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Publications
A selection of books, edited volumes, translations, peer-reviewed articles, and theology book reviews. For the complete bibliography see ResearchGate or Google Scholar.
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The Beautiful, The True, The Good: Lonergan and the Recovery of the Common Good
Foreword by Msgr. Richard M. Liddy. Under review with the University of Toronto Press Lonergan series.
Vigilant Hope: Preserving Human Dignity in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
West Chester, PA: Ascension Press
ISBN 979-8-89276-301-1
Quick Catholic Lessons on Magnifica Humanitas with Dr. Steven Umbrello
West Chester, PA: Ascension Press
ISBN 979-8-89276-303-5
“Discussion Questions”
in Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. West Chester, PA: Ascension Press, 135–144
ISBN 979-8-89276-289-2
Mediated by Meaning: Consciousness and Conversion in the Thought of Jordan Peterson
Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock
ISBN 979-8-3852-6317-2
Can AI Ever Be Human? Consciousness Explored
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 978-0-8132-4086-2
L’etica di Bernard Lonergan. Recuperando il bene comune con la Bellezza e la Verità
Roma: Città Nuova Editrice
ISBN 978-88-311-3558-0
Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies
Cambridge, UK: Polity
ISBN 978-1-5095-6404-0
Oggetti Buoni. Come costruire una tecnologia sensibile ai valori
Rome: Fandango
ISBN 978-88-6044-902-3
Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots
Budapest: Trivent Publishing
ISBN 978-615-6405-36-4
Digitally Divided: The Impact of Technology on Belief and Societal Polarization
Dordrecht: Springer
ISBN 978-3-032-10421-2
Theology of Human Enhancement in Western Traditions
Berlin: De Gruyter
ISBN 978-3-11-151910-4
The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement
Berlin: De Gruyter
ISBN 978-3-111-24255-2
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
Cham: Springer
ISBN 978-3-031-08423-2
La luce di Cristo
Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2017)
ISBN 978-88-311-3560-3
Saggi. Terza collezione
Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2017)
ISBN 978-88-311-7317-9
Il futuro della tecnologia. Progettazione etica e innovazione
Rome: tab edizioni. (Original work published 2024)
ISBN 979-12-5669-094-7
Sorprendenti stranezze. Introduzione a Insight di Lonergan
Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2006)
ISBN 978-88-311-3554-2
The Morality Pill: Ethics and Moral Enhancement
Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Original work published 2022)
ISBN 978-615-6696-38-0
Sex Robots: Love in the Age of Machines
Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Original work published 2018)
ISBN 978-615-6405-39-5
The Contemporary Posthuman
Bradford, UK: Ethics International Press. (Original work published 2017)
ISBN 978-1-80441-010-3
Selected peer-reviewed articles. For the complete bibliography visit ResearchGate or Google Scholar.
“From Survival First to Dignity First: A Natural Law Framework for Reproduction and Enhancement”
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4
“The Flooding of Love: Bernard Lonergan’s Ressourcement of Romans 5:5”
The Lonergan Review, Vol. 16
“Industry Self-Flagging and the Insufficiency Critique of Alignment”
Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1–7
DOI →“Proof as Sign, Conversion as Condition: A Lonerganian Meta-Apologetics After Insight 19”
Forum Philosophicum, Vol. 31, No. 1, 47-67
DOI →“Ethical Playgrounds: Unveiling a Serious Game for Technological Ethics within the TechEthos Project”
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 13, 484
DOI →“Pope Leo XIV and the New Social Questions of Artificial Intelligence”
The Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 92, No. 3, 354–357
DOI →“Gli spunti filosofici di Bernard Lonergan per un approccio comunitario-centrico nella rivoluzione quantistica”
Humanitas, Vol. 80, No. 1–2, 83–92
“Quantum Security Threat Discovery: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Discovering Security Risks of Quantum Sensing at the Port of Moerdijk”
NanoEthics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 8
DOI →“Human Dignity in the Digital Age”
Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1–22
DOI →“Citizens’ Perceptions of Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Containment: A Quantitative Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Study”
Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1–27
DOI →“Bernard Lonergan and a Nouvelle théologie for Artificial Intelligence”
The Lonergan Review, Vol. 14, 13–44
DOI →“The ‘Common Good’ in a Genetically-Modified Future: Drawing on Lonergan’s Critical Realism in Reproductive Ethics”
Paradigmi, Vol. 42, No. 3, 489–509
DOI →“Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI”
International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 16, No. 11–12, 2223–2241
DOI →“Human Enhancement and Reproductive Ethics on Generation Ships”
Argumenta, Vol. 10, No. 1, 453–467
DOI →“Communities of Quantum Technologies: Stakeholder Identification, Legitimation, and Interaction”
International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 22, No. 7, 2450012
DOI →“The Ethics of Space Travelling and Extraterrestrial Colonization”
Ragion Pratica, Vol. 62, No. 1, 155–170
DOI →“Dalla Soggettività all’Oggettività: La Filosofia di Bernard Lonergan come Fondamento per il Design Sensibile ai Valori”
Archivio teologico torinese, Vol. 1, 161–171
“Digital Humanism as a Bottom-Up Ethics”
Journal of Responsible Technology, Special Issue: “Frontiers in Digital Humanism,” Vol. 17, 100082
DOI →“The Intersection of Bernard Lonergan’s Critical Realism, the Common Good, and Artificial Intelligence in Modern Religious Practices”
Religions, Vol. 14, No. 12, 1536. Special Issue: “Rethinking Digital Religion, AI and Culture”
DOI →For the complete bibliography including all conference papers and earlier articles, visit:
Book reviews in Catholic theology journals.
“The Theology of Robert Barron by Matthew Levering”
Nova et Vetera, Vol. 24, No. 1, 344–349
“Thomas Aquinas: Selected Commentaries on the New Testament by Jason C. Paone”
Nova et Vetera, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1159–1165
“Review of Joseph Ogbonnaya, Ed., Perspectives on Psychic Conversion”
Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 132–134
DOI →“Book Review: The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si’: Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology”
Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 4, 399–402
DOI →“Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, by Holly Ordway”
Literature & Theology, Vol. 38, No. 1, 83–90
DOI →“Christ Brings All Newness: Essays, Reviews, and Reflections by Robert Imbelli”
Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, Vol. 28, No. 2, 242–244
DOI →“Distributed Like Bread, by Jonathan M. Ciraulo”
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 2024