On 21 October, within the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Universidad Austral, Professors Carlos Ignacio Massini-Correas (Universidad de Mendoza, Argentina) and Eleonore Stump (St Louis University, US) were awarded Honorary Doctorates. This degree is the highest distinction that a university can confer to prestigious scholars with an unquestionable professional, academic and humane reputation.

Dr Claudia Vanney, Director of the Philosophy Institute and promoter of Prof Stump’s degree, read the Eulogy of the New Doctor. In it, she presented Prof Stump’s accomplishments to request her incorporation to the academic community of Universidad Austral as an Honorary Professor, by the award of the Honorary Doctorate. She also fondly recalled Prof Stump’s visit to our institution in 2016.

• Eleonore Stump:  Is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, US. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Wuhan, China, the Logos Institute at the University of St. Andrews and the University of York, UK; and Visiting Professor at the Catholic Australian University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her forthcoming book is titled The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning. Among the named lectureships she has given are the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton Lectures (Cambridge, 2018). In 2013, the American Catholic Philosophical Association awarded her the Aquinas medal. She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, and the Philosophers in Jesuit Education. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

After receiving her Honorary Degree from the Rector, Mag. Julián Rodríguez, Prof Stump offered her Acceptance Speech, in which she highlighted several features of the virtues of humility, courage, and magnanimity in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. The full ceremony is available on the University’s YouTube channel.