Fr. Thomas Vincent Daly S.J. Collection

Below is a list of published and unpublished works by Fr. Tom Daly SJ under six headings:

  • Philosophy – teaching children
  • Philosophy, self-appropriation and epistemology
  • Philosophy of God
  • Ethics
  • Bio-ethics and the human person
  • Spirituality
  • Theology
  • Science/Mathematics

Over time we will be updating this list and will include links so you can either go to the publication or download it.

Philosophy – teaching children

1989 Eleven-year-olds and Philosophy! Teaching Philosophy through Puzzles in Year Six, Catholic School Studies 62(2) pp.50-54

1991 Learning from Lonergan at Eleven, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 9(1), pp.44-62

1991 Remedial Philosophy at Eleven through Puzzles, Jokes, Questions and Illusions, 2 pages

No date An Inquiry-Based Philosophy Course for Children, 16 pages

Philosophy, self-appropriation and epistemology

1976 Jesuit Questionnaire on Philosophy: The State of Philosophy in Australia, 8 pages

1977 How Much Philosophy for Seminarians?, 12 pages

1979 Some Basic Questions on Context: Can a Religious Message Pass from One Context to Another Unchanged?, in Victor C. Hayes (ed.), Toward Theology in an Australian Context. Bedford Park, South Australia: The Australian Association for the Study of Religions Publication, at the Sturt College of Advanced Education, pp. 38-45

1982 The Peaceful Intellectualist Liberation from Logic, Catholic Theological Review 4, pp.26-32

1984 The Value of Puzzles as Opportunities for Insights, 1 page

1985 How Lonergan Illuminates Aristotle, in John Heesh & Neil Ormerod (eds.) Lonergan and You: Riverview Reflections (Papers from the first and second Australian Lonergan Workshop),  pp.11-31

1992 Philosophy of Knowledge, presentation at Good Shepherd College, Fatima, PNG, 4 pages

1993 Learning-levels, in William J Danaher (ed.) Australian Lonergan Workshop, University Press of America, Langham, pp.233-248

1993 Rediscovering Philosophies through Cognitional Models, 39 pages

1995 Putting Bubbles into the Beer Bottle: Kant’s Jokes, Humour, and a Better Concept of God, Seventh Australian Lonergan Workshop, Canisius College, Pymble, 22-23 April

1996 Consciousness and the Human Spirit, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 3(2) pp.114-117 (with a subsequent comment by Peter Petty in 3(4) p.390)

1996 (with John Little) Smart Link – Mind Management

1996 (with John Little) The Heart of Mind (An Explanation of the Coloured Card), 1 page

1997 Lonergan on Meaning: A Black Hole?, Australian Lonergan Workshop, Canisius College, Pymble, April 25-27

2002 Metaphysics, in Matthew C Ogilvie and William J Danaher (eds.) Australian Lonergan Workshop II, Novum Organum Press, Drummoyne, pp. 2-7

2004 An Example of Emergence, 1 page (with editors notes and original hand-written copy)

2005 (with John Little) An Introduction to the Science of Thinking, 12th International Conference on Thinking, Melbourne, Australia, 13 pages; Slides, 18 pages

2007 24 Themes in the Early Reception of Insight, presentation to the Australian Lonergan Workshop, 27-29 April and, to the 50 Years of Insight: Lonergan’s Contribution to Philosophy and Theology Conference, 24-26 September, Australian Catholic University, St Patrick’s Campus Melbourne, 42 pages

No date Development and a Rich Personal Life in Lonergan’s Insight, 26 pages

Philosophy of God

1977 New Bases for a Philosophy of God, paper presented to JTC Staff Seminar, 10 pages

1987 Insight and God (2 pages)

No date God (1 page)

Ethics

1997 Professional Ethics – Discussion Paper, 8 pages

2000 Conscience and Responsibility in the Unity and Complexity of the Human Person, presentation to the Catholic Moral Theology Association, 21 pages

Bio-ethics and the human person

1981 The Nature of the Human Person, 23 pages

1982 The Human Embryo as a Person, 8  pages

1985 (with Nicholas Tonti-Filippini) Some Common Misunderstandings of Catholic Teaching on Marriage and Human Reproduction, St Vincent’s Bioethics Centre Newsletter, 3(1-2) (Summer-Autumn) pp.3-10 (Article 6.4)

1985 The Status of Embryonic Human Life: A Crucial Issue in Genetic Counseling, in Nicholas Tonti Filippini (ed.), Health Care Priorities in Australia: 1985 Conference Proceedings, St. Vincent’s Bioethics Centre, Melbourne, pp.45-57

1986 (with Nicholas Tonti-Filippini) Experimenting with the Origins of Human Lives, A submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Human Embryo Experimentation Bill, St. Vincent’s Bioethics Centre, Melbourne, 82 pages

1986 The Personhood of the Human Embryo, presentation at the International Conference on Health Law and Ethics, Sydney, August 17-21, 6 pages

1986 Death and Life, The Challenges of Modern Technology in Medical Practice: Notes on a Course on Catholic Medical Ethics, St. Vincent’s Bioethics Centre, 4 pages

1986 IVF – Why all the fuss?, The Challenges of Modern Technology in Medical Practice: Notes on a Course on Catholic Medical Ethics, St. Vincent’s Bioethics Centre, 5 pages

1986 The Christian Response to Abortion, The Challenges of Modern Technology in Medical Practice: Notes on a Course on Catholic Medical Ethics, St. Vincent’s Bioethics Centre, 4 pages

1986 In the beginning… the human embryo, The Advocate, 16 October, p. 7

1987 Life and Sex are Good: An Introductory Comment on «Donum Vitae»4 pages

1987 Identifying the Origin of a Human Life (A submission to the Standing Review and Advisory Committee established by the Victorian Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984), St Vincent’s Bioethics Centre Newsletter, 5(1) March pp.4-6

c1987 Discussion on the Embryo invited by the NSW Law Reform Commission, 32 pages, (with References)

1987 NSW Law Reform Commission Invites Discussion on the Embryo, St Vincent’s Bioethics Centre Newsletter, 5(3) (September) pp.9-12

c1987 How Human is the Early Embryo, 12 pages

1988 Individuals, Syngamy and the Origin of Life: A Reply to Buckle and Dawson, St Vincent’s Bioethics Centre Newsletter, 6(4) (December) pp.1-7

c1988 When do People Begin, 10 pages

No Date A Human Person at the Moment of Conception: A Catholic comment on Coughlan and the Vatican Instruction, 20 pages

Spirituality

1972 Devotion to the Sacred Heart, (a reflection requested Fr Peter Steele SJ on behalf of the Australian Jesuit Province’s Spiritual Renewal team), 6 pages

1989 Principle and Foundation (a reflection during his annual 8-day retreat) 1 page (The original handwritten document)

2002 Exercises in Responsibility: St Ignatius’ Mediation of Morality, in Matthew C. Ogilvie and William J. Danaher (eds.) Australian Lonergan Workshop II, Novum Organum Press, Drummoyne, pp.8-23

Theology

1954 Some Dogmatic Implications of the ‘De Lapsis’ of St. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage, 22 pages

1956 The Teaching of the Council of Trent on the Motives for Contrition. (Paper for Major Course in Theology), 57 pages

1972 Review of Method in Theology, Twentieth Century, June, pp.377-382

1972 T. Daly’s Conversational Comment on The Resurrection, 8 pages

1984 ‘Magisterium’ by Francis Sullivan S.J.,: Pre-Vatican II Theology?, (address at Catholic Moral Theology Conference 1984) Catholic Theological Review 6, pp.34-47

1985 Forward From ARCIC – Freeing Good News from Hidden Philosophy, Oxford Movement Anniversary Lecture, North Adelaide, 22 October (ARCIC is the Anglican – Roman Catholic International Commission), 39 pages

1987 Reconciliation as Experience and Sacrament, Compass Theology Review, 21(2) (Winter), p.21-30

1988 Review of Hugo A Meynell ‘The Theology of Bernard Lonergan’, Australian Biblical Review, 36, pp.92-93

2003 The Function of Dogma, an extract from a letter to a Jesuit scholastic, 1 page

Science/Mathematics

1964 Frege’s Philosophy of Number, Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, Gregorian Pontifical University, 274 pages

1966 Frege’s Philosophy of Number, Excerpt from Doctoral Dissertation (Romae: Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianus), 57 pages

1980 Reflections on Evolution: an interview with Fr. Thomas Daly by Andrew Hamilton SJ, Word in Life – A Catechetical Review 28(4), 127-130

1981 Creation and the Scope for Growth, in John Scullion, Andrew Hamilton, Thomas Daly and William Daniel (eds.)  God’s Creation and Human Responsibility for the Earth, The Polding Press, Melbourne, pp.30-48

1999 Notes on the Logical Structure of the Theory of Relativity, 10 pages

1999 What is Mathematics?, presentation to the Australian Lonergan Workshop, 3 pages

1999 Mathematics as Invention, Logic, and Naming the Empirical Residue, Australian Lonergan Workshop, Canisius College, Pymble, April 24-25