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502The Powers of Aristotle's SoulBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 174-178. 2014.No abstract
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100Peter 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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327Causing 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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29L’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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359Aristotle 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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243Causes as powers: Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum: Getting causes from powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 272pp, £35 HB (review)Metascience 22 (3): 545-559. 2013.
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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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285It's a Colorful WorldAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1). 2006.Abstract: I defend the intuition that the phenomenology of our experience is right in attributing the colors we see to objects; but although colors are properties of objects, they are constitutively dependent on the perceiver’s experiences. I offer a metaphysical account for this primitivist intuition, in response to David Chalmers’ arguments against it, drawing inspiration from Aristotle’s theory of causation.
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58Composition Models of the Incarnation: Unity and Unifying RelationsReligious Studies 46 (4). 2010.In this paper we investigate composition models of incarnation, according to which Christ is a compound of qualitatively and numerically different constituents. We focus on three-part models, according to which Christ is composed of a divine mind, a human mind, and a human body. We consider four possible relational structures that the three components could form. We argue that a ’hierarchy of natures’ model, in which the human mind and body are united to each other in the normal way, and in whic…Read more
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19The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.This volume focuses on the authorial voice in antiquity, exploring the different ways in which authors presented and projected various personas. In particular, it questions authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice, and considers how later readers and authors may have understood the authority of a text's author.
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122The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.This book offers original essays by leading philosophers of religion representing these new approaches to theological problems such as incarnation.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |