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Samuel Pell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
116 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
703-899-7692 | spell@nd.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AREAS OF INTEREST:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Specialization: <\/strong>Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Competency: <\/strong>Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Ancient Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages:<\/strong> Latin, Ancient Greek, German, French (Reading), Italian (Reading)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philosophy, Notre Dame, 2022-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.A. without Dissertation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philosophy, Purdue University, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chemistry (cum Laude) and Classics (with Honors), Cornell University, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics <\/em>by Michael Gorman (Dialectica<\/em>, Forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible?  Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre\u2019s Ethics and the Conflicts of Modernity<\/em>\u2019 (Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association<\/em> Vol. 96, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Joy, Truth, and the Search for God in Confessions X<\/em>\u2019 (Studia Patristica <\/em>CIII, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founders\u2019 Award 2023: <\/strong>for essay submission \u2018Aquinas on the Development of Definitional Cognitions\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papers Presented<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018From Insight to Axiom: Plantinga, MacIntyre, and Lonergan on A Priori<\/em> Assertions\u2019
American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting
University of Notre Dame: South Bend, IN
Invited Presentation for Lonergan Philosophical Association Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018You Won\u2019t Believe Your Eye: Latin Transformations of Avicenna\u2019s Visual Theory\u2019
\u2018Big Mistake! Big! Huge!\u2019 Graduate Student Conference
University of Milan: Milan, Italy
Accepted Speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Albert the Great\u2019s Commentary on Aristotle\u2019s De Memoria<\/em> 450a26-451a3\u2019
Workshop on Aristotle\u2019s De Memoria<\/em>
Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, Mexico
Invited Presenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Aquinas\u2019s Agent and Possible Intellects and Albert\u2019s Emanative Psychology\u2019
American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
Poster Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Latin Transformations of Avicenna\u2019s Visual Theory\u2019
Medieval and Early Modern Theories of Cognition: New Approaches to an Old Debate
C\u00edrculo Universit\u00e1rio da Universidade do Porto in Porto, Portugal
Accepted Speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Principles of Nature and Reasoning in Some Medieval Physics <\/em>Commentaries\u2019
Physis<\/em>: ND Lab for the Study of Nature in the Pre-Modern World
Rome, Italy
Seminar Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018He Can Say What He Likes, But I Don\u2019t Understand Him at All: Albert the Great on Aquinas\u2019s Theory of Universals\u2019
Aquinas at 800: Ad Multos Annos
Notre Dame, IN
Panel Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Loving the Unknowable: Aquinas and Ficino on the Metaphysics of Emanation and Union\u2019
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
Invited Presenter for Panel in Memory of Michael Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Imagination, Illusory Mercy, and the Love of Evil: Augustine\u2019s Moralism about the Theatre\u2019
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting
New York, NY
Poster Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018A Lucid Body and A Living Mirror: Albert the Great\u2019s Physicalist Theory of Visual Perception\u2019
American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Conference
Houston, TX<\/span>
Satellite Session: Augustine and Albert on Cognition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibid.<\/em>
St. Louis University: St. Louis, MO<\/span>
Colloquium Paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Thomas Aquinas on the Development of Definitional Cognitions\u2019
11th<\/sup> Annual Aquinas and \u2018The Arabs\u2019 International Working Group Graduate Student Conference
Online Conference
Accepted Paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Aristotelian Visual Perception and Contemporary Functionalism\u2019
Medieval Philosophy Network Meeting
Warburg Institute: London, England
Invited Speaker (Presentation over Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibid.<\/em>
Angelicum Conference on Modelling, Idealization, and Truth
Thomistic Institute: Rome, Italy
Colloquium Paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n