| I am Associate Professor in the philosophy
department at Baylor. I work mainly on early modern philosophy
(especially Thomas Reid) and metaphysics. The links below
will give you a good idea of what I've been up to, lately.
My complete CV is available for available
for download (.doc).
Courses:
I am currently (Fall 2009) teaching:
Modern Philosophy
Intermediate
Logic
I have recently taught:
Introdoctory Topics in Philosophy: Naturalism
and Theism
Thomas Reid
Metaphysics (Spring 2007)
Perception (Spring 2006)
Reid and Reidians (Spring 2004) (download
syllabus.pdf)
I will soon be teaching:
TBA
Publications:
I post drafts of my papers below. Where published versions are
available online, I provide links, though some links are to subscription
services.
Refereed Articles:
"An Argument against Causal Theories of Mental Content," American
Philosophical Quarterly, 46.2 (2009): 117-131. download
draft (.pdf)
"The Function of Sensations in Reid,"Journal of
the History of Philosophy, 47.3 (2009): 329-255. download
draft (.pdf)
"Three Grades of Immediate Perception: Thomas Reid's Distinctions,"
forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
76.3 (2008): 603-632. download
final draft (.pdf); published
version at Wiley Science.
"Counterpart Theory, Natural Properties, and Essentialism,"
The Journal of Philosophy, 103 (2006): 27-42. download
final draft (.pdf)
"The Nature of Sensations in Reid" History of
Philosophy Quarterly 22 (2005): 221-238. download
final draft (.pdf)
"The Problem with Reid's Direct Realism" The Philosophical
Quarterly, 52 (2002): 457-477. download
final draft (.pdf). download
published version at EBSO host.
In Progress:
"Reid's Conception of Conception."
with Mike Cantrell, "A Modal Argument from Desire."
Reviews:
Review of Ryan Nichols, Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception,
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, October 2007, published
online.
with James Marcum, Review of Philip Clayton, Mind and Emergence:
from Quantum to Consciousness, (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004), Theology and Science, forthcoming. download
final draft (.pdf).
Review of Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's
Theory of Action, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004),
Philosophical Review, 116 (2007): 145-147. download
final draft (.pdf).
Events:
"Reid's Experimentum Crucis," Southeastern Seminar
in Early Modern Philosophy, November 9-11, University of South
Florida, Tampa.
"The Function of Sensation in Reid," Pacific
Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,
March 9-11, 2007, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.
Co-organizer with Steve Daniel. South
Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, seventh annual
meeting, Baylor University, September 23-24, 2005.
Co-organizer with Margaret Tate. Hume
and his Critics: A Conference on the Scottish Enlightenment,
Baylor University, April 14-16, 2005.
"Reid is not an Adverbialist!" Third
International Reid Symposium, July 12-14, 2004, University
of Aberdeen, Scotland
Links:
Baylor Philosophy
Club Home Page.
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