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26Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television (edited book)e-Publications@Marquette. 2008.Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression. Its groundbreaking stylistic and thematic devices, boldness and wit earned it an intensely devoted fan base—and as it approached its zenith, attention from media watchdog groups and the Federal Communications Commission. The grim and provocative evolution of the show over its final two seasons polarized its audience, while also breaking new ground for critical an…Read more
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6The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (1): 106-108. 2001.
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Mind and psychology. Suárez, immortality, and the soul's dependence on the bodyIn Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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23Plato in the Italian RenaissanceReview of Metaphysics 51 (1): 157-158. 1997.This is a one-volume edition of the original two-volume work published in 1990 with a second edition in 1991. The work falls into two main parts. Volume 1 is devoted to a series of studies describing the revival and dissemination of Plato in the Italian Renaissance. There are four main parts to the first volume. The first part treats the revival of Platonic studies in early fifteenth-century Florence. Here the figure of Leonardo Bruni looms large. Part 2 deals with the revival of Platonic studie…Read more
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43Suárez, Francisco. On the Formal Cause of Substance: Metaphysical Disputation XV (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (4): 946-948. 2001.
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124Singular and Universal In Suárez’s Account of CognitionReview of Metaphysics 55 (4). 2002.FRANCISCO SUÁREZ, THE GREAT JESUIT PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN, has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy. His thought is heavily indebted to the medieval philosophical tradition but also bears striking intimations of key themes in modern thought. In this paper I address one of the most controversial questions related to the thought of Suárez, namely, his relationship to the nominalist tradition. However, I shall do so rather indirectly by focusing not …Read more
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101Suárez and the Problem of External SensationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 10 (2): 217-240. 2001.
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29John of JandunIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Faith and philosophy The issue of the “agent sense” The controversy over intelligible species The agent intellect and human happiness.
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47Zabarella, Prime Matter, and the Theory of RegressusGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 26 (2): 79-98. 2005.The sixteenth-century philosopher Jacopo Zabarella stands near the end of the long Aristotelian dominance of western academic philosophy. Yet, despite the fact that Aristotelianism was soon to be overwhelmed by other currents of thought, Zabarella’s influence on western thought would continue into at least the nineteenth century, and he still provides useful discussions relevant to today’s Aristotle scholars. In what follows, I discuss the existence and essence of matter, and show how Zabarella …Read more
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