Joseph Koterski, S.J. (November 28, 1953 – August 9, 2021) was an American Jesuit priest, philosopher, author, and professor at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. Biography In 1976, Koterski graduated with a H.A.B. degree in Classics from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1980, he earned a M.A. from Saint Louis University with a thesis titled Aristotle's Ethics and Reflective Equilibrium, and then two years later a Ph.D. from the same school, while there on a Danforth Fellowship. His dissertation, mentored by James Collins, was titled Truth and Freedom in Karl Jasper’s Philosophy of Science. Immediately, after obtaining his degree in 1982, Koterski taught at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. At the time, he was also discerning a vocation to the religious life. After two years of teaching, he applied to the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. His studies continued and as a Jesuit Koterski earned his Masters of Divinity and License in Sacred Theology from Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a thesis titled Natural Law and the Book of Wisdom. From 1986 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. Koterski was ordained a priest in 1992. Soon afterwards, he was assigned as a professor at Fordham. In the late 1990s he also began teaching philosophical courses at the minor seminary of the Archdiocese of New York. From 1996 to 2001, he was director of the MA program in philosophical resources at Fordham. From 1994, he has served as chaplain for Queens Court Residential College Freshmen. He was a pillar of the University Faculty for Life, serving on the Board of Directors since 1993, Treasurer 1997-2006, and Secretary since 2006. In 2008, Koterski was elected president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Koterski died on August 9, 2021, while on a retreat on Enders Island, New London County, Connecticut. Publications Koterski was the editor or author of numerous articles and reviews. Since 1992, he served as the editor of Life and Learning, the peer-review proceedings of the University Faculty for Life. In 1994, he began serving as the editor-in-chief of International Philosophical Quarterly. Since 1999, he was co-editor of the Fordham University Press Series in Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. In 2016, he began editing the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly. He was also an associate editor for the New Catholic Encyclopedia (Gale-Cengage). Books