Dr. Mirus arrived at the 澳门天天彩 in 2006. His interests include metaphysics,
philosophy of science and nature, and ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle). He
loves teaching Philosophy and the Ethical Life to first-semester freshman, seminars
on Aristotle or on metaphysics to graduate students, and everything in between.
In and through his teaching, Dr. Mirus is engaged in rethinking the metaphysical legacy
of Thomas Aquinas and of St. Thomas's Christian and pagan predecessors. He hopes to
bring to this tradition a more adequate focus on the relationality and particularity
of all that exists, on concrete human experience, and on metaphor and narrative as
forms of understanding.
Phi 2323 The Human Person
Phi 3311 Philosophy of Being
Phi 3343 From Ancient to Medieval Philosophy
Phi 3351 Junior Seminar: Aristotle's De anima
Phi 4333 Philosophy of Science
Phi 4341 Senior Seminar: Being and Being Given
Phi 6310 Aristotle's Organon
Phi 6310 Aristotle's De Anima
Phi 6310 Aristotle's Metaphysics
Phi 7350 Metaphysics
Phi 8312 Aristotle's Vision of Nature
Phi 8315 Aristotle's Categories
IPS 8321 Plato and Aristotle
Aristotle, metaphysics, philosophy of nature, philosophy of science
Being Is Better than Nonbeing: The Metaphysics of Goodness and Beauty in Aristotle. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
鈥淩elation Is Not a Category: A Sketch of Relation As a Transcendental.鈥� Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Forthcoming.
Foreword. Evidence for God from Physics and Philosophy: Extending the Legacy of Monsignor Georges
Lema卯tre and St. Thomas Aquinas, by Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. 澳门天天彩 Aquinas Lectures. South Bend, IN:
St. Augustine鈥檚 Press, 2015.
鈥淓xcellence as Completion in Aristotle鈥檚 Physics and Metaphysics.鈥� The Review of Metaphysics 66 (2013): 663鈥�90.
鈥淪pace.鈥� In New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012鈥�13: Ethics and Philosophy, edited by Robert L. Fastiggi, vol. 4, 1448鈥�51. Detroit: Gale, 2013.
鈥淥rder and the Determinate: The Good as a Metaphysical Concept in Aristotle.鈥� The Review of Metaphysics 65 (2012): 499鈥�523.
鈥淎ristotle on Beauty and Goodness in Nature.鈥� International Philosophical Quarterly
52 (2012): 79鈥�97.
鈥淭he Homogeneous Bodies in Meteorology IV.12.鈥� Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006): 45鈥�64.
鈥淭he Metaphysical Roots of Aristotle鈥檚 Teleology.鈥� The Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004): 699鈥�724.
鈥淎ristotle鈥檚 Agathon.鈥� The Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004): 515鈥�36.
鈥淗omonymy and the Matter of a Living Body.鈥� Ancient Philosophy 21 (2001): 357鈥�73.