Dr. John F. Crosby

(B.A. Georgetown University, Ph.D. University of Salzburg) is Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He is Director of the MA Philosophy Program, as well as Founder and Senior Fellow of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.

Professor Crosby is known internationally for his work on John Henry Newman, Max Scheler, Karol Wojtyła, and Dietrich von Hildebrand. He has made a significant contribution to the area of philosophical anthropology or philosophy of the human person and has played a major role in the contemporary interest and discussion of that field through his books, The Selfhood of the Human Person (1996); Personalist Papers (2004); and The Personalism of John Henry Newman (2014), each published by Catholic University of America Press. He has also worked in the areas of ethics, phenomenological realism, and axiology, or value theory. 

Dr. Crosby is married to Pia, the pair having been matched personally by Dr. von Hildebrand, his professor at Salzburg. The Crosbys have six children.