Publications and Conference Papers

Selected Publications and Conference Papers

鈥淎gent Intellect in the Latin Tradition: St. Bonaventure鈥檚 Sources.鈥 Paper presented in Aquinas and 鈥榯he Arabs鈥 International Working Group session at the American Catholic Philosophical Association 2016 Annual Meeting, Justice: Then and Now. San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4, 2016.

鈥淏ook 10 of Augustine鈥檚 Confessions: Another Conversion." Paper presented in the Department of Philosophy, MUN session at the American Catholic Philosophical Association 2016 Annual Meeting, Justice: Then and Now. San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4, 2016.

 

"William of Auvergne, Albertus Magnus and the Metaphysics of the Individual Agent of Thought." In The Metaphysics of Personal Identity Volume 13: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, edited by Stephen Ogden, Gyula Klima and Alex Hall, 1鈥32. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

 

"Aquinas鈥 Account of the Will鈥檚 Freedom in the De malo." In The Meaning of Evil: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference, edited by Susan Harris, 61鈥90. Charlottetown, PEI: St. Peter Publications, Inc., 2015.

 

"Albertus Magnus and the Early Thirteenth-Century Development of the Personal, Individual Agent of Thought." Paper presented in a panel entitled, "Philosophical accounts of Personal Identity," at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, May 9, 2014.

"Some early 13th-century Latin interpretations of the Arab-Aristotelian agent intellect: William of Auvergne and the Franciscans." Public lecture presented in the Classics Dept. Lecture Series at Dalhousie University, Oct. 16, 2013.

鈥淭he Arabs, William of Auvergne and the Early Bonaventure: Reconciling Aristotle鈥檚 Noetic with the Autonomous Self.鈥 Paper presented at the 2012 Annual American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting: Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions. Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2, 2012. 

鈥淭he Aristotelian Noetic in Bonaventure and the Early Thirteenth Century Franciscans.鈥 Paper presented at the 30th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy (SSIPS). New York, NY, Oct. 20, 2012.

"Individual Agency in Bonaventure鈥檚 Account of Natural Knowledge." Dionysius 29 (2011) 81鈥106.