New England
Mr. Rodrigo Ribeiro
Tutor
413-846-1178
East Hall, Rm. 308

Curriculum Vitae

B.A., Law, Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil, 2014; Teaching Assistant, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2016; M.A., Philosophy, Federal University of Rio Grande so Sul, Brazil, 2017; Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2018; Adjunct Professor, University of St. Thomas, 2020-2023; Ph.D., Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, ABD; Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, 2023-

 Publications & Presentations

  • “The Creation according to St. Thomas Aquinas” (pt: A criação segundo Santo Tomás de Aquino.) XIVth Latin-American Congress of Medieval Philosophy. North University of Saint Thomas (Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás). San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, September 2013.

  • “Aristotle and Leibniz against Hume: A Defense of the Principle of Causality” (pt: Aristóteles e Leibniz contra Hume: uma defesa do princípio de causalidade.) Fourth Annual Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Graduate Conference of Research in Philosophy. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Brazil, October 2015.

  • “The Conimbricenses and the Controversy over the Unity or Plurality of Substantial Forms in Man”, XIVth International Congress of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM). Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale. Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2017.

  • “Does Aquinas’s Fifth Way Remain Defensible?” The Place of the Person in the Cosmos. Sponsored by The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (University of Oxford) and the John Templeton Foundation. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Santiago, Chile, September 2017.

  • “Understanding and Defending the First Part of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Fifth Way” (pt: Entendendo e defendendo a primeira parte da quinta via de Santo Tomás de Aquino) VIIth Brazilian Congress of Philosophy of Religion. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil, October 2017.

  • ‘Avaliando as razões da Primeira Turma do STF no HC 124.306 pela descriminalização do aborto no primeiro trimestre de gravidez’ in Dignidade da Pessoa Humana e Direito à Vida. Estudos de Filosofia, Direito e Bioética, 361-390. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2021.