Rob Koons

Senior Fellow

Biography

Rob Koons is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute and a professor of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts, where he has taught for thirty-five years. He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.

He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of eleven books, including, Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God (Routledge, 2023); Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine’s Press, 2022); Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge, 2021); The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017); Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2017); The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has an M.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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The Quantum Revolution and the Human Spirit

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