T. J. Higgins, S.J., Chair in Philosophy
Office: HU 050E
410-617-2815
prblum@loyola.edu
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Education and Experience
- Ph.D. - University of München (Germany), 1978
- Habilitation - Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), 1994
- Professor of Philosophy at Péter Pázmány Catholic University Budapest (Hungary) 1996-2002
Areas of Specialization
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy in the Renaissance
- Jesuit and Modern Scholastic Philosophy
- Philosophy of Nature
- Philosophy of History
Recent Courses Taught
- PL 201: Foundations of Philosophy
- PL 202: Philosophical Perspectives – The Project of Modernity
- PL 397: Philosophy of Mind
- HN 260: Honors: Renaissance to Modern
- PL 355: Philosophy of History
- PL 364: Philosophy of Nature
Selected Publications
- Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, Farnham (Ashgate) 2010.
- Philosophers of the Renaissance, Washington (Catholic University of America Press) 2010.
- Philosophieren in der Renaissance, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2004 (Ursprünge des Philosophierens 4).
- Giordano Bruno, München 1999 (Beck'sche Reihe "Denker" 551).
- Philosophenphilosophie und Schulphilosophie - Typen des Philosophierens in der Neuzeit, Wiesbaden (Steiner) 1998 (Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 27).
- Pico, Theology, and the Church, in M. V. Dougherty (ed.): Pico della Mirandola. New Essays, Cambridge (University Press) 2008, 37-60.
- The immortality of the soul, in James Hankins (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge (University Press) 2007, 211-233.
- "Ecclesia, quare dormis?" Raimondo Lullo e la missione laicale, in Bruniana & Campanelliana 13 (2007) 31-42.
- Die List der Vernunft: Lévinas, Thomas und die Ethik des Wissens, in: István Gábor Cselényi et al. (eds.): Aquinói
- Szent Tamás nyomán. A Magyarországi Aquinói Szent Tamás Társaság konferencái 2004-2005 [In the Footsteps of Thomas Aquinas. Congresses of the Hungarian Thomas Aquinas Society 2004-2005], Budapest (Magyarországi Aquinói Szent Tamás Társaság) 2007, 9-26.