Professor
Department of Philosophy
Contact Information:
Douglas W. Flippen, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
540.551.9168
dflippen@christendom.edu
Education
B.A., University of St. Thomas, Houston, Philosophy with a minor in mathematics
M.A., University of Toronto, Medieval Studies, concentration in philosophy
L.M.S., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Toronto, Philosophy
Classes Taught
- Historical Introduction to Philosophy
- Greek Philosophy
- Medieval Philosophy
- Modern Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Aristotle, St. Augustine
- Later Medieval Epistemology (graduate)
- Analytic Philosophy
- Senior Seminar on Linguistic Philosophy
- The Thought of Pope Saint John Paul II
- The Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand
- John Dewey
- Development of Husserl’s Thoughts
- The Ethics of John Paul II
- Development of Natural Law
- Plato
- Systematic Introduction to Philosophy
- Formal Logic (Aristotelian)
- Critical Thinking (Wittgensteinian)
- Philosophy of Man
- Philosophy of Nature (graduate)
- Ethics, Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of God
- Social and Political Theory
- Near Death Out of the Body Experiences (Elderhostel)
- The Will and the Virtues (Thomas)
- Philosophy of Education
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Psychology
Hobbies
Hiking, reading, alternative medicine
Areas of Expertise
History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Natural law
Selected Scholarship
“A Problem Concerning Relation in Sensation,” Atti del Congresso Internazionale: Tommaso d’Aquino nel suo settimo Centenario, 9 (1974-78): 307-14 (Naples)
“Immanence and Transcendence in Human Knowledge: the Illumination of a Problem in St. Thomas,” New Scholasticism 53 (1979): 324-46
“Intentionality and the Concept in Jacques Maritain, or, The Complexity of Maritain’s Doctrine of the Concept. Criticism of Father Roland-Gosselin,” in Jacques Maritain: philosophe dans la cite/A Philosopher in the World, University of Ottawa Press, 1985: 93-102
“On Two Meanings of Good and the Foundations of Ethics in Aristotle and St. Thomas,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1984: 56-74
“In and Out of Idealism,” Proceedings of the ACPA, 1985, 340-47
“Natural Law and Natural Inclinations,” New Scholasticism 60 (1986) 284-316
Review of Josef Pieper’s Guide to Thomas Aquinas, Faith and Reason 18 (1992): 215-22