Curriculum Vitae

Mark D. Morelli
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 90045-8415
E-mail: mmorelli@lmu.edu

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born July 30, 1948 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; raised in Pasadena, California.

EDUCATION

B.A., 1970, Philosophy, Santa Clara University

M.A., 1973, Philosophy, University of Toronto
Ph.D., 1979, Philosophy, University of Toronto

Dissertation: Philosophy's Place in Culture: A Model

Minor Subject: Philosophy of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Languages: French (reading/speaking), German (reading), Greek (reading)

EMPLOYMENT

1971-76 Teaching Assistant & Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of

Toronto
1980 Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
1981-87 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
1988-95 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
1990-95 Chair, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
1996- Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
1997-99 Robert H. Taylor SJ Chair in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
2000-01 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
2001-13 Director, Graduate Program in Philosophy

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate: Philosophy of Human Nature/Philosophical Inquiry; Modern Philosophy II:

Kant to Hegel; Hegel; Lonergan

Graduate: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit; Lonergan’s Insight

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES and REVIEWS

“Lonergan’s Reading of Hegel,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3, Summer 2014:
513 – 534.

“La Lectura Lonerganiana de Hegel,” Revista de Filosofia, 134 (Universidad Iberoamericana), Ano
45, Julio – Diciembre, 2013: 199-225.

“Meeting Hegel Halfway: The Intimate Complexity of Lonergan’s Relations to Hegel,” Lonergan
Resource Website, [Posted, March, 2012].

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“Consciousness Is Not Another Operation,” Lonergan Workshop Journal 23 [2009]: 401-411.

“Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel, and the Appropriation of Critical Realism,” in ed. John D. Dadosky,
Meaning and History in Systematic Theology: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Doran, SJ [Milwaukee:
Marquette University Press, 2009], pp. 403-421.

“Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism,” in ed. Neil Ormerod,
Robin Koning, and David Braithwaite, Fifty Years of INSIGHT: Bernard Lonergan’s Contribution to
Philosophy and Theology [Adelaide: ATF Theology, Australian Catholic University Series, 2011]: 1-
16. (Italian translation in progress by F. Natalino Spaccapelo, Professor at the Pontifical Oriental
Institute, Rome.)

“Going Beyond Idealism: Lonergan’s Relation to Hegel,” in ed. Fred Lawrence, Lonergan
Workshop Journal 20 [2008]: 305-336.

“Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of

Meaning,” in eds. John J. Liptay and David S. Liptay, The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of
Michael Vertin [Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2007]: 22-48.

“The Realist Response to Idealism in England, and Lonergan’s Critical Realism,” Method: Journal
of Lonergan Studies 17, 1 [2003]: 1-23.

Review of Bernard Lonergan, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan 18: Phenomenology and Logic: The
Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, ed. Philip J. McShane [Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2001], in Theological Studies, 2002: 879-881.

"Lonergan's Unified Theory of Consciousness," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 17, 1 [1999]:
171-188.

“Authentication of Common Sense from Below Upwards: Mediating Self-Correcting Folk

Psychology,” Lonergan Workshop Journal 15, ed. Lawrence [Missoula: Scholars Press, 1999]: 117-
139.

"Greek Culture: A Review of Robert Wardy, The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and their
Successors," Ancient History Bulletin 11, 4 [1998]: 141-142.

“Introduction to The Lonergan Reader,” The Lonergan Website, http://www.lonergan.on.ca

[posted November 16, 1998]. Reprint of "Introduction," in The Lonergan Reader, eds. Mark D.
Morelli and Elizabeth A. Morelli [London, New York, Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1997], pp. 3-28.

“Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin,” Lonergan Workshop Journal 12 [1996]: 179-198.

"The Polymorphism of Human Consciousness and the Prospects for a Lonerganian History of
Philosophy," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, No. 4 [December 1995]: 379-402.

"No Mean Act of Self-Transcendence," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 11, 2 [1993]: 243-256.

"Lonergan and Existentialism," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 6, 1 [1988]: 1-17.

"The URAM Project: Method and Organization -- Encyclopaedic Organization and Revisable
System," Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning 11, 2 [1988]: 137-141.

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"Reversing the Counterposition: Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue," Lonergan
Workshop Journal 6 [1986]: 195-230.

"The Mediation of Christ in Prayer, by Bernard Lonergan," transcribed from tape-recording,

edited and partially reconstructed from lecture notes by Mark D. Morelli, Method: Journal of
Lonergan Studies 2, 1 [1984]: 1-20.

"The Usefulness of Philosophy," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 1, 1 [1983]: 82-87.

"Horizonal Diplomacy," in Creativity and Method: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, ed. M. Lamb
[Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1981], pp. 459-474.

"Response to Di Norcia on Lonergan's Cartesianism," Lonergan Studies Newsletter 2, 2 [1981].

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS & EDITIONS

Self-Possession: Being at Home in Conscious Performance [Chestnut Hill: Lonergan Institute at Boston
College, 2015], 343 pp.

At the Threshold of the Halfway House: A Study of Bernard Lonergan’s Encounter with John Alexander
Stewart [Chestnut Hill, MA: Lonergan Workshop Journal Monograph Series, 2008], 272 pp.

The Lonergan Reader, eds. Mark D. Morelli and Elizabeth A. Morelli [London, New York, Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1997], 615 pp.

Comprendere e Essere: Le Lezioni di Halifax su Insight, edizione italiana a cura di Natalino

Spaccapelo e Saturnino Muratore [Roma: Citta Nuova Editrice, 1993]. Italian translation of
Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol. 5: Understanding and Being [see below].

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, eds., Charles C. Hefling, Mark D. Morelli, and Patrick H.
Byrne [1992-2011].

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, 9 Volumes/18 Issues, Founder and General Editor: Mark D.
Morelli [1983-1991].

Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol. 5: Understanding and Being, The Halifax Lectures on
INSIGHT, eds. Mark D. Morelli and Elizabeth A. Morelli [Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of
Toronto Press, 1990; reprinted, 1995], 467 pp. [Critical edition, revised and augmented with
additional text of Question Sessions and Editorial Notes, of the 1980 publication below.]

Philosophy's Place in Culture: A Model [Washington, D.C.: UPA, 1984], 180 pp.

Understanding and Being: An Introduction and Companion to INSIGHT, eds. Mark D. Morelli and
Elizabeth A. Morelli [Toronto and New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1980], 356 pp.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2009 Lonergan Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Boston College

2007 LMU Summer Research Grant
2006 Lonergan Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Boston College
2005 LMU Summer Research Grant
2004 LMU Travel Grant

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2002 LMU Travel Grant
2003 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Nietzsche Archive, Weimar, Germany
1998-99 Robert H. Taylor SJ Chair of Philosophy
1998 Who's Who Among America's Teachers
1997 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto
1995 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto
1994 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto
1994 Award Citation for founding and editing Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, The West Coast
Methods Institute, Santa Clara University
1993 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto
1992 LMU Travel Grant, Archival Research, Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto
1990 LMU Travel Grant, Research, Boston College
1989 LMU Summer Research Grant
1987 LMU Summer Research Grant
1985 LMU Summer Research Grant
1984 LMU Summer Research Grant
1978 Research Grant, The Lonergan Centre, Toronto
1973-1976 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto

CONSULTATION AND OFFICES

Program Chair, Annual Fallon Memorial Lonergan Symposium, West Coast Methods Institute,
Loyola Marymount University, 1996-present
Executive Board Member, American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2003-2005
External Examiner, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 1992.
External Reviewer, Promotion to Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Toronto, 1997.
External Reviewer, Promotion to Full Professor, Department of Theology, Boston College, 1996.
External Reviewer, Promotion to Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology, University of
Manchester, 1990.
Evaluator, Original Proposal for The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, University of Toronto
Press, 1984.
President, Association of Philosophers in Jesuit Education, 1997-1998.
Member, Governing Board, Association of Philosophers in Jesuit Education, 1995-1998.
Founding Member, Executive Board, Lonergan Philosophical Society, 1994 – present.
Founding Member, West Coast Methods Institute, 1983- present.
Member, Editorial Board of Consultants, The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan,
[Toronto and New York: University of Toronto Press], 1988 - present.
Philosophy Section Editor, Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Journal,
1987-1993.
Consultant, Science at Home (a magazine for children), 1999.
Consultant, Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario, Epistemology Component, International
Baccalaureate, Curriculum Review, 1995.
English Language Editor (with Dr. Santiago Sia) of eight essays in What Does It Mean To Be
Human? Proceedings of the Second Yoko Civilization International Conference [Tokyo: Yoko
Civilization Research Institute, 1991].
Reader, Scholars Press, 1988-92 .
Reader, American Academy of Religion "Studies in Religion," 1988-90 .
Reader, University of Toronto Press "Lonergan Studies Series," 1989- present.
External Reviewer, Advancement to Tenure, University of Toronto, 2002.
Reader, International Philosophical Quarterly, 2005.
External Reviewer, Promotion to Full Professor, Seattle University, 2013.

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MEMBERSHIPS

American Catholic Philosophical Association

American Philosophical Association
The Polanyi Society, Honorary Member
Founding Member, West Coast Methods Institute
Lonergan Philosophical Society
Association of Philosophers in Jesuit Education