Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP

Courses Taught

• Do We Have Free Will? (PHST-4810)
• Contemporary Philosophy (PHHS-2001)
• History of Philosophy: Modern (PHHS-2000)
• Does God Exist? (PHST-4811)
• Heidegger’s Being and Time (PH-4385)
• Contemporary Philosophy (PH-2001)
• Philosophical Aesthetics II (PHRA-4322)
• Philosophical Aesthetics I (PHRA-4321)
• Linguistic Turn in Philosophy & Theology (PHST-4160)
• Miracles (PHST-5020)
• Hegel's Aesthetics (PHRA-4376)

Recent Publications

• “AI Algorithms and Human Free Will: How New Is the Challenge?” In The Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics, edited by Ted Peters, 385-398. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2025.
• “Philosophische Vorüberlegungen: zur theologischen Bewandtnis des Erfahrungsbegriffs.” In Glaube und Erfahrung. Im Dialog mit Leo Scheffczyk, edited by Manfred Hauke and Richard Schenk, 77-113. Regensburg: Pustet, 2025.
• “Das Gute und der Wille: Thomas’ umfassende Antwort auf die Moderne.” In Studien zu den Quaestiones Dispuatatae des Thomas von Aquinas; Festschrift für Rolf Schönberger, edited by Stephan Grotz, Christian Schäfer and Stefan Schick, 205-224. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2025.
• “Thomas zu Willensfreiheit – Gehirn und Seelenvermögen.” In Studien zu den Quaestiones Dispuatatae des Thomas von Aquinas; Festschrift für Rolf Schönberger, edited by Stephan Grotz, Christian Schäfer and Stefan Schick, 225-236. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2025.
• “Riflessione filosofice preliminari sull’ appagatività teologica del concetto di esperienza.” In Esperienza e Fede – In Dialogo con Leo Scheffzcyk, edited by Manfred Hauke and Richard Schenk, 85-134. Lugano: Edizioni Cantagalli, 2025.

From the Professor

In my classes, I combine dialogue, Socratic questioning and lecture for an engaging and intellectual structure. I seek to awaken the minds of my students to the fascination of being and truth, and I would like to instill in them the ability to think for themselves, to make creative connections across discourses, to relish truth and insight where they encounter it and to develop resistance to misleading intellectual fashions of the world. Some of the authors from whom I have learned include Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Max Scheler, Theodor W. Adorno, and Robert Spaemann.

I am currently working on a book on philosophical aesthetics.

I am a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the GTU, American Catholic Philosophical Association and Academy of Catholic Theology, a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute, and co-editor of “Theologia Ignota” for Philosophia Verlag.

Thomistic Institute - "The Types of Miracles and the Possibility of Demonic Miracles"