John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realismJeremy Wilkins, "A Dialectic of 'Thomist' Realisms: John Knasas and Bernard Lonergan," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 107–30John F.X. Knasas, "Why for Lonergan Knowing Cannot Consist in 'Taking a Look'" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 131–50.Condic, Samuel B. I, "How a priori Is Lonergan?" Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79 (2005), 103-16. and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Fr. Joseph Owens.John F.X. Knasas, Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists, New York: Fordham UP, 2003. He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in HoustonCV and earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.Knasas, John Francis Xavier, Title page, An Analysis and Interpretation of the "Tertia Via" of St. Thomas Aquinas (Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto: 1975).
Bibliography Jacques Maritain: The Man and His Metaphysics The Preface to Thomistic Metaphysics Thomistic Paper VI (Editor) Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013).
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External links Official Page Interview with Knasas on Thomism Article by Knasas on the Thomistic revival