Fr. Matthew Dunch, S.J.

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

Fr. Matthew Dunch is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department here at Loyola. He has degrees from Loyola, the Catholic University of America, the University of Toronto, and the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the sensibility of religious language and its relationship to the exercise of practical reason within a community. He has also written on ethically informed mysticism. He is particularly interested in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Aquinas, and scholarship interrelating these two figures. Before coming to Loyola, he taught at Xavier University, Cincinnati. His teaching includes courses in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of computation, and the history of analytic philosophy. He also developed service learning ethics courses centered on homelessness and outsider art. In Spring 2024 he taught PHIL 342/CATH 303, with the topic "The Metaphysics of Creation".