Rev. Kevin Flannery, S.J., former Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Ordinary Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, is the Center's inaugural Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow.

While at the Center, Father Flannery aims to work on a book on Aristotle's theory of human action, trying to determine and give a clear description of how the ancient writer understood such things as intention, the object of an act, and the bearing of circumstances upon an act's moral character. The general—but not trumpeted—idea is to show that Thomas Aquinas's reading of Aristotle on human action is not without foundation, not hesitating, however, to expound and to analyze aspects of Aristotle's thought that do not appear in Aquinas or are even incompatible with his writings.

Father Flannery is the author of Acts Amid Precepts: The Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas's Moral Theory (The Catholic University of America Press, 2001).

For an extensive list of Father Flannery's publications, see his web page at the Pontifical Gregorian University here.