Research

Areas of Interest

metaphysics, mereology, philosophy of religion, mediæval philosophy, philosophy of mind

Publications

Articles
  1. “Collapsing the Modal Collapse Argument: On an Invalid Argument Against Divine Simplicity”
    Analysis, forthcoming
    ​​[preprint] [published version]​
  2. “A Geachian Cure for Morally Paralyzed Skeptical Theists”
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, forthcoming
  3. “Access Denied: A Reply to Rickabaugh and McAllister”
    (with J. Rosenbaum)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming
    [preprint] [published version]​
  4. “Intentionality as Partial Identity”
    Southwest Philosophy Review (2017) 33(1): 15–23
    Winner of the 2016 Southwest Philosophical Society President's Prize
    [preprint] [published version]​
  5. “Formal Proper Parts Through Strong Supplementation: A Reply to Bennett”
    The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2016) 54(4): 521–526
    ​​[preprint] [published version]​
  6. “The Principle of Sufficient Reason Defended: There Is No Conjunction of All Contingently True Propositions”
    Philosophia     (2016) 44(1): 267–274
    ​​[preprint] [published version]​

Book Reviews
  1. Michael Huemer's Approaching Infinity
    Review of Metaphysics, forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • “The Supplemented Soul: Thomistic Corruptionism and Mereology”

  • “A Complete Thomistic Solution to Compositional Vagueness”

  • “Non-Resistance is Futile: Divine Hiddenness, Evil, and Human Nature” [abstract]

  • “Christian Materialism and the Imago Dei”

Selected Presentations

  • “The Supplemented Soul: Thomistic Corruptionism and Mereology”
    2018 Central Division Meeting of the APA (Main Program), Chicago, IL | 21-24 February 2018

  • “Divine Hiddenness: Why Mere Non-Resistance Is Insufficient”
    2017 Central Division Meeting of the APA (Main Program), Kansas City, MO | 1-4 March 2017

  • “Formal Proper Parts Through Strong Supplementation: A Reply to Bennett"
    2017 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA (Main Program), Baltimore, MD | 4-7 January 2017

  • “Intentionality as Partial Identity”
    78th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Corpus Christi, TX | 11-13 November 2016

  • “Divine Hiddenness: Why Mere Non-Resistance Is Insufficient”
    2016 Pacific Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, University of San Diego | 17-19 March 2016

  • “Moral Error Theory and the Law of Excluded Middle”
    Third Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference, University of Tampa | 7-8 November 2015

  • “Aristotelian Substance and Univocally Functional Parts”
    5th Annual Aquinas Workshop: Aquinas and the Philosophy of Nature, Mount Saint Mary's College, Newburgh, NY | 4-7 June 2015

  • “Moral Error Theory and the Law of Excluded Middle”
    2015 Central Division Meeting of the APA (Main Program), Saint Louis, MO | 18-21 February 2015

  • “The Principle of Sufficient Reason Defended: There Is No Conjunction of All Contingently True Propositions”
    2014 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA (Main Program), Philadelphia, PA | 27-30 December 2014

  • “The Principle of Sufficient Reason Defended: There Is No Conjunction of All Contingently True Propositions”
    IX Annual Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI | 15-16 November 2014