James Reichman, S.J, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Department of Philosophy
Seattle University
900 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122

Office: Casey 423
Phone: 206-296-5468


Fr. James Reichmann received his doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1960, where he also had received his STL degree. His undergraduate and master's degrees are from Gonzaga University. Fr. Reichmann has been with the Society of Jesus for more than fifty years and with the Department of Philosophy for more than forty, including service as department chair for ten years. His areas of specializaton include metaphysics, philosophy of the human person, ethics, and the philosophies of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Hegel.

Selected Publications
Evolution, Animal "Rights" and the Environment, (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2000)
Philosophy of the Human Person
(Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1985).
"Language and the Interpretation of Being in Gadamer and Aquinas,"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1988.
"The Cogito in St. Thomas: Truth in Aquinas and Descartes,"International Philosophical Quarterly, Dec., 1986.
"Contemporary Attitudes Toward Death," Human Life Issues, Winter, 1982.
"Hegel’s Ethics of the Epocal Situation," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1975.
"Planned Death and Professor Fletcher," Homiletic and Pastoral Review, March, 1974.
"Aquinas, God and Historical Process,"Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Tomaso d'Aquino, Naples, Italy, 1974.
"Immanently Transcendent and Subsistent Esse: A Comparison," The Thomist 38:2, 1974.
"The Catholic in a Pluralistic Society," Homiletic and Pastoral Review, June, 1971.
"The Transcendental Method and the Psychogenesis of Being," The Thomist 32:4, 1968.
"Logic and the Method of Metaphysics," The Thomist, 29:4, 1965.
"St. Thomas, Capreolus, Cajetan and the Created Person," The New Scholasticism 33:1 & 2, 1959.

Selected Presentations
"The A Priori in Aquinas and Kant," Northwest Philosophy Conference, Seattle, WA, 1981, Seattle University.
"The Meaning of 'Yes'," Presidential address, Jesuit Philosophical Association, Toronto, CA, 1979.
"Questions and Answers," Presidential address, Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pullman, WA, 1970.
"The Role of Intuition in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," University of Idaho, 1965.
"Kant and Metaphysics," Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1962.

Professional Affiliations
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Jesuit Philosophical Association