Curriculum Vitae
B.A., Thomas Aquinas College, 2004; M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, 2008; Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, 2009; Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2009–2015; Associate Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2015–2021; Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, 2021-.
Articles and Reviews
- “Galileo on the Status of Theology as a Science”
- Forthcoming in The Heythrop Journal. Published online in Early View, July 15 2019.
- “Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina: Genre, Coherence, and the Structure of Dispute.”
- Galilaeana: Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science XVI (2019): 41-75.
- “Exclusion in Descartes’s Rules for the Direction of the Mind: The Emergence of the Real Distinction”
- Intellectual History Review 26.2 (2016): 203-219.
- “Rereading Descartes on the Identity of Space and Body”
- History of Philosophy Quarterly 31.4 (January 2014): 21-40.
- “Descartes on Physical Vacua: Rationalism in Natural Philosophical Debate”
- Society and Politics 7.2 (November 2013): 126-141.
- “‘To Whom My Own Glad Debts are Incalculable’: St. Augustine and Human Loves in The Four Loves and Till We Have Faces”
- Journal of Inklings Studies 2 (2012): 5-26.
- Review of Kurt Smith, Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period. ISIS 103 (2012): 596-597.
- Review of David Cunning, Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations
- British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:6(2011), 1216-1220.
Presentations
- “The Role of History in the Defense of Common Sense” (invited)
- Science and Common Sense Conference
- The Peoria Project, Hermosa Beach, CA: December 6-8, 2018
- “Exclusion in Descartes’s Rules for the Direction of the Mind: the Emergence of the Real Distinction”
- Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; July 9-12, 2014
- “Descartes on Abstraction, Exclusion, and Real Distinction”
- South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX: September 27-28, 2013
- “Descartes the arch-Aristotelian: The Theory of Place and Space”
- Conference on Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
- Belgian Royal Society, Brussels, Belgium: May 23-24, 2013
- “Descartes on Transubstantiation and Local Motion: Theology and Common Sense as (Putative) Authorities”
- SCIENTIAE 2013: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
- University of Warwick, Coventry, UK: April 18-20, 2013
- “A Reinterpretion of Descartes on the Concept of Space”
- Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Macalaster College: April 30-May 2, 2010
- “Descartes on Space, Body, and the Reality of Motion”
- Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Emory University: November 1-2, 2008
- “Spinoza’s Vacuum Argument Revisited”
- Graduate Philosophy Conference
- Syracuse University: April 4-5, 2008
- “Descartes Annihilated: Spinoza’s Challenge to the Cartesian Theory of Extended Substance”
- History of Philosophy Graduate Conference
- University of Western Ontario
- London, Ontario, Canada: March 28-29, 2008
- “Empiricism and Aristotelian Induction in William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis”
- History of Science Society Annual Meeting
- Minneapolis, MN: November 3-6, 2005