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McEvoy

Professor James McEvoy

Part-time Chair in Scholastic Philosophy
(BD PU Maynooth, PhD Louvain)

Contact Details
Room 19.205
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3992
email: j.mcevoy@qub.ac.uk
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Areas

Current Teaching interests include Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Theology and Philosophical Psychology.

Research Interests

Research interest at present include in a broad way medieval and Scholastic philosophy, theistic metaphysics and the philosophy of religion; the critical edition of Latin works by Robert Grosseteste (+1253); the development of Latin Neoplatonism ca 400-1450; and philosophical theories of friendship and community.

Research Supervision

Scholastic Philosophy: medieval philosophy; philosophy theology.

Recent/Selected Publications

  • Robert Grosseteste, Great Medieval Thinkers (New York/Oxford: OUP, 2000), xx+220pp.
  • [ed., with Michael Dunne] Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), 180pp.
  • [ed., with Jacques Follon] Sagesses de l'amitié II. Vestigia 29, Pensée antique et médiévale (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg/Paris: Le Cerf, 2003), vii+531pp.
  • Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on De Mystica Theologia. Edition, Translation, and Introduction by James McEvoy, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 3 (Paris/Leuven/Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2003), xii+139pp.
  • “Freundschaft und Liebe”, Thomas von Aquin: Die Summa Theologiae. Werkinterpretationen, hrsg. von Andreas Speer (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005): 298-321.