R. E. Houser

Rollen Edward Houser
Alma mater
SpouseMary Catherine Sommers
Children4
InstitutionsUniversity of St. Thomas
ThesisThomas Aquinas on Transcendental Unity: The Scholastics and Aristotelian Predecessors (1981)
Doctoral advisorEdward A. Synan[1][2]

Rollen Edward Houser is a Thomistic philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.[3]

Biography

Raised in Texas, Hauser earned a liberal arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968.[4] He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[5] After graduation, he served in the US military until 1970, including a deployment to Vietnam.[4] In 1970, Hauser entered the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, earning an M.A. in 1973, a licentiate in 1976, and a Ph.D. in 1981.[4]

Houser taught at Niagara University from 1976 to 1987 before taking a post at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.[4] He retired in 2018, and in 2019 he was awarded the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association.[3][4] In view of the award, Archbishop J. Michael Miller said, "Dr. Ed Houser has made an outstanding contribution to scholarship on St Thomas."[3]

Hauser is married to Mary Catherine Sommers, also a faculty member at the University of St. Thomas.[3] They have four children.[3]

Bibliography

  • The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas, Albert, Philip the Chancellor (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004)
  • Logic as a Liberal Art: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Reasoning (The Catholic University of America Press, 2020)

References

  1. ^ "PhD Placement Record: 1980-1989". University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  2. ^ Houser, R. E., ed. (1999). Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E.A. Synan. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268042141.
  3. ^ a b c d e "UST Professor R.E. Houser Receives Prestigious Aquinas Medal". Houston, TX: University of St. Thomas. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e De Haan, Daniel D. (2019). "Rollen Edward Houser ACPA Aquinas Medal 2019". Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 93: 19–22. doi:10.5840/acpaproc201993125. S2CID 239346814.
  5. ^ "About Dr. R. E. Houser". The Cardinal Newman Society. Retrieved 14 June 2022.