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    Determinate and Indeterminate Dimensions
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (4): 503-546. 2020.
    The scholarly consensus is that Thomas Aquinas’s views about individuation changed over time. The consensus states that he wavered in his opinion about whether determinate dimensions or indeterminate dimensions serve in the individuation of corporeal substances. I argue that this consensus is mistaken. I focus on early texts of Thomas to argue that he relies on different types of dimensions to answer different problems of individuation. Determinate dimensions resolve a problem in the order of pe…Read more
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    In the Human Heart
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92 301-320. 2018.
    A premodern philosophy of race and racism in Thomas Aquinas resolves some seeming oppositions between the three most current theories of race. Thomas’s generational account of race is primary. It affirms the racial naturalist view that there are biological differences between people, and some of which stem from a characteristic genotype and geography. Thomas’s individual account of race is secondary but nevertheless a necessary clarification of the generational account. It affirms the racial ske…Read more
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    On Sale, Securities, and Insurance. By Leonardus Lessius. Translated by Wim Decock and Nicholas De Sutter
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2): 394-396. 2018.
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    Why Is It That “Goodness is Good” but “Whiteness is Not White”?
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 94 243-258. 2020.
    Neoplatonic commentators found in Aristotle’s Categories a basis for participation and self-predication (or reflex predication). Although Simplicius seems to accept a certain type of self-predication (e.g., “quality is qualified”), Pseudo-Dionysius gives arguments against self-predication among caused things, making exception only for the divine nature insofar as the predicates preexist in their Cause (e.g., “God’s Beauty is beautiful”). Theologians such as Philip the Chancellor (1165/85–1236) a…Read more
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    Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (review)
    Logos and Episteme 9 (1): 101-107. 2018.