Curriculum Vitae: Laura L. Garcia

Curriculum Vitae

Laura L. Garcia

PERSONAL

Campus Address:
Department of Philosophy
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
(617) 552-6014 Fax: (617) 552-3874

Email: LLGarcia@aol.com
Home Address:3 Bowdoin St., #3
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 576-6320

Birth Date:June 4, 1955

Marital Status:
Married, four children

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Philosophy, 1983, University of Notre Dame. M.A. Philosophy, 1979, University of Notre Dame. BA. Philosophy, 1977, Westmont College, summa cum laude, honors in philosophy.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999-
1993-99
1988-92
1986-87
1984-86
1982-84
1979-1980
Spring 1979 Adiunct Assistant Professor, Boston College.
Lecturer, Rutgers University.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University.
Visiting Lecturer, Catholic University of America.
Adiunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame.
Instructor, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN)
Instructor, Calvin College.
Instructor, St. Mary’s College.

COURSES TAUGHT

Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Being and God
Religion and the Challenge of ~jence
Metaphysics of God
Does God Exist?
Faith and Reason
History of Metaphysics
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics
Critical Thinking
Informal and Symbolic Logic Religion and Morality
Miracles and Immortality
Philosophy of the Person

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

"Ethics on One Wing" in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter 26 (Fall 2003): 13-23.
"Christians and the Joy of Sex" in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3( SUmmer 2003): 257-264.
"Preserving Persons" in The Contribution of John Paul II to Bioethics, edited by Christipher Tollefsen, forthcoming.
"The Importance of Parental Choice" in Logos, summer 2003.
Review of Ralph Mclnerny, Characters in Search of an Author, forthcoming in Faith and Philosophy.
“Promoting a Culture of Life in the Family,” forthcoming in Luke Gormally, ed. Culture of Life, Culture of Death (London: Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics).
“St. John of the Cross on the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness,” forthcoming in a collection edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser, Oxford tentative.
“A Personalist Understanding of Marriage,” forthcoming in Logos.
“Can the Marketplace Serve the Family?” in The Global Economy: Changing Politics, Society and Family, ed. Lee Edwards (St. Paul: Professors World Peace Academy, 2001): 149-167.
“Globalization of Family Planning,” The World and I (December 2000): 259-277.
“Religious Values and Politics,” Proceedings of the Theology Institute (Villanova University) 31 (1999). “Pluralism and Natural Theology” in Recovering Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph Mclnemy, edited by Thomas Hibbs and John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999). Review of Richard Swinburne, Is There a God? in First Things, no. 81 (March 1998): 54-57.
Review of Elizabeth Radcliffe and Carol White, eds., Faith in Theory and Practice, Faith and Philosophy 14(1997): 113-116.
“The Primacy of the Person: Edith Stein and Pope John Paul II,” Logos 1, Summer 1997: 90- 99.
“Teleological and Design Arguments,” Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Charles Taliaferro and Philip Quinn (Blackweli, 1996): 338-344.
“Philosophy and Faith” in God and the Philosophers, ed. Thomas V. Morris (Oxford, 1994): 173-181.
“Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses,” Journal of Philosophical Research 18 (1993): 65-82.
“Natural Theology and the Reformed Objection” in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, ed. Stephen Evans and Merold Westphal (Eerdmans, 1993): 112-133.
“Divine Freedom and Creation,” Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 191-213.
Review of Paul Helm, Eternal God: A Study of God without Time, Review of Metaphysics 43 (1990): 634-36.
“Can There Be a Self-Explanatory Being?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1987): 479-88.
“The Essential Moral Perfection of God,” Religious Studies 23 (1986): 137-44.
“A Response to the Modal Problem of Evil,” Faith and Philosophy 1 (1984): 378-88.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Ppaper on "Reason and Respect for Persons" presented to a conference on Transformation and Renewal, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2003.
Paper on "Ethics on One Wing" presented to a conference/seminar at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, July 2003.
Series of course lecutes on "Analytic Philosophy" delivered and videotaped for the International Catholic University's online graduate curriculum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, June 2003.
Paper on "Hope as a Theological Virtue" presented to students at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April 2003.
Paper on "The Heart of Faith" presented to undergraduate and graduate students at Elmbrook Residence, Cambridge, MA, March 2003.
Paper on "The Heart of Faith" presented to faculty and students at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, January 2003.
Paper on "Thomas Aquinas and the Five Ways" presented to students at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, December 2002.
Paper on "Christians and the Joys of Sex" presented to a conference on The Culture of Life: Agendas for Reform, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2002.
Paper on “Sex and Conversation” presented to The Culture of Life conference sponsored by the Ethics and Culture Center at the University of Notre Dame, December 2001.
Comment on Michael Winter’s “An Axiomatic Model of Aristotle’s Ethics” at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, November 2001.
Paper on “Becoming What We Are: Promoting Life in the Family,” presented at a conference on “The Great Jubilee and the Culture of Life,” Cambridge, England, July 2000.
Series of lectures on the thought of John Paul II presented to a faculty seminar at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 2000.
Paper on “Can the Global Marketplace Serve the Family?” presented to a conference on The Globalization of the Economy: The Effects on Politics, Society and Family in Seoul, Korea, February 2000.
Paper on “John Paul II as Philosopher and Teacher” presented to a general audience at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, November 1999.
Paper on “Why Does God Hide?” presented to a general audience at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1999.
Paper on “Religious Values and Politics: A Conservative Perspective” presented to a conference on Religious Values at the Threshold of a New Millennium at Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1998.
Paper on “Cognitive Advantages of Faith” presented to the Society of Christian Philosophers at the American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting in Buffalo, New York, March 1997.
Paper on “Edith Stein on Women and Christian Philosophy” presented to the Catholic Studies Program at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, November 1996.
Paper on “The Probability of Miracles” presented to the Pacific Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, April 1996.
Paper on “Reformed and Catholic Responses to Natural Theology” presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, February 1995.
Paper on “Divine Freedom and Creation” presented to the philosophy department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 1994.
Paper on “Freedom: Human and Divine” presented to a philosophy of religion conference at Hendrix College, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 1994.
Comment on Brian Leftow~s “Perfection and Timelessness” presented at the New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association Conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 1993.
Paper on “Perfection and Possibility” presented at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers at Merrimack College in New Hampshire, April 1993.
Paper on “Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom” presented to the Philosophy Club at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1993.
Paper on “Timelessness and Perfection” presented to the philosophy department at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, January 1993.
Comment on Alan Back’s “Aquinas and Morris on the Incarnation” presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, Oregon, March 1992.
Paper on “Divine Freedom and Creation” presented at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, April 1991.
Paper on “Noetic Aspects of Faith” presented at the Washington Philosophical Society, March 1991.
Paper on “Functionalism and God” presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, December 1990.
Paper on “Divine Freedom and Creation” presented at College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1990.
Paper on “Omniscience and the Ontology of Tense” presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in Oakland, California, March 1989.
Paper on “Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses” accepted for presentation at the Society of Christian Philosophers meeting at the World Congress of Philosophy in Brighton, England, August 1988.
Comment on Robert Adams’ “The Problem of Total Devotion” at a Research Conference in the Philosophy of Religion in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1984.
Paper on “The Essential Moral Perfection of God” presented to the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers at University of Notre Dame, March 1984.
Comment on William Hasker’s “Concerning the Intelligibility of ‘God is Timeless” at the American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting in Columbus, Ohio, April 1982.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Program Committee for the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars for 2002 conference.
Manuscript referee for Blackweli Publishers, Catholic University of America Press.
Manuscript referee for Faith and Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, and Christian Scholars Review.
Panelist for reviewing grant applications for summer fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Member of the American Philosophical Association, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Society of Christian Philosophers, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, University Faculty for Life.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1999-2002. Member of the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999- 2002.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Christian Philosophers, 1990-1993. Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, 1999-present.
Liaison Committee between the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers, 1997-2000. Chair of Program Committee for Society of Christian Philosophers meeting at the American Catholic Philosophical Association Convention, March 1989 and the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association Meeting, December 1991. Member of the Program Committee for the Society of Christian Philosophers meeting at the American Catholic Philosophical Association Convention, March 1997.
Nominating committee for Society of Christian Philosophers, 1988; for Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1999.
Co-President of University Faculty for Life, 1990-91.
Chair of the Education Committee of Women Affirming Life, 1992-present.

WORKSHOPS

Participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Thomas More on Liberty” at the University of Dallas, February 2001.
Participant in a Teaching Workshop sponsored by the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, Maryland, March 1989.
Participant in a Summer Institute in the Philosophy of Religion sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at Western Washington University, July-August 1986.
Participant in a Midwest Faculty Forum on “Integrating Women Into Scholarship” at the University of Chicago, October 1983.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Course Development Grant, Georgetown University, Summer 1991.
Honorary Newcombe Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1982-1983.

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

“Women’s Role in the New Millennium” in Family: A Revolution for the Third Millennium (Madrid: International Federation for Family Development, 2001): 32-50.
“Marriage: The Crisis and the Cure,” Catholic Dossier, 1999.
Regular columnist for Catholic Dossier, 1996-97.
“Edith Stein on Feminism and the Cross,” Crisis, June 1997.
“Liberating Motherhood,” Crisis, January 1996.
“Can Marriage Be Saved?”, Catholic Dossier, December 1995.
“Common Ground? No, Swamp Water,” a review of Kathy Rudy’s Beyond Pro-Life and Pro- Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate in New Oxford Review, September 1997.
“A ‘Prochoicer’s’ Explicit No to Life,” a review of Barbara Duden’s Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn, New Oxford Review, March 1995.
“Disparaging Christian Motherhood,” a review of Clarissa Atkinson’s The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages, New Oxford Review, June 1993.
“Femininity and the Life of Faith,” presented at annual Wethersfield Institute conference New York City, September 1990, published in The Catholic Woman (lgnatius Press, 1991).

GENERAL PRESENTATIONS

"Called Into Light," to be presented to a prayer vigil on New Year's Eve 2003 for the Archdiocese of Boston, Newton, MA.
"The Church on Homosexuality and Marriage," presented to high school students at Montrose School, Natick, MA, December 2003.
"What Sex Really Means," presented for Theology on Tap, sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry Office of the Boston Archdiocese, September 2003.
"Teaching a Love-for-Life Ethic," presented to a prolife conference at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Parish, Santa Clara, CA, January 2003.
"The Incarnational Vision of St. Josemaria," presented to a conference on Among Family and Friends: The American Legacy of a New Saint, Josemaria Escriva at Bentley College, Waltham, MA, November 2002.
"Modeling Marriage," presented to a workshop at Arnold Hall Conference Center, Pembroke, MA, July 2002.
"The Role of Women in the New Millennium," presented to a Parents' Seminar Program at Montrose School, Natick, MA, March 2002.
“A Cure for Cultural Blindness” presented to a general audience for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, January 2001.
“The Role of Women in Society” presented at the I 5th Congress of the International Federation for Family Development, Rome, Italy, October 2000.
“True Feminism is Pro-Life,” presented to a conference at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, April 2000.
“Keeping Hope Alive: Prayer and Prolife Work,” presented to a conference on “The Feminine Genius and the Culture of Life” in Washington, DC, March 2000.
“The Role of the Family in Building a Culture of Life,” presented to a conference on the family at the Cathedral of St. Paul, Worcester, MA, October 1999.
“The Role of the Laity in the Church,” presented to a workshop for seminarians at Arnold Hall Conference Center, Pembroke, MA, April 1998.
“Pope John Paul Il on Women,” presented to a conference on the Papacy at the Cathedral of St. Paul, Worcester, MA, April 1997.
“The Meaning of Grace,” presented to retreatants at Arnold Hall Conference Center, Boston, MA, April 1997.
“Christian Marriage: Challenges for the New Millennium,” presented to students at Princeton University, March 1997.
“Motherhood is Powerful,” presented to a conference on the family at Rider University, January 1997.
“The Challenge of Christian Marriage,” presented to the New Jersey chapter of Legatus in Union, NJ, January 1997.
“It Takes More Than Two: The Case Against Redefining Marriage,” presented at St. Agnes Church, New York, NY, November 1996.
“Christian Marriage and the Challenges of the 90’s,” presented at a Family Life Series in Millington, NJ, October 1996.
“The Truth About Choice,” presented to the annual conference of University Faculty for Life in Washington, DC, June 1996.
“Mission Possible,” a brief address on the family and culture presented at the Second PanAmerican Conference on the Family in Toronto, Ontario, May 1996.
“Women’s Contributions to the Culture of Life in Academia,” presented to a conference on the papal encyclical Evangelium Vitae in Washington, DC, May 1996.
“Pro-Life Feminism” presented at the New Jersey Right to Life Convention in Somerville, New Jersey, April 1996.
“Women and Work” presented at St. Paul’s Parish, Princeton, NJ, March 1996.
“Christian Marriage” presented to High School Religious Education Students in Manhattan, NY, December 1995.
“Teaching a Love-for-Life Ethic” presented at a Catechetical Congress for the Diocese of Metuchen in Sayreville, NJ, November 1995.
“Affirming Life: Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Culture” presented at the Rutgers Club, New Brunswick, NJ, October 1995.
“Prolife Feminism: Yes or No?” presented to students at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, October 1995.
“Motherhood is Powerful: Cherishing Life in a Culture of Death” presented at the Republican Women’s Club, New York, NY, May 1995.
“Feminism and the Prolife Ethic” presented at a conference at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, March 1995.
“Feminism and the Prolife Ethic: Has the Ideology of Radical Feminism Betrayed Women?” presented to students at St. Johns University School of Law, Jamaica, NY, March 1995.
“On Becoming Catholic,” presented to a ministers’ association at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, September 1994.
“Marriage and the Church,” presented at a conference on Basics in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, annually in May or June, 1994-2001.
‘Women and Greatness,” presented at a conference on The Catholic Woman in San Francisco and Santa Clara, CA, May 1994.
‘Women and the Catholic Church,” presented to the Princeton University Maritain Club in Princeton, NJ, May 1994.
“Does Faith Corrupt Philosophy?” presented to the New York University Maritain Club in New York, NY, April 1994.
“Addition, Multiplication and Division: Marriage and Humanae Vitae,” presented at a conference at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY, September 1993.
“Weeping With Those Who Weep,” presented at a meeting of Women Affirming Life, Boston, MA, May 1993.
“A Plea for Prolife Feminism,” presented to a branch of the American Association of University Women in Needham, MA, April 1993.
“Abortion and Women’s Rights,” presented to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 1993.
“Suffering and Happiness,” presented to the UNIV club at Boston University, March 1993.
“John Paul II on the Human Person,” presented at a conference on the papal encyclical Centessimus Annus at George Washington University, March 1992.
“Faith and Culture: The Impact of Culture and Religion on Family Values,” presented to an interreligious women’s group at a Catholic parish in Washington, DC, December 1991.
“The Priesthood of Women,” presented at a conference on The Catholic Woman sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute in Dallas and Houston, TX, May 1991.
“Can You Be Catholic and Be Pro-Choice?” A debate with Catholics for Free Choice at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 1991.
“The Role of Women in the Church,” presented to the Catholic Women’s Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC, February 1991.
“Faith and Reason in Calvin and Aquinas,” presented to St. Helena’s Parish, Minneapolis, MN, February 1982.

MEDIA APPEARANCES/INTERVIEWS

National Catholic Register interview with Raymond de Souza, October 25-31, 1998.
EWTN Radio interview with Deal Hudson, editor of Crisis magazine, on the role of women in the writings of Pope John Paul II, June 1996.
WAWZ Radio Program “Proclaim the Good News” with host Fr. Joseph Celano. On prolife feminism and Feminists for Life, November 19, 1995; on prolife legislation, with Rita Martin, January 21, 1996; on the Beijing conference on women and the Western agenda, with Mercedes Wilson, March 6, 1996; Central New Jersey.
WAWZ aired “Affirming Life” from October 24, 1995 Breakfast for Life meeting at Rutgers University Club, New Brunswick, NJ.
EWTN program on cultural responses to the visit of Pope John Paul II to the U.S., hosted by John Haas and Msgr. Eugene Clark, with guests Deal Hudson and Mary Ellen Bork, October 6, 1995, New York and Washington, DC.
CTN program on prolife issues, with guests Helen Alvare and Robert Destro, Spring 1992, Washington, DC.

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Co-founder and member of the board, Women Affirming Life.
Co-founder and past executive officer, University Faculty for Life.
Advisory board, Center for Ethics and Culture (University of Notre Dame).
Advisory board, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Contributing editor, Crisis Magazine.