Senior Fellow
Jonathan Buttaci
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Social Thought

Jonathan Buttaci is a senior fellow at The Gibbons Institute and serves as an Associate Editor of the American Catholic Quarterly Review. He is also an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University. He earned an M.A. in classics and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, having previously studied philosophy and classics at the University of Notre Dame. His current research focuses on Aristotelian accounts of mind, knowledge, and learning, including how later thinkers have received and revised Aristotle’s account. He is interested in how ancient Greek views of human nature can aid contemporary conversations about education, leadership, and culture.

  • Aristotle
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of human nature

Studied under John O'Callaghan, Mae Smethurst, John McDowell, and James G. Lennox.

The Inquisitive Animal: Aristotle on the Pleasant Work of Liberal Inquiry
Book Chapter
Aristotle on Intellectual Identity, Actual and Potential
Book Chapter
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Jonathan Buttaci, Ph.D.