Edited Works

Language, Truth, and Meaning: Papers from the International Lonergan Congress 1970, University of Notre Dame Press, 1972.

This is the second volume of papers from the International Lonergan Congress, 1970. A number of the papers are of the “Lonergan and …” type: “Lonergan and Dewey” (Robert Johan), “Lonergan and Dilthey” (Matthew Lamb), “Lonergan and Gadamer” (Frederick Lawrence), “Lonergan and Ricoeur” (David Rasmussen), “Lonergan and Rahner” (Bernard Tyrell), and “Lonergan and Heidegger” (William Richardson). 

Foundations of Theology: Papers from the International Lonergan Congress 1970, University of Notre Dame Press, 1972.
This is the first volume of papers delivered at the International Lonergan Congress that took place at St. Leo College, Florida, during Easter Week of 1970. There were 77 participants in the conference. This volume contains a broad spectrum of philosophical and theological perspectives. (Recordings of dialogues are available on the Lonergan Resource.)
Introducing the Thought of Bernard Lonergan, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1973.

Three essays from Collection (CWL 4) are reprinted: “Cognitional Structure,” “Existenz and Aggiornamento,” and “Dimensions of Meaning.” In the second paragraph of the Introduction, McShane asked what Lonergan was getting at in those three essays. He replied: “The uncomfortable answer is that Lonergan is getting at you and me.” Introducing the Thought of Bernard Lonergan, 7.

Searching for Cultural Foundations, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1984.

McShane edited and wrote a Preface for this collection of five essays: “Middle Kingdom: Middle Man” (Philip McShane), “Report on a work in Progress” (Robert Doran), “Dialectically-Opposed Phenomenologies of Knowing” (Michael Vertin), “The Human Good and Christian Conversation” (Frederick Lawrence), and “Lonergan’s Search for Foundations: The Early Years, 1940-1959” (Frederick E. Crowe).

For a New Political Economy, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, vol. 21, ed. Philip McShane, University of Toronto Press, 1999.

In the first section of the Introduction, McShane commented on the three parts of the book: “For a New Political Economy,” “Fragments, 1942-1944,” and “Circulation Analysis.” In the second section he claimed that Lonergan’s “precise explanatory foundational achievement” in macrodynamic analysis “meshes into his fuller methodology of economic collaboration to provide a creative and critical perspective for the differentiated reading of texts of histories, of systematizations, of the content and marketing of policies.” CWL 21, xxx-xxxi.

Phenomenology and Logic: The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, vol. 18, ed. Philip McShane, University of Toronto Press, 2001.

McShane described his intention as editor in these words: “The editing of the volume has aimed at providing a faithful, useful, and readable presentation both of the spoken words and of the outlines that Lonergan prepared and made available” (xvii-xviii). He concluded the editor’s introduction by alerting the reader “not [to] miss the challenge to grapple with the existential gap [see CWL 18, 281-84] between Lonergan’s comfortable presentation and his discomforting pointing to horizons quite unfamiliar to the cultures of the new millennium.” CWL 18, xxiv.

Do You Want a Sane Global Economy? ed. Philip McShane, Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education vol. 21, no. 2, Nashik, India, 2010.

Five authors contributed eight articles to this volume. In the essay introducing the volume, Patrick Brown wrote that it “originated with McShane’s suggestion of a collaboration of people interested not only in economic reform but in expressing the root challenge in a simple and immediately interpersonal mode.” Divyadaan, 21/2, 155.

Himig Ugnayan: A Theological Journal of the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies, vol. 16 (2016), eds. Marina Altarejos, James Duffy, & Philip McShane, special edition, “Reshaping Christian Openness: A Festschrift for Fr. Brendan Lovett.”

Nine individuals contributed essays to this Festschrift honoring Fr. Brendan Lovett, MSSC. In the Preface, co-editors Marina Obal Altarejos and Philip McShane wrote that “the key issue, one which occupied Fr. Brendan’s hidden life while he lived it existentially and dialectically, was how to rise globally to an effective dialectic of local care, a genuine situational ethic.” Himig Ugnayan, 9.

Sastipurti: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Bernard Lonergan’s Insight, eds. Philip McShane and James Duffy, Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education vol. 28, no. 2, Nashik, India, 2017.

The five contributors to this volume celebrating the 60th anniversary of Insight attempted the tasks Dialectic, Foundations, Doctrines, Systematics, and Communications. In the Introduction, McShane wrote that “what the team is seeking, sought, to achieve is a particular short-term advance in the pure formulation of the heuristics of human progress.” Divyadaan, 28/2, 195.