John W. Peck, SJ, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Philosophy

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Education

B.A. 2003, Pontifical College Josephinum
S.T.B. 2007, Pontifical Gregorian University
M.A. 2011, Fordham University
S.T.L. 2015, Boston College
Ph.D. 2021, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests

Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy

Publications and Media Placements

“Thomas Aquinas’s Prime Matter Pluralism”, The Thomist (forthcoming).  

“Another Motivation for First Matter”. In David Svoboda, Prokop Sousedík & Lukáš Novák (eds.), Second Scholasticism — Analytical Metaphysics — Christian Apologetics. Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: editiones scholasticae. pp. 229-266.

"Gregory of Rimini's Augustinian Defense of a World ab aeterno," Studia Patristica 87 (2017): 135-146.

"James of Metz and the Dominican Tradition on the Eternity of the Word, ca. 1300," Medioevo 40 (2015): 265-330. (with Chris Schabel).

"Killing with Impunity: St. Augustine and Giorgio Agamben on Sovereignty," The St. Anselm Journal 10 (2015): 73-87.

"Angelic Primal Sin: A Test Case for Aquinas' Intellectualism," Gregorianum 95 (2014): 105-126.