
Jon directs the Arts and Humanities Collaborative at Albertus Magnus College, a Catholic liberal arts college in New Haven, CT. He also teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and serves as a Co-Director of the College’s Honors Program (faculty page). In the summers, he teaches in the Summer@Brown Pre-College Program at Brown University. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts.
His research focuses on the history of religions, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and personalism. He has recently published on Jacques Maritain’s philosophy of education, and he has written on the work of Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Carl Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, and Emmanuel Mounier. Currently he is working to create videos for his YouTube channel, Labyrinths. He is also developing the Arts and Humanities Collaborative’s YouTube channel and hosts a podcast for the Collaborative, called Studium.
Projects
Videos
Inductive arguments (The Trivium, Part 20)
Hypothetical arguments (The Trivium, Part 19)
Determining validity (The Trivium, Part 18)
“Lilith”: An Interview with Tess Schober (’24)
The liberal arts and job training
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