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| Early Modern Philosophy |
| History of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Perception, Metaphysics |
| PhD, Philosophy 2012 Northwestern University |
| MS, Physics 2012 University of Maryland |
| BA, Philosophy 2004 University of Richmond |
| A current CV is available here. |
| My book about Cavendish will be published in March 2025 in the Routledge Philosophers series. I am starting a book about metaphysical structure in early modern philosophy. |
| "Cavendish on matter and materialism." Forthcoming, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. (draft) |
| "'Actions of a body sentient': Cavendish on the mind (and against panpsychism)." Forthcoming, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind. (draft) |
| "Spinoza's physics." In Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, ed. Yitzhak Melamed. |
| "The world soul in early modern philosophy." Forthcoming in Oxford Philosophical Concepts: The World Soul. (preprint) |
| "Cavendish on Motion and Merology." Journal of the History of Philosophy, June 2019. (preprint) |
| "Canonizing Cavendish." HOPOS 8(1), Spring 2018: 191-197. (preprint) |
| "Empress vs. Spiderman: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics." Synthese. (preprint) |
| "Two claims about the mind-body relation." Spinoza in 21st Century American and French Philosophy. Ed. Charles Raymond and Jack Stetter (Bloomsbury). ((preprint) |
| "Newton and Spinoza." The Oxford Handbook of Newton. Ed. Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk (OUP). (preprint) |
| "Descartes and Spinoza on Embodiment." Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Embodiment. Ed. Justin E.H. Smith (OUP). (preprint) |
| "The 'physical' interlude." Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics. Ed. Yitzhak Melamed (CUP). |
| "Spinoza on skepticism." Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present.. Ed. Baron Reed and Diego Machuca (Bloomsbury). (preprint) |
| "Spinoza on extension." Philosophers' Imprint 15(14), April 2015. |
| "Spinoza on physical science." Philosophy Compass 9(3), March 2014. |
| "Spinoza on the 'principles of natural things'." Leibniz Review (22), December 2012. (preprint) |
| Please see CV for forthcoming work and work in progress. |
| PHL 101 (fully remote with podcast interviews): Introduction to Philosophy (Syllabus) |
| PHL 101 (at Attica CF): Introduction to Philosophy(Syllabus) |
| PHL 202: Introduction to Modern Philosophy(Syllabus) |
| PHL 223 (at Groveland CF): Political Philosophy (Syllabus) |
| PHL 327/BCS 227 (with Richard Lange): Theory of Perception (Syllabus) |
| PHL 270/470: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Syllabus) |
| PHL 555: Panpsychism |
| PHL 555 (with Hayley Clatterbuck): Abstraction (Syllabus) |
| PHL 270/470: Hume and Reid (Syllabus) |
| PHL 590 (with Paul Audi): Properties (Syllabus) |
| PHL 270/470: Rationalism |
| PHL 265/467: Empiricism (Syllabus) |
| PHL 327/BCS 227 (with Lauren Emberson): Theory of Perception (Syllabus) |
| PHL 150: Reason and Argument (Syllabus) |
| PHL 101: Introduction to Philosophy |
| PHL 110: Introductory Logic (Syllabus) |
| PHL 300: Seminar for Majors (Perception) (Syllabus) |
| PHL 300: Seminar for Majors (Freedom) (Syllabus) |
