Publications

 

  • Forthcoming.  “Is Trope Theory a Divided House?” in The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Michael Loux and Gabriele Galluzzo, Cambridge University Press.
  • Forthcoming.  “Philosophical Idling and Philosophical Relativity,” Ratio.
  • Forthcoming.  “Descartes's Independence Conception of Substance and His Separability Argument for Substance Dualism,” Journal of Philosophical Research
  • Forthcoming.  “Towards a Just Solar Radiation Management Compensation System:  A Defense of the Polluter Pays Principle,” Ethics, Policy & Environment.
  • Forthcoming.  “Fostering Intellectually Virtuous Discourse: Two Vicious Fallacies and the Virtues that Inhibit Them” (with Nathan King) in Educating for Intellectual Virtues: Applying Virtue Epistemology to Educational Theory and Practice, edited by Jason Baehr.  Manuscript under review at several publishers.
  • Forthcoming.  “Acerca de ‘Particularizar una Propiedad’: Tropos Como Modificadores y Tropos Como Módulos” (translated into Spanish by Ezequiel Zerbudis) in Poderes Causales, Tropos, y Otras Criaturas Extrañas: Ensayos de Metafísica Analítica, edited by Ezequiel Zerbudis. Blatt & Ríos.
  • Forthcoming.  “Trope” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Forthcoming.  “Food Ethics” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2014.  “Bare Particulars and Constituent Ontology,” Acta Analytica, 29(2), 149-159.
  • 2014.  “Tropes and Dependency Profiles: Problems for the Nuclear Theory of Substance,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(2), 167-76.
  • 2014.  “Closing in on Causal Closure,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21(1-2), 96-109.
  • 2014.  “Bundle Theory's Black Box: Gap Challenges for the Bundle Theory of Substance,” Philosophia, 42(1), 115-26.
  • 2013.  “Is God's Benevolence Impartial?,” Southwest Philosophy Review, 29(1), 23-30.
  • 2013.  “Platonism and the Haunted Universe” in Loving God with Your Mind: Essays in Honor of J. P. Moreland, edited by Paul M. Gould and Richard Brian Davis. Moody Publishers.
  • 2013.  “Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up)” (with Nathan King) in Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Theory, edited by Michael W. Austin. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2009. Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics, edited by Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 2009.  “Introduction” (with Nathan King) in Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics, edited by Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 2009.  Nominalist Constituent Ontologies: a Development and Critique. Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Notre Dame.
  • 2002.  “Artificial Intelligence and Personhood” in Cutting Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technology and Trends, edited by John Kilner, Christopher Hook, and Diane Uustal. Eerdmans.
  • 2000.  “Minds Sans Miracles: Colin McGinn's Naturalized Mysterianism,” Philosophia Christi, 2(2), 227-242.