1. Elliot Polsky, "Why Are Accidents Included under Being per se," Nova et Vetera, forthcoming. [Winner of the Leo Elders Junior Scholar Essay Contest.] [PhilPapers][Academia.edu]

2. Elliot Polsky, "The Real Distinction between Supposit and Nature in Angels in Thomas Aquinas," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2023 meeting), forthcoming. [PhilPapers][Academia.edu]

3. Elliot Polsky, "The Modern Semantic Principles behind Gilson's Existential Interpretation of Aquinas [Part 2]," Studia Gilsoniana, forthcoming. [PhilPapers][Academia.edu]

4. Elliot Polsky, "The Modern Semantic Principles behind Gilson's Existential Interpretation of Aquinas [Part 1]," Studia Gilsoniana 13, no. 2 (2024): 303–37. [PhilPapers][Academia.edu]

5. Elliot Polsky, "The Semantics of Divine Esse in Boethius," Nova et Vetera 22, no. 4 (2024): 1215–1264. [PhilPapers][Academia.edu]

6. Elliot Polsky, "Secunda Operatio Respicit Ipsum Esse Rei: An Evaluation of Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and Ralph McInerny on the Relation of Esse to the Intellect’s Two Operations," Nova et Vetera 19, no. 2 (2021): 895–932. [PhilPapers] [Academia.edu]

7. Elliot Polsky, "Secondary Substance and Quod Quid Erat Esse: Aquinas on Reconciling the Divisions of 'Substance' in the Categories and Metaphysics," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 96, no. 1 (2022): 21–45. [PhilPapers] [Academia.edu] [ACPQ]

8. Elliot Polsky, "'In as Many Ways as Something is Predicated ... in that Many Ways is Something Signified to Be': The Logic Behind Thomas Aquinas’s Predication Thesis, Esse Substantiale, and Esse in Rerum Natura," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 93 (2019): 263–92. [PhilPapers] [Academia.edu] [Pr. ACPA]

9. Elliot Polsky, "Thomas Aquinas on Grace as a Mysterious Kind of Creature," Studia Gilsoniana 10, no. 3 (2021): 545–78. [PhilPapers] [Academia.edu]

10. Elliot Polsky, "Thomistic Special Relativity: Length Contraction and Time Dilation Without the Fourth Dimension," Proceedings Sixth World Conference on Metaphysics 6 (2015): 1157–1169. [PhilPapers] [Academia.edu]

1. "Does God Only Efficiently Cause through the Medium of a Formal Cause?" Presented at the Fourth Annual Academic Conference of The Sacra Doctrina Project: All Things that Were Made, St. Paul, MN, June 8, 2024.

2. “What is Esse substantiale? Aquinas with Boethius and Averroes against Avicenna and William of Auvergne.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 2024.

3. “The Real Distinction between Supposit and Nature in Angels in Thomas Aquinas.” Presented at American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 2023.

4. “Avicenna, Averroes, Boethius, and Aquinas: Which Esse is Composed with Creatures?” Presented at the Center for Thomistic Studies Colloquium Series, University of St. Thomas (TX), September 29, 2023.

5. “The Real Distinction between Supposit and Nature in Angels in Thomas Aquinas.” Presented at International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2023.

6. “‘In as Many Ways as Something is Predicated … in that Many Ways is Something Signified to Be’: The Logic Behind Thomas Aquinas’s Predication Thesis, Esse substantiale, and Esse in rerum natura.” Presented at American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 2019.

7. “Either the Popular Free Will Defense or Aquinas, Not Both: Why Aquinas’s Ontology Entails Divine Sovereignty over the Created Will.” Presented at American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2017.

8. “Thomistic Special Relativity: Interpreting Length Contraction and Time Dilation without the Fourth Dimension.” Presented at Sixth World Conference on Metaphysics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, November 2015.

Speculative Philosophy Research Group (SPRG), Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, August 2023–May 2024.

Uncertainty, Confidence, and Truth in the Sciences: Thomistic Philosophy and Natural Science Symposium, sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, The Catholic University of America, July 12–16, 2023.

Aquinas and "the Arabs" International Working Group (AAIWG), “Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction,” organized by Atefe Esmaili, Seth Kreeger, Nicoletta Nativo, Pooya Heybatollahi, Richard Taylor, Fall 2022–Spring 2023.

The City of God and Modernity: Culture and Ecclesiology, sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology and the Thomistic Institute, The Catholic University of America, June 12–17, 2022.

Leo Elders Junior Scholar Essay Contest ($750)

Sponsor: Leo Elders Foundation

Title: "Why Are Accidents Included under Being per se?"

Thomas D. Sullivan Medal for Best Undergraduate Philosophical Essay ($500)

Sponsor: University of St. Thomas (MN), Philosophy Department

Delta Epsilon Sigma National Research Essay Contest Champion ($500)

Young Scholars Research Grant ($4,000)

Sponsor: University of St. Thomas (MN), Grants and Research Office

Topic: Special Relativity without the Fourth Dimension: Interpreting Einstein’s Physics with Aristotle’s Definition of Motion

Mentor: Thomas Feeney, PhD, MPhil, MSt

Collaborative Inquiry Grant ($1,500)

Sponsor: University of St. Thomas (MN), Grants and Research Office

Topic: Biology’s Accidental Species: The Compatibility of Multiple True Taxonomies with Aristotelian Essentialism

Mentor: Mark Spenser, PhD