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Curriculum Vitae

B.A., ���ϲ�����, 2004; M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, 2008; Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, 2009; Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2009–2015; Associate Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2015–2021; Tutor, ���ϲ�����, 2021-.

Articles and Reviews

• “Galileo on the Status of Theology as a Science”
• Forthcoming in The Heythrop Journal. Published online in Early View, July 15 2019. 
• “Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina: Genre, Coherence, and the Structure of Dispute.” 
• Galilaeana: Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science XVI (2019): 41-75. 
• “Exclusion in Descartes’s Rules for the Direction of the Mind: The Emergence of the Real Distinction”
• Intellectual History Review 26.2 (2016): 203-219.
• “Rereading Descartes on the Identity of Space and Body”
• History of Philosophy Quarterly 31.4 (January 2014): 21-40. 
• “Descartes on Physical Vacua: Rationalism in Natural Philosophical Debate”
• Society and Politics 7.2 (November 2013): 126-141.
• “‘To Whom My Own Glad Debts are Incalculable’: St. Augustine and Human Loves in The Four Loves and Till We Have Faces”
• Journal of Inklings Studies 2 (2012): 5-26. 
• Review of Kurt Smith, Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period. ISIS 103 (2012): 596-597.
• Review of David Cunning, Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:6(2011), 1216-1220.

Presentations

• “The Role of History in the Defense of Common Sense” (invited)
• Science and Common Sense Conference
• The Peoria Project, Hermosa Beach, CA: December 6-8, 2018
• “Exclusion in Descartes’s Rules for the Direction of the Mind: the Emergence of the Real Distinction”
• Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
• Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; July 9-12, 2014
• “Descartes on Abstraction, Exclusion, and Real Distinction”
• South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
• Texas A&M University, College Station, TX: September 27-28, 2013
• “Descartes the arch-Aristotelian: The Theory of Place and Space”
• Conference on Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
• Belgian Royal Society, Brussels, Belgium: May 23-24, 2013
• “Descartes on Transubstantiation and Local Motion: Theology and Common Sense as (Putative) Authorities”
• SCIENTIAE 2013: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
• University of Warwick, Coventry, UK: April 18-20, 2013
• “A Reinterpretion of Descartes on the Concept of Space”
• Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
• Macalaster College: April 30-May 2, 2010
• “Descartes on Space, Body, and the Reality of Motion”
• Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
• Emory University: November 1-2, 2008
• “Spinoza’s Vacuum Argument Revisited”
• Graduate Philosophy Conference
• Syracuse University: April 4-5, 2008
• “Descartes Annihilated: Spinoza’s Challenge to the Cartesian Theory of Extended Substance”
• History of Philosophy Graduate Conference     
• University of Western Ontario
• London, Ontario, Canada: March 28-29, 2008
• “Empiricism and Aristotelian Induction in William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis”
• History of Science Society Annual Meeting
• Minneapolis, MN: November 3-6, 2005