Faculty Directory

James Kintz

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Consortial Faculty
At the GTU since
2022
510-883-2055

For more information, visit Dr. Kintz's website.

Degrees and Certifications

PhD - Saint Louis University, 2018
MA - Loyola Marymount University, 2012
BA - Lindenwood University, 2009

Research and Teaching Interests
  • Metaphysics
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind
Selected Publications

“True Love is Reciprocal: Thomas Aquinas on the Love of Friendship,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 105(3), 2024: 328-353.

“A Thomistic Solution to the ‘Deep Problem’ for Perfectionism,” with Matthew Shea, Utilitas, 34(4), 2022: 461-477.

“Observation, Interaction, and Second-Person Sharing,” with Jeffrey P. Bishop, International Philosophical Quarterly, 62(1), 2022: 65-82.

“Social Interactions, Aristotelian Powers, and the Ontology of the I-You Relation,” The Review of Metaphysics, 75(1), 2021: 91-113.

“The Illuminative Function of the Agent Intellect,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(1), 2019: 3-22.

“The Unity of the Knower and the Known: The Phenomenology of Aristotle and the Metaphysics of Husserl,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22(2), Spring 2018: 293-313.

Courses Taught
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy and Aquinas’s Moral Psychology

  • Divine Hiddenness and the Problem of Suffering

  • Aquinas on Love and Friendship

  • Ancient Philosophy

  • Medieval Philosophy

  • Contemporary Philosophy

  • Medieval Theories of Cognition