Martin Tracey, PhD

Martin Tracey, PhD

Professor
Director, General Professional Studies

Faculty Email: mtracey@ben.edu

Phone: 630-829-6259

Office Location: Kindlon 151

Education
Ph.D. (medieval philosophy), University of Notre Dame | 2000
M.M.S. (medieval studies), University of Notre Dame | 1993
A.M. (religious studies), University of Chicago | 1991
B.A. (theology), University of Notre Dame | 1990

Selected Publications
“Albert’s Moral Thought.” In Irven M. Resnick, ed., A Companion to Albert the Great: Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, pp. 347-379. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 38. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012.

“Thomas Aquinas on Stewardship.” In Christine M. Fletcher, ed., Faith, Science and Stewardship: Christian Pedagogy on the Environment. Proceedings of the 2011 Regional Conference of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and Arts. Lisle, IL: Benedictine University, 2011.

“Anselm’s De Casu Diaboli and the Deontological Character of his Moral Thought.” In Roberto Hofmeister-Pich, ed., Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109): Philosophical Theology and Ethicspp. 195-218. Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 60. Porto: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2011.

Prudentia in the Parisian theological summae of William of Auxerre, Philip the Chancellor, and Albert the Great.” Via Alberti: Texte – Quellen – Interpretationen. Eds. Ludger Honnefelder, Hannes Möhle, and Susana Bullido del Barrio. Subsidia Albertina Series, 2. Münster: Aschendorff, 2009. 267-293.

Virtus in the Naples Commentary on the Ethica Nova (MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G8, ff. 4ra-9vb).” Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages: Commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1200-1500. Ed. István Bejczy. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 55-76.

“What Has Aristotle’s Virtue to Do with Christian Virtue? Albert the Great versus Philip the Chancellor.” Temperance: Aquinas and the Post-Modern World. Ed. Rollen E. Houser. Thomistic Studies Series. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2008.

“An Early 13th-Century Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Bk. I, Chs. 4-10: The Lectio cum Questionibus of an Arts-Master at Paris in MS Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G 8, ff. 4r-9v.” Documenti e studisulla tradizione filosofica medievale 17 (2006): 23-70.

“Albert on Incontinence, Continence, and Divine Virtue.” Das Problem der Willensschwäche in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie / The Problem of Weakness of Will in Medieval Philosophy. Eds. Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkhams. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales – Bibliotheca, 8. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 195-218.

“Revisiting Albert the Great’s ‘Abhorrence’ for Latin Doctrine on the Intellect.” Intellect et imagination dans la philosophie médiévale / Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy / Intelecto e imaginação na Filosofia Medieval. Eds. José Meirinhos and M.C. Pacheco. Actes du XIe Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.). Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. 1191-1200.