Dr. Craig J. N. de Paulo

        Craig John Neumann de Paulo is an Italian of Neapolitan origin. He is presently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religion in the graduate program in Central and Eastern European Studies at La Salle University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy in the graduate Humanities program at Arcadia University. He is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Religion and Culture and a Research Associate at the Augustinian Historical Institute of Villanova University. He has held a University Lectureship in Philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome among other professorships in Italy and in the United States.

        Dr. de Paulo holds a Ph.D. and a Ph.L. in philosophy from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome. His 1995 doctoral dissertation, Being and Conversion, investigated the historical and hermeneutical influence of St. Augustine of Hippo on Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, which was published in 2002. He also holds an MA in philosophy from Villanova University and a BA in philosophy from La Salle University. In 1992-93, he was a doctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He also holds a University Certificate from the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland where he was a student from 1987-88.

        As an historian of philosophy, Professor de Paulo is the author of several articles concerning the influence of St. Augustine on Western thinkers. He is General Editor of the Intellectual Heritage and Humanities Series, and Senior Editor of its inaugural volume, Ambiguity in the Western Mind (2005) and Senior Editor of its second volume, Eros and Ambiguity: Essays on Love Throughout the Ages, forthcoming in 2008. He is also Editor of The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of an Augustinian Phenomenology (2006) and Senior Editor of another forthcoming volume, Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Currently, Professor de Paulo is writing a monograph on the topic of fear and love concerning the connection between Heidegger and Augustine. He is an active member of the American Philosophical Association and the American Catholic Philosophical Association among several other scholarly societies in Europe and in the United States.

        Craig de Paulo is married to Catherine Conroy with whom he has one child, Christian Michael Augustine. A dual citizen of Italy and the United States, Professor de Paulo and his family primarily reside on City Avenue in Philadelphia.