威廉一个. 弗兰克,Ph值.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 哲学
电子邮件: wfrank@taxidalat24h.net
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Bill 弗兰克 arrived at the 云顶集团 in fall 1986, and retired from active teaching in December 2023. Among his special interests and competencies he counts the history of medieval philosophy, Duns Scotus, the philosophy of education, and contemporary Catholic philosophy and social teaching.
As for his education, after attending primary and secondary schools in Hampton, Virginia, Bill attended Hampton Institute, a prominent historically black college, from which 他得了B.A. with a major 在哲学 and a minor in mathematics. 它在。 The Catholic University of America that he subsequently received his M.A. 在哲学 with a thesis on Robert Grosseteste's commentary on the 后分析, under the direction of 威廉一个. 阿,华莱士.P.， Ph值.D. 有一篇论文 on John Duns Scotus's doctrine of the will, under the direction of Allan B. 因此, O.F.M.
Bill twice served as chair of the 哲学 of Department, and for a brief period he was director of the Institute of Philosophical Studies and dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. It was his great privilege to serve three tours of duty on UD's Rome campuses, 1988−1989, 1996−1999, and 2003−2005. For five of those twelve semesters he served as Academic Director. Bill served three consecutive terms as Chair of the 教师 Senate, 2014-2017.
Prior to his appointment at UD, he taught philosophy at Benedictine College in Atchison, 在堪萨斯待了九年. He counts it a blessing that before establishing himself in the academy he briefly taught in both elementary (5th grade) and secondary schools (mathematics in a 华盛顿特区.C., inner-city high school). In tougher economic times, the need for moonlight income led to some of his more memorable teaching experiences in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth and the U.S. Military's Disciplinary Barracks 在莱文沃思堡.
书
The Anti-Emile: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Education against the Principles 卢梭的 by Hyacinth Sigismond Gerdil. An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes 威廉·A. 弗兰克. Preface by Rocco Buttiglione (South Bend, Ind.: St. 奥古斯汀的 出版社,2011).
Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. Co-authored with Allan B. 沃尔特. Purdue University Press Series in the History 的哲学. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1995.
Edited, with Preface to, Translation Edition of Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality 作者:Allan B. 沃尔特. 华盛顿特区.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997.
文章
Co-authored with Clare P. 弗兰克, "Raphael Sanzio, Tommaso "Fedra" Inghirami, and Pope Julius II at the Stanza della Segnatura (1508-1511)" in People and Places of the Roman Past, ed. by Peter Hatlie (Leeds, UK: ARC Humanities, 2019): 210-22.
"Medicine's Interest in Abortion," 生活 & Learning: UFL Conference XXVII (2018): 255-63.
“Personal Being and the Principle of Subsidiarity” in Besinnung auf das Subsidiaritätsprinzip / Reflections on the Principle of Subsidiarity, edited by Anton Rauscher (柏林:Duncker, & Humblot, 2015), pp 19-34.
“Cicero, Retrieving the Honorable,” 皆Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 63-84.
"The Personalist Dimensions of Property," in Das Eigentum al eine Bedingung der Freiheit / Property as a Condition of Freedom, edited by Anton Raushcer (柏林:Duncker, & Humblot, 2013), pp 37-57.
"An Essay in American Liberal Education: 云顶集团's '核心课程,'" in The College Curriculum: A Reader, ed. by Joseph Devitis (New York: Land, 2013), pp 125-39.
"A Reading of 奥古斯汀的 Confessions and Its Implications for Education," Arts of Liberty Journal 1, no. 1 (2013):26-50. 在网上 http://artsofliberty.taxidalat24h.net/
"Duns Scotus and the Recognition of Divine Liberality," in Archa Verbi. The Opera Theologica of John Duns Scotus, ed. by Richard Cross (Münster: Aschendorff and St Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute, 2012), pp 53-72.
"Tolerance and the Autonomous Individual in Modern Democratic Liberalism," in Toleranz und Menschenwürde / Tolerance and Human Dignity, ed. by Anton Rauscher (柏林:Duncker, & Humblot, 2011) pp 341-56.
"Cicero's Civic Metaphysics As a Basis for Responsibility," In Verantwortung in einer komplexen Gesellschaft – Responsibility: Recognition and Limits. 柏林:Duncker, & 洪堡学报，2010:175-91.
"Authority and the Common Good in Democratic Governance." Review of Metaphysics,卷. 60, no. 4 (June 2007): 813-32.
"Western Irreligion and Resources for Culture in Catholic Religion." 标志 7:1 (2004): 17–44.
"Duns Scotus' Concept of Willing Freely: What Divine Freedom Beyond Choice Teaches Us." 方济会的研究 42 (1982): 68–89.