Jeffrey Dirk Wilson

Biography

Clinical Associate Professor, The School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America; courses taught: “The Classical Mind,” “The Modern Mind,” “Metaphysics,” “Philosophy of Art” “Philosophy of Knowledge,” “Philosophy of Human Nature,” “Philosophy of Natural Right and Natural Law,” “Political Philosophy,” “Philosophy of Language”: 2015-present. Clinical Assistant Professor, The School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America: 2009-2015. Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, School of Theology; course taught: “Metaphysics”: winter-spring 2013. Lecturer (full-time), Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland; courses taught: “From Cosmos to Citizen,” “From Self to Society,” “Moral Philosophy”: 2007-2009. Lecturer, The School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; courses taught: “The Classical Mind,” “The Modern Mind”: 2005-2006, fall 2006.” Member of the Library Committee for the School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.: 2005-2006. Member, Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): 2001-2007. Teacher, Carpathian English Summer School, Ukrainian Catholic University: July, 1998. Doctor of Philosophy, dissertation: From Concrete to Concept: How Greek Philosophers Conceptualized Homeric Depiction; directed by Dr. Matthias Vorwerk, The School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (2004-2005 spent at the University of Paris-X at Nanterre with work at the Sorbonne and other Paris faculties): degree conferred October 31, 2009. Licentiate in Philosophy, thesis: “Homer’s Paradigm of Being: A Philosophical Reading of The Iliad and The Odyssey,” supervised by Dr. Richard F. Hassing, The School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.: 2004. Master of Letters, thesis: “An Historical and Theological Commentary on ‘On Consideration’ by St. Bernard of Clairvaux,” supervised by Sir Richard W. Southern, University of Oxford, England: 1983. Master of Divinity, thesis: “Pre-Conquest Old English Sermons on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” supervised by Dr. Milton McCormick Gatch, Union Theological Seminary, New York (including one year of work at New College, University of Edinburgh): 1979. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College (junior year abroad at Hamburg University, Germany and a brief period of special study at Trinity College, University of Glasgow, Scotland), High Honors in German: 1976.

Research Interest

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Metaphysics and Political Philosophy.