David A. Boileau

Professor of Philosophy
Contact: Bobet Hall, Rm 452, (504) 865-3940
E-mail: daboilea@loyno.edu

Education

Ph. D., Higher Institute of Philosophy, Louvain, 1961
S. T. B., St. John's Seminary, 1956
B. A., St. Bonaventure University, 1952

Bio and Publications

David A. Boileau, a 1961 Louvain Ph.D. graduate, has been a member of Loyola's Philosophy faculty since 1970. He specializes in Contemporary Ethics and in Social Justice Ethics and Theories.

He has published articles in the Louvain University Press on Discrimination, Equality and Scial Justice. He recently published three volumes of essays on the Centennial of Louvain University's Higher Institute of philosophy. In 1988, he published a book on the Life and Philosophy of Cardinal Mercier, the founder of Louvain's Higher Institute of Philosophy. He edited a series of articles on the Philosophical Principles of Catholic Social Teaching. He is preparing a volume on Cardinal Mercier's philosophical essays as a study in Neo-Thomism.

He teaches classes in Ethics, Neo-Thomism and the Philosophy of God. He is the President of the Alumni/ae of the Higher Institute of Philosophy at Louvain.