Dr. Elizabeth Shaw currently serves as interim provost. She is also a member of the faculty and associate dean for accreditation. She is an associated scholar of the Hildebrand Project and associate editor of two journals,听The Review of Metaphysicsand theFellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly. Dr. Shaw has taught in the School of Philosophy and the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America, and for several years she was research assistant to Catholic intellectual Michael Novak. Dr. Shaw earned PhD and MA degrees in philosophy from Catholic University, and a BS in mathematics from Georgetown University.
Dr. Shaw鈥檚 publications includeSocial Justice Isn鈥檛 What You Think It Is(2015; Michael Novak and Paul Adams, coauthors) and three edited volumes:Interpretations: Using the Past to Understand the Present(2018; essays by Jude P. Dougherty),听An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak(2015), andThe Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays(2013; essays by Michael Novak). She is also the author of several scholarly articles, reviews, and book chapters.
Education:
PhD (Philosophy 鈥� Specialty 鈥� American Philosophy) The Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Area of Teaching Specialization:听笔丑颈濒辞蝉辞辫丑测
Course Level:Undergraduate and Graduate
Courses Taught:PHIL 205 Introduction to Plato and Aristotle; PHIL 311 Ethics; PHIL 315 Metaphysics; PHIL 508 Philosophy for Theology
Languages:Reading knowledge of French and German
Published Works:
Book
Michael Novak and Paul Adams with Elizabeth Shaw,听Social Justice Isn鈥檛 What You Think It Is(New York: Encounter Books, 2015).
Edited Volumes
Jude P. Dougherty,听Interpretations: Using the Past to Understand the Present, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018).
An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (Ave Maria, Fla.: Sapientia Press, 2015).
Michael Novak,听The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2013).
Articles/Chapters
鈥淗ildebrand on the Heart of Personality,鈥�Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly43, no. 3/4 (2020): 331鈥�37.
鈥淭he Will to Believe,鈥�Gale Researcher Philosophy Series 1 and 2(Internet Library Reference Database) (Detroit, Mich.: Gale/Cengage, 2017).
鈥淚ntuition and Evolution in the Thought of Henri Bergson,鈥�Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly38, no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2015): 12鈥�21.
鈥淐aritas and Human Flourishing,鈥� inAn American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak(Ave Maria, Fla.: Sapientia Press, 2015), 70鈥�82.
鈥淚ntelligent Subjectivity: Into the Presence of God,鈥� inTheologian and Philosopher of Liberty: Essays of Evaluation and Criticism in Honor of Michael Novak(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Acton Institute, 2014), 1鈥�9.
鈥淲illiam James鈥檚 鈥楶luralistic Universe,鈥欌��Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly36, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2013): 4鈥�14.
鈥淚s James鈥檚 Pragmatism Really A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking?鈥�Essays in Philosophy13, no. 1 (January 2012): 31鈥�53.
鈥淧hilosophers for the City: Aristotle and the Telos of Education,鈥�Modern Age(Winter 2005): 30鈥�36.
Reviews
Francesca Bordogna,听William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Limits of Knowledge,听The Review of Metaphysics63 (2009): 176鈥�78.
James Pawelski,听The Dynamic Individualism of William James,听The Review of Metaphysics62 (2008): 148鈥�49.
