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Marie George, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s University
Marie George (PhD) is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Her areas of expertise are in the philosophy of nature, philosophy of science, Aquinas and Aristotle. She has received several awards from the John Templeton foundation for her work in science and religion, and in 2007 she received a grant from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) for an interdisciplinary project entitled: “The Evolution of Sympathy and Morality.” Professor George has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and two books: Christianity and Extraterrestrials? A Catholic Perspective (2005) and Stewardship of Creation (2009). She is currently working on Aquinas’s “Fifth Way,” and also on a variety of questions concerning living things (self-motion, consciousness, evolution, etc.). George is also a contributor to Philosophia Christi.