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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. |
| Cavendish. (2025a). Routledge. |
| (2025b). 'Margaret Cavendish on matter and materialism.' Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 12: 1-35. (draft) |
| (2025c). 'Method and Metaphysics: Essay Review of Katherine Brading's Emilie du Chatelet and the Foundations of Physics.' Philosophy of Science 92: 496-504. |
| (2023). "'Actions of a body sentient': Cavendish on the mind (and against panpsychism)." Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind 3: 399-431. (draft) |
| (2021). "Spinoza's physics." In Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, ed. Yitzhak Melamed. |
| (2019a). "The world soul in early modern philosophy." Oxford Philosophical Concepts: The World Soul. (preprint) |
| (2019b). "Cavendish on Motion and Merology." Journal of the History of Philosophy (preprint) |
| (2019c). "Two claims about the mind-body relation." Spinoza in 21st Century American and French Philosophy. Ed. Charles Raymond and Jack Stetter (Bloomsbury). ((preprint) |
| (2018a). "Canonizing Cavendish." HOPOS 8(1), Spring 2018: 191-197. (preprint) |
| (2018b). "Empress vs. Spiderman: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics." Synthese. (preprint) |
| (2017). "Newton and Spinoza." The Oxford Handbook of Newton. Ed. Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk (OUP). (preprint) |
| (2016a). "Descartes and Spinoza on Embodiment." Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Embodiment. Ed. Justin E.H. Smith (OUP). (preprint) |
| (2016b). "The 'physical' interlude." Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics. Ed. Yitzhak Melamed (CUP). |
| (2016c). "Spinoza on skepticism." Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present.. Ed. Baron Reed and Diego Machuca (Bloomsbury). (preprint) |
| (2015). "Spinoza on extension." Philosophers' Imprint 15(14), April 2015. |
| (2014). "Spinoza on physical science." Philosophy Compass 9(3), March 2014. |
| (2012). "Spinoza on the 'principles of natural things'." Leibniz Review (22), December 2012. (preprint) |
| Please see CV for forthcoming work and work in progress. |
| PHL 542: Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics and its History: A priority (with Zeynep Soysal) (Fall 2025) |
| CASC 302 (at Attica C.F.): Social Epistemology (Fall 2025) |
| PHL 542 Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics and its History: PSR (with Paul Audi) (Fall 2024) |
| CASC 301 (at Attica C.F.): Parts of the Self (Fall 2024) |
| 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) |
