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Bernardo Cantens is an Associate Professor at Barry University. His major areas of research are Medieval Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Cultural Identity Theories.
He received a 2005-2006 NEH Faculty Research Award to complete his on-going research on the philosophy Charles S. Peirce, “Peirce’s Evolutionary Cosmology and the Naturalism-Theism Debate”. He received a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University in spring of 2006. He was also the recipient of the 2004 APA Prize in Latin American Thought and the 2003 APA William James Award.
Cantens’ most recent publications include:
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“Peirce on Science and Religion” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (2) (2006): 93 – 115.
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“Francisco De Vitoria’s Just Intervention Theory and the Iraq War” APA News Letter (2005).
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"Overcoming The Evidentialist’s Challenge: Peirce’s Conjectures of Instinctive Reason and the Reality of God" Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (2004): 771-786.
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“What kind of beings (entia) are beings of reason and what kind of being (esse) do they have? Suárez on beings of reason” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2003) 171-187.
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“Peirce and the Spontaneous Conjectures of Instinctive Reasoning” American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings 76 (2002) 89-101.
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"Ultimate Reality in the Metaphysics of Francisco Suárez." Ultimate Reality and Meaning Vol. 25 (2) (2002): 73-92.
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“A Solution to the Problem of Personal Identity in the Metaphysics of St. Thomas” American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings Vol. 75 (2001): 121-134.
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“The Relationship Between God and Essences and the Notion of Eternal Truths According To Francisco Suárez” The Modern Schoolman Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 71(2) (2000): 127-143.
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“The Interdependency Between Aquinas’ Doctrine of Creation and The Principle of the Limitations of Act by Potency” American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings Vol. 74 (2000): 121-140.
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