Research

Publications

Edited Books

2026. British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Themes from Kenneth P. Winkler (with Bridger Ehli). Routledge.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming. “Locke on Freedom and the Will.” In The Oxford Handbook of Locke, edited by Patrick Connolly. Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming. “The Conscious Self in Locke and Cudworth.” In Non-Cartesian Philosophies of Mind, edited by Vili Lähteenmäki, Oberto Marrama, and Jani Sinokki. Routledge.

2026. “Locke on Knowledge of our own Existence and the Subjective Constitution of the Self.” In British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Themes from Kenneth P. Winkler, edited by Bridger Ehli and Matthew A. Leisinger. Routledge.

2023. “Cudworth and More on Immaterial Extension: A New Text with Analysis.” Journal of Modern Philosophy 5 (1): 5, 1–23.

2022. “Cudworthian Consciousness.” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 11: 163–196. [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.

2019. “The Inner Work of Liberty: Cudworth on Desire and Attention.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (5): 649–667.

2019. “Locke on Persons and Other Kinds of Substances.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (1): 129–155.

2017. “Locke’s Arguments against the Freedom to Will.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 642–662.

Book Reviews

2025. “William J. Mander. The Volitional Theory of Causation.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (4): 663–664.

2019. “Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, eds. Philippe Hamou and Martine Pécharman.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved from https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/locke-and-cartesian-philosophy

Informal Writing

2019. “Animals, Freewill, and Animal Freewill: A Development in Cudworth’s Freewill Manuscripts.” The Cambridge Platonist Research Group. Retrieved from https://cprg.hypotheses.org/830.

In Progress

Books

• Ralph Cudworth’s Psychology of Freewill. A book-length study of Cudworth’s freewill manuscripts, focusing in particular on Cudworth’s psychology and his account of freewill.
• Ralph Cudworth’s Freewill Manuscripts (British Library Additional Manuscripts 4979–4982). A modern edition of Cudworth’s unpublished freewill manuscripts.

Edited volumes

• Under contract. Locke’s ‘An Essay concerning Human Understanding’: A Critical Guide, ed. Matthew A. Leisinger. Cambridge University Press.
• Under contract. The Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth, eds. Matthew A. Leisinger and Marleen Rozemond. Routledge.

Papers

• Under contract. “Locke’s Compatibilism,” in Locke’s ‘An Essay concerning Human Understanding’: A Critical Guide, ed. Matthew A. Leisinger. Cambridge University Press.
• Under contract. “Cudworth’s Plastick Natures and the Passivity of Bodies,” (with Marleen Rozemond) in The Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth, eds. Matthew Leisinger and Marleen Rozemond (Routledge).
• “Cudworth on Animal Minds.” To appear in The Problem of Animal Minds (16th–18th Centuries) edited by Mattia Mantovani and Sophie Roux.