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Eleonore Stump (born August 9, 1947) is an American philosopher and the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at
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, where she has taught since 1992.


Biography

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at
Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Missi ...
, where she has taught since 1992. She received a B.A. in classical languages from
Grinnell College Grinnell College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalis ...
(1969), where she was valedictorian and received the Archibald Prize for scholarship; she has an M.A. in
Biblical Studies Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with ''Bible'' referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the can ...
(New Testament) from
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(1971), and an M.A. and Ph.D in Medieval Studies (
Medieval Philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...
) from
Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
(1975). Before coming to
Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Missi ...
, she taught at
Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...
, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, and Notre Dame. She has published extensively in
philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...
, contemporary
metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...
, and
medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...
. Among her many books are Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2016), Atonement (2018), The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat. Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2024). Her work has been translated into Polish, Russian, Chinese, Swedish,
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, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Among other named lectures, she has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018), and the Dewey lecture (American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2023). She has received grants from the Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the
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, the American Association of University Women, the National Humanities Center, and the Pew Charitable Trust. Together with John Greco, she has held a $3.3 million grant from the
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for a project on intellectual humility. In addition, she has received several awards for her teaching, including the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from
Baylor University Baylor University is a Private university, private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, United States. It was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Te ...
. She holds honorary doctorates from
Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Ar ...
(2006),
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(2017), Austral University in Buenos Aires (2021), and the Hochschule fuer Philosophie in Munich (2024). In 2013, the American Catholic Philosophical Association awarded her the Aquinas medal. She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the
American Philosophical Association The American Philosophical Association (APA) is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarl ...
, Central Division. And she is a member of the
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.


Bibliography

Books * Stump, Eleonore (1978). ''Boethius's De topicis differentiis.'' Ithaca:
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. * Stump, Eleonore (1988). ''Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (1989). ''Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic'' (collected essays). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2003). ''Aquinas''. London:
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. * Stump, Eleonore (2010). ''Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2016). ''The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers, Aquinas Lecture''. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2018). ''Atonement''. Oxford:
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Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2022). ''The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2023). ''Philosophical Theology and the Knowledge of Persons'' (collected essays). Eugene: Wipf and Stock. * Stump, Eleonore (2024). ''Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. Medieval Philosophy * Stump, Eleonore (1981). "Roger Swyneshed's Theory of Obligations." ''Medioevo'' 7: 135–174. * Stump, Eleonore (1985). "The Logic of Disputation in Walter Burley's Treatise on Obligations." ''Synthese'' 63: 533–374. * Stump, Eleonore (2006). "Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution: Aquinas on the Soul." In ''Die menschliche Seele: Brauchen wir den Dualismus?'' Edited by Bruno Niederbacher and Edmund Runggaldier, 157–171. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. * Stump, Eleonore (2010). "The Problem of Evil." In ''Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy,'' vol. 2. Edited by Robert Pasnau, 773–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2011). "The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas's Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions." ''Faith and Philosophy'' 28.1 * Stump, Eleonore (2019). "Dante on the Evil of Treachery: Narrative and Philosophy." In ''Evil: A History''. Edited by Andrew Chignell, 252–257. New York: Oxford University Press. Philosophy of Religion (including work on Eternity) * Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1981). "Eternity." ''Journal of Philosophy'' 78: 429–458. * Stump, Eleonore (1986). "Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of God." ''The Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' 16: 181–198. * Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1991). "Prophecy, Past Truth, and Eternity." ''Philosophical Perspectives'' 5: 395–424. * Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1992). "Eternity, Awareness, and Action." ''Faith and Philosophy'' 9: 463–482. * Stump, Eleonore and Norman Kretzmann (1996). "An Objection to Swinburne's Argument for Dualism." ''Faith and Philosophy'' 13: 405–412. * Stump, Eleonore (1997). "Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil." ''Faith and Philosophy'' 14. 523–549. * Stump, Eleonore (2012). "God's Simplicity." In ''The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas''. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Faith, Wisdom, and the Transmission of Knowledge through Testimony." In ''Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue''. Edited by Timothy O'Connor and Laura Frances Callahan, 204–230. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2021). "The True Self and Life After Death in Heaven." In ''Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life.'' Edited by T. Ryan Byerly, 65–81. London: Routledge. Free Will and Metaphysics * Stump, Eleonore (1988). "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will." ''Journal of Philosophy'' 85: 395–420. * Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Persons: Identification and Freedom." ''Philosophical Topics'' 24: 183–214. * Stump, Eleonore (1996). "Libertarian Freedom and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities." In ''Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today''. Edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Jeff Jordan, 73–88. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. * Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: The Flicker of Freedom." ''The Journal of Ethics'' 3: 299–324. * Stump, Eleonore (2000). "The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism." ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'' 61: 459–466. * Stump, Eleonore and John Martin Fischer (2000). "Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility." ''Philosophical Perspectives'' 14: 47–55. * Stump, Eleonore (2000). "Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities." In ''Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities''. Edited by Michael McKenna and David Widerker, 139–158. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. * Stump, Eleonore (2012). "Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics." In ''Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism''. Edited by Ruth Groff and John Greco, 46–68. New York: Routledge. * Stump, Eleonore (2018). "The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will." In ''Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism''. Edited by Benjamin H. Arbour. New York: Routledge. Other * Stump, Eleonore (1994). "The Mirror of Evil." In ''God and the Philosophers''. Edited by Thomas Morris, 235–247. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Stump, Eleonore (1999). "Orthodoxy and Heresy." ''Faith and Philosophy'' 16: 487–503. * Stump, Eleonore (2004). "Personal Relations and Moral Residue." ''History of the Human Sciences: Theorizing from the Holocaust: What is to be Learned? 17.2/3'': 33–57. * Stump, Eleonore (2007). "Beauty as a Road to God." ''Sacred Music'' 134.4: 11–24.


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