation of philosophy and theology,and the links shared between Judaism and Christianity.
