PRESENTATIONS
Magnus Imber
Magnus Imber
Contact
Stokes Hall North 230F
Email: magnus.imber@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Colorado State University
- M.A., Western Michigan University
Courses
Philosophy of the Person I
Philosophy of the Person II
Research Interests
Thomas Aquinas
Medieval Philosophy
Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
Office Hours
TH 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Department
Biography
Magnus Imber is a third-year doctoral student currently researching the reception of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration by St. Thomas Aquinas and others in the thirteenth century. He is a teaching fellow at Boston College and a fellow of the Harvard Catholic Forum. In addition to holding an M.A. in Philosophy from Western Michigan University and a B.A. in the same from Colorado State University, Magnus has also studied medieval paleography and codicology at both the Rare Books School and the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Medieval Studies. He co-convenes the Latin Translation Group, regularly participates in a reading group on medieval Arabic philosophy. Beyond philosophy, Magnus enjoys hiking, playing the electric guitar, and attending Red Sox games.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of the Harvard Catholic Forum, 2026 - Present
Grant Recipient of the Stephen F. Brown Graduate Student Research Fund, 2026
Teaching Fellow at Boston College, 2025 - Present
Teaching Fellow at Western Michigan University, 2023 - 2024
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Organizer, Medieval Arabic Philosophy Reading Group, 2026 - Present
Co-convener, Latin Translation Group, Boston College, 2025 - Present
Treasurer, Philosophy Graduate Student Association, Boston College, 2025 - Present
Guest Lecture, "Skepticism and Dogmatism in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit," PHIL 2000: Intro to Philosophy, McGwire Hidden, WMU-Coldwater (located within Lakeland Correctional Facility), 2024
Organizer, 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Western Michigan University, 2024
Vice President, Graduate Student Association of Philosophers, Western Michigan University, 2023 - 2024
Commenter and Reviewer, 16th Annual Grad. Student Conference, Western Michigan University, 2023
President, Philosophy Club, Colorado State University, 2021
PRESENTATIONS
2026 “Knowing That We Fell: Aquinas’s Super ad Romanos and Our Postlapsarian Condition,” 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 15.
2026 “Knowing That We Fell: Aquinas’s Super ad Romanos and Our Postlapsarian Condition,” 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Poster Session, Chicago, IL, Feb. 20.
2026 “Man Made Right: On the Necessity of Original Created Justice in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans 5:12,” Aquinas and Sin—Annual Ave Maria University Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal Conference, with the Thomistic Institute, Ave Maria, FL, Feb. 7.
2025 “Knowing That We Fell: Aquinas’s Super ad Romanos and Our Postlapsarian Condition,” 87th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Savannah, GA, Nov. 21.
2025 “Knowing That We Fell: Aquinas’s Super ad Romanos and Our Postlapsarian Condition,” 99th Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Poster Session, Notre Dame, IN, Oct. 31.
PUBLICATIONS
"Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine", 602 U.S. 367 (2024)" (Case Brief) in Bioethics: New Directions, Fritz Allhoff, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).