John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the Neo-Thomist movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as Bernard Lonergan, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a Thomistic epistemology of direct realism[1][2][3] and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Fr. Joseph Owens.[4] He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston[5] and earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.[6]
- ^ Jeremy Wilkins, "A Dialectic of 'Thomist' Realisms: John Knasas and Bernard Lonergan," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 107–30
- ^ John F.X. Knasas, "Why for Lonergan Knowing Cannot Consist in 'Taking a Look'" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78.1 (2004), 131–50.
- ^ Condic, Samuel B. I, "How a priori Is Lonergan?" Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79 (2005), 103-16.
- ^ John F.X. Knasas, Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists, New York: Fordham UP, 2003.
- ^ CV Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Knasas, John Francis Xavier, Title page, An Analysis and Interpretation of the "Tertia Via" of St. Thomas Aquinas (Ph.D. diss, University of Toronto: 1975). [1]