James Robb (philosopher)

James H. Robb
James H. Robb
Born	April 25, 1918; philosopher

James Harry Robb (April 25, 1918 – September 16, 1993) was a professor of philosophy at

St. Thomas Aquinas.^[1]

Biography

James H. Robb was born on April 25, 1918, in

Catholicism, he entered Marquette University, where he received his second bachelor's degree in philosophy and Latin in 1948. Robb next pursued graduate studies at the University of Toronto, receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies summa cum laude from the Pontifical Institute in 1952 and a M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1953. After a Fulbright year in Paris, where he studied medieval philosophy and French cuisine, he began his teaching career at Loyola Marymount University.^[2]

Marquette University (1956–1991)

Robb returned to

Medieval Philosophy in general and Thomas Aquinas in particular and was the author/editor of three books: St. Thomas Questions on the Soul (1984); Man as Infinite Spirit (1974); critical edition of S. Thomae Aquinatis Quaestiones De Anima (1968) and numerous articles. He also served for over twenty-five years as Editor-in-Chief of the Marquette series, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation. James H. Robb died in Milwaukee

on September 16, 1993.