About the Authors

Marie I. George received an Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical formation at Laval University,Quebec City, Canada.  She is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.  She has written over forty articles on a wide variety of topics, including feminism, human nature, liberal education, the origin of life, the argument from design, and the Extraterrestrial-Christianity debate.

Alice Ramos is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University in New York. She holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University and a second Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants both here and abroad. She has published a book in Spanish on contemporary semiotics and a metaphysics of the sign, and articles in areas such as Thomistic metaphysics, Kantian ethical theology, contemporary moral inquiry, and Karol Wojtyla-John Paul II's Christian anthropology. She has served as President of the American Maritain Association for three years (2001-2004), and has edited Beauty, Art, and the Polis (AMA, 2000; distributed by the CUA Press)) and co-edited Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century (AMA, 2002; CUA Press). Her present research projects deal with the foundations of ethics and the transcendentals in Aquinas.