Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature: Significant Recent Scholarship

Robert C. Koons, Willliam M. R. Simpson, Barbara Drossel, and George F. R. Ellis, "The Two Faces of Semi-Physicalism: A Response to Hans Halvorson", Scientia et Fides 13.2 (October 2025): 49-76. https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2025.016

Willliam M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, "The Entanglement Problem for Psychological Hylomorphism", Res Philosophica 102.1 (January 2025): 41–67. https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica202541135

Robert C. Koons, "Prime Matter and the Quantum Wave Function", Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 6.1 (2024): 92-119. DOI: 10.3366/anph.2024.0104

William R. Simpson, "Cosmic Hylomorphism", Euro Jnl Phil Sci 11.28 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00342-5

David S. Oderberg, "Is Prime Matter Energy?", Australasian Journal of Philosophy (12 Jan 2022), DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2021.2010222

John W. Keck, "Maximal motion and minimal matter: Aristotelian physics and special relativity", Synthese 200 (2022), Article number: 377, pages 1-26.
Published 06 September 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03771-2
Article number: 496 = Correction to article: Published 22 November 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03961-y

Robert C. Koons, Is St. Thomas's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine's Press, 2022).

I.1-3. "Aristotle, God, and the Quantum," in Knowing Creation: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science, Andrew Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, eds. (HarperCollins, 2018), 215–36.

I.4. "The Quantum Revolution and the Reconciliation of Science and Humanism," The New Apologetics, Matthew Nelson (ed.) (Irving, TX: WOF Institute, 2022).

II.3-4. "Thermal Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Ontology for the Quantum World," Synthese (2019), doi:10.1007/211229-019-02318-2. [6.1a]

III.3. "Hylomorphic Escalation: A Hylomorphic Interpretation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Chemistry," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2018): 159–78. [2.2, 6.1b]

IV.1-6. "Powers Ontology and the Quantum Revolution," European Journal of Philosophy of Science 11.1 (2021): 1–28. [II.2.1, III.1–2]

V. "The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative," in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, ed. William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas Teh (Routledge, 2017), 61–104.

VI.2-6. "Essential Thermochemical and Biological Powers," in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature, William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and James Orr, eds. (London: Routledge, 2022a). [7.4]

VI. "Remnants of Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Resolution of the Puzzles," Quaestiones Disputatae 10.2 (2020): 53–68.

River Forest Dominican Collection

• Albertus Magnus Lyceum
  • Constitution and By-Laws of the Albertus Magnus Lyceum
  • Albertus Magnus Lyceum Newsletter, #1-11
  • Albertus Magnus Lyceum: Agenda, Memorandum on Progress, Report: 1952
  • Pamphlet on Science in Synthesis
  • Memo on 1952 Summer Session
  • Photographs and pamphlets concerning AML activities
  • Carlson, "Proposal for a Summer School for Scientists"
  • "The Albertus Magnus Lyceum for Natural Science: Report to Provincial Chapter, July 17, 1956"
  • Bulletin of the Albertus Magnus Guild
  • Two texts on the vocation, achievement, and future plans of the Albertus Magnus Lyceum
  • Thomist Bulletin, "Albertus Magnus Lyceum and Contemporary Science"
  • List of Publications from Aquinas Institute, and from Albertus Magnus Lyceum
  • "Psychologia seu Tertia Pars Philosophiae Naturalis"
  • "The Special Sciences of Physics and Chemistry"
  • "Relationship of Philosophy to Science (Psychology)"
  • O'Rourke: Seminar: "How can the Existence of God Be Proven to Contemporary Scientists"
  • Two articles on the Xavier Program
  • "On the Position of St. Thomas and the Problem of Natural Science and Faith"
  • "The Present State of Research on the Philosophy of Science"
  • Bibliographies, Kane and Ashley
  • An Experimental Course in Critical Analysis, Part I: Basic Principles (incomplete)
  • Ashley and Brother Albert, Report on Discussion on Method of Modern Science

• Benedict Ashley
  • Aristotle's Sluggish Earth: The Problematics of the De Caelo
  • "Causality and Evolution"
  • "Constructing and Reconstructing the Human Body"
  • "Three Strands in the Thought of Eckhart, the Scholastic Theologian"
  • "Living in Christ"
  • "The River Forest School and the Philosophy of Nature Today"
  • "Scriptural Grounds for Concrete Moral Norms"
  • "Research into the Intrinsic Final Causes of Physical Things"
  • Ashley and Conway, The Liberal Arts in St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Review of Colish, The Mirror of Language
  • Review of Montagu, The Concept of the Primitive
  • Review of Schlegel, Inquiry into Science: Its Domain and Limits
  • Review of Shannon and Cahill, Religion and Artificial Reproduction
  • Review of Silver, Judaism and Ethics
  • Review of Wilshire, William James and Phenomenology

• Pierre Conway
  • "The Barber Paradox"
  • "Induction in Aristotle and St. Thomas"
  • "In Search of a Happy Ending"
  • Principles of Education: A Thomistic Approach
  • "What the Modern Man Should Not Believe"
  • Review of Blackwell, Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible
  • Review of Fairweather, Aquinas on Nature and Grace
  • Review of Kocourek, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature
  • Review of Margenau, Thomas and the Physics of 1958: A Confrontation

• Corcoran
  • "Pathological Guilt Feelings"
  • "Psychology of the Charismatic Renewal"
  • "Thomistic Analysis and Care of Scrupulosity"
  • "Healing"
  • "Adolescent Sexual Maturity: Role of the Family"

• William H. Kane
  • Approach to Philosophy: Elements of Thomism
  • "Aristotle and Moderate Realism: A Rejoinder"
  • "The Cause of Blessed Albert the Great"
  • Commentary on Foley, "The Interplay of Art and Nature in Physical Theory"
  • Commentary on McWilliam, "The Finality of Matter"
  • "Critical Analysis: Scientific Knowledge"
  • "Evolution and Modern Man"
  • "The Extent of Natural Philosophy"
  • "Existence and Causality"
  • "Hylemorphism and the Recent Views of the Constitution of Matter"
  • "The Ideals of Religious Life"
  • Nogar, "Nature: Deterministic or Indeterministic"
  • "Outline of a Thomistic Critique of Knowledge"
  • "The real contains no more than the possible"
  • "Reasons for the Facts of Organic Life"
  • "Religious Obedience"
  • "Science and Philosophy"
  • Science in Synthesis
  • "St. Albert's Portrait of Mary"
  • "Unification of the Natural Sciences"
  • "The Virtue of Obedience"
  • "Why Bodies Fall"
  • "Why We Believe in the Assumption"
  • "William James's Theory of Knowledge"
  • "La Causa Finale Nella Scienza"
  • Review of Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science
  • Review of Maritain, Philosophy of Nature
  • Review of Koestler, The Sleepwalkers
  • Review, Koren, Introduction to the Philosophy of Animate Nature
  • Review, The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry
  • Review of Owen, An Interpretation of Existence
  • Review of Rasolo, Le Dilemma du Concours Divin
  • Review of Reith, Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Review of Sambursky, The Physical World of the Greeks, and Philippe, Initiation à la Philosophie d'Aristote

• William Wallace
  • "Aquinas on Creation: Science, Theology, and Matters of Fact"
  • "Medalists Address: Aquinas, Galileo, and Aristotle"
  • Weisheiple, "Twenty-seventh Award of the Aquinas Medal to William A. Wallace, O.P."
  • "Aristotelian Influences on Galileo's Thought"
  • "The Dating and Significance of Galileo's Pisan Manuscripts"
  • "Existential Ethics: A Thomistic Appraisal"
  • "The First Way: A Rejoinder"
  • "Nature as Animating: The Soul in the Human Sciences"
  • "Newtonian Antinomies Against the Prima Via"
  • "The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science"
  • "The Problem of Apodictic Proof in Early 17th century Mechanics Galileo, Guevaura, and the Jesuits"
  • "Religion and Science: Must There Be a Conflict?"
  • "Science, Dialectics, and Rhetoric in Aristotle and Aquinas"
  • "St. Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, and Einstein"
  • "Thomism and Modern Science: Relationships Past, Present, and Future"
  • "Zabarella and Galileo: the Transmission of Paduan Methodology"
  • Review of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vols. 4, 5
  • Review of Bryar's St. Thomas and the Existence of God
  • Review of de Chardin's Science and Christ
  • Review of Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Review of Geil and Maxwell's Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Grünbaum's Philosophical Problems of Space and Time
  • Review of Melvin Glutz's The Manner of Demonstrating in Natural Philosophy
  • Review of Hoenen's De Noetica Geometriae, Originae Theoria Cognitionis
  • Review of Kenny's The Five Ways and Reichenbach's The Cosmological Argument. A Reassessment
  • Review of J. Kiley's Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement
  • Review of Kristeller's Le Thomisme et la pensée italienne de la renaissance
  • Review of Kristeller's Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learningand Matsen's Alessandro Achillini and His Doctrine of 'Universals' and 'Transcendentals'
  • Review of McMullin's The Inference that Science Makes
  • Review of Ramirez's Opera Omnia
  • Review of Six Studies of Causality on the Bicentenary of David Hume
  • Reviews of Spector, Methodological Foundations of Relativistic Mechanics Sachs, The Field Concept in Contemporary Science, and Grünbaum, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time
  • Review of van Steenberghen, Le Retour à saint Thomas, a-t-il encore un sens aujourd'hui? and Mclean, Philosophy in the 20th Century: Catholic and Christian

• James Weisheipl
  • "Albert the Great and Medieval Culture"
  • "Thomas d'Aquino and Albert His Teacher"
  • Aristotelian Methodology: A Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle
  • "Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Avicenna and Aquinas"
  • "The Meaning of Sacra Doctrina in Summa Theologiae I, q. 1"
  • "The Nature, Scope, and Classification of the Sciences"
  • "The Relationship of Medieval Natural Philosophy to Modern Science: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas to its Understanding"
  • Review of Callus and Hunt, Johannes Blund, Tractatus De Anima
  • Review of Clagett, Critical Problems in the History of Science
  • Review of Hinnebusch, History of the Dominican Order, vol. II
  • Review of vol. 28 of the Leonine edition
  • Review of Piolanti, San Tommaso, Fonti e riflessi del suo pensiero, Saggi
  • Review of Regis, Epistemology
  • Review of Robb, St. Thomas Aquinas Quaestiones De Anima
  • Review of Wallace, Causality and Scientific Explanation

• Other Authors
  • Sr. Adrian Marie, OP, "The Education of a Scientist"
  • Leo M. Bond, OP, The Effect of Bodily Temperament on Psychical Characteristics. River Forest, IL: Pontificia Facultas Philosophiae in Studio Generali Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 1948.
  • John Bonée,
    • "Godless Humanism and the Christian School"
    • "Historical Setting of the Science-Philosophy Relationship"
    • "Theology for the Undergrad: A Reply"
  • "Catholicism and the Practice and Theory of Psychoanalysis"
  • Thomas Cunningham, "Sir Isaac Newton and Gravitational Attraction"
  • Amicetus Fernandez-Alonzo, "Science and Philosophy according to St. Albert the Great"
  • Hofstetter, Dineen, Stokely,
    • "Skeletal Differences between the Black and White Crappies"
    • "The Auditory Organ and Its Relation to the Skull Bones of a Freshwater Teleost"
  • Address by John XXIII to the 5th International Thomistic Congress (1960/09/15)
  • Sr. Mary Dominic, "Religion and Nature Study: Interrelation at the Primary Level"
  • Sr. Mary Olivia,
    • "Challenge Accepted"
    • "Albertus Magnus"
  • George Polk, "Necessary Distinctions Preliminary to New Investigations in Non-mathematical Physics"
  • Sr. M. Rosaire, "Outline of a Critique"
  • Seeger, "On Scientific Thought in Literature"
  • Vincent Smith,
    • "The Child in the World of Creatures
    • "Science in the Curriculum"
  • Michael Stock, "Consciousness and its Limits According to St. Thomas"
  • A.E. Woodruff, "Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory"
  • Notes on Degrés du Savoir
  • Review of Ashley, Theologies of the Body: Humanist and Christian, by William May
  • Review of Wallace, Galileo and His Sources, by Antonio Moreno
  • Review of Nogar, The Lord of the Absurd, by Thomas Heath
  • Review of Nogar and Deely, The Problem of Evolution, by F. F. Centore
  • Review of Science in Synthesis, by Roy Bode
  • Review of Weisheipl, Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages, by Francis Kelley
  • Review of Glutz, The Manner of Demonstrating in Natural Philosophy, by William Baumgaertner
  • Review of Weisheipl, Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays, by William Carroll