I am Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at The University of Western
Ontario as well as a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. I am also the editor
of the book series Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind published by Springer,
and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy also published by
Springer. My area of specialisation is Medieval philosophy but I often draw on Ancient
and Early Modern philosophy in my research. I joined the Department of Philosophy at
Western in 2006 having worked at Cambridge University and Uppsala University before that.
It was at Uppsala University I received my Ph.D. in 1999.

Books

A Companion to the Philosophy of Robert Kilwardby (with Paul Thom) (2012)
 

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The Philosophy of Francisco Suarez (with Benjamin Hill) (2012)
 

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Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1500 (2011)
 

Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background (2010)
 

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Forming The Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (2007)
 

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Journal Articles

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Arabic Logic and Its Influence, AL-MUKHATABAT المخاطبات: Revue Philosophique de Logique et d'Epistémologie (2012)
 

The Turn to Epistemology in the 14th Century: Two Underlying Motives, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (2012)
 

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The Unity of Efficient and Final Causality:The Mind/Body Problem Reconsidered, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2011)
 

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Al-Ghazālī on the Form and Matter of the Syllogisms, Vivarium (2010)
 

The Changing Face of Aristotelian Empiricism in the Fourteenth Century, Quaestio (2010)
 

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Book Chapters

Leibniz (and Ockham) on the Language of Thought, or How the True Metaphysics is Derived from the True Logic, Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (2012)
 

Material Substance, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (2012)
 

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Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011)
 

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Medieval Theories of the Syllogism, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010)
 

A History of Skepticism in the Middle Ages, Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background (2010)
 

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Unpublished Papers

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Nominalism and Albert of Saxony on the Common Signification of Singular Terms (2012)
 

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Singular Terms and Vague Concepts in Late Medieval Mental Language Theory or the Decline and Fall of Mental Language (2011)
 

Presentations

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The Mechanistic Roots of Occasionalism: Stage One (with Benjamin Hill, Todd Ryan, and Elliot Rossiter), Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2012)
 

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The Mechanization of Philosophy Between 1300-1700 (with Benjamin Hill, Helen Hattab, Dennis Des Chene, and Calvin Normore), Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2011)