Education
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Ph.D., Marquette University
(2003)
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M.A., The Catholic University of
America (1997)
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B.A., The Thomas More College of
Liberal Arts (1995)
Books
Excerpt: Retraction Watch (June 4, 2024); News: Die Tagespost (September 22, 2024); Reviews: Journal of Catholic Education 28.2 (2025): 137–139.
Reviews: Theoria 86.6 (2020): 695-703; Accountability in Research 28.1 (2021): 44–46; Academic Questions 34.3 (2021): 135-137; Times Higher Education (May 3, 2021); News: National Post (August 27, 2020); CNA (August 31, 2020); Plagiarism Today (August 31, 2020); National Post (January 19, 2021).
Reviews:
Accountability in Research 26.3 (2019): 227�228; Theoria 85.2 (2019):
61�68; Monash Bioethics Review 37.1-2 (2019): 76�78; Publishing Research
Quarterly 35.3 (2019): 527�527.
Reviews:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23.1 (2015):
196�199;
The Heythrop Journal 56.5
(2015): 855�856;
International Philosophical Quarterly
54.2 (2014): 240�242; The Thomist 77.2 (2013): 303�306;
Ethics 123.2 (2013): 361�365; Speculum
88.1 (2013) 279�281;
The European Legacy 18.6 (2013): 791�792;
The Review of Metaphysics 66.1 (2012): 144�146;
Journal
of the History of Philosophy
50.1 (2012): 138�140;
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2012):
378�380;
Philosophical
Quarterly 62 (2012): 404�405; Ius Canonicum 52 (2012): 383�385;
Estudios Filos�ficos 61 (2012): 171�173; Lumen Veritatis 5 (2012): 122�124;
Studia Lulliana 52 (2012): 153; Philosophy in Review 32.6 (2012):
460�461;
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2011.07.26.
Reviews: The Incarnate Word 4.1 (2017): 214�218; Catholic Medical Quarterly
(2016).
Portuguese translation:
Pico della Mirandola: Novos Ensaios, trans. Getulio Schanoski Jr. (S�o Paulo: Madras
Editora, 2011).
Reviews:
Speculum 86.2 (2011): 484�6; Di�noia
55.2 (2010): 236�244; Neo-Latin News 58.3-4 (2010): 235�237; Nexus
51.1 (2009): 180�184; The Thomist 72.3 (2008): 509�512;
Renaissance Quarterly 61.3 (2008): 916�918.
Articles
- “Can the Post-Vatican I Era Yield Papal Doctors of the Church?” The Jurist 82.2 (2026), forthcoming.
- “How Yesterday’s Plagiarism in Theology Affects the Scholarship of Tomorrow,” New Blackfriars 106.4 (2025): 329–345.
- “The Scope and Limits of Ecclesiastical Ghostwriting,” Communio 51.4 (2024): 758–793.
- “Misattributions in the Downstream Marcan Literature: A Forty-Year Perspective,” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 86.4 (2024): 746–779.
- “After ‘40 Cases’: The Downstream Citation of Plagiarizing Articles in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Research,” Vivarium 61.3-4 (2023): 245–287. News: Daily Nous (November 1, 2023); Plagiarism Today (November 6, 2023); Philosophie Magazine (November 8, 2023).
- “Magisterial Authority and Theological Authorship: The Harm of Plagiarism in the Practice of Theology,” co-authored with Joshua P. Hochschild, Horizons 48.2 (2021): 404–455.
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“The Use of Confidentiality and Anonymity Protections as a Cover for Fraudulent Fieldwork Data,” Research Ethics 17.4 (2021): 480500.
- “A Concern about Qualitative Research in Two Recent
Articles,” International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, forthcoming [Accepted 3 March 2020].
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�The Corruption of Philosophical Communication by
Translation Plagiarism,� Theoria 85.3 (2019): 219�246.
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�The Pernicious Effects of Compression Plagiarism on
Scholarly Argumentation,� Argumentation 33.3 (2019): 391�412.
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�Correcting the Scholarly Record in the Aftermath of
Plagiarism: A Snapshot of Current-Day Publishing Practices in Philosophy,�
Metaphilosophy 48.3 (2017): 258�283.
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�Opining the articuli fidei: Thomas Aquinas on
the Heretic�s Assent to the Articles of Faith,� The Thomist 80.1
(2016): 1�21.
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�Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Concordia, and
the Canon Law Tradition,� Proceedings of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association 88 (2014): 181�196.
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�Thomas Aquinas,� Oxford Bibliographies Online:
Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University
Press 2014.
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�Richard Knapwell and Medieval Moral Dilemma Theory,�
Recherches de Th�ologie et Philosophie m�di�vales 80.2 (2013):
225�258.
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�Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,� Oxford
Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 [Revised, 2017].
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�Richard Knapwell,� Oxford Bibliographies Online:
Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2013.
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�40 Cases of
Plagiarism,� co-authored with Pernille Harsting and Russell L. Friedman,
Bulletin de Philosophie m�di�vale
51 (2009): 350�391.
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�Ghazālī and Metaphorical Predication in the Third
Discussion of the Tahāfut al-Falāsifa,� American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly 82.3 (2008): 391�409.
- �Equivocation and the Socratic Elenchus: Another Look at
Republic i,� Ancient Philosophy 27.1 (2007): 25�29.
- �Thomas Aquinas on the Manifold Senses of
Self-Evidence,� The Review of Metaphysics 59.3 (2006): 601�630.
- �Aquinas on the Self-Evidence of the Articles of
Faith,� The Heythrop Journal 46.2 (2005): 167�180.
- �Descartes�s Demonstration of the Impossibility of Error
in the Apprehension of Simples,� History of Philosophy Quarterly 22.2
(2005): 129�142.
- �Aristotle�s Four Truth Values,� British Journal for
the History of Philosophy 12.4 (2004): 585-609.
- �Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck: Reckoning with the
Thomistic Ethical Tradition,� Proceedings of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association 78 (2004): 233�246.
- �The Irrationality of the Irrationality Argument Against
Suicide,� The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 4.3 (2004):
485�489.
- �The Comparative Set Fallacy,� Argumentation 18.2
(2004): 213�222.
- �The Problem of Humana Natura in the Consolatio
Philosophiae of Boethius,� American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78.2
(2004): 273�292.
- �On the Alleged Subalternate Character of Sacra
Doctrina in Aquinas,� Proceedings of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association 77
(2003): 101-110.
- �Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,�
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 76 (2002): 153�164.
- �Two Possible Sources for Pico�s Oratio,�
Vivarium 40.2 (2002): 219�241.
- �The Importance of Cartesian Triangles: A New Look at
the Ontological Argument,� The International Journal of Philosophical
Studies 10.1 (2002): 35�62.
- �Perplexity Simpliciter and Perplexity
Secundum Quid: A Look at Some Contemporary Appeals to St. Thomas Aquinas,�
International Philosophical Quarterly 41.4 (2001): 469�480.
Contributions to Books
- “Plagiarism in Philosophy Research,” in Integrity of Scientific Research: Fraud, Misconduct and Fake News in the Academic, Medical and Social Environment, ed. Joel Faintuch and Salomão Faintuch (Cham: Springer, 2022), 379-388.
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“Lesser Evil Principle,” in Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics,” ed. Deborah C. Poff and Alex C. Michalos (Cham: Springer, 2020).
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�Practical Reasoning,� in The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval Ethics,� ed. Thomas Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2019), 217�237.
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�Moral Dilemma Theory,� in Encyclopedia of
Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, 2nd ed., ed. Henrik
Lagerlund, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2018).
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�Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,� in Encyclopedia of
Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, 2nd ed., ed. Henrik
Lagerlund, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2018). [Revision of 2011
article below]
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�Moral Luck and the Capital Vices in De malo:
Gluttony and Lust,� in Thomas Aquinas�s �Disputed Questions On Evil�: A
Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016),
222�234.
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�Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,� in Encyclopedia of
Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund,
2 vols. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011),
2: 423�426.
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�Three Precursors to Pico della Mirandola's Roman
Disputation and the Question of Human Nature in the Oratio,� in Pico
della Mirandola: New Essays, ed. M. V. Dougherty (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), 114�151.
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�Bibliografia del XIX e XX Secolo,� reprinted in 2007 by
Leo S. Olschki Editore with editorial attribution to L. Quaquarelli and M. V.
Dougherty. Originally published without attribution in: Pichiana: Bibliografia delle
edizioni e degli studi, ed. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Zita Zanardi (Florence:
Leo S. Olschki, 2005), 335�410.
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�Introduction,� in The Consolation of Philosophy of
Boethius (New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2005), VII-XIV, 139�140
Interviews and Essays
- “Beware of the Deepfake Magisterium,” The Catholic World Report, January 27, 2025. Discussion: Ave Maria in the Afternoon January 30, 2025.
- “I Work on Plagiarism —The Harvard Case Has Made my Work Much Harder,” The Boston Globe, January 15, 2024.
- “It’s All Too Hard To Get Plagiarizing Publications Retracted in Philosophy,” (co-authored with Pernille Harsting) Daily Nous: News For & About The Philosophy Profession (March 22, 2023).
- “Plagiate, Fälschungen, Manipulationen,” Die Tagespost 76.7 (February 16, 2023), 11.
- “Michael V. Dougherty befasst sich mit der Plagiatskrise,” Die Tagespost 75.4 (January 27, 2022), 27.
- “The Peer Reviewers and Editor Wanted to Publish My Paper. The Legal Team Rejected It,” Retraction Watch, June 2, 2021.
- “Self-Plagiarism in Philosophy,” Committee on Publication Ethics, July 14, 2020.
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“A Two-year Drama: The Anatomy of a Retraction Request,” Retraction Watch, June 30, 2020
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�Insights
into Publication Ethics: An Interview with Professor Michael V. Dougherty,�
Brill, December 5, 2019.
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�Compression
Plagiarism: An �Under-recognized Variety� that Software Will Miss,�
Retraction Watch, May 1, 2019.
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�Tracking
Fr. R�s (very) Long History of Plagiarism,� co-authored with Joshua P.
Hochschild, National Post, April 15, 2019. (See CNA, April 17, 2019)
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�Philosophers,
Meet the Plagiarism Police,� Retraction Watch, June 12, 2018.
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�Does
the Philosophy Literature Have a Plagiarism Problem?� Retraction
Watch, May 19, 2017.
Video
Book Series Editor
Book Reviews and Shorter Publications
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Review of: Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., Human Action in
Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham (Washington,
D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014), in Journal of the
History of Philosophy 53.2 (2015), 331�332.
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Review of: Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the
Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary, ed. Francesco
Borghesi, Michael Papio, and Massimo Riva (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2012), in Renaissance Quarterly 66.2 (2013), 585�587.
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Review of: Philosophers of the Renaissance,
ed. Paul Richard Blum (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America
Press, 2010), in The Thomist 76.3 (2012),473�477.
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Review of: Creighton Rosental, Lessons from
Aquinas: A Resolution of the Problem of Faith and Reason (Macon, GA:
Mercer University Press, 2011) in The Review of Metaphysics 66.3
(2013), 599�601.
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Review of: Michael Barnwell, The Problem
of Negligent Omissions: Medieval Action Theories to the Rescue.
Investigating Medieval Philosophy,
vol. 1. (Leiden: Brill, 2010), in American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012),
161�163.
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Review of: Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio
Ficino and his Influence, ed. Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw, and
Valery Rees (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011), in Renaissance Quarterly
65.1 (2012), 185�186.
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Review of: James V. Schall, The Modern Age
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine�s Press, 2011), in The Review of
Metaphysics, 66.2 (2012): 382�384.
- Review of: Avner Ben-Zaken, Reading
Ḥayy
Ibn-Yaqẓān:
A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidactism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2011, in Renaissance Quarterly 64.2 (2011),
583�584.
- Review of: Angelo Poliziano�s Lamia: Text,
Translation, and Introductory Studies, ed.Christopher S. Celenza (Leiden and
Boston, Brill, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011), 162�163.
- Review of: Paul Richard Blum, Philosophy of Religion
in the Renaissance (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010), in Renaissance
Quarterly, 63.4 (2010), 1347�1348.
- Review of: Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The
Missing Medieval Background, ed. Henrik Lagerlund (Leiden and Boston:
Brill, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly 63.3 (2010), 959�960.
- Review of: The Recovery of Ancient Philosophy in the
Renaissance: A Brief Guide, eds. James Hankins and Ada Palmer (Florence:
Leo S. Olschki, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.2 (2009), 480�482.
- Review of: Amos Edelheit, Ficino, Pico and
Savonarola: The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2�1498 (Leiden and
Boston: Brill, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.1 (2009), 277�279.
- Review of: The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance
Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007), in Renaissance Quarterly 61.3 (2008), 912�914.
- Review of: Pichiana: Bibliografia delle edizioni e degli studi,
ed. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Zita Zanardi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005),
in Renaissance Quarterly 60.3 (2007), 885�887.
- Review of: Crofton Black, Pico�s Heptaplus
and Biblical Hermeneutics (Leiden and Boston: Brill,
2006), in Renaissance Quarterly 60.2 (2007), 509�511.
- Review of: Imagination in the Later Middle Ages,
eds. Lodi Nauta and Detlev P�tzold (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), in Renaissance
Quarterly 59.2 (2006), 595�597.
- Review of: Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. Mark C.
Murphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), in The Review of
Metaphysics 58.3 (2005), 678�680.
- Review of: Steven vanden Broecke, The Limits of
Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (Leiden
and Boston:
Brill, 2003), in Renaissance Quarterly 58.1 (2005),
290�292.
- �Cajetan,� in Holy People of the World: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004),
155.
- �Albertus Magnus,� in Holy People of the World: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004),
31�32.
- �Augustine of Hippo,� in Holy People of the World: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Publishers, 2004),
81�83.
- �The Origins of Pragmatism,� The American Lawyer
23 (September 2001): 17�18.
Teaching Experience
- The Sr. Ruth Caspar Chair in Philosophy,
2016�present
- Professor, Ohio Dominican University, 2015�present
- Associate Professor, Ohio Dominican University, 2009�2015
- Assistant Professor, Ohio Dominican University,
2003�2009
- Resident Director of ODU Roma
Program, Rome, Italy, Fall 2005
- Instructor, Marquette University, 1997�2000, 2002�2003
Conferences and Presentations
- “New Techniques for Demonstrating Plagiarism in the Sacred Disciplines,” 5th Asia Pacific Research Integrity Network Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, March 21, 2023 [via Zoom].
- �In the Aftermath of Authorship Violations in Philosophy: Problems and
Solutions,� Committee on Publication Ethics North American Seminar,
Philadelphia, PA, May 3, 2019.
- �Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Concordia, and
the Canon Law Tradition,� American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C.: October 10-12, 2014.
- �Opining the Articuli Fidei: Thomas Aquinas on
the Heretic�s Assent to the Articles of Faith,� International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May
10-13, 2007.
- �Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck: Reckoning with the
Thomistic Ethical Tradition,� American Catholic Philosophical Association
Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, November 5-7, 2004.
- �On the Alleged Subalternate Character of Sacra
Doctrina in Aquinas,� American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual
Meeting, Houston, TX, October 31-November 2, 2003.
- �On the Epistemic Foundation of Aquinas�s Doctrine of
Self-Evident Propositions,� International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2003.
- �Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,� American
Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November 1,
2002.
- �On the Alleged Self-Evidence of the Articles of Faith
in Thomas Aquinas,� International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
MI, May 3, 2002.
- �Thomas Aquinas and Divine Command Theory,� Society of
Christian Philosophers, Central Division Meeting, Bethel College, St. Paul,
MN, March 9, 2002.
- �Primary Texts, Secondary Texts, and Anthologies:
Choosing Texts in Humanities Courses,� Preparing Future Faculty Teaching
Philosophy Conference, Marquette University, WI, March 31, 2001.
- �Cartesian Triangles and Proving the Existence of God,�
Society for Christian Philosophers, University of Dubuque, IA, March 17, 2001.
Research Fellowships/Grants/Seminars
- New Currents in Teaching Philosophy Institute, The Council of Independent Colleges, Baltimore, MD, July 25-29, 2021
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican
University, 2015
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican
University, 2014
- Humanities Development Grant, Ohio Dominican University,
2012
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican
University, 2012
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Ohio Dominican
University, 2007
- John P. Raynor, S. J. Research Fellowship, 2001-2002
- Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar in Philosophy, Boston
College, June 2�23, 2001
- The Arthur J. Schmitt Research Fellowship, 2000-2001
Teaching Award
- Conley Award, 2009 (�The Conley Award is
voted on by the student body of Ohio Dominican University and is presented
annually to the professor who is considered to excel in teaching ability and
contribution to the university.�)
Service to the Profession
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Editorial Board: Journal of Academic Ethics
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Journal Article Refereeing: Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Ethics & Behavior, Accountability in Research; Journal of Academic
Ethics; Theoria; Ethics, AI and Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health; Science and Engineering Ethics; The Thomist;
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy East and West;
I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance; Logic and Logical
Philosophy; Theological Studies; Journal of Religious Ethics;
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication; Acta Comeniana
- Manuscript and Proposal Refereeing: Brill, Oxford
Bibliographies Online, The Catholic University of America Press, Oxford
University Press, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Rowman & Littlefield; Routledge
- Executive Council of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association (2010-2012, 2021-2023)
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