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    Plotinus’s Defense of the Sensible
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (3): 453-468. 1997.
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    John Scottus Eriugena (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 285-292. 2003.
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    Plotinus’s Defense of the Sensible
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (3): 453-468. 1997.
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    A Variation on the Dog and His Bone
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 10 29-40. 1998.
    Do classical, contemplative philosophies have anything to teach which is relevant to life here and now? In the case of Plotinus, yes. While Platonic metaphysics is most often summarized as dualistic, where one sensible world stands apart from and in tension with an intelligible world, in the case of Plotinus this interpretation is incorrect. He does distinguish between sensibles and sense-experience, on one hand, and intelligibles and intelligible experience, on the other; but the two belong tog…Read more
  • Core Texts, Community, and Culture: Working Together for Liberal Education (edited book)
    with Ronald J. Weber, Scott J. Lee, Mary Buzan, and Anne Marie Flanagan
    Upa. 2009.
    The Association for Core Texts and Courses asserts its commitment to coming together and speaking about the scientific, the political, and the artistic to live together in an enlightened fashion. ACTC's Tenth Annual Conference re-affirmed and re-examined the value of serious reading and discussion focused through core texts
  • As the world's literary, religious, and philosophical traditions attest, deficiency in the world is a matter of perennial human concern. Ontologically speaking deficient existence is a problem that has occupied metaphysical thinking from Heraclitus to Heidegger. What is it to exist deficiently? ;This dissertation addresses the question, first, through a survey of answers given by six ancient philosophers. Parmenides describes deficient existence as changing multiplicity; Plato, as being in an in…Read more