Elizabeth Shaw, PhD

Elizabeth Shaw, who also serves as Interim Provost, received a BS in mathematics from Georgetown University, and an MA and PhD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, with a specialty in American philosophy. Dr. Shaw teaches philosophy at The Catholic University of America and is associate editor of the quarterly journal The Review of Metaphysics.

Dr. Shaw’s publications include Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is (2015; Michael Novak and Paul Adams, coauthors) and three edited volumes: Interpretations: Using the Past to Understand the Present (2018; essays by Jude P. Dougherty), An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak (2015), and The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays (2013; essays by Michael Novak). She is also the author of several scholarly articles, reviews, and book chapters.

Education:
PhD (Philosophy – Specialty – American Philosophy) The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Area of Teaching Specialization: Philosophy

Course Level: Undergraduate and Graduate

Courses Taught: PHIL 205 Introduction to Plato and Aristotle; PHIL 311 Ethics; PHIL 315 Metaphysics; PHIL 508 Philosophy for Theology

Languages: Reading knowledge of French and German

Published Works:

Book

Michael Novak and Paul Adams with Elizabeth Shaw, Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is (New York: Encounter Books, 2015).

Edited Volumes

Jude P. Dougherty, Interpretations: Using the Past to Understand the Present, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018).

An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (Ave Maria, Fla.: Sapientia Press, 2015).

Michael Novak, The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2013).

Articles/Chapters

“Hildebrand on the Heart of Personality,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 43, no. 3/4 (2020): 331–37.

“The Will to Believe,” Gale Researcher Philosophy Series 1 and 2 (Internet Library Reference Database) (Detroit, Mich.: Gale/Cengage, 2017).

“Intuition and Evolution in the Thought of Henri Bergson,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 38, no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2015): 12–21.

“Caritas and Human Flourishing,” in An American and Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak (Ave Maria, Fla.: Sapientia Press, 2015), 70–82.

“Intelligent Subjectivity: Into the Presence of God,” in Theologian and Philosopher of Liberty: Essays of Evaluation and Criticism in Honor of Michael Novak (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Acton Institute, 2014), 1–9.

“William James’s ‘Pluralistic Universe,’” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 36, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2013): 4–14.

“Is James’s Pragmatism Really A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking?” Essays in Philosophy 13, no. 1 (January 2012): 31–53.

“Philosophers for the City: Aristotle and the Telos of Education,” Modern Age (Winter 2005): 30–36.

Reviews

Francesca Bordogna, William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Limits of Knowledge, The Review of Metaphysics 63 (2009): 176–78.

James Pawelski, The Dynamic Individualism of William James, The Review of Metaphysics 62 (2008): 148–49.