Publications

Note: preprints of many of my publications can be found here.

Single-authored books:
A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics.  The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming 2024.

Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Co-edited book:
Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays, edited by Michael Gorman and Jonathan J. Sanford (Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 2004).

Papers:
"Thomas Aquinas in Intellectual Formation: Philosophy." The Thomist 88 (2024): 285-303.

"The Interaction of Philosophy and Theology in Aquinas's Christology."  New Blackfriars 104 (2023): 23-38.

“Free Will and Free Choice.” In New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, edited by Eleonore Stump and Thomas Joseph White (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 211-232.

“On the Ontological Status of Features." In The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J.E. Gracia, edited by William Irwin and Jonathan J. Sanford. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), pp. 133-142.

“Using Models for the Hypostatic Union: Lessons from Aquinas and Scotus.” The Thomist 84 (2020): 103-125.

"Two Problems Concerning Divine Immutability and the Incarnation."  Nova et Vetera 16 (2018): 899-912.

"The Significance of Christology in the Summa theologiae." In Aquinas’s Summa theologiae: A Critical Guide, ed. Jeffrey Hause, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 204-220.

Classical Theism, Classical Anthropology, and the Christological Coherence Problem. Faith and Philosophy 33 (2016): 278-292.

Two Types of Features: An Aristotelian Approach. Ratio 27 (2014): 140-154.

Christological Consistency and the Reduplicative Qua. Journal of Analytic Theology 2 (2014): 86-100.

Essentiality as Foundationality. In Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, ed. Daniel Novotny and Lukas Novak (Routledge, 2014), 119-137.

On Substantial Independence: A Reply to Patrick Toner. Philosophical Studies 159 (2012): 293-297.

Incarnation. In Oxford Companion to Aquinas. ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 428-35.

Personhood, Potentiality, and Normativity. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (2011): 483-98.

Questions Concerning the Existences of Christ. In K. Emery, R. Friedman, and A. Speer, eds., Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, in the series Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters (Brill, 2011), 709-35.

Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas (in Chinese). In Kelly James Clark et al., eds., An Aquinas Reader (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2009), 29-42.

On a Thomistic Worry about Scotus’s Doctrine of the esse Christi. Antonianum 84 (2009): 719-733.

Inspired Authors and Their Speech Acts. Nova et Vetera 4 (2006): 747-760.

Talking about Intentional Objects Dialectica 60 (2006): 135-144.

Substance and Identity-Dependence. Philosophical Papers 35 (2006): 103-118.

Independence and Substance. Int’l. Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2006): 147-159.

Nagasawa vs. Nagel: Omnipotence, Pseudo-Tasks, and a Recent Discussion of Nagel’s Doubts about Physicalism. Inquiry 48 (2005): 436-47.

The Essential and the Accidental. Ratio 18 (2005): 276-89.

Augustine’s Use Of Neoplatonism In Confessions VII: A Response To Peter King. The Modern Schoolman 82 (2005): 227-33.

Metaphysische Themen in der Christologie des Thomas. In Thomas von Aquin: Die Summa theologiae, Werkinterpretationen. Ed. Andreas Speer (Berlin: Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005), 377-40.

Categories and Normativity. In Categories, ed. Michael Gorman and Jonathan J. Sanford (Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 151-170.

Subjectivism about Normativity and the Normativity of Intentional States. International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2003): 5-14.

Hugh of Saint Victor, in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone (Blackwell, 2003).

Intentionality, Normativity, and a Problem for Searle. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 41 (2002): 703-13.

But Then They Are Told…. Logos 5 (2002): 173-9.

Personal Unity and the Problem of Christ’s Knowledge. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 (2000): 175-186.

Christ as Composite According to Aquinas. Traditio 55 (2000): 143-57.

Uses of the Person-Nature Distinction in Thomas’s Christology. Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales 67 (2000): 58-79.

Logical and Metaphysical Form: Lessons from the Theory of Dependence. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 69 (1995): 215-224.

Ontological Priority and John Duns Scotus. The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993): 460-471.

Hume’s Theory of Belief. Hume Studies 19 (1993): 89-101.

Henry of Oyta’s Nominalism and the Principle of Individuation. The Modern Schoolman 65 (1992): 135-148.