Publications
Journal Articles
Forthcoming. “Cudworthian Consciousness.” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. [Awarded the 2020 Marc Sanders Prize in the History of Early Modern Philosophy.]
2022. “Liberty and Suspension in Locke’s Essay.” Locke Studies 21: 26–55.
2021. “Locke on the Motivation to Suspend Desire.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51(1), 48-61.
2021. “Cudworth on Freewill.” Philosophers’ Imprint 21(1), 1-25.
2020. “Locke’s Diagnosis of Akrasia.” Journal of Modern Philosophy 2(1): 6, 1-13.
Book Reviews
Informal Writing
In Progress
- [Under review]
- “Locke on Volition and Free Will,” under contract for The Oxford Handbook of Locke, edited by Patrick Connolly
- A project on Cudworth’s account of the self
Presentations
- TBD, Department Colloquium, McMaster University, November 2022
- “Cudworth’s Response to More on Immaterial Extension”, Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto, October 2022
- “Ralph Cudworth’s Sentimentalism”, 18th Annual International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, The American College of Greece, June 2021
- “Cudworth’s Theory of the Self”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VIII, May 2021
- “Cudworth’s Theory of the Self”, Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, March 2021
- “Cudworth on Consciousness and the Self”, Workshop on Topics in Early Modern Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology, University College Dublin, February 2020
- “Ralph Cudworth and the Structure of Personhood”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, Keele University, November 2019
- “Cudworth on Freewill”, 16th Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2019
- “Cudworth on Freewill”, 2019 Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Helsinki, June 2019
- “Cudworth on Freewill”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VI, University of Groningen, May 2019
- “Cudworth on Freewill: A More Plausible Libertarianism?”, Cambridge Platonism and the Origin of the “Philosophy of Religion”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, May 2019
- “Ralph Cudworth’s Epistemology of Love”, The Ontology of Love, University of Cambridge, April 2019
- “Ralph Cudworth on Freewill (and the Compatibility of Freewill and Divine Grace)”, The D Society, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, March 2019
- “The Role of Desire in Cudworth’s Account of Agency”, Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, University College Dublin, September 2018
- “Locke on the Motivation to Suspend Desire”, 15th Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2018
- “Locke’s Gatekeeper”, The 8th Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference, SUNY Buffalo, June 2018
- “Locke and the Possibility of Self-Control”, 2018 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Université du Quebec à Montreal, June 2018
- “The Gatekeeper of the Will: On Locke’s Claim that Judgment and Desire Both Determine the Will”, 2017 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2017
- “Locke on Persons, Kinds, and Composite Ideas”, History of Early Modern Philosophy Working Group, University of Toronto, March 2017
- “Locke on Persons and Substance-Mode Composites”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IV, University of Groningen, February 2017
- “Locke on Judgment, Desire, and Weakness of Will”, History of Philosophy Works in Progress, Harvard University, November 2016
- “Cudworth on Personality”, Personal Identity in the History of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, August 2016
- “Locke, Cudworth, and the Vulgar: What’s Wrong With Really Distinct Faculties?”, 13th Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2016
- “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, The 7th Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference, Northern Arizona University, June 2016
- “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VII, University of St. Andrews, May 2016
- “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, Harvard-Yale Graduate Workshop in the History of Philosophy, Harvard University, April 2016
- “Reconciling Freedom and Suspension: Locke on freedom of the will and ‘the source of all liberty’”, Locke Workshop, Yale University, October 2014
Comments
- On Ruth Boeker, “Locke on Vital Union”, Vitalism in Early Modern Philosophy, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, March 2019
- On Elisabeth Thorsson, “Revisiting Locke’s Thinking Matter: A Third Way?”, 2018 Locke Workshop, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, July 2018
- On Elliot Rossiter, “Mixed Modes and Moral Epistemology in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding”, 2018 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Université du Quebec à Montreal, June 2018
- On Ruth Boeker, Chapter 2 of Locke on Persons and Personal Identity, Book Workshop on Locke on Persons and Personal Identity by Ruth Boeker, Columbia University, March 2018
- On Julie Walsh, “Malebranche and the Tension Between Virtue and Goodwill”, The Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale (SEMPY), November 2015
- On Stephen Darwall, “Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Leibniz”, The Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale (SEMPY), October 2015
- On Kenneth Winkler, “The Scope of Sensitive Knowledge”, The Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale (SEMPY), December 2014
- On Martha Bolton, “Locke on Substance and Identity: a Univocal and Internally Consistent Theory”, Locke Workshop, Yale University, October 2014
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