Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy of Nature

"The undeniable basis for the metaphysics of Aristotle and St. Thomas is their prior study of the natural world of changeable being—of “physics” in their sense of the term. If modern science had shown that Aristotle’s studies of the natural world were false in all relevant ways, then it would also have shown that the metaphysics of St. Thomas was false as well. Conversely, if St. Thomas’ metaphysics is a true science of being qua being, then in some essential respects his underlying physics—suitably updated and purified of empirical errors—is a true description of the natural world.

"Fortunately, in this very moment in history some empiriological scientists have a sufficiently “scientific cast of mind” to begin to see and grapple with the limits of reductionism in science, and thus return “from below,” as it were, towards a classical understanding of nature. Thus in biology we find a growing rebellion against reductionism and a return to holism in the writings of first-class scientists such as Franklin Harold in The Way of the Cell.

"Even in physics there is a movement toward holism and hierarchical ordering in nature, exemplified by the Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin’s astounding book A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. Wherever we see scientists grappling with the existence of “emergent properties” in nature, we see the bottom-up rediscovery of the formal and structural principles long known to classical philosophy and still needed for a complete grasp of material reality." -- Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

A Bibliography of Select Readings: Compiled by Christopher S. Morrissey ("Studies in the Philosophy of Nature")
  • Apostle, Hippocrates George. (1965) Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1950) "Thomas Aquinas on Comets: From His Commentary on Aristotle, Liber I Meteorologicum, Lectiones VIII, IX, X," in Lynn Thorndike (ed.) Latin Treatises on Comets: Between 1238 and 1368 A.D., 77-86, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1963) Commentary on Aristotle's Physics. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 1883357764.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1967) Cosmogony: Summa Theologiae, Vol. 10 (1a.65-74), Translated by William A. Wallace. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1998) Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements: A translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas, Translated by Joseph Bobik. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268020000.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1999) A commentary on Aristotle's De anima, Translated by Robert Pasnau. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Yale library of medieval philosophy). ISBN 0300074204.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (1999) On Human Nature, Translated by Thomas S. Hibbs. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 0872204545.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (2002) The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a, 75-89, Translated by Robert Pasnau. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 0872206130.

  • Aquinas, Thomas. (2005) Commentaries on Aristotle's On sense and what is sensed and On memory and recollection, Translated by Kevin White and E. M. Macierowski. 1st ed. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Thomas Aquinas in translation). ISBN 0813213827 [View item].

  • Aristotle. (1980) Aristotle's Physics, Translated by Hippocrates George Apostle. Grinnell, Iowa: Peripatetic Press. ISBN 0960287035.

  • Ashley. Ashley, Benedict. (1941) "The Theory of Natural Slavery According to Aristotle and St. Thomas," Ph.D. Thesis, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1952) "Research into the Intrinsic Final Causes of Physical Things," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 26: 185-194.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1958) The Arts of Learning & Communication: A Handbook of the Liberal Arts. Dubuque: The Priory Press. Reprint edition, Skills in the Service of Science (Institute for Advanced Physics Press, forthcoming). [View item].

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1958a) Aristotle's Sluggish Earth: The Problematics of the De Caelo. River Forest, Illinois: Albertus Magnus Lyceum.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1958b) Are Thomists Selling Science Short? River Forest, Illinois: Albertus Magnus Lyceum.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1961) "Does Natural Science Attain Nature or Only the Phenomena?," in Vincent Edward Smith (ed.) The Philosophy of Physics, 63-82, Jamaica, N.Y.: St. John's University Press. (St. John's University studies. Philosophical series, no. 2).

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1972) "Causality and Evolution," The Thomist 36 (2): 199-230. [View item].

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1973) "Change and Process," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The Problem of Evolution, 265-294, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1980) "St. Albert and the Nature of Natural Science," in James A. Weisheipl (ed.) Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays 1980, 73-102, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Studies and texts - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 49). ISBN 0888440499.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1991) "The River Forest School and the Philosophy of Nature Today," in R. James Long (ed.) Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, OP, 1-15, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Papers in mediaeval studies 12). ISBN 0888448120.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1995) Theologies of the Body: Humanist and Christian (Braintree, Massachusetts: The Pope John Center, 1985).

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1996) "Albertus Magnus on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bk. 1, Tr. 1," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (2). (Albertus Magnus).

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1997) "The End of Philosophy and the End of Physics: A Dead End," in Roman Ciapalo (ed.) Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, 12-22, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.

  • Ashley, Benedict M., and Eric A. Reitan. (1997a) "On William A. Wallace, O.P., The Modeling of Nature," The Thomist 61: 625-40. [View item].

  • Ashley, Benedict. (1999). "The Validity of Metaphysics: The Need for a Solidly Grounded Metaphysics," Paper read at Thomistic Institute, July 18, 1999. <http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti99/ashley.htm>

  • Ashley, Benedict. (2000) "How is the Creator Known?," in Choosing a World-View and Value-System: An Ecumenical Apologetics, 141-168, Staten Island, New York: Alba House. ISBN 0818908297 [View item].

  • Ashley, Benedict. (2001). "Art Perfects Nature," Paper read at Thomistic Institute, July 16, 2001, at University of Notre Dame. <http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti01/ashley.htm>

  • Ashley, Benedict. (2003) Review of John Deely, The Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, in The Thomist: 133-137. [View item].

  • Ashley, Benedict. (2003a) "Dominican Guide for Sharing Our Secular Resources," <http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/ashley/guide/>.

  • Ashley, Benedict. (2006) The Way Toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics. South Bend, Illinois: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268020280 [View item].

  • Augros, Michael. (2004) "Reconciling Science with Natural Philosophy," The Thomist 68 (1): 105-141. [View item].

  • Barr, Stephen. (2003) "Retelling the Story of Science," First Things 131 (March): 16-25. [View item].

  • Barr, Stephen M. (2005) "The Design of Evolution," First Things 156 (October): 9-12. [View item].

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  • Bennett, Owen. (1943) The Nature of Demonstrative Proof, According to the Principles of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.

  • Bonnette, Dennis. (1981) "Hylomorphism, Positivism, and the Question of When Human Life Begins," Social Justice Review 72 (3-4): 42-45.

  • Bonnette, Dennis. (2003) Origin of the Human Species. 2nd ed. Ypsilanti, Michigan: Sapientia Press. Original edition, 2001.

  • Bos, A. P. (1989) Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 9004091556 [View item].

  • Brody, B. A. (1972) "Towards an Aristotelean Theory of Scientific Explanation," Philosophy of Science 39 (1): 20-31. [View item].

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  • Conway, Pierre. (1995) Aristotelian Formal and Material Logic. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0819199060.

  • Conway, Pierre, and Mary Michael Spangler. (1996) Metaphysics of Aquinas: A Summary of Aquinas's Exposition of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0761802932.

  • Conway, Pierre, and Mary Michael Spangler. (1997) Faith Views the Universe: A Thomistic Perspective. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 076180787X.

  • Coughlin, Glen. (1994) "The Immobility of Place in Aristotle," Philosophia Perennis 1 (2): 3-34.

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  • Craig, William Lane. (1980) The cosmological argument from Plato to Leibniz. London: Macmillan. (Library of philosophy and religion). ISBN 0333274679.

  • Crowley, Charles B. (1980) Universal Mathematics in Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy: The Hermeneutics of Aristotelian Texts Relative to Universal Mathematics. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. ISBN 0819110094.

  • Crowley, Charles B. (1996) Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy of Measure and the International System of Units (SI), Edited by Peter A. Redpath. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0761804013.

  • Decaen, Christopher A. (2004) "Aristotle’s Aether and Contemporary Science," The Thomist 68 (3): 375-429. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1965) "Evolution: Concept and Content. Part I," Listening 0: 27-50.

  • Deely, John. (1966) "The Emergence of Man: An Inquiry Into the Operation of Natural Selection in the Making of Man," The New Scholasticism 40: 141-176. Reprinted in The Problem of Evolution, Edited by John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1973), pp.120-145.

  • Deely, John. (1967) "The Situation of Heidegger in the Tradition of Christian Philosophy," The Thomist 31: 159-244.

  • Deely, John. (1968) "The Immateriality of the Intentional as Such," The New Scholasticism 42: 293-306. [View item].

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  • Deely, John. (1969) "Evolution and Ethics," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 43: 171-184. Reprinted in The Problem of Evolution, Edited by John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1973), pp.187-209.

  • Deely, John. (1969a) "The Philosophical Dimensions of The Origin of Species, Part 1," The Thomist 33 (1): 75-149. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1969b) "The Philosophical Dimensions of The Origin of Species, Part 2," The Thomist 33 (2): 251-342. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1969c) Review of Bernard Delgaauw, Evolution: The Theory of Teilhard de Chardin, in The Thomist 33 (4): 794-796. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971) The Tradition Via Heidegger: An Essay on the Meaning of Being in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

  • Deely, John. (1971a) "Animal Intelligence and Concept-Formation," The Thomist 35 (1): 43-93. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971b) Review of Yves Simon, The Great Dialogue of Nature and Space, in The Thomist 35 (2): 344-346. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971c) "The Myth as Integral Objectivity," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 45: 67-76.

  • Deely, John N., and Raymond J. Nogar, eds. (1973) The Problem of Evolution: A study of the philosophical repercussions of evolutionary science. (Contemporary problems in philosophy). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. ISBN 0390259985.

  • Deely, John. (1973a) "The Impact of Evolution on Scientific Method," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The problem of evolution, 3-82, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • Deely, John. (1973b) "The Emergence of Man," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The Problem of Evolution, 119-145, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

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  • Galilei, Galileo. (1977) Galileo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and Paleographical Commentary, Translated by William A. Wallace. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268009988.

  • Galilei, Galileo. (1988) Tractatio de praecognitionibus et praecognitis and Tractatio de demonstratione. Transcribed from the Latin autograph by W. F. Edwards, with an introduction, notes, and commentary by W. A. Wallace, Edited by William F. Edwards, William A. Wallace and Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Padova: Editrice Antenore. (Saggi e testi / Universitaá di Padova, Centro per la storia della tradizione aristotelica nel Veneto 22).

  • Galilei, Galileo. (1992) Galileo's Logical Treatises. A Translation, With Notes and Commentary, of His Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Translated by William A. Wallace. Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 138). ISBN 0792315774.

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  • Wallace, William A. (1967) "Elementarity and Reality in Particle Physics," Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3: 236-271. (Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science,1964-1966).

  • Wallace, William A. (1968) "Thomism and Modern Science: Relationships Past, Present, and Future," The Thomist 32: 67-83. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1971) Review of Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky eds., Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vols. 4 and 5 (Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968), Robert S. Cohen and Raymond J. Seeger eds., Vol. 6 (Ernest Mach), in The Thomist 35 (2): 339-344. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1972) Causality and scientific explanation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Vol. 1. Medieval and Early Classical Science).

  • Wallace, William A. (1972a) Review of F. R. Larcher, O.P. (tr.): Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle, in The Thomist 36 (1): 175-177. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1972b) Review of John F. Kiley, Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement, in The Thomist 36 (3): 527-528. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1972c) Review of Anthony Kenny, The Five Ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs for God's Existence, Bruce R. Reichenbach, The Cosmological Argument: A Reassessment, in The Thomist 36 (4): 721-724. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1972d) "The Cosmological Argument: A Reappraisal," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 46: 43-57.

  • Wallace, William A. (1973) Review of Richard T. De George, A Guide to Philosophical Bibliography and Research, J. Grooten and G. Jo Steenbergen, New Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in The Thomist 37 (4): 821-822. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1973-1974) "Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages," in Philip P. Wiener (ed.) The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas 2, 196-205, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons[View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1974) Causality and scientific explanation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Vol. 2. Classical and Contemporary Science).

  • Wallace, William A. (1974a) "Aquinas on Creation: Science Theology and Matters of Fact," The Thomist 38 (2): 485-523. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1974b) "Aquinas on the Temporal Relation Between Cause and Effect," Review of Metaphysics 27: 569-584.

  • Wallace, William A. (1975) "The First Way: A Rejoinder," The Thomist 39 (2): 375-382. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1976) "Buridan, Ockham, Aquinas: Science in the Middle Ages: Review Article," The Thomist 40 (3): 475-483. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1977) The Elements of Philosophy: A Compendium for Philosophers and Theologians. New York: Alba House. ISBN 0818903457 [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1977a) Galileo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and Paleographical Commentary. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press.

  • Wallace, William A. (1980) "Albertus Magnus on Suppositional Necessity in the Natural Sciences," in James A. Weisheipl (ed.) Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays 1980, 103-128, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Studies and texts - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 49). ISBN 0888440499.

  • Wallace, William A. (1981) Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought. Dordrecht-Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co. (Boston studies in the philosophy of science 62). ISBN 9027712166.

  • Wallace, William A. (1983) From a Realist Point of View: Essays on the Philosophy of Science. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. Original edition, 1979.

  • Wallace, William A. (1983a) "Galileo's Trial," The Wilson Quarterly 7 (Summer): 154-164.

  • Wallace, William A. (1983b) "Galileo and Aristotle in the Dialogo," Angelicum 60: 311-332.

  • Wallace, William A. (1984) Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 069108355X.

  • Wallace, William A. (1984a). "The Idea of Nature: Its Contemporary Relevance for Ethics and Politics," Paper read at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, November 8, 1984.

  • Wallace, William A. (1985) "Nature as Animating: the Soul in the Human Sciences," The Thomist 49 (4): 612-648. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A., ed. (1986) Reinterpreting Galileo. (Studies in Philosophy and History of Philosophy 15). Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 081320609X.

  • Wallace, William A. (1986a) "Aitia: Causal Reasoning in Composition and Rhetoric," in Jean Dietz Moss (ed.) Rhetoric and Praxis, 107-133, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Papers presented at a conference held October 6-8, 1983 at the Catholic University of America). ISBN 0813206197.

  • Wallace, William A. (1987) "The Early Jesuits and the Heritage of Domingo de Soto," History and Technology 4: 301-320.

  • Wallace, William A. (1988) "Newton's Early Writings: Beginnings of a New Direction," in G. V. Coyne, M. Heller and J. Zycinski (eds.) Newton and the New Direction in Science, 23-44, Vatican City: Specola Vaticana.

  • Wallace, William A. (1989) "Aristotelian Science and Rhetoric in Transition: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Rhetorica 7: 7-21.

  • Wallace, William A. (1989) "Nature and Human Nature as the Norm in Medical Ethics," in Edmund D. Pellegrino, John P. Langan and John Collins Harvey (eds.) Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals: Foundational Issues, 23-53, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Wallace, William A. (1991) Galileo, the Jesuits, and the medieval Aristole. Aldershot (UK): Variorum Publishing. (Collected Studies Series, CS346). ISBN 0860782972.

  • Wallace, William A. (1991a) "Aquinas and Newton on the Causality of Nature and of God: The Medieval and Modern Problematic," in R. James Long (ed.) Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, OP, 255-280, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Papers in mediaeval studies 12). ISBN 0888448120.

  • Wallace, William A. (1992) Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof. The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 137). ISBN 0792315774.

  • Wallace, William A. (1993) "A History of Science and Faith," in S. Marianne Postiglione (ed.) Transfiguration: Elements of Science and Christian Faith, 1-44, Peoria, Illinois: Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) Faith/Science Press. ISBN 0962543179 [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1993a) Review of Ernan McMullin, The Inference that Makes Science, in The Thomist 57: 131-132. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1994) "Aquinas's Legacy on Individuation, Cogitation, and Hominization," in David M. Gallagher (ed.) Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy, 173-193, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 28).

  • Wallace, William A. (1995) "A Place for Form in Science," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 69: 35-46.

  • Wallace, William A. (1995a) "St. Thomas on the Beginning and Ending of Human Life," in Sanctus Thomas de Aquino Doctor Hodiernae Humanitatis, 394-407, Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (Studi Tomistici 58)[View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1995b) "Late Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Manuscripts Relating to Galileo's Early Notebooks," Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 51: 677-698.

  • Wallace, William A. (1996) The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 0813208602.

  • Wallace, William A. (1996a) "Albert the Great's Inventive Logic: His Exposition of the Topics of Aristotle," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (2): 11-39. (Albertus Magnus).

  • Wallace, William A. (1996b) "Guest Editor's Foreward," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (2): 1-6. (Albertus Magnus).

  • Wallace, William A. (1996c) "Religion and Science: Must There Be a Conflict?," ITEST Bulletin (Autumn). [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1997) "Thomism and the Quantum Enigma," Review of Wolfgang Smith, The Quantum Enigma: Finding the Hidden Key, in The Thomist 61: 455-468. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1997a) "Domingo de Soto and the Iberian Roots of Galileo's Science," in Kevin White (ed.) Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery, 113-129, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 29). ISBN 0813208742.

  • Wallace, William A. (1997b). "Science, Philosophy, and Theology in the Thomistic Tradition," Paper read at Thomistic Institute, July 22, 1997, at University of Notre Dame. <http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/wallace1.htm>

  • Wallace, William A. (1997c) "A Communication from Fr. William A. Wallace, O.P.," ITEST Bulletin (Spring). [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (1998). "Is Nature Accessible to the Mathematical Physicist?," Paper read at Thomistic Institute, July 25, 1998, at University of Notre Dame. <http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti98/wallace.htm>

  • Wallace, William A. (1999) "Quantification in Sixteenth Century Natural Philosophy," in Thomas S. Hibbs and John O'Callaghan (eds.) Recovering Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny, 11-24, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268016666 (alk. paper).

  • Wallace, William A. (1999a) "Physics before Galileo," Physics World (U.K.) (December): 15-20.

  • Wallace, William A. (1999b) Review of Pierre-Noel Mayaud, La Condamnation des livres Coperniciens et sa révocation à la lumière de documents inédits des Congrégation de l’Index et de l’Inquisition, in Theological Studies 60 (2): 369-371. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A., ed. (1999c) Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols. (Editor for philosophy and science: Contributed 26 articles; Planned, solicited, and edited some 150 entries in philosophy, science, technology, and medicine). New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

  • Wallace, William A. (2000) "Thomas Aquinas and Thomism," in Gary B. Ferngren (ed.) The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, 137-140, New York & London: Garland Publishing.

  • Wallace, William A. (2000a) Review of John L. Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, in Theological Studies 61 (2): 389. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (2001) "Science and Religion in the Thomistic Tradition," The Thomist 65: 441-63. [View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (2001a) "Historian and Philosopher of Science: An Interview with William A. Wallace, O.P.," Inner Explorations: <http://www.innerexplorations.com/philtext/ww.htm>.

  • Wallace, William A., and Jean Dietz Moss. (2003) Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 0813213312.

  • Wallace, William A. (2003a) "Religion and Science: Must There Be a Conflict?," in Robert Brungs (ed.) Readings II in Faith and Science, St. Louis, Missouri: ITEST. Original edition, March, 1983 ITEST publication, Science-Faith Conflict?[View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (2003b) "A Brief History: A History of Science and Faith," in Robert Brungs (ed.) Readings II in Faith and Science, St. Louis, Missouri: ITEST[View item].

  • Wallace, William A. (2004) Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo: Essays on Intellectual History. Aldershot (UK): Ashgate. (Variorum collected studies series). ISBN 0860789640.

  • Wallace, William A. (2004a) "An Encomium for Salvatore Camporeale--A Tale of Two Dominicans," MLN 119 (1): S6-S15. [View item].

  • Weisheipl. Weisheipl, James A. (1955) Nature and Gravitation. River Forest, Illinois: Albertus Magnus Lyceum.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1958) Aristotelian Methodology: A Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle. River Forest: Pontifical Institute of Philosophy. [View item].

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1960) The Development of Physical Theory in the Middle Ages. New York: Sheed and Ward. Reprint edition, Univ. of Michigan Press 1971. (The Philosophy of science series).

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1964) "The Evolution of Scientific Method," in Vincent Edward Smith (ed.) The Logic of Science, 59-86, New York: St. John's University Press. (St. John's University studies. Philosophical series, no. 4).

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1964a) "Curriculum of the Faculty of Arts at Oxford in the early Fourteenth Century," Mediaeval Studies 26: 143-185.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1965) "Classification of the Sciences in Medieval Thought," Mediaeval Studies 27: 54-90.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1966) "Developments in the Arts Curriculum at Oxford in the Early Fourteenth Century," Mediaeval Studies 28: 151ff.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1974) Friar Thomas D'Aquino: His Life, Thought, and Work. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1976) "The Relationship of Medieval Natural Philosophy to Modern Science: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas to Its Understanding," Manuscripta 20: 181-196.

  • Weisheipl, James A., ed. (1980) Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays 1980. (Studies and texts - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 49). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. ISBN 0888440499.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1980a) Thomas d'Aquino and Albert his teacher. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Etienne Gilson series 2). ISBN 0888447027.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1982) "The Interpretation of Aristotle's Physics and the Science of Motion," in Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg and Eleonore Stump (eds.) The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism 1100-1600, 521-536, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Weisheipl, James A. (1984) "The Concept of Nature: Avicenna and Aquinas," in Victor B. Brezik (ed.) Thomistic Papers 1, 65-82, Houston, Texas: Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas. ISBN 0268018510.

  • Weisheipl, James A., and William E. Carroll. (1985) Nature and motion in the Middle Ages. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy 11). ISBN 0813205999.

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