CURRICULUM VITAE

V. BRADLEY LEWIS

 

School of Philosophy                                                                            

The Catholic University of America                                                      

Washington, DC 20064                                                                         

Phone (202) 319-6654

Fax (202) 319-5523

Email: lewisb@cua.edu

 

PRESENT POSITIONS

 

Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America

Associate Editor, The American Journal of Jurisprudence

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

 

1997-                The Catholic University of America, School of Philosophy

                                    Associate Professor with tenure, 2003-

                                    Assistant Professor, 1997-2003

1994.97             University of Notre Dame, Department of Government

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1997

                                    Instructor, 1995-97

Teaching Fellow, 1994-95

1992.93                         Valparaiso University, Department of Political Science

Part-time Assistant Professor

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

Political Philosophy, Plato, Legal Philosophy, Natural Law Theory

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

 

Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1997

            Dissertation: “The Theological Political Problem in Plato’s Laws”

M.A., Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1989

            Thesis: “Religion and Politics in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville”

B.A., Government and Politics, University of Maryland (High Honors), 1987

            Thesis: “Culture and Politics: The neo-Humanist Critique”

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

A.     Journal Articles and Chapters in Books

 

“Plato’s Minos: The Political and Philosophical Context of the Problem of Natural Right,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 60, no. 1 (September 2006): 17-53.

 

“The Common Good in Classical Political Philosophy,” Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 25-41.

 

“Wealth, Happiness, and Politics: Aristotelian Questions.” In Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, 241-69. Ed. Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2003.

 

Introduction to Peter J. Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, ix-xxviii. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

 

“Gerhart Niemeyer: Political Order and the Problem of Natural Right,” Political Science Reviewer, vol. 31 (2002): 117-61.

 

“Liberal Democracy, Natural Law and Jurisprudence: Thomistic Notes on an Irish Debate.” In Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain’s “Man and the State.” Ed. Timothy Fuller and John Hittinger, 140-58. Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association, 2001.

 

“Globalization and the Eclipse of Natural Right: What We Might Learn from Plato and the Other Greeks.” Communio: International Catholic Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 431-463.

 

“The Seventh Letter and the Unity of Plato’s Political Philosophy,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 2 (2000): 231-250.

 

“The Rhetoric of Philosophical Politics in Plato’s Seventh Letter,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 33, no. 1 (2000): 23-38.

 

“Modernity, Morality, and the Social Sciences: A Look at MacIntyre’s Critique in Light of Fides et Ratio,” Communio: International Catholic Review, vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 104-121.

 

“Politeia kai Nomoi: On the Coherence of Plato’s Political Philosophy,” Polity, vol. 31, no. 2 (Winter 1998): 331-349.

 

“The Nocturnal Council and Platonic Political Philosophy,” History of Political Thought, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 1-20.

 

“Natural Law in Irish Constitutional Jurisprudence,” Catholic Social Science Review, vol. 2 (1997): 171-182.

 

B.     Reviews

 

Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition, forthcoming in The Thomist.

 

John P. Hittinger, Liberty, Wisdom and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory, in The Thomist 68 (2004): 329-32.

 

Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, eds., The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, in Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004): 630-31.

 

Mark C. Murphy, Natural Law and Practical Rationality, in The Thomist 67 (2003): 310-14.

 

Devin Stauffer, Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice, in The Review of Metaphysics 55 (2002): 412-14.

 

Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues, in The Review of Metaphysics 54 (2000): 944-46.

 

Josiah Ober, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens, in The Review of Politics 62 (2000): 401-404.

 

Christopher Morris, An Essay on the Modern State, in The Review of Metaphysics 53 (2000): 465-67

 

C. Fred Alford, What Evil Means to Us, in The Review of Metaphysics 52 (1999): 133-35.

 

Anthony Lisska, Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (1999): 526-28.

 

Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches, Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics, in The Review of Metaphysics 51 (1998): 931-33.

 

Francis X. Beytagh, Constitutionalism in Modern Ireland, in The Review of Politics 60 (1998): 366-68

 

Rett R. Ludwikowski, Constitution-Making in the Region of Former Soviet Dominance, in The Review of Metaphysics 51 (1998): 700-702.

 

Arlene Saxonhouse, Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists, in The Review of Politics 60 (1998): 165-68.

 

Zdravko Planinc, Plato’s Political Philosophy, in The University Bookman 35 (1995): 29-33.

 

C.     Miscellaneous

 

Preface to Symposium on Steven D. Smith’s Law’s Quandary, Catholic University Law Review 55 (Spring 2006): 635-637.

 

“MacIntyre, Alasdair C.” Entry in Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Michael L. Coulter. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, forthcoming.

 

“A Conversation with Wendell Berry,” Communio: International Catholic Review 27, 1 (Spring 2000): 66-76.

 

“Reading Plato’s Republic,” CUA World, 23 September 1999, 5, 7.

 

“In Memoriam: Gerhart Niemeyer 1907-1997,” The Review of Politics 59 (1997): 755-56.

 

LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS. AND PRESENTATIONS

 

“Interpretation against the Rule of Law? Political Constraints on the Rule of Reason,” Paper delivered at the Third Colloquium on Legal Philosophy, Panamerican University, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 22 January 2007.

 

“The Life and Work of Gerhart Niemeyer,” Lecture delivered at the Panamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico, 20 January 2007. 

 

“Legal Philosophy in the Anglo-American Tradition: Origins and Sources,” Lecture delivered at the Panamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico, 19 January 2007.

 

“The Common Good in the Modern State,” paper delivered at “Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite,” conference sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, November 30-December 2, 2006.

 

“Political Participation and the Catholic Citizen,” paper delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Maritain Association, Washington, DC, 13-16 October 2005.

 

“Natural Law and the Problem of Public Reason,” lecture delivered at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 14 October 2005.

 

“The Common Good in Classical Political Philosophy and its Relevance to Current Legal and Political Discussions,” lecture/digital video conference with students and faculty at Bonaterra University, Aguascalientes, and Panamerican University, Guadalajara, Mexico; sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, and the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, 12 October 2005.

 

“Globalization, Catholic Social Teaching, and the University: Notes Towards and Agenda,” paper delivered at “Joy in the Truth: The Catholic University in the New Millennium,” conference sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, September 29-October 1, 2005.

 

“Aquinas on the Justice of Capitalism,” paper delivered at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-8 May 2005.

 

“Can a Christian be a Democrat? A (Devout) Member of the Polis?” (or “The Common Good and the Modern State”), paper delivered at “Love Alone is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition,” Lansdowne Resort and Conference Center, Lansdowne, Virginia, 14-17 April 2005.

 

“The Common Good in Classical Political Philosophy,” paper delivered at conference on “Professions and the Common Good,” Catholic University of America, 11 March 2005.

 

“The Common Good and the Functions of Government,” paper commissioned by the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, submitted 18 November 2004 (to be followed by formal presentation and discussion).

 

“The Political Character of Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law,” paper delivered at the 36th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3-6 May 2001.

 

“Classical Political Philosophy and the Birth of Christian Political Theology: On How Eusebius of Caesarea Read Plato’s Laws,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 27-30 April 2000.

 

“Community, Politics, and Modernity: Questions for Wendell Berry,” remarks delivered at, “The Unsettling of America: A Conversation with Wendell Berry,” a conference sponsored by Communio: International Catholic Review on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Washington D.C., 7-8 January 2000.

 

“Fides et Ratio and the Philosophy of Human Affairs,” Fides et Ratio Symposium, sponsored by Communio: International Catholic Review, Washington, D.C., 18 November 1999.

 

"Alasdair MacIntyre and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Steubenville, OH, 23-24 October 1998.

 

"Liberal Democracy and Natural Law: Thomistic Notes on an Irish Debate," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Maritain Association, Colorado Springs, 1-4 October 1998.

 

“The Political and Philosophical Intentions of Plato’s Seventh Letter,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, 13-15 November 1997.

 

“Remarks on Eric Voegelin’s ‘The Gospel and Culture,’” delivered at Roundtable Session sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Society, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 29 August 1997.

 

“Plato’s Minos: The Political Context of the Problem of Natural Right,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, 14-16 November 1996.

 

 “Natural Law in Irish Constitutional Jurisprudence,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting-Conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Steubenville, OH, October 1996.

 

“Regimes, Practices, and Goods: The Basic Categories of Platonic Political Science,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 28 August- 1 September 1996.

 

“The Rise and Decline of Natural Law in Irish Constitutional Jurisprudence,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 18-20 April 1996.

 

With Donald P. Kommers and Jeff Gimpel, “Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights in Diffuse Systems of Judicial Review,” Report prepared for the European Commission for Democracy through Law, Brioni, Croatia, 23-24 September 1995.

 

“The Unity of Plato’s Political Thought Revisited: Philosophic Pessimism and the Rule of Law,” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 6-8 April 1995.

 

“Regimes, Practices, and Political Psychology: On the Basis of the Theological-Political Problem in Plato’s Laws,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Providence, RI, 10-12 November 1994.

 

“The Archaeology of the Theological-Political Problem in Plato’s Laws,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 14-16 April 1994.

 

“Plato and the Spartans,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 9-12 April 1992.

 

HONORS

 

2000.1                             Freedom Project Grant (with Richard Velkley and Richard Hassing), John Templeton Foundation, 2001-2002

1994-95            Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Notre Dame.

1993.94                         Dissertation Fellowship, H.B. Earhart Foundation.

1987-88            First Year Fellowship, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

1986-87            Undergraduate Apprenticeship in Research and Scholarship, University of Maryland.

 

COURSES TAUGHT AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

 

Undergraduate                                                              Graduate

     The Classical Mind                                                        Socrates and the City

     The Modern Mind                                                         Plato’s Republic

     Theories of Ethics                                                         Plato’s Laws

     Philosophy of the Social Sciences                                    Freedom and the Human Person

     Political Philosophy                                                           Philosophy of Law

     Philosophy of Natural Right and Natural Law                 The Problem of Public Reason

     Morality and Law                                                        Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

     Human Action and Government (honors)

 

GRADUATE SUPERVISION (DOCTORAL ONLY)

 

Stephen P. Grundman, “The Role of Consuetudo (Custom) in Aquinas’s Philosophy of Law,”      Ph.D., 2005

Soojung Kim, “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Criticism of Modern Moral Philosophy: The Relationship of   Moral Agency to Community.” Ph.D., 2006

David J. Klassen, “Thomas Aquinas and Knowledge of the First Principles of the Natural Law.”

            Ph.D., 2006

 

MAJOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

Coordinator, Philosophy Pre-Law Program of Concentration, 1997-2005

Member, Middle States Accreditation Self-Study subcommittee on comparative perspective, 1999

Member, University Task Force on Academic Resources, 1999

Member, Undergraduate Board (University), 2004-2005

Member, Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2005-present

Member, University Appeals Board for Academic Dishonesty, 2006-present

Alternate, School of Philosophy Committee on Appointments and Promotions, 2006-present

Secretary of the Faculty, School of Philosophy, 2007-present

 

OTHER INVITED LECTURES AND COURSES

 

Smithsonian Associates courses, Washington, D.C.

  • “Philosophy on Tap: What is Justice?” Six Lectures, April 26-May 31, 2005.
  • “Philosophy on Tap: What is the Good Society?” Six lectures, April 16-May 21, 2003.
  • “The Great Philosophers of the West,” Seven lectures, October 17-December 5, 2002.
  • “Philosophy on Tap: What is the Good Life?” (with Rev. Brian Shanley, O.P.), 10- July-14 August 2001

 

Phoenix Institute Summer Seminar for the Study of Western Institutions, University of Notre Dame

  • “Philosophy of Law,” 3-28 July, 2006 (3 credit course)
  • “Democracy, War and Empire: Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War,” 4-29 July, 2005 (3 credit course)
  • “Aquinas and Modern Politics,” 5-30 July 2004. (3 credit course)
  • “Liberty, Democracy, and Modernity: Tocqueville’s American Journey,” 7 July-1 August 2003. (3 credit course)
  • “Enlightenment and Modernity,” 1-26 July 2002. (3 credit course)
  • “Issues in the Philosophy of Law,” 9-20 July 2001. (2 credit course)

 

Three Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Person, Workshop on Catholic Personality Theory from the Bible to John Paul II, Catholic Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, 19-20 September 1998.

 

Three Lectures on the History of Catholic Social Thought, Panamerican University Residence, Mexico City, Mexico, 8-15 July 1990.

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS

 

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Debate Actual (Published in Spain)

Associate Faculty Editor, Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Culture, since 2006

Associate Editor, The American Journal of Jurisprudence since, 2005

Consulting Editor, Communio: International Catholic Review, since 1998

Assistant Book Review Editor, The Review of Politics, 1993-97

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

 

Academic Advisory Council, The Phoenix Institute (2005-present)

 

Co-organizer, with William Wagner, Symposium, “Steven D. Smith’s Law’s Quandary: The Perplexity is Metaphysical,” sponsored by the Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture, Columbus School of Law and the Catholic University Law Review, 25 October 2005.

 

Member, Executive Council, Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, 2005-present

 

Academic coordinator, with William Wagner, “The Idea of Public Reason: Achievement or Failure?” a symposium sponsored by the Columbus School of Law and the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, Washington,  D.C., 15-16 May 2001.

 

Manuscript referee for the following journals: Review of Politics, Review of Metaphysics, Communio: International Catholic Review, The Thomist, and for the Catholic University of America Press.

 

External PhD dissertation reader, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2002.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

American Philosophical Association

American Catholic Philosophical Association

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Society for Greek Political Thought

American Political Science Association