Notes on Our Contributors

NOTES ON OUR CONTRIBUTORS JAMES A. WEISHEIPL, 0. P., S. T. Lr., Ph. D. (Angelicum) in natural philosophy, D. PHIL. (Oxford) in medieval history, is Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the Pontifical Faculty of Philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, lliinois. Formerly Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at Hawkesyard Priory, England, he is Bursar-Archivist of the Albertus Magnus Lyceum. EDWARD D. SIMMONS, Ph. D. (Notre Dame) in philosophy, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee. A frequent contributor to THE THOMIST, he has recently published The Scientific Art of Logic (Bruce, 1961). JOHN A. OESTERLE, Ph. D. (Laval), former Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Louvain, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Among his publications are Logic: Art of Defining and Reasoning (Prentice-Hall, 1952), and Ethics: The Introduction to Moral Science (Prentice-Hall, 1957). HERBERT RATNER, M.D. (Michigan) with graduate work in bacteriology, public health and nutrition, is Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Loyola University School of Medicine, Chicago. Formerly associated with the Great Books in Biology, he is now Director of the Oak Park Department of Public Health. RICHARD P. McKEoN, Ph. D. (Columbia), formerly Dean of the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago, member of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO, and U.S. counselor of UNESCO affairs at the American Embassy in Paris, is Distinguished Service Professor of Greek and Philosophy at the University of Chicago. On leave of absence from the university, he is at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. DANIEL A. CALLUS, 0. P., S. T. M., M.A. (Oxford), D. Phil. (Oxford) in medieval history, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Emeritus of the University of Malta, is Regent of Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford, and Lecturer in Medieval Thought at the University of Oxford. He is widely known in Europe as an authority on thirteenth century Oxford and Paris. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, 0. P., S. T. Lr., M. Sc. (Catholic Univ. of America) in physics, Ph. D. (Fribourg) in philosophy, S. T. D. (Fribourg) in moral theology, has research experience in magnetic and acoustic field theory, and in ultrasonics. Author of The Scientific Methodology 683 684 NOTES ON OUR CONTRIBUTORS of Theodoric of Freiberg, he is Professor of Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Science at the Dominican House of Studies, Dover, Mass. MicHAEL A. HosKIN, M.A., Ph. D. (Cambridge) in mathematics, former Fellow of Peterhouse; is Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Cambridge, England, and at Leicester. He has recently become General Editor of the Newman Association History ;tnd Philosophy of Science Series (Sheed & Ward) , to which he contributed William Herschel, Pioneer of Sidereal Astronomy. CHARLES DE KoNINCK, Ph. D. (Louvain) in philosophy, formerly Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and editor of Laval Theologique et Philosophique, is Professor of Natural Philosophy and Lecturer in Theology at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Widely known for his publications in the philosophy of science, he is visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. SHEILAH O'FLYNN BRENNAN, Ph. D. (Laval) in philosophy, former Woodrow Wilson Scholar at the University of Oxford, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. MELVIN GLUTZ, C. P., Ph. D. (Pont. Fac., River Forest) is Professor of Philosophy and Student Master at the Passionist Monastery in Chicago. He is author of various studies in psychology and The Manner of Demonstration in Natural Philosophy. RoMAN A. KocoUREK, M.A. (Minnesota) in history, Ph. D. (Laval) in philosophy, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of St. Thomas, and lecturer at St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. He is author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature (St. Paul, 1948). SISTER M. JocEYLN GAREY, 0. P., Ph. Lie. (Fribourg), Ph. D. (Laval) in philosophy, is Professor of Philosophy at Rosary College, River Forest, TIL VINCENT E. SMITH, M.A., Ph. D. (Catholic Univ.) in philosophy with additional studies at Fribourg, Harvard, M. I. T. and Institutum Divi Thomae, is editor of The New Scholasticism. Former President of the...