Reverend Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R.

Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

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 (April 17, 1908—October 30, 2005), was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest

Priest

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 and a scholar in medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy in the era now known as medieval or the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD to the Renaissance in the sixteenth century...

.

Life and career

Owens received his PhD in 1951 from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is a research institute in the University of Toronto that is dedicated to advanced studies in the culture of the Middle Ages....

, an affiliate of the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, and remained at the Institute as a teacher and distinguished researcher for the rest of his career. He authored nine books and almost 150 academic papers.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

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 and served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America

Metaphysical Society of America

The Metaphysical Society of America is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950 for promoting the study of metaphysics. The society is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies...

(1972), the Canadian Philosophical Association, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association (which also awarded him its Aquinas Medal).

Books (authored and edited)

461 pages.

• • 535 pages.
    • • 539 pages. 97 pages. 434 pages. 384 pages.
        • 384 pages. ISBN 0268009163 (paper). 158 pages. 153 pages.
          • • 153 pages. ISBN 0268011575 (paper). 117 pages. ISBN 0813206049 (cloth), ISBN 0813206057 (paper). 332 pages. ISBN 0813207088. 373 pages. ISBN 0268007918.
              

              Collected papers

              291 pages. ISBN 0873954017. 264 pages. ISBN 087395534X (cloth), ISBN 0873955358 (paper). 500 pages. ISBN 0920980686 (cloth). 256 pages. ISBN 1587310287 (cloth).
              

              External links

              • Obituary of Joseph Owens at web site of Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto)
              • A database of scholarship on Aristotle dedicated to Joseph Owens: http://www.aristotlebibliography.com/
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