Phone:

202-319-6647

Fax:

202-319-6653

 

E-mail:

degroot@cua.edu

 

Mailing address:

School of Philosophy

Aquinas Hall

The Catholic University of America

620 Michigan Ave., N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20064

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean De Groot

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University

History of Science, 1979

 

Areas of specialization

Aristotle

Ancient philosophy

History of ancient science

Philosophy of science

Philosophy of nature

 

Areas of interest

Philosophy of logic

Natural law

American philosophy

Wittgenstein, Husserl

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

 

“Modes of Explanation in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems,” Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009): 22-42.

“Dunamis and the Science of Mechanics: Aristotle on Animal Motion,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 46, no. 1 (2008): 43-68. Abstract

“A Husserlian Perspective on Empirical Mathematics in Aristotle,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 (2006): 91-100.

“Is Aristotelian Science Possible? A Commentary on MacIntyre and McMullin.” Review of Metaphysics 60, no.3 (December, 2006): 463-77.

“Teleology and Evidence: Reasoning about Human Nature,” forthcoming in Natural Law and Contemporary Society, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.