I am a Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. My primary area of interest is early modern philosophy, especially the intersection between philosophy and natural philosophy in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. I have worked on early modern debates concerning mechanist conceptions of body and their justification, the status of gravity/attraction, the structure of efficient causation, and changing views of scientific explanation, among other topics. Before joining OSU, I taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and was a fellow of the Dibner Institute for the H…

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