{"id":2,"date":"2014-03-22T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:39:04","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sage-chapel-mosaic-study-banner-2-e1689283369184.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sage-chapel-mosaic-study-banner-2-e1689283369184.jpg?resize=660%2C138&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sage-chapel-mosaic-study-banner-2-e1689283369184.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sage-chapel-mosaic-study-banner-2-e1689283369184.jpg?resize=300%2C63&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sage-chapel-mosaic-study-banner-2-e1689283369184.jpg?resize=768%2C160&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Scott MacDonald<\/strong><\/span> is Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies at Cornell.<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">MacDonald holds advanced degrees from the University of St. Andrews and Cornell. His research interests include medieval philosophy (especially Augustine and Aquinas), philosophical theology, and issues in moral psychology and the philosophy of action (especially those concerned with free will, moral responsibility, and practical reasoning).\u00a0He has published widely in these areas and is currently at work on projects on Augustine\u2019s <i>Confessions\u00a0<\/i>and on Augustine&#8217;s philosophy of mind.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color: #98a3ac;\">(Image above: Artist&#8217;s study for the mosaic installation in Cornell&#8217;s Sage Chapel apse. <em>Philosophy<\/em> sits on the throne at the center of the arts &amp; sciences. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezramagazine.cornell.edu\/Update\/Sept15\/EU.Ella.Condie.Lamb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo of the apse and info about the mosaic artist, Ella Condie Lamb<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott MacDonald is Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies at Cornell. MacDonald holds advanced degrees <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue Reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9PyZP-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmacdonald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}