Michael Rota

Michael Rota received a doctorate in philosophy from Saint Louis University in January 2006. His dissertation (directed by Eleonore Stump) was on the conceptual analysis of causation in contemporary analytic philosophy and in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. During the 2002-2003 school year, under the auspices of the Midwest Consortium of Catholic Graduate Schools, he was a visiting student at the University of Notre Dame, where he studied with Michael Loux, Alvin Plantinga, and Peter van Inwagen. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas. While on leave for the 2006-2007 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

His research interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and medieval philosophy. He has published on the fine-tuning argument in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and on various aspects of Aquinas's thought in the History of Philosophy Quarterly and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

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