Area of Specialization / Competence
AOS: Metaphysics (Historical and Contemporary)
AOC: History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, Modern); Ethics; Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests:
Among various other things (I'm really a generalist at heart) I think about the existence of disputed classes of entities like artifacts and persons and corresponding issues like reductionism, constitution, and supervenience. I'm exploring the possibility of a non-reductive account of human persons, and how this might affect perspectives in the foundations of moral theory.
AOC: History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, Modern); Ethics; Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests:
Among various other things (I'm really a generalist at heart) I think about the existence of disputed classes of entities like artifacts and persons and corresponding issues like reductionism, constitution, and supervenience. I'm exploring the possibility of a non-reductive account of human persons, and how this might affect perspectives in the foundations of moral theory.
Contributions
Articles
(1) “Harmonizing Leibniz's Ontology” Dialogue, 51(3), pp. 1-17, 2012. Available on CJO 2012 doi:10.1017/S0012217312000704
Conference Papers
(1) "Harmonizing Leibniz's Ontology" Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal. May-June, 2010.
(1) “Harmonizing Leibniz's Ontology” Dialogue, 51(3), pp. 1-17, 2012. Available on CJO 2012 doi:10.1017/S0012217312000704
Conference Papers
(1) "Harmonizing Leibniz's Ontology" Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal. May-June, 2010.
(2) “Of Course Artifacts Exist, But Are They Objects?” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Regina. Oct, 2009.
(3) “Is the Bundle-Theory of Objects Still Alive?” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Edmonton. Oct, 2008.
(4) “Minimal Truth and Correspondence.” Graduate Students’ Research Conference, University of Waterloo, Ontario. April, 2007.
(5) “Presumption of Identity and Weak-Aboutness: Bach and Dennett on Belief Attributions.” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Manitoba. Oct, 2005.
(6) “Is a Mechanistic Account of Consciousness Possible?” (Submitted poster presentation). Neurophilosophy: The State of the Art (Meeting of the McDonnell Project), Caltech University, Pasadena, California. June, 2005.
(7) “The Human Person as the Subject of Ethics.” Philosophy Graduate Students’ Association Conference, University of Waterloo, ON. March, 2003.
Invited Talks
(1) “Towards a Resolution of Some Disputes in Ontology.” McMaster University Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, Hamilton, ON. Oct, 2009.
(2) “On Being an Individual.” University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, Waterloo, ON. April, 2008.
Works in Progress
(1) "Critical Discussion of Lynne Baker's Metaphysics of Everyday Life"
(3) “Is the Bundle-Theory of Objects Still Alive?” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Edmonton. Oct, 2008.
(4) “Minimal Truth and Correspondence.” Graduate Students’ Research Conference, University of Waterloo, Ontario. April, 2007.
(5) “Presumption of Identity and Weak-Aboutness: Bach and Dennett on Belief Attributions.” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Manitoba. Oct, 2005.
(6) “Is a Mechanistic Account of Consciousness Possible?” (Submitted poster presentation). Neurophilosophy: The State of the Art (Meeting of the McDonnell Project), Caltech University, Pasadena, California. June, 2005.
(7) “The Human Person as the Subject of Ethics.” Philosophy Graduate Students’ Association Conference, University of Waterloo, ON. March, 2003.
Invited Talks
(1) “Towards a Resolution of Some Disputes in Ontology.” McMaster University Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, Hamilton, ON. Oct, 2009.
(2) “On Being an Individual.” University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, Waterloo, ON. April, 2008.
Works in Progress
(1) "Critical Discussion of Lynne Baker's Metaphysics of Everyday Life"
Links
Service
(1) Commentator for Tyler Wunder, "Plantinga's Recent Treatment of Draper's Evolutionary Atheology," Canadian Philosophical Association, Waterloo, 2012.
(2) Commentator for John Zeis, "Evidentialism and Faith: Believing in Order to Know," Meeting of the Canadian Society for Christian Philosophers at Congress, Montreal, 2010.
(2) Commentator for John Zeis, "Evidentialism and Faith: Believing in Order to Know," Meeting of the Canadian Society for Christian Philosophers at Congress, Montreal, 2010.
(3) Commentator for Sam Cowling, "Kant on Simple Substance," Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, 2010.