Dr. Julia Palmieri

Sessional Lecturer

EDUCATION

B. Arts and Science, McMaster University (with a focus in Philosophy and Ethics)

M.T.S., Biotechnology and Ethics Track, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America

Ph.D. in Theology, Specialization in Person, Marriage, and Family, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Bioethics

  • Medical Ethics

  • Theological Ethics

  • Moral Theology

Areas of Interest

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology of the Body, Theology of the Body,  Metaphysics of Gift, Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, Theology of Marriage and Family, Integral Ecology

BIOGRAPHY

Julia pursued her graduate studies in the theology and philosophy of the human person at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C., finding an intellectual home wherein to pursue ethical and existential questions about the increasing technological mastery over human life in its origins and end. Her dissertation offered a philosophical critique of the theoretical foundations of bioethics in America through the thought of the German-Jewish philosopher, Hans Jonas. Julia currently resides with her newlywed husband in Mississauga, Ontario, and looks forward to sharing her passion for her studies as an educator in Canada.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / SELECTED AREAS OF SERVICE / PASTORAL WORK

  • “Hans Jonas’s Ontological Ethics and the Natural Law,” Lex Naturalis Vol. 4 (2019): 3-20.

    “The Spirit of Biotechnology: Eliminating the Condition of Suffering, Eliminating the Meaning of Gift,” Dignitas Vol. 25, No. 3 (2018): 3-7.

    “Genetic Knowing (Part I; Part II),” Bioethics Matters, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, Vol. 14, No 4 (Oct 2016); Vol. 17, No. 2 (May 2019).

    “Germline Engineering, Mitochondrial Transfer, Three-Parent Embryos: Conception and Human Destiny (Parts I and II),” Bioethics Matters, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, Vol.13, No. 9 and 10 (Nov 2015).

    “IVF and Motherhood,” Voices in Bioethics: An Online Journal, 12 January 2016.

    “Wit,” Voices in Bioethics: An Online Journal, 25 November 2015.