Dr Janice Chik Breidenbach

Dr Janice Chik Breidenbach is a Visiting Research Scholar and a Member of the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. She is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Philosophy Program at Ave Maria University. She is also, and Senior Affiliate of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

An alumna of Princeton University with degrees in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Music Performance, Dr Chik Breidenbach earned postgraduate degrees in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of St Andrews.

Dr Chik Breidenbach current book project advances an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of human speech as the foundational condition for political life, in negotiation with pre-political forms of engagement, such as non-discursive assemblies, and supra-political forms, such as theologically-informed religious worship.

Select Publications:

‘Thomistic Free Expression,’ in Thomism Revisited, ed. Gaven Kerr (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), 2025: 175-194; ‘Quantum Action and Substance Causation,’ Scientia et Fides Vol. 13, No. 2 (2025): 135-161 (co-authored with physicist Daniel Sadasivan; ‘What “Has Life Potentially?”’ BioCosmos Vol. 5, No. 1 (2025): 23-28; ‘Hylomorphism and Synchronic Dependency,’ Res Philosophica Vol. 102, No. 1 (2025): 19-39; and ‘An Anscombean Theory of Religious Exercise,’ PRRUCS Journal Vol. 4, No. 2 (2025): 121-138.

For more information, visit Dr Chik Breidenbach’s personal website.