Curriculum Vitae

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)