Research

Publications

Journal Articles

Forthcoming. “Cudworth and More on Immaterial Extension: A New Text with Analysis.” Journal of Modern Philosophy.

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 Chapters

Forthcoming. “Locke on Freedom and the Will.” In Patrick Connolly (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Locke. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

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

  • A project on Cudworth’s account of the self

Presentations

  1. “Racing Horses and Wagging Tails: Cudworth’s Speculations about Animal Minds”, Animal Minds in the Early Modern Age, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2023
  2. “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, 2023 John Locke Society Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2023
  3. “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Hamburg, May 2023
  4. “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, TEMPO 2023, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2023
  5. “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, Department Colloquium, McMaster University, November 2022
  6. “Cudworth’s Response to More on Immaterial Extension”, Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto, October 2022
  7. “Ralph Cudworth’s Sentimentalism”, 18th Annual International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, The American College of Greece, June 2021
  8. “Cudworth’s Theory of the Self”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VIII, May 2021
  9. “Cudworth’s Theory of the Self”, Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, March 2021
  10. “Cudworth on Consciousness and the Self”, Workshop on Topics in Early Modern Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology, University College Dublin, February 2020
  11. “Ralph Cudworth and the Structure of Personhood”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, Keele University, November 2019
  12. “Cudworth on Freewill”, 16th Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2019
  13. “Cudworth on Freewill”, 2019 Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Helsinki, June 2019
  14. “Cudworth on Freewill”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VI, University of Groningen, May 2019
  15. “Cudworth on Freewill: A More Plausible Libertarianism?”, Cambridge Platonism and the Origin of the “Philosophy of Religion”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, May 2019
  16. “Ralph Cudworth’s Epistemology of Love”, The Ontology of Love, University of Cambridge, April 2019
  17. “Ralph Cudworth on Freewill (and the Compatibility of Freewill and Divine Grace)”, The D Society, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, March 2019
  18. “The Role of Desire in Cudworth’s Account of Agency”, Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, University College Dublin, September 2018
  19. “Locke on the Motivation to Suspend Desire”, 15th Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2018
  20. “Locke’s Gatekeeper”, The 8th Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference, SUNY Buffalo, June 2018
  21. “Locke and the Possibility of Self-Control”, 2018 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Université du Quebec à Montreal, June 2018
  22. “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​
  23. “Locke on Persons, Kinds, and Composite Ideas”, History of Early Modern Philosophy Working Group, University of Toronto, March 2017
  24. “Locke on Persons and Substance-Mode Composites”, Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IV, University of Groningen, February 2017
  25. “Locke on Judgment, Desire, and Weakness of Will”, History of Philosophy Works in Progress, Harvard University, November 2016
  26. “Cudworth on Personality”, Personal Identity in the History of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, August 2016
  27. “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
  28. “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, The 7th Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference, Northern Arizona University, June 2016
  29. “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VII, University of St. Andrews, May 2016
  30. “Cudworth on Reason and Moral Knowledge”, Harvard-Yale Graduate Workshop in the History of Philosophy, Harvard University, April 2016
  31. “Reconciling Freedom and Suspension: Locke on freedom of the will and ‘the source of all liberty’”, Locke Workshop, Yale University, October 2014