Dr. Pamela J. Reeve

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Pamela J. Reeve joined the administrative staff of St. Augustine’s in 1990, working part-time while she completed her PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto. During this time, she produced an ATS self-study report for the Seminary’s 10-year accreditation review and later served as Registrar. Upon graduation in 1994, Dr. Reeve became a full-time member of St. Augustine’s faculty. She teaches a range of courses, which fulfill the philosophy pre-requisites for the STB/MDiv program, including Critical Thinking, ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, and the Philosophy of Religion. Her research currently focuses on the philosophy of human nature, death, and the afterlife (titles below). Dr. Reeve also advises the administration on the completion of philosophy pre-requisites by incoming and external students.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / SELECTED AREAS OF SERVICE / PASTORAL WORK

Publications

• “Truth as ‘Being Trued’: Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion” In Truth Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion (2013)

•  “The Metaphysics of Higher Cognitive States in Thomas Aquinas.” In Essays in Medieval Theology and Philosophy in Memory of Walter H. Principe: Fortresses and Launching Pads (2005)

Conference and Colloquia Papers (title/year delivered)

• “Is Death a Metaphysical Catastrophe? Problems with the Post-Mortem Status of the Separated Soul” (2019)

• “The Necessity of an Operationally Independent Spiritual Element in Human Nature for the Beatific Vision: A Response to Anthropological Physicalism” (2019)

• “The Soul, Neuroscience, and Post-Mortem Embodiment” (2017)

• “Knowing the Being of the Soul: Phenomenology and Thomistic Anthropology” (2013)

Complete citation references for above items:

Publications

• “Truth as ‘Being Trued’: Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion.” Truth Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Lambert Zuidervaart, Allyson Carr, Matthew Klaassen, and Ronnie Shuker (eds). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013, pp. 263–282.

• “The Metaphysics of Higher Cognitive States in Thomas Aquinas.” Essays in Medieval Theology and Philosophy in Memory of Walter H. Principe: Fortresses and Launching Pads, Carl N. Still & James Ginther (eds). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005, pp. 105-120.

Conference and Colloquia Papers

• “Is Death a Metaphysical Catastrophe? Problems with the Post-Mortem Status of the Separated Soul.” St. Augustine’s Seminary Faculty Colloquium, Toronto, 29 NOV 2019.

• “The Necessity of an Operationally Independent Spiritual Element in Human Nature for the Beatific Vision: A Response to Anthropological Physicalism.” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, Congress 2019, University of British Columbia, 01 JUN 2019.

• “The Soul, Neuroscience, and Post-Mortem Embodiment.” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, Congress 2017, Ryerson University, 29 MAY 2017.

•  “Knowing the Being of the Soul: Phenomenology and Thomistic Anthropology”. ‘The Soul’ Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK, 28 JUN – 1 JUL 2013.