Thomas Williams is the Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Georgetown University. He has published widely on medieval philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on Augustine, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus.
His work includes Anselm: A Very Short Introduction, Anselm: The Complete Treatises with Selected Letters and Prayers and the Meditation on Human Redemption, and a translation of Augustine's Confessions.
Thomas Williams
Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy
Thomas Williams is the Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. He came to Georgetown from the University of South Florida, where he taught for sixteen years following nine years at the University of Iowa. He began his career with the Jesuits at Creighton University and is happy to be returning to the world of Jesuit education.
An Episcopal priest, Prof. Williams served for ten years as the Canon Theologian of the Cathedral Church of St Peter in St Petersburg, Florida. He is an avid choral singer and a reasonably competent pianist. His husband, Marty Gould, is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida, specializing in Victorian literature. Thomas and Marty have an American Pit Bull Terrier named Tess.
Publications
Ethics of
John Duns Scotus
Translations
John Duns Scotus:
Selected Writings on Ethics
Errata
100.8. restrained willing / restrained willing-against
211 7th line from bottom. not straightaway / straightaway
219.5. [missing period]
219 last sentence before section 3. Faith / Hope
328 n. 55 line 4. unhappiness / happiness
333 line 2 of main text. interior / exterior
I am grateful to Robert Pasnau for drawing some of these corrections to my attention, and I invite other readers to notify me of any other mistakes.
Articles
“Duns Scotus, intuitionism, and the third sense of 'natural law'“ (2022)
“Complexity without Composition--Duns Scotus on Divine Simplicity” (2019)
“John Duns Scotus on Free Will” (2016)
“The problem with the Vatican edition of Ordinatio III.26-40” (2014)
“The divine nature and Scotus’s Libertarianism: A reply to Mary Beth Ingham” (2009)
“From metaethics to action theory” (2003)
“The Unimitigated Scotus” (1998)
“The Libertarian Foundations of Scotus’s Moral Philosophy” (1998)
Lesser Feasts
A blog about the Church, travel, staying put, a bit of philosophy, small celebrations (lesser feasts), such meals as I can manage to eat (lesser feasts, again), and whatever else occurs to me
I’m happy with my own contribution, which somehow manages to quote from two hymns and an Amy Grant song.