Dr. John Finley is a tutor (tenured professor) at Thomas Aquinas College. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Dallas. Finley has served as academic director of the Valor Institute and as professor of philosophy at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. He is a member of the Aquinas Institute of Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford.
Finley has lectured widely and authored scholarly publications on philosophical anthropology, metaphysics, gender and sexuality, phenomenology, Edith Stein, and Thomas Aquinas. In 2017 he was awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to pursue collaborative research on human sexuality from the standpoints of science, medicine, philosophy, and theology.
Most recently, Finley is editor and co-author of Sexual Identity: The Harmony of Philosophy, Science, and Revelation (Emmaus Road, 2022). John and his wife Hilary live in Ventura, CA with their three children.