Dr. Craig A. Boyd

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Year Started at Greenville
1990

Education
Ph.D., St. Louis University
M.A., Western Kentucky University
B.A., Greenville College

Current courses taught
Fall 2004:
COR 102: Christian Thought and Life
COR 302: Science and Christianity

Interterm 2005:
REL 272: Love and Christian Ethics

Spring 2005:
COR 102: Christian Thought and Life
COR 302: Science and Christianity
PHL 270: Philosophy of Science

Recent Awards

2004 Templeton Foundation Research Grant
2004 Calvin College Seminars on Christian Scholarship: Works of Love 2003 Templeton Oxford Seminars on Christianity and Science
2001 Calvin College Seminars on Christian Scholarship:  Biology and Purpose
2000 Recipient of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church Related Colleges
1999 Templeton Foundation Science-Religion Course Award Winner

Book Project

Contemporary Challenges to Natural Law Morality (projected completion January 2005)

Recent Publications

“Participation Metaphysics, the Imago Dei , and the Natural Law in Aquinas' Ethics.”  In Press New Blackfriars .

"Participation Metaphysics in Aquinas' Theory of Natural Law" in press. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 2004.

"Was Thomas Aquinas a Sociobiologist? Thomistic Natural Law, Rational Goods and Sociobiology." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol 39, No. 3. September 2004.

"Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology." Forthcoming 2004. Evolutionary Ethics: Religious and Biological Perspectives eds. Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss. Eerdmans.

"Ethics is Based on Natural Law." inContemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. Basil Blackwell Publishers, ed. Michael Peterson. December 2002.

“Gratia non tollit naturam sed perficit: Introducing Undergraduates to Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae” accepted at Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Spring 2000 issue.

“Is Thomas Aquinas a Divine Command Theorist?” The Modern Schoolman Vol. 55, No. 3, March 1998.

Recent Presentations

"Biological and Philosophical Origins of Just War Theory."  European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.  Barcelona . Spain . April 2004. 

"The Thomistic Nature of Wesley's Moral Law."  Wesleyan Philosophical Society.  Roberts Wesleyan College . March 2004.

"Is Aquinas' Natural Law Morality Guilty of Methodological Atheism?" Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Meeting. Asbury College. December 2003.

"Does Aquinas' Natural Law Theory Need God?" Illinois Philosophical Association. Illinois State University. November 2003.

"Thomistic Natural Law Morality and the Limits of Sociobiology." Calvin College Conference on Biology and Purpose. November 2002.

"Is E.O. Wilson a Natural Law Moralist? Reflections on Natural law in Light of Sociobiology." Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College, October 2002

"A Wesleyan Approach to Faith and Learning Integration." CCCU Faculty Development Conference. May 2002. Gordon College.

"Explanatory Frameworks for Sense Experience in Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina," Religion and Science: Tension, Accommodation and Engagement. Ohio State University, May 1999.

Research Interests:
The Moral Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
Natural Law Morality
Sociobiology
The Galileo Affair
Issues in Science and Religion

Courses Taught:
COR 102 Introduction to Christian Thought and LIfe
COR 102 Introduction to Christian Thought
PHL 199 Philosophy of Science
PHL 280 Logic
PHL 310 Philosophy of Religion
PHL 330 Ethics
PHL 372 Philosophy of Sociobiology

Email: craig.boyd
Office phone: (618) 664-6814

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Last updated: October 12, 2004