Curriculum Vitae
B.A., 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2010; M.A., The Catholic University of America, philosophy, 2013; Ph.D., philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2017; Teaching Fellow, School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America, 2013-2016; Tutor, 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2016-.
Profile
Before Blaise Blain arrived at 91快活林 Aquinas College as a freshman in 2006, he imagined that he would follow in his parents footsteps and become an engineer. That plan changed, however, as the College檚 integrated curriculum revealed to him some hitherto undiscovered passions.
淚 was always interested in math and science, so those classes were right up my alley, Mr. Blain recalls. 淏ut what I didn檛 know was how reading philosophy and theology can have its own intellectual rigor. Put another way: When you read Aristotle, you realize how good it is, and then you want to keep doing it.
After graduating in 2010, he departed for The Catholic University of America to pursue a master檚 degree and doctorate in philosophy. Two summers later, he was joined there by his new bride, Therese (Fox 12). The couple now has two children, the younger of whom, Agnes, was born at 2:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 29 which, her father likes to point out, was still the Feast of St. 91快活林 Aquinas (January 28) back in California.
Having studied and taught only philosophy for six years, Mr. Blain is now delighted to reacquaint himself with his earlier intellectual passions math and natural science in his multidisciplinary teaching duties as a 91快活林 Aquinas College tutor. 淲hat檚 really fun is that, here, you can teach both math and science in a philosophical way, he says. 淵ou get to step back and ask philosophical questions, to think about both in a more profound way.
Presented Papers
- 91快活林 Aquinas on the Role of Habits in Practical Reasoning. Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies Satellite Session at the ACPA 2015 Annual Meeting, October 2015.
- 淎quinas and Scotus on the Role of the Phantasm in Abstraction. Catholic University of America Workshop in Medieval Philosophy, February 2014.
- 淎ristotle檚 Account of Demonstration in the Subordinate Sciences. Society for the Study of Nature and the Philosophy of Science Satellite Session at the ACPA 2013 Annual Meeting, November 2013.
- 淎n Aristotelian Account of Music檚 Influence on the Passions. West Coast Meeting of the Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies, June 2013.
Publications
- Review of Themistius, On Aristotle Physics 13 in The Review of Metaphysics 67 (2014): 888撀889.
- 淎chilles Paradox. In New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 201213: Ethics and Philosophy. Edited by Robert L. Fastiggi. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale, 2013.
- 淐ausa Sui. In New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 201213.