Matthew Walz was born in New York, but grew up mostly in Ohio. He completed undergraduate
studies at Christendom College, double-majoring in philosophy and theology and graduating
as the valedictorian of the class of 1995. He did graduate studies in the School of
Philosophy at The Catholic University of America (CUA). There he earned a doctorate
in philosophy by completing a dissertation on Thomas Aquinas's understanding of free
will.
Matthew has been teaching at the college level since 1998. As a graduate student,
he taught for two years at CUA. Then he began teaching at Thomas Aquinas College,
where he remained for eight years. Since 2008 he has been a professor in the Department
of Philosophy here at the University of Dallas. He has served as Chair of the Philosophy
Department for four years. In addition, in the summer of 2012, he began serving as
the Director of the Philosophy & Letters and Pre-Theology Programs and became the
Director of Intellectual Formation at Holy Trinity Seminary. In the summer of 2022,
moreover, he was appointed Associate Dean of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts.
Matthew's research and writing focus primarily on medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy,
and philosophical anthropology. Besides Aquinas, his favorite philosophical authors
include Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, and Wojtyla.
Matthew has been married since 1999 to his lovely wife Teresa. They have been blessed
with eight children (two boys and six girls) who keep them busy, of course, but also
joyful and grateful to God for His multitudinous gifts.
Medieval philosophy
Ancient philosophy
Philosophical anthropology
IPS 8326: Augustine and Aquinas
PHI 6335: Aquinas’s Anthropology
PHI 6331: Bonaventure
PHI 6331: Metaphysical Texts of Thomas Aquinas
PHI 6322: Anselm
PHI 6320: Plotinus
PHI 4351: The Thought of John Paul II
PHI 4341: Senior Seminar (Friendship and Marriage)
PHI 4338: Philosophy of Religion
PHI 4337: Philosophy of God
PHI 4141: Senior Thesis
PHI 3351: Junior Seminar
PHI 3346: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
PHI 3326: Medieval Philosophy
PHI 3311: Philosophy of Being
PHI 2323: Human Person
PHI 1301: Philosophy and the Ethical Life
PHL 4342: Senior Thesis
PHL 4341: Senior Seminar (Incarnate Persons and Their Vocations)
PHL 3305: Logic and Nature
PHL 3306: Nature and Knowledge
Book translation
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion (including Gaunilo’s objections and Anselm’s reply), translated and introduced by Matthew D. Walz (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013).
Articles
“A ‘Kingdom of Friends’: Personal Dimensions of Aquinas’s Moral World,” The Aquinas Review 25 (2022): 59-76.Review of P. Kreeft, Summa Philosophica (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2012), in: Review of Metaphysics 67 (2013): 171-73.
Review of K. Pritzl (ed.), Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), in: Quaestiones Disputatae 1 (2011): 288-301.
Review of S. Visser and T. Williams, Anselm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), in: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2010): 837-41.
Review of A. Mele, Motivation and Agency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), in: Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004): 856-58.