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.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming. “Locke on Freedom and the Will.” In Patrick Connolly (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Locke. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Reviews
Informal Writing
In Progress
- A project on Cudworth’s account of the self
Presentations
- “Racing Horses and Wagging Tails: Cudworth’s Speculations about Animal Minds”, Animal Minds in the Early Modern Age, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2023
- “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, 2023 John Locke Society Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2023
- “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Hamburg, May 2023
- “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, TEMPO 2023, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2023
- “Cudworth’s Conscious Self”, 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