Mark D. Morelli
Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Graduate Program. Director of the Los Angeles Lonergan Center at LMU
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1979
Specialties: Lonergan, Hegel, Plato, Philosophy of Culture; Lonergan Fellow, Boston College, 2006 and 2009.
Special Interests: Integration in Post-modernity
Current Projects: Working on a book manuscript, Self-Possession: Being at Home in Conscious Performance; Platonic Digressions; Lonergan’s Eversion of Hegel; History of the Interpretation of Plato’s Gorgias
Selected Publications:
At the Threshold of the Halfway House: A Study of Bernard Lonergan’s Encounter with John Alexander Stewart [Boston: Lonergan Institute at Boston College, 2008].
Collection Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol. 5: Understanding and Being, ed. with Elizabeth Murray, Frederick Crowe, Robert Doran, Thomas Daly [Toronto, New York, London: University of Toronto Press, 1990; reprinted 1995].
The Lonergan Reader, ed. with Elizabeth Murray [Toronto, London, New York: University of Toronto Press, 1997].
Philosophy's Place in Culture: A Model [Rowman & Littlefield, 1984].
"Consciousness Is Not Another Operation," Lonergan Workshop Journal 21, ed. Fred Lawrence. forthcoming, 2010.
“Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel and the Appropriation of Critical Realism,” Australian Lonergan Workshop,ed. Neil Ormerod, forthcoming, 2009.
“Going Beyond Idealism: Lonergan’s Relation to Hegel,” Lonergan Workshop Journal 20, edited by Fred Lawrence [Boston: Lonergan Institute at Boston College, 2008].
“Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning,” in The Importance of Insight, eds. Liptay and Liptay [Toronto: U of T Press, 2008].
“The Realist Response to Idealism in England and Lonergan’s Critical Realism,” Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 20, 1 [2003].
"Lonergan's Unified Theory of Consciousness," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 18, 1 [2000].
"Authentication of Common Sense from Below Upwards: Mediating Self-correcting Folk Psychology," Lonergan Workshop Journal 15 [1999], ed. Fred Lawrence.
"Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin," Lonergan Workshop Journal 12 [1996], ed. Fred Lawrence.
"The Polymorphism of Human Consciousness and the Prospects for a Lonerganian History of Philosophy," International Philosophical Quarterly, XXXV, 4 [1995].
"Reversing the Counter-position: Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue," Lonergan Workshop Journal 6 [1986], ed. Fred Lawrence.
Founding Editor of Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies (1982-), and co-editor with Patrick H. Byrne and Charles C. Hefling, III.
Contact Information:
University Hall 3614
Phone: 310-338-7384
Email: mmorelli@lmu.edu