The Catholic College of the South
OF NOTE: Dr. Nolan is also the faculty advisor for Delta Epsilon Sigma, an honor society for Catholic schools, and faculty coordinator for the Philosophy Club.
KNOWN FOR:
Caring for her students and making sure they understand the philosophers they are reading.
WHEN NOT IN THE CLASSROOM, CAN OFTEN BE FOUND: Playing with her kids, sewing, gardening, and researching random things.
POPULAR QUOTE:
“To perceive all that is unusual and exceptional, all that is wonderful, in the midst of the ordinary things of everyday life, is the beginning of philosophy.” -Josef Pieper, The Philosophical Act
Examples of classes taught by Dr. Catherine Nolan:
PH250 Ethics: The Good Life
PH200 Introduction to Philosophy
PH314 Faith and Reason
PH440 Philosophy of Sex and Gender
Publications
(2022) “A Functional Alternative to Radical Capacities: Critiquing Lee and Grisez,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq202255251
(2020) “The Metaphysical Irreversibility of Death,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 725-741, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa024