Dr. Ferrier has been a tutor at St. Thomas Aquinas College for 40 years. He received his B.A. in liberal arts education from St John’s College Annapolis and M.A., Ph.D in History of Science from Indiana University. Various topics of lecture include Ptolemaic and Copernican Lunar Theory, Definition and Insight in Plato’s Meno, Plato’s Republic, Lucretius’ Philosophical Poetry, and Viete’s inscription of the Heptagon in a circle. He has given two formal lectures on American Presidents, one on Lincoln titled Socrates in Peoria, and one on Coolidge, Born on the Fourth of July. He and Andrew Seeley co-authored a textbook and full curriculum in American Political Principles, History and Civics called Declaration Statesmanship. He currently lives in Santa Paula CA with his wife.