The American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA) is an organization of Catholic philosophers established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an intellectual discipline consonant with Catholic tradition. Among the means used to achieve this objective, the organization strives to develop philosophical scholarship, to improve the teaching of philosophy, and to communicate with other individuals and groups with similar aims.
The organization sponsors an annual conference and several scholarly publications, including a peer-reviewed journal, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Individual and institutional members of the ACPA receive online access to all ACPA publications as a benefit of membership.
Memberships, conference registrations, and continuing publication of the journal and proceeding, in both print and electronic formats, are managed for the ACPA by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
Publications American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 1990–present The New Scholasticism, 1927–1989 Philosophical Studies of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1938–1952 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1927–present
Presidents
1926–1928 Edward A. Pace 1929 John F. McCormick 1930 James H. Ryan 1931 Gerald B. Phelan 1932 James A. McWilliams 1933 Charles C. Miltner 1934 Francis Augustine Walsh 1935 John O. Riedl 1936 John J. Toohey 1937 William T. Dillon 1938 Ignatius Smith 1939 William P. O'Connor 1940 Francis E. McMahon 1941 Fulton J. Sheen 1942 Joseph Schabert 1945 Leo R. Ward 1946 Anton Charles Pegis 1947 Joaquin Garcia 1948 Vernon J. Bourke 1950 Ernest Kilzer 1951 Gerard Smith 1952 Francis X. Meehan 1953 1954 James Collins 1955 Charles J. O'Neil 1956 Vincent E. Smith 1957 George P. Klubertanz 1958 Allan Wolter 1959 Lawrence E. Lynch 1960 Robert Lechner 1961 William M. Walton 1962 Carl W. Grindel 1963 Donald Gallagher 1964 James A. Weisheipl 1965 John A. Oesterle 1966 Joseph Owens 1967 Ernan McMullin 1968 Robert J. Kreyche 1969 W. Norris Clarke 1970 William A. Wallace 1971 Louis Dupré 1972 Ralph McInerny 1973 Gerald Kreyche 1974 Thomas Langan 1975 Jude P. Dougherty 1976 Desmond J. FitzGerald 1977 Mary T. Clark 1978 Kenneth L. Schmitz 1979 Armand A. Maurer 1980 Henry B. Veatch 1981 Leo Sweeney 1982 John T. Noonan 1983 Marc Griesbach 1984 Germain Grisez 1985 Cornelius F. Delaney 1986 Francis J. Lescoe 1987 John F. Wippel 1988 John D. Caputo 1989 Joseph M. Boyle 1990 Gerald A. McCool 1991 Frederick J. Crosson 1992 Mary F. Rousseau 1993 Lawrence Dewan 1994 Thomas R. Flynn 1995 Robert E. Wood 1996 Thomas C. Anderson 1997 Linda Zagzebski 1998 Jorge J. E. Gracia 1999 Thomas A. Russman 2000 Eleonore Stump 2001 James F. Ross 2002 Patrick L. Bourgeois 2003 David B. Burrell 2004 Nicholas Rescher 2005 James L. Marsh 2006 Anthony J. Lisska 2007 Timothy B. Noone 2008 William Desmond 2009 Mary Beth Ingham 2010 Therese-Anne Druart 2011 Dominic Balestra 2012 Richard Charles Taylor 2013 John O'Callaghan 2014 Daniel Dahlstrom 2015 Jorge L. A. Garcia 2016 Kevin Flannery 2017 Thomas Hibbs 2018 Francis Beckwith 2019 Jean De Groot 2020 Thomas Cavanaugh 2021 Joshua Hochschild 2022 Steven Long 2023 Patrick Lee 2024 Mary Catherine Sommers 2025 D. C. Schindler
References
External links
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly The New Scholasticism Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association Philosophical Studies of the American Catholic Philosophical Association Philosophy Documentation Center