John F. X. Knasas

John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realism and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Fr. Joseph Owens. He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.

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  1. ↑ Jeremy Wilkins, "A Dialectic of 'Thomist' Realisms: John Knasas and Bernard Lonergan," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 107–30
  2. ↑ John F.X. Knasas, "Why for Lonergan Knowing Cannot Consist in 'Taking a Look'" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 131–50.
  3. ↑ Condic, Samuel B. I, "How a priori Is Lonergan?" Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79 (2005), 103-16.
  4. ↑ John F.X. Knasas, Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists, New York: Fordham UP, 2003.
  5. ↑ CV Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Knasas, John Francis Xavier, Title page, An Analysis and Interpretation of the "Tertia Via" of St. Thomas Aquinas (Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto: 1975).

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