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    The Analogy of Being in the Scotist Tradition
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 93 (4): 633-673. 2019.
    It is widely believed today that John Duns Scotus’s doctrine of the univocity of being ushered in various deleterious philosophical and theological consequences that resulted in the negative features of modernity. Included in this common opinion, but not examined, is the belief that by affirming univocity Scotus thereby also denied the analogy of being. The present essay challenges this belief by recovering Scotus’s true position on analogy, namely that it obtains in the order of the real, and t…Read more
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    The Quaestio de formalitatibus by John Duns Scotus, sometimes called the Logica Scoti
    with Kent Emery Jr
    Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 56 91-182. 2014.
    The authors present a critical edition of the Quaestio de formalitatibus of John Duns Scotus. In the introduction to their edition, they examine the evidence of the manuscripts and the external and internal evidence to determine the authorship, place and date of the question. They conclude that the Quaestio was disputed by John Duns Scotus at Paris in the Franciscan studium sometime between 1305 and 1307. Chronologically, Scotus’ Quaestio, disputed at Paris, would seem to be his final, magisteri…Read more
  •  26
    The origin of intelligibility according to Duns Scotus, William of Alnwick, and Petrus Thomae
    Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 81 (1): 37-74. 2014.
    This study investigates a conflict in Duns Scotus ’ doctrine of the origin of intelligible being or intelligibility found in his various treatments of the divine ideas. Scotus holds both that the divine intellect produces the essences of creatable things, and that the essences of creatable things are contained in the divine essence and represented by it to the divine intellect. Although this conflict has escaped the notice of most of Scotus ’ medieval and modern interpreters, two early followers…Read more
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    A Self‐Organizing Approach to Subject–Verb Number Agreement
    with Julie Franck and Whitney Tabor
    Cognitive Science 42 (S4): 1043-1074. 2018.
    We present a self-organizing approach to sentence processing that sheds new light on notional plurality effects in agreement attraction, using pseudopartitive subject noun phrases. We first show that notional plurality ratings predict verb agreement choices in pseudopartitives, in line with the “Marking” component of the Marking and Morphing theory of agreement processing. However, no account to date has derived notional plurality values from independently needed principles of language processin…Read more
  •  20
    Bibliotheca manuscripta Petri Thomae
    Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 52 161-200. 2010.
    Petrus Thomae was a fourteenth-century Spanish philosopher who taught in Barcelona. Although he did not hear John Duns Scotus lecture personally, he was familiar with Scotus’ autograph material and thus is a useful source in reconstructing his thought. This article collects and supplements the available information on the life of Petrus Thomae, and presents an inventory of the surviving manuscripts of his works.
  •  16
    The Natural Theology of Nicholas Bonetus
    Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 4 642-667. 2021.
    This contribution investigates the first treatise on natural theology intended as such by its author. Nicholas Bonetus is the author of this treatise. The article examines Bonetus' life, works, and commitment to Scotism before surveying Duns Scotus' views on natural theology. Scotus is shown to have been optimistic regarding whether some doctrines now regarded to be strictly theological, such as the Trinity, can be proven by pure reason. Bonetus followed in Scotus' footsteps. The article surveys…Read more
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    A Principled Approach to Feature Selection in Models of Sentence Processing
    with Shravan Vasishth
    Cognitive Science 44 (12). 2020.
    Among theories of human language comprehension, cue‐based memory retrieval has proven to be a useful framework for understanding when and how processing difficulty arises in the resolution of long‐distance dependencies. Most previous work in this area has assumed that very general retrieval cues like [+subject] or [+singular] do the work of identifying (and sometimes misidentifying) a retrieval target in order to establish a dependency between words. However, recent work suggests that general, h…Read more
  •  10
    Newly Identified Treatises by John Foxal
    Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 57 335-381. 2015.
    John Foxal was an English Franciscan active primarily in Italy in the latter half of the fifteenth century. His philosophical and theological positions were Scotist, and in his works he comments upon various texts of John Duns Scotus with reference to the Scotist school of thought active in the early fourteenth century. In this article we supplement the list of extant manuscripts, provide a revised list of Foxal’s treatises and offer an edition of one of these, the Tractatus de propositione per …Read more
  •  6
    St. Bonaventure, NY: “The Opera Philosophica of John Duns Scotus
    Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 49 316-319. 2007.
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    Petri Thomae Quaestiones de esse intelligibili (edited book)
    with Petrus Thomae
    Leuven University Press. 2015.
    First critical edition of Petrus Thomae’s theory of non-causal dependence. This work of Scotist metaphysics is an investigation into the ultimate constitution of things. In the course of this treatise, Petrus Thomae examines whether the essences of things ultimately depend on being thought of by God for their very intelligibility or whether they have it of themselves. Defending in detail the second option, Peter argues that creatures exist independently of the divine intellect in the divine esse…Read more