Curriculum Vitae, Patrick
Lee
John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics
Director,
Franciscan
740-283-5339
email at: plee@franciscan.edu
website: www.patrickleebioethics.com
Degrees: Ph. D.,
M.A.,
B.A.,
Teaching Experience:
Professor, 1996 to present, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Associate Professor, 11 yrs.,
Assistant Professor, 3 yrs., University of St. Thomas, 1981-1984
Instructor & Assistant Professor (promoted to Asst. Prof. in 1980), 3
yrs., St. Francis de
Teaching Assistant, 2 yrs., Marquette University, 1976-78
High School Teacher, 1 yr.,
Teaching Assistant, 1 yr., Niagara University, 1974-75
Memberships: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Society of Christian Philosophers, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Publications:
Books:
with Robert P. George, Body-Self Dualism
in Contemporary Ethics and Politics,
Abortion and Unborn Human Life,
Articles in Refereed Journals or Books:
---"Theology and Thomistic Ethics," Faith and Reason 3 (1979), 47-68.
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---"The Permanence of the Ten Commandments:
---"Aquinas and Scotus on
---"Language about God and the Theory of Analogy," New Scholasticism, 58 (1984), 40-66.
---"The Relation Between Intellect and Will in Free Choice According to Aquinas and Scotus," The Thomist 49 (1985), 321- 342.
---"Aquinas on Knowledge of Truth and Existence," New Scholasticism 60 (1986), 46-71.
---"Existential Propositions in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas," The Thomist 52 (1988), 605-626.
---"Reasons and Religious Belief," Faith and Philosophy, 6 (1989), 19-34.
---"Etienne Gilson's Thomist Realism, A Review Article," New Scholasticism, 43 (1989), 81-100.
---"Principles of Catholic Scholarship," in Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1988.
---"Personhood, the Moral Standing of the Unborn, and Abortion," Linacre Quarterly 57 (1990), 80-89.
---"Self-Consciousness and the Right to Life," in Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Responses, ed. Stephan Heaney (Braintree, Massachusetts: Pope John Center, 1992), 73-84.
---"Evidentialism, Plantinga, and the Rationality of Religious Belief," in Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology, ed. Linda Zagzebski (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1993), 14-167.
---"Existence, Truth and Realism," in Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars, ed. R.A. Herrera, James Lehrberger, O.Cist., M.E. Bradford (Peter Lang: New York, 1993), 95-106.
---the following articles in Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine: Absolute Moral Norms, Capital Sins, Cardinal Virtues, Choice, Conscience, Consequentialism, Cooperation, Deontology, Double Effect, Formation of Conscience, Free Choice, Hedonism, Human Goods, Human Virtues, Legalism, Modes of Responsibility, Natural Law, Passions, Positivism, Practical Reason, Probabilism, Proportionalism, Relativism, Subjectivism, Synderesis, Teleology, Utilitarianism, Vices.
---"Human Beings are Animals," International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1997), 291-304.
---"Is
---with Robert P. George, "What Sex Can Be: Self-Alienation, Illusion,
or One-Flesh
---"The Goodness of Creation, Evil, and Christian Teaching" The Thomist 64 (2000), 239-270.
---"Personhood, Dignity, Suicide, and Euthanasia," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2001), 329-344.
---"Germain Grisez’s Christian Humanism," American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2002), 137-152.
---"Does God Have Emotions," in God Under Fire: Modern
Scholarship Reinvents God, eds. Douglas Huffman and Eric Johnson (
---with John Haldane, "St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Ensoulment," Philosophy 78 (2003), 255-278.
--- “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo,” in Nicholas Lund-Molfese and
Michael Kelly, eds., Human Dignity and
Reproductive Technology (
---with John Haldane, “Rational Souls and the Beginning of Life,” Philosophy 78 (2003), 532-540.
---"The Pro-Life Argument from Substantial Identity: A Defense," Bioethics
18 (2004), 249-263.
--- “Are There Exceptionless Moral Norms?” in Nicholas C. Lund-Molfese and
Michael Kelly, eds., Bioethics: A Culture War (
---with Robert P. George, “The Wrong of Abortion,” in Andrew I. Cohen and
Christopher Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2005), 13-26.
--- “Abortion and Christian
Bioethics: The Continuing Ethical
Importance of Abortion,” Christian
Bioethics 10 (2004), 1-31.
--- “The Human Body and Sexuality in
the Teaching of Pope John Paul II,” in C. Tollefsen, (ed.), John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic
Bioethics (The Netherlands:
Springer, 2004), 107-120.
--- “Soul, Body and Personhood,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 49
(2004), 87-125.
--- “Marriage and Acts Reproductive in Kind,” Vera Lex, Journal of the International Natural Law Society 6 (2005), 163-182.
--- “Accepting God’s
Offer of Personal Communion, in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the
Body of Christ, His Church,” in Mark J.
Cherry, ed., The Death of Metaphysics;
the Death of Culture (Dordrecht:
Springer, 2006), 3-30.
--- “Interrogational Torture,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 51 (2006), 131-147.
--- “Embryonic Human Beings,” The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 22 (2006), 424-438.
--- “Substantial
Identity and the Right to Life: A
Rejoinder to Dean Stretton,” Bioethics 21
(2007), 93-97.
--- “Evil as Such is a Privation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2007).
--- “The Papal
Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients:
A Reply to Fr. O’Rourke,” in Christopher Tollefsen, ed. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, The New
Catholic Debate (The
---with Robert P. George, “The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity,” in Human Dignity and Bioethics, Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (Washington, DD, March 2008), 409-434, reprinted on Ratio Juris, 2008.
--- “Marriage, Procreation, and Same-Sex Unions,” The Monist 91 (2008), 422-445.
---with Robert P. George, “What Male-Female Complementarity
Makes Possible: Marriage as a
Two-in-One-Flesh
---with Robert P.
George, “Embryonic Human Persons.
Talking Point on Morality and Human Embryo Research,” EMBO Reports, 10 (2009), 301-306
---“Human
Nature and Moral Goodness,” in Mark Cherry, ed., The Normativity of the Natural (
---with Maureen Condic and Robert P. George, “Ontological and Ethical Implications of Direct
Nuclear Reprogramming: Response to Magill and Neaves,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 19 (2009), 33-40.
Some
Recent Articles in Popular Journals:
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---“Why Marriage is Inherently Heterosexual,” originally in The Public Discourse, available at: http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=31195
---“Obama on Abortion:
How About Some ‘Vigorous Debate,’” online at Public Discourse, July 24, 2009, at: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/07/727
---with Maureen Condic and Robert P. George, “The Grail Searchers,” online at National Review Online, July 20, 2009, at: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDFkM2ZiOGEwOWVkY2Y2ZTlhNDk2MjdkMWQ3NzZhNmY=
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---“Why Marriage is Inherently Heterosexual,” originally in The Public Discourse, available at: http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=31195
---with Robert P. George, “Embryonic Issues,” National Review Online Jan 22, 2007, at: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDk5ZTE4MjBiMDFmZjc0M2EyNjE0MDc2ZjA4YmRmN2U=
--- “Human-Embryo Liberation,” National
Review Online, January 25, 2006.
---with Robert P. George, “The
Human Embryo from Day 1 to Day 14,” New Atlantis, Summer, 2006.
---with Robert P. George, “Science Gets Duped Again,” Ethics
and Public Policy Center, online at:
http://www.eppc.org/programs/bioethics/publications/programID.35,pubID.2665/pub_detail.asp
---with Robert P. George,
“Fundamentalists, We?” National Review Online, Oct. 3, 2006, at: http://books.nationalreview.com/review/?q=OTNiYWM2ZjJiYWVlN2IyMzFjOWYwMDZmMTc4MzU2MGU=
---with Robert P. George, “Silver
Lining, a Reply to Lee Silver” National Review Online Oct. 19, 2006,
at: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjNmZmYyN2NhNjFkYWRhNmExMDA2YzhiMDY5YzMyYTI=
Some Recent Invited Lectures:
October 13, “The
Personhood of the Unborn,” Lecture, Annual
Banquet of
December 12, “The Dignity of the Person and End of Life Issues,” Lecture, conference for physicians, nurses and Carmelite Sisters hosted by the Carmelite Sisters at Santa Teresita Nursing Home, Los Angeles
February 25, 2009, “The Right and
the Good in Natural Law,” Lecture, Conference on ‘Making Men Moral,’
April 25, 2009, “Human Life at
its Beginning and End,” lecture: Conference hosted by ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women),
April 22, 2008, “Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” University of Wisconsin at Wausau, Wausau, Wisconsin.
May 2, 2008, “Is it Morally Right to End Early Human Life?” panel discussion with Jeff McMahan, Don Marquis, and Peter Singer, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
August 14, “The Human Person as
Body and Soul,” Conference for Christian
Students,
December 12, “The Dignity of the
Person and End of Life Issues,” conference for physicians, nurses and Carmelite
Sisters hosted by the Carmelite Sisters
at Santa Teresita Nursing Home, Los Angelos
Jan. 27, 2008, “The Embryonic Human Being,” Joint
Conference of the St. Thomas More Society and the Catholic Medical Association,
“Same-Sex ‘Marriage’: A Debate, April 3, 2007,
“The
Immorality of Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” April 17, 2007, Conference on
Embryonic Stem Cell Research,
Book Reviews:
Review: William E. May, Catholic
Bioethics and the Gift of Life, 2nd edition, forthcoming in National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Review: John T. Noonan, A Private Choice, Abortion in
Review: Philip E. Devine, The Ethics of Homicide, Linacre Quarterly 47 (1980), 370-373.
Review: E. Gratsch, et al., Principles of Catholic Theology, Faith and Reason 8 (1982), 87-89.
Review: Anthony Battaglia, Toward a Reformulation of Natural Law, Linacre Quarterly 49 (1982), 281-283.
Review: Jeffrey Stout, The Flight from Authority, The Thomist 48 (1984), 483-489.
Review: Peter Klein, Certainty: A Refutation of Scepticism, The Thomist 48 (1984), 690-694.
Review: Paul Weiss, Privacy, Modern Schoolman, 43 (1986), 149-51.
Review: Bernard Doering, Jacques Maritain and the French Intellectuals, Modern Schoolman, 44 (1986), 60-61.
Review: Richard T. DeGeorge, Authority, in Modern Schoolman 45 (1987).
Review: Joseph Seifert, Back to Things in Themselves, Review of Metaphysics, 1988.
Review: John C. Ford, S.J., Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William E. May, The Teaching of Humanae Vitae: A Defense, Reflections, Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1 & 10.
Review: Benedict Ashley, Theologies of the Body, in Linacre Quarterly, 2000.
Review: Robert P. George, Making Men Moral, in Review of Metaphysics, 2001.
Review: Robert P. George, Natural Law Theory, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2001.
Review: John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in
Thomas Aquinas, in Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001), 127-131.