Giuseppe Butera

Assistant Professor

Contact Information:

gbutera@providence.edu

401.865.1103

St. Catherine of Siena Hall 124

Education:

Ph.D. - Philosophy, Catholic University

Brief Biography:

Born to Italian immigrants and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, I earned a B.Sc. and an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America.

Area(s) of Expertise:

Thomistic Virtue Ethics, Thomistic Philosophical Psychology, Thomistic Natural Law Theory

Selected Presentations:

Butera, G. American Maritain Association. , Providence, RI - "Conference Organizer" March, 2014

Butera, G. American Maritain Association. , Philadelphia, PA - "Interpreting Vatican II: Beyond Continuity and Discontinuity" October, 2012

Butera, G. American Maritain Association. , South Bend, IN - "Paper: Word and Deed: Living the Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher" October, 2011

Butera, G. The Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas and its Modern Interpreters. , New York City, NY - "God and Act" March, 2011

Butera, G. American Maritain Association. , Canton, OH - "Themes in Ethics, Politics and Practice & Maritain and Other Contemporary Thinkers" October, 2010

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