Joseph Owens (Redemptorist)

Infobox_Philosopher
region = Western Philosophers
era = 20th-century philosophy
color = #B0C4DE

name = Joseph Owens
birth = April 17, 1908
death = October 30, 2005
school_tradition = Aristotelianism, Christian philosophy
main_interests = Medieval philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, rationalism
influences = Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas
Reverend Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R. (April 17, 1908—October 30, 2005), was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and a scholar in medieval philosophy.

Life and career

Owens received his PhD in 1951 from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, an affiliate of the University of Toronto, and remained at the Institute as a teacher and distinguished researcher for the rest of his career. He authored nine books and almost 150 academic papers.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and served as president of the Metaphysical Society, the [http://www.acpcpa.ca/ Canadian Philosophical Association] , the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the [http://www.acpaweb.org/ American Catholic Philosophical Association] (which also awarded him its Aquinas Medal).

Bibliography

Books (authored and edited)

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title=The doctrine of being in the Aristotelian metaphysics: a study in the Greek background of mediaeval thought
publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
location = Toronto
year = 1951 461 pages.

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title=2nd edition, revised
publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
location = Toronto
year = 1963 535 pages.

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title=3rd edition, revised
publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
location = Toronto
year = 1978 539 pages.

* cite book
title=St. Thomas and the future of metaphysics
publisher=Marquette University Press
location = Milwaukee, WI
year = 1957 97 pages.

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title=A history of ancient Western philosophy
publisher=Appleton-Century-Crofts
location = New York
year = 1959 434 pages.

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title=An elementary Christian metaphysics
publisher=Bruce Publishing
location = Milwaukee
year = 1963 384 pages.

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title=(reissued)
publisher=Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
location = Houston, TX
year = 1985 384 pages. ISBN 0268009163 (paper).

* cite book
title=The wisdom and ideas of Saint Thomas Aquinas
others = edited by Eugene Freeman and Joseph Owens
publisher=Fawcett Publications
location = Greenwich, CT
year = 1968 158 pages.

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title=An interpretation of existence
publisher=Bruce Publishing
location = Milwaukee
year = 1968 153 pages.

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title=(reissued)
publisher=Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
location = Houston, TX
year = 1985 153 pages. ISBN 0268011575 (paper).

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title=Human destiny: Some problems for Catholic philosophy
publisher=Catholic University of America Press
location = Washington, DC
year = 1985 117 pages. ISBN 0813206049 (cloth), ISBN 0813206057 (paper).

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title=Towards a Christian philosophy
publisher=Catholic University of America Press
location = Washington, DC
year = 1990 332 pages. ISBN 0813207088.

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title=Cognition: an epistemological inquiry
publisher=Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
location = Houston, TX
year = 1992 373 pages. ISBN 0268007918.

Collected papers

* cite book
title=St. Thomas Aquinas on the existence of God: Collected papers of Joseph Owens
others = edited by John R. Catan
publisher=State University of New York Press
location = Albany
year = 1980 291 pages. ISBN 0873954017.

* cite book
title=Aristotle, the collected papers of Joseph Owens
others = edited by John R. Catan
publisher=State University of New York Press
location = Albany
year = 1981 264 pages. ISBN 087395534X (cloth), ISBN 0873955358 (paper).

* cite book
title=Some philosophical issues in moral matters: The collected ethical writings of Joseph Owens
others = edited by Dennis J. Billy and Terence Kennedy
publisher=Editiones Academiae Alphonsianae
location = Rome
year = 1996 500 pages. ISBN 0920980686 (cloth).

* cite book
title=Aristotle’s gradations of Being in Metaphysics E-Z
others = edited by Lloyd P. Gerson
publisher=St. Augustine’s Press
location = South Bend, IN
year = 2007 256 pages. ISBN 1587310287 (cloth).

econdary sources

* cite book
title=Graceful reason: essays in ancient and medieval philosophy presented to Joseph Owens, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday and the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination
others = edited by Lloyd P. Gerson
publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
location = Toronto
year = 1983 447 pages. ISBN 088844804X.

External links

* [http://www.pims.ca/amici/owens.html Obituary of Joseph Owens at web site of Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto)]