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17A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including history, philosophy, classics and theology. Sever…Read more
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15Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's MetaphysicsOup Usa. 2017.The book argues that Anaxagoras's theory of extreme mixture, with a share of everything in everything, is underpinned by an ontology of physical causal powers, which exist as endlessly partitioned. Anaxagoras is thus the first ante litteram 'gunk lover' in the history of metaphysics; his reality is atomless.
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13Forms and Structure in Plato's MetaphysicsOxford University Press. 2021.This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. The book introduces a fresh perspective on these two thinkers' ideas, displaying the debt of Plato's theory on Anaxagoras's, and principally arguing that their core metaphysical concept is overlap; overlap between properties and things in the world. Initially Plato endorses Anaxagoras's mode…Read more
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12Powers, Parts, and Wholes (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic; and yet what they can do-and what can happen to them-is complex. But if powers are simple, how can they have complex manifestations? Can powers have parts? According to which rules of composition do powers co…Read more
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11The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2021.Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium, opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were reinvigorated and transformed by later authors to …Read more
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3Philosophical and Theological Topics in Joachim of Fiore and the Joachimite TraditionRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 89 (2): 213-213. 2023.Introduction.
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3In Being One Only One? The Argument for the Uniqueness of the Platonic FormsApeiron (4): 211-227. 2008.‘Is being one only one? – The Argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms’ Abstract: Each Form is unique in number; no two numerically distinct Forms can share the same nature. Plato argues for this claim in Republic X. I identify the metaphysical principles Plato presupposes in the premises of the argument, by examining the reasoning behind them, and offer a reconstruction of the argument showing the principles in use. I argue that the metaphysical significance of the argument’s conclusion is…Read more
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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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1Carlo Natali, Cristina Viano (éd.), Aitia II. Avec ou sans Aristote : le débat sur les causes à l’'ge hellénistique et impérialPhilosophie Antique 16 226-228. 2016.Given how central causality is in ancient as well as in modern philosophical thought, it is surprising that the number of existing studies on the way the topic was theorized on in antiquity are still too few. This is one of the reasons why the present volume is a very welcome addition to the literature on ancient theories of causation. This volume also has the special merit of covering a period in ancient Western thought that, as a whole, has been so far less investigated than others: the Hel...
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1Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron. Text, Translation, Commentary (edited book)Oxford. forthcoming.
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The extended mind in ontological entanglementsIn Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Potenza, Materia e Forma Nella Metafisica di AristotelePhilosophical News 5. 2012.In this paper I investigate Aristotle’s power ontology, and of it argue for a new interpretation of his hylemorphism and theory of the four causes
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |