Samuel Pell
University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
B007 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
703-899-7692 | spell@nd.edu
November 2022
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Areas of Specialization: Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Competency: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Ancient Philosophy
Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, French (In Progress)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
Philosophy, Notre Dame, 2022-
M.A. without Dissertation
Philosophy, Purdue University, 2022
B.A.
Chemistry (cum Laude) and Classics (with Honors), Cornell University, 2013
PUBLICATIONS:
‘Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics and the Conflicts of Modernity’ (Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association Vol. 95, 2022)
‘Joy, Truth, and the Search for God in Confessions X’ (Studia Patristica CIII, 2021)
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
Papers Presented
2022
‘Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics and the Conflicts of Modernity’
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Annual Conference
New Orleans, LA
Colloquium Paper
‘Conceptions as the Offspring of the Intellect: Towards a Naturalistic Interpretation of Aquinas’ Cognitional Theory’
The XVth International Conference of Société Internationale pour l’Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale
Campus Concordet: Paris, France
Panel on Radical Cognition in the Middle Ages
‘Aquinas, Scotus, and (Divine) Action at a Distance’
Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
University of Notre Dame: South Bend, IN
Metaphysics Breakout Presentation
‘Disjunctive Fregean Representationalism and Color Constancy’
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting
Chicago, IL
Colloquium Paper
2021
‘Divorcing Aquinas’ Intelligible Species from Conceptual Content’
Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
University of Notre Dame: South Bend, IN
Cognition Breakout Presentation
Ibid.
10th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop of the Thomistic Institute
Greenville, SC
Graduate Student Paper
2019
‘Joy, Truth, and the Search for God in Confessions X’
North American Patristics Society Annual Conference
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II: Lublin, Poland
Plenary Paper
Invited Conferences and Summer Schools
2022
Ancient and Medieval Metaphysics of Relations
Summer School and Conference Lugano, Switzerland
Instructors: John Marenbon and Anna Marmadoro
Thomistic Institute Graduate Colloquium on Eucharistic Metaphysics
Dominican House of Studies: Washington, DC
Instructor: Gyula Klima
Fourth Annual Thomistic Philosophy and the Natural Sciences Symposium
Dominican House of Studies: Washington, DC
Topic: Complexity, Simplicity, and Emergence
2021
Third Annual Thomistic Philosophy and the Natural Sciences Symposium
Dominican House of Studies: Washington, DC
Topic: Chance and Indeterminacy in the Natural World
Service to the Profession
2021
American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Conference
Saint Louis University: St. Louis, MO
Commenter on ‘80,000 Hours for the Common Good: A Thomistic Appraisal of “Effective Altruism”’ by Ryan Miller
Indiana Philosophical Association
Indiana University: Bloomington, IN
Commenter on ‘Walter Chatton’s Argument for the Necessitation Principle: A Lesson for Modern Truthmaker Theorists’ by Emily McCarty
Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Conference University of Notre Dame: South Bend, IN
Session Moderator
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Administrative (Purdue University)
Summer 2021 Online Course Coordinator, Overseer: Matthew Kroll
Teaching Assistant (Purdue University)
Spring 2022 PHIL 111: Introduction to Ethics, Instructor: Patrick Kain
Spring 2021 PHIL 270: Biomedical Ethics, Instructor: Morganna Lambeth
Fall 2020, 2021 PHIL 111: Introduction to Ethics, Instructor: Daniel Frank
Guest Lecturer (Purdue University)
04/12/2022 ‘Expressivism and NeoAristotelianism in MacIntyre’
PHIL 424: Contemporary Ethics, Primary Instructor: Patrick Kain
11/23/2021 ‘Aquinas on the Names of God’
PHIL 402: Medieval Christian Thought, Primary Instructor: Jeff Brower
04/02/2021 ‘Virtue Ethics and Abortion’
PHIL 270: Biomedical Ethics, Primary Instructor: Morganna Lambeth
Reading Groups (Thomistic Institute)
Spring 2022 Aquinas 101: Science and Faith
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
2021-Present American Catholic Philosophical Association
2021-Present Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group
2021-Present Thomistic Institute
2021-Present Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
2021-Present Société Internationale pour l’Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale
2021-Present St. Louis/Chicago Medieval Latin Reading Group (SLUCHI)
2020-Present American Philosophical Association
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
2021-2022 Chemistry Researcher, Swift Enterprises Fuel Cells
2014-2020 Teacher of Chemistry (Honors, Organic, and AP), Philosophy, and Latin at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, VA
2013-2014 Novice with the Dominican Province of St. Joseph
2011-2013 Chemistry Researcher, Park Laboratories, Cornell University
2012 Participant in Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies intensive study abroad program in Rome, Italy
GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSEWORK
History of Philosophy
Thomas Aquinas on the Soul, John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Jan Cover (Purdue University)
Plato and the Immoralist, Dan Frank (Purdue University)
Mind and Mental Acts in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame)
Aquinas’ Ontology of Space, Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
Aquinas’ Ontology of the Material World, Jeffrey Brower (Independent Study, Purdue University)
Thomas Aquinas Speaks of God, John Wippel (Catholic University of America)
Augustine’s Confessions, Charles Brittain and Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)
Latin Philosophical Texts, Charles Brittain and Scott MacDonald (Reading group, Cornell University)
Greek Philosophical Texts, Daniel Frank (Reading group, Purdue University)
Metaphysics
Proseminar, Kristopher McDaniel (University of Notre Dame)
The Soul, Christopher Shields and Katharina Krause (Audit, University of Notre Dame)
Metaphysics, Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
Actualism and Modal Logic, Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey Brower (Reading group, Purdue University)
Molinism, Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey Brower (Reading group, Purdue University)
Epistemology
Studies in the Theory of Knowledge, Michael Bergmann (Purdue University)
Studies in Lonergan’s Verbum, Br. Dunstan Robideaux (Reading group, Lonergan Institute, St. Anselm’s Abbey)
Ethics and Value Theory
Imagination and Literature, Morganna Lambeth (Purdue University)
Contemporary Ethical Theories, Patrick Kain (Purdue University)
Virtue Ethics, Daniel Frank (Purdue University)
Logic and Philosophy of Mind
Intermediate Logic, Joel Hamkins (University of Notre Dame)
Consciousness and Perception, Brian Cutter (University of Notre Dame)
The Normative Mind, Daniel Kelly and Taylor Davis (Purdue University)
Mathematical Logic, Dana Tulodziecki (Purdue University)
Phenomenology, Jacqueline Mariña (Purdue University)