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3Do Powers Need Powers to Make Them Powerful? From Pandispositionalism to AristotleHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 26 (4): 337-352. 2009.
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140Anaxagoras’s Qualitative GunkBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (3): 402-422. 2015.Are there atoms in the constitution of things? Or is everything made of atomless ‘gunk’ whose proper parts have proper parts? Anaxagoras is the first gunk lover in the history of metaphysics. For him gunk is not only a theoretical possibility that cannot be ruled out in principle. Rather, it is a view that follows cogently from his metaphysical analysis of the physical world of our experience. What is distinctive about Anaxagoras’s take on gunk is not only what motives the view, but also the par…Read more
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134Moral Character versus Situations: an Aristotelian contribution to the debateJournal of Ancient Philosophy 5 (2). 2011.In everyday life we assume substantial behavioural reliability in others, and on the basis of it we talk of people as acting “in character” and “out of character”. This common assumption seems intuitively well founded. But recent experiments in social psychology have generated philosophical controversy around it. In the context of this debate, John Doris challenges Aristotle’s well known and influential view that people’s behavioural reliability with respect to acting virtuously is underpinned b…Read more
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91The 'common sense' in Aristotle's theory of perception (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (1): 234-237. 2010.
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97Dispositional Modality Vis‐à‐Vis Conditional NecessityPhilosophical Investigations 39 (3): 205-214. 2015.There is an ongoing debate in the metaphysics of dispositions regarding which type of modality governs their manifestation. This paper assumes as its default position the view that dispositions manifest by conditional necessity; that is, when in appropriate circumstances dispositions manifest necessarily. From this standpoint, the paper engages critically with an existing alternative in the literature, put forward most prominently by Mumford and Anjum, and known as dispositional modality. Accord…Read more
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521The Powers of Aristotle's SoulBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 174-178. 2014.No abstract
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39Peter Abelard’s Metaphysics of the IncarnationPhilosophy and Theology 22 (1-2): 27-48. 2010.In this paper, we examine Abelard’s model of the incarnation and place it within the wider context of his views in metaphysics and logic. In particular, we consider whether Abelard has the resources to solve the major difficulties faced by the so-called “compositional models” of the incarnation, such as his own. These difficulties include: the requirement to account for Christ’s unity as a single person, despite being composed of two concrete particulars; the requirement to allow that Christ is …Read more
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342Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late AntiquityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (5): 861-866. 2014.
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30L’Essere del Pensiero. Saggi sulla Filosofia di Plotino (review)International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 5 (2): 335-338. 2011.This article is currently available as a free download on ingentaconnect
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32Divine Powers in Late Antiquity (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2017.Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend them? Is there a multiplicity of gods whose powers fill the cosmos or is there only one God from whom all power(s) derive(s) and whose power(s) permeate(s) everything? These are questions that become central to philosophical and …Read more
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396Aristotle on Causation - (F.) Fronterotta (ed.) La scienza e le cause a partire dalla Metafisica di Aristotele. (Elenchos 54.) Pp. 457. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2010. Paper, €50. ISBN: 978-88-7088-582-8 (review)The Classical Review 62 (2): 418-420. 2012.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |