The American Catholic Philosophical Association

Past Conferences of the ACPA



 

 

Year

Theme

Location

President

 

 

 

 

1926

Various Topics

Washington, DC

Edward Pace

1926

Various Topics

Notre Dame, IN

Edward Pace

1927

Various Topics

Worcester, MA

Edward Pace

1928

Various Topics

Milwaukee, WI

Edward Pace

1929

Various Topics

Washington, DC

John McCormick

1930

Various Topics

Chicago, IL

James Ryan

1931

Political Philosophy

St. Louis, MO

Gerald Phelan

1932

Current American and British Realism

Detroit, MI

James McWilliams

1933

Philosophy of Society

Pittsburgh, PA

Charles Miltner

1934

Philosophy of Religion

Chicago, IL

Francis Walsh

1935

Philosophy of the Sciences

Cleveland, OH

John Riedl

1936

Christian Philosophy and the Social Sciences

Chicago, IL

John Toohey

1937

Philosophy of Education

New York, NY

William Dillon

1938

Causality in Current Philosophy

Cincinnati, OH

Ignatius Smith

1939

Philosophy of the State

Washington, DC

William O'Connor

1940

The Problem of Liberty

Detroit, MI

Francis McMahon

1941

Philosophy and Order

Philadelphia, PA

Fulton Sheen

1942

Truth in the Contemporary Crisis

Meeting cancelled

Joseph Schabert

1943

Philosophy in Post War Reconstruction

Chicago, IL

Joseph Schabert

1944

No meeting scheduled

 

 

1945

The Philosophy of Democracy

Milwaukee, WI

Leo Ward

1946

The Philosophy of Being

Toronto, Canada

Anton Pegis

1947

The Absolute and the Relative

St. Louis, MO

Joaquin Garcia

1948

No meeting scheduled

 

 

1949

Philosophy and Finality

Boston, MA

Vernon Bourke

1950

The Natural Law and International Relations

St. Paul, MN

Ernest Kilzer

1951

The Nature of Man

New York, NY

Gerard Smith

1952

Philosophy and the Experimental Sciences

Cleveland, OH

Francis Meehan

1953

Philosophy and Unity

Notre Dame, IN

Elizabeth Salmon

1954

The Existence and Nature of God

Milwaukee, WI

James Collins

1955

Knowledge and Expression

Philadelphia, PA

Charles O'Neil

1956

The Role of Philosophy in the Catholic Liberal College

Cincinnati, OH

Vincent Smith

1957

Ethics and Other Knowledge

Chicago, IL

George Klubertanz

1958

The Role of the Christian Philosopher

Detroit, MI

Allan Wolter

1959

Contemporary American Philosophy

New York, NY

Lawrence Lynch

1960

Analytic Philosophy

St. Louis, MO

Robert Lechner

1961

Philosophy and Psychiatry

Buffalo, NY

William Walton

1962

Justice

Louisville, KY

Carl Grindel

1963

Philosophy in a Pluralistic Society

Boston, MA

Donald Gallagher

1964

History and Philosophy of Science

Kansas City, MO

James Weisheipl

1965

Philosophy of the Arts

Denver, CO

John Oesterle

1966

Scholasticism in the Modern World

Washington, DC

Joseph Owens

1967

The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry

Notre Dame, IN

Ernan McMullin

1968

Philosophy and the Future of Man

New Orleans, LA

Robert Kreyche

1969

Truth and the Historicity of Man

New York, NY

W. Norris Clarke

1970

Philosophy and Christian Theology

San Francisco, CA

William Wallace

1971

Myth and Philosophy

Pittsburgh, PA

Louis Dupré

1972

The Existence of God

Milwaukee, WI

Ralph McInerny

1973

The Philosopher as a Teacher

Montreal, Canada

Gerald Kreyche

1974

Thomas and Bonaventure

Washington, DC

Thomas Langan

1975

Philosophy and Civil Law

Cincinnati, OH

Jude Dougherty

1976

Freedom

New York, NY

Desmond Fitzgerald

1977

Ethical Wisdom East and/or West

Detroit, Mi

Mary Clark

1978

Immateriality

Chicago, IL

Kenneth Schmitz

1979

The Human Person

Toronto, Canada

Armand Maurer

1980

Philosophical Knowledge

Philadelphia, PA

Henry Veatch

1981

Infinity

St. Louis, MO

Leo Sweeney

1982

The Role & Responsibility of the Moral Philosopher

Houston, TX

John Noonan

1983

The ACPA in Today's Intellectual World

New York, NY

Marc Griesbach

1984

Practical Reasoning

Pittsburgh, PA

Germain Grisez

1985

Realism

Milwaukee, WI

Cornelius Delaney

1986

Existential Personalism

Baltimore, MD

Francis Lescoe

1987

The Metaphysics of Substance

Buffalo, NY

John Wippel

1988

Hermeneutics and the Tradition

Louisville, KY

John Caputo

1989

The Ethics of Having Children

New Orleans, LA

Joseph Boyle

1990

Ways to World Meaning

Toronto, Canada

Gerald McCool

1991

Religions and the Virtue of Religion

Boston, MA

Frederick Crosson

1992

Relations: From Having to Being

San Diego, CA

Mary Rousseau

1993

The Importance of Truth

St. Louis, MO

Lawrence Dewan

1994

Reason in History

Atlanta, GA

Thomas Flynn

1995

The Recovery of Form

Washington, DC

Robert Wood

1996

Philosophy of Technology

Los Angeles, CA

Thomas Anderson

1997

Virtues and Virtue Theories

Buffalo, NY

Linda Zagzebski

1998

Texts and Their Interpretation

Pittsburgh, PA

Jorge Gracia

1999

Insight and Inference

St. Paul, MN

Thomas A. Russman

2000

Philosophical Theology

Dallas, TX

Eleonore Stump

2001

Person, Soul and Immortality

Albany, NY

James Ross

2002

Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason

Cincinnati, OH

Patrick Bourgeois

2003

Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding

Houston, TX

David Burrell

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