Dr Andrew Beards is Academic Director of the School of the Annunciation, Buckfast Abbey, Devon. He is the author of Objectivity and Historical Understanding (Ashgate: 1997); Method in Metaphysics (University of Toronto Press, 2008); Insight and Analysis (Continuum, 2010); Philosophy the Quest for Truth and Meaning (Minn: Liturgical Press, 2010) and Lonergan, Meaning and Method, (Bloomsbury 2016).