Bruno Tremblay

I have been teaching at St. Jerome’s University since 2003, after working at Université Laval, the University of Victoria, the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and the Collège de Sainte-Foy. My main research interests are in medieval philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Boethius.

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Chapters

Editor, with D. Twetten (main editor) and F.J. Romero Carrasquillo, of the metaphysics section (12 papers, 180 pages) of  “A Companion to Albert the Great. Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, ed. I. Resnick, Leiden: Brill, 2012 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, XXXVIII), 833p.

[with D. Twetten and F.J. Romero Carrasquillo] “Albert the Great on Metaphysics: Introduction”, in A Companion to Albert the Great. Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, ed. I. Resnick, Leiden: Brill, 2012 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, XXXVIII), 541-543.

“Albert and Metaphysics as First and Most Certain Philosophy”, in A Companion to Albert the Great. Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, ed. I. Resnick, Leiden: Brill, 2012 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, XXXVIII), 561-595.

“Albert the Great on the Subject of Aristotle’s Categories”, in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories, ed. L. Newton, Leiden: Brill, 2008 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, X), 73-97.

“Alcméon”, “Anaxagore”, “Anaxarque”, “Anaximandre”, “Anaximène”, “Archélaos”, “Archytas”, “Diogène d’Apollonie”, “Empédocle”, “Épicharme”, “Leucippe”, “Mélissos”, “Métrodore de Chios”, “Nausiphane”, “Présocratiques”, “Timée de Locres”, and “Xénophile”, in Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne, ed. P. Desan, Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007 (2nd edition), pp. 21, 44-47, 67, 69-70, 312-313, 372-373, 382-383, 676-677, 748, 761, 815, 955-957, 1142, and 1216-1217.

“La définition opérationnelle. Quelques mots sur un type particulier de définition très en usage dans les sciences expérimentales”, in Manuel du cours Principes de la logique, ed. M. Sassevile and V. Thibaudeau, Université Laval, Québec, 1991 (11th edition), 92-93. 

Articles

“Albert the Great on What Should Be Known About Substance Before Reading Categories, 5”, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 30 (2019), 57-130.

“Albertus Magnus on the Problem of the Division of the Categories”, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 27 (2016), 303-345.

“La logique comme science du langage chez Albert le Grand”, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 98 (2014), 193-239.

“Thomas d’Aquin et la logique comme savoir contemplatif”, Revue thomiste 111 (2011), 179-209.

“Albert le Grand et le problème du sujet de la science logique”, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 22 (2011), 301-345.

“Nécessité, nature et rôle de l’art logique, d’après Albert le Grand”, Bochumer philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Philosophie 12 (2007), 97-156.

“Tableau des renvois aux premiers philosophes grecs dans les Essais de Montaigne”, Montaigne Studies 19 (2007), 199-211.

“Modern Scholarship (1900-2000) on Albertus Magnus: A Complement”, Bochumer philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 11 (2006), 159-194.

“Connaissance et utilisation des premiers philosophes grecs chez Montaigne”, Montaigne Studies 18 (2006), 183-222.

“Boèce, In Cat.: proème et commentaire aux antepraedicamenta”, Carmina philosophiae: The Journal of the International Boethius Society 14 (2005), 1-56.

“Albert le Grand: De ce qui vient avant la logique”, History and Philosophy of Logic 25 (2004), 165-203.

“Alberto Magno: la mano y la palabra, signos de la universalidad de la inteligencia”, Estudios Filosóficos 46 (1997), 153-173.

“A First Glance at Albert the Great’s Teachings on Analogy of Words”, Medieval Philosophy and Theology 5 (1996), 265-292.

“Thomas d’Aquin, Aristote et la place des mots en logique”, Philosophia perennis 1 (1994), 35-66.

“À propos d’un important prooemium de S.Thomas”, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 41 (1994), 65-90.

“Aristote: les commentateurs grecs”, Peripatetikos 1 (1994), 49-68. (Formerly the in-house, non peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Aristotelian Studies).

“Pourquoi la prudence, vertu intellectuelle de l’agir, est-elle pour Thomas d’Aquin une sorte de sagesse?”, Angelicum 69 (1992), 37-53.

Others

Online Scholarship
Alberti Magni e-corpus: a searchable electronic corpus of 60 of Albertrus Magnus’ works, equivalent to about 19,000 pages in printed text.

Contributor to Boethius dicit: A Compilation of Sententiae Ascribed to Boethius, edited by Robert Andrews.

Exercices de logique spécialisés and Exercices et fiches explicatives: a few hundred pages of exercises and short theoretical texts in informal logic, published on the internet by the Faculty of Philosophy of Université Laval, in Quebec City.

PHIL 100J: Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 118J: Virtue and the Good Life

PHIL 145: Critical Thinking

PHIL 200J: Aristotelian Logic

PHIL 207J: Philosophy and J.R.R. Tolkien

PHIL 218J: Foundations of Ethics

PHIL 259: Philosophy of Technology

PHIL 283/CLAS 261: Great Works: Ancient and Medieval

PHIL 285J: Great Christian Thinkers

PHIL 382: Medieval Philosophy 1

PHIL 383: Medieval Philosophy 2

PHIL 404: Studies in Medieval Philosophy

PHIL 451J: Thomas Aquinas

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Administrative

Chair, Italian and French Studies (2022-2024)

Acting Chair, Italian and French Studies (2021-2022)

Chair, Department of Philosophy (2016-2023)