A native of Venezuela, Carlos Casanova holds a law degree from the Catholic University Andrés Bello and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Navarre, Spain. He was until 2022 a professor at the School of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Prior to this, Professor Casanova served as an attorney for the Office of the Attorney General of Venezuela and for the Venezuelan Congress, and as an assistant to a Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, and was professor and chair of the graduate program in philosophy at the Simón Bolívar. In 2002 he had to leave his country, threatened by the tyranny for defending university autonomy. He has also served as professor at Universidad Santo Tomás de Chile, professor and director of the International Academy of Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Professor Casanova has been a visiting scholar at Boston University and a senior research associate at the Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame, where he worked with Ralph McInerny. Professor Casanova’s work focuses on political and social philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and classical Greek philosophy. His scholarly competence also includes philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, medieval philosophy, and contemporary European philosophy. He has published ten books and numerous scholarly papers.
Currently Casanova is working on a set of papers on the philosophical, political and economical thought of Alexander Hamilton, which he expects to publish as book. He is also working on several papers on a variety of philosophical subjects; lecturing at different venues, including the Thomistic Institute; and preparing translations of some of his previous work in Spanish.
Genealogies of Rights, On the Origins of Two Conflicting Versions of Rights.
The Spanish Regime in America: an Evaluation (Original title: El régimen español en América. Una evaluación
Man: A Horizon between Sensible and Suprasensible Realities. (Original title: El hombre: frontera entre lo inteligible y lo sensible).
Being, God and Science according to Aristotle. (Original title: El ser, Dios y la ciencia, según Aristóteles). Preface by Ralph McInerny.
Metaphysical Reflections on Natural Science. (Original title: Reflexiones metafísicas sobre la ciencia natural).
A Platonic-Aristotelian Reading of John Rawls. (Original title: Una lectura platónico-aristotélica de John Rawls).
Translations:
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the book of Psalms, Vol. 1 (Bilingual edition, Spanish-Latin).
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the book of Psalms, Vol. 2 (Bilingual edition, Spanish-Latin).
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the book of Psalms, Vol. 3 (Bilingual edition, Spanish-Latin).
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the book of Psalms, Vol. 4 (Bilingual edition, Spanish-Latin).
