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Ph.D. (Philosophy) Saint Louis University, 2008
M.A. (Philosophy) Saint Louis University, 2007
Graduate Certificate (Medieval Studies) Saint Louis University, 2005
B.A., Hon. (Philosophy) University of Texas-Austin, 2000
Dr. Salas is an assistant professor of philosophy specializing in medieval philosophy, especially the metaphysical thought of Thomas Aquinas. His current research concerns the doctrine of the analogy of being as it is found in the intersection of philosophy and theology. Dr. Salas also has research interests in continental philosophy, in the underlying metaphysics of Søren Kierkegaard’s existential thought, and contemporary postmodern negative theologies.
He has several articles forthcoming, including:
“The Analogy of Giving and Receiving in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II," Gregorianum.
"Hervaeus Natalis and Dietrich von Hildebrand: The Roots of Realist Phenomenology in Scholasticism," with Elizabeth Salas, Angelicum.
"Francisco Suárez and Analogy: Resolving a Tension," Studia Neoaristotelica.
"The Twofold Character of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogy of Being," International Philosophical Quarterly 49:3 (2009).
"The Judgmental Feature of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogy of Being," The Modern Schoolman 85:1 (2008).
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