Bill Mattison

Bill Mattison ’03 Th.D. is the Wilsey Professor of Theology at Notre Dame and author of Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit. Hear him discuss his background and book, a comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

The work of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is aimed at one goal: to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and dialogue, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. In so doing, they enrich Notre Dame’s distinctive intellectual ecology—and they bring the University’s voice into the academic and public conversations concerning the most vital and complex matters of ethics, literature, art, music, social sciences, philosophy, theology, history, political theory, applied and theoretical science, public policy, and law.

This episode was originally published by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture on August 12, 2025. To explore the entire library of Ethics and Culture Cast podcast episodes and for more information, please visit ethicscenter.nd.edu