CV
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Areas of Specialization
Early Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science
Areas of Competence
Applied Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, American Indian Philosophy
Employment
Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Spring 2023 - present
Lehigh University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Fall 2017 - Spring 2022
Iowa State University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Fall 2013 - Spring 2017
Visiting Positions
National Humanities Center, Resident Associate
Spring 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
Fall 2022
Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt Foundation Fellow
Fall 2020 - Summer 2021
Education
PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2013
Thesis: Causation and Scientific Explanation in Locke
Committee: Alan Nelson, Andrew Janiak, Robert Adams, Marilyn Adams, Tad Schmaltz
MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2009
Thesis: Locke's Ideational Account of Causation
BA Georgetown University 2007
Honors in Philosophy, Honors in History
Publications
Journal Articles
2023. "Robert Greville on Sins, Privations, and Dialetheism" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 104(3): 578-596.
2021. "Susanna Newcome and the Origins of Utilitarianism" Utilitas 33(4): 384-398.
2021. "Causation and Gravitation in George Cheyne's Newtonian Natural Philosophy" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 85: 145-154.
2021. "Quantity and Place in Thomas White's Eucharistic Metaphysics" History of Philosophy Quarterly 38(2): 155-173.
2019. "Locke's Theory of Demonstration and Demonstrative Morality" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98(2): 435-451.
2019. "Thinking Matter in Locke's Proof of God's Existence" Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 9: 105-131.
2019. "Susanna Newcome's Cosmological Argument" British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27(4): 842-859.
2018. "Locke and the Methodology of Newton's Principia" Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 100(3): 311-335.
2018. "Thomas White on the Metaphysics of Transubstantiation" Southern Journal of Philosophy 56(4): 516-540.
2017. "The Idea of Power and Locke's Taxonomy of Ideas" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(1): 1-16.
2017. "Metaphysics in Richard Bentley's Boyle Lectures" History of Philosophy Quarterly 34(2): 155-174.
2017. "A Puzzle in the Print History of Locke's Essay" Locke Studies 17(1): 49-60.
2016. "Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi" Journal of Scottish Philosophy 14(1): 125-135.
2015. "Locke and the Laws of Nature" Philosophical Studies 172(10): 2551-2564.
2015. "Lockean Superaddition and Lockean Humility" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 51: 53-61.
2015. "Henry of Ghent's Argument for Divine Illumination Reconsidered" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89(1): 47-68.
2015. "Space Before God? A Problem in Newton's Metaphysics" Philosophy 90(1): 83-106.
2014. "Newton and God's Sensorium" Intellectual History Review 24(2): 185-201.
2014. "Locke and Wilkins on Inner Sense and Volition" Locke Studies 14(1): 239-259.
2013. "Travel Literature, the New World, and Locke on Species" Society and Politics 7(1): 103-116.
Book Chapters
forthcoming. "Locke on the Proper Use of Hypotheses in Natural Philosophy" in Locke and the Sciences, eds. L. Simonutti and R. Evangelista. Turnhout: Brepols.
forthcoming. "Beyond Consciousness: Locke's Sources for the Self" in The Self in Premodern Thought: From Antiquity to the Renaissance in Europe, eds. J. Bermúdez and C. Conybeare. New York: Cambridge.
2024. "Gravity, Occult Qualities, and Newton's Ontology of Powers" in Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy, eds. D. Perler and S. Bender. New York: Routledge, 146-166.
2022. "Locke and Sergeant on Syllogistic Reasoning" in The Lockean Mind, eds. S. Weinberg and J. Gordon-Roth. New York: Routledge, 191-202.
2021. "Locke and Berkeley" in The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley, ed. S. Rickless. New York: Oxford University Press, 446-463.
2018. "Locke, Pyrard, and Coconuts: Travel Literature, Evidence and Natural History" in Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences, eds. R. Raiswell and J.T.A. Lancaster. Dordrecht, Springer, 103-122.
Other Writing
2022. "Susanna Newcome" Utilitarian Thinkers Series utilitarianism.net
2014. "John Locke" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy eds. J. Fieser & B. Dowden
Book Reviews
forthcoming. Review of John Locke's Theology, by J.S. Marko Theologische Literaturzeitung
forthcoming. Review of Materialism from Hobbes to Locke, by S. Duncan. HOPOS
2019. Review of John Locke: The Philosopher as Christian Virtuoso, by V. Nuovo. Locke Studies 19: 1-5.
2019. Review of Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers, by D.S. Sytsma. Locke Studies 19: 1-5.
2015. Review of Newton and Empiricism, eds. Z. Biener and E. Schliesser. Journal of the History of Philosophy 53(2): 334-336.
Presentations
Newton's Letters to Bentley in Context
HOPOS, Universität Wien, July 9-12, 2024
Proving God's Existence: A Lockean Problem and a Newtonian Solution
Visiting Speaker Series, Hampden-Sydney College, March 18, 2024
Locke on Substances and the Nature of Demonstration
Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, April 5-8, 2023
Locke on Hypotheses and Method
Locke and Logic, University of Bucharest, November 25-26, 2022
Newton's Ontology of Minds and Bodies
Chicago Modern Philosophy Roundtable, University of Illinois-Chicago, October 14, 2022
Causation in Locke's Proof of God's Existence
Philosophy in Assos, July 4-7, 2022
Isaac Newton on the Nature of Substance
Loyola University Maryland Philosophy Department Spring Lecture, April 21, 2022
Eastern APA, Baltimore, MD, January 5-8, 2022
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland State University, November 12-13, 2021
Locke on Eminent Containment, Matter, and God
Central APA, Chicago, IL, February 23-26, 2022
Comments by Geoff Gorham
Newtonian Bodies: Dependence and Independence
New York City Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Technion, July 26-28, 2021
British Society for the History of Science, July 13-15, 2021
Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, May 17, 2021
The Faculties of Man in Locke and his Predecessors
Human Abilities Research Center Jour Fixe, Berlin, June 29, 2021
NEH Reconsidering the Sources of the Self Conference, Texas A&M University, April 2-5, 2020
How to do Lockean Physics
John Locke Society Conference, CNF-ISPF, Naples, June 10-12, 2021
Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 7, 2021
Early Modern Zoom Working Group, July 9, 2020
Susanna Newcome's Moral Philosophy
British Society for the History of Philosophy, King's College London, April 24-26, 2019
SSEMW Group Session at Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC, April 17-20, 2019
Locke, Newton, and Demonstration in Natural Philosophy
HOPOS, University of Groningen, July 9-12, 2018
Locke, Berkeley, and the Nature of Ideas
Berkeley in Context Conference, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, June 13-16, 2018
George Cheyne's Casual Framework
Workshop on Newtonian Causation, University of Groningen, April, 25, 2018
Locke on the Difficulty of Demonstration
Eastern APA, Savannah, GA, January 3-6, 2018
Comments by Lex Newman
Susanna Newcome's Cosmological Argument
Women in Early Modern Philosophy Conference, Lehigh University, October 19-20, 2017
Locke's Epistemology and the Metaphysics of Relations
Departmental Colloquium, California State University - Long Beach, February 6, 2017
Philosophy Colloquium Series, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, February 26, 2016
The Influence of Locke's Essay on Maclaurin's Account
Scientiae 2016, University of Oxford, July 5-7, 2016
Metaphysics and Explanation in Richard Bentley's Boyle Lectures
HOPOS, University of Minnesota, June 22-25, 2016
Faculty Research Workshop, University of Reading, March 10, 2016
John Locke and John Sergeant on Demonstration and Method
Locke Workshop, CUNY-Graduate Center, April 7-9, 2016
Locke, Pyrard, and Coconuts: Travel Literature as Natural History
Scientiae 2015, University of Toronto, May 27-29, 2015
Locke and the Methodology of Newton's Principia
Locke Workshop, University of Western Ontario, May 1-2, 2015
Thinking Matter in Locke's Proof of God's Existence
Scientia Workshop, University of California - Irvine, April 24, 2015
Philosophy Forum Workshop Series, University of Mississippi, February 13, 2014
Eastern APA, Baltimore, MD, December 27-30, 2013
Comments by Eric Stencil
A New Approach to Lockean Relations
Central States Philosophical Association, Northwestern University, October 10-11, 2014
Comments by Lewis Powell
Iowa Early Modern Workshop, University of Iowa, November 9, 2013
South Carolina Society for Philosophy, College of Charleston, March 8-9, 2013
Locke on Hypotheses: A Via Media
HOPOS, Universiteit Gent, July 3-6, 2014
Space Before God? A Problem in Newton's Metaphysics
South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Texas A&M, May 30-31, 2014
Central States Philosophical Association, OSU-Tulsa, October 4-5, 2013
Comments by Peter LeGrant
Locke and the Laws of Nature
Pacific APA, San Diego, CA, April 16-20, 2014
Comments by Ed McCann
New York City Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University, February 8-10, 2013
Lockean Superaddition and Lockean Humility
Central APA, New Orleans, LA, February 20-23, 2013
Comments by Shelley Weinberg
Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Buena Vista University, October 18-20, 2012
Comments by Adela Deanova
Locke Workshop, University of St Andrews, June 28-29, 2012
Comments by Han-Kyul Kim
North Carolina Philosophical Society, Elon University, February 24-25, 2012
Locke's Ideas of Power
Margaret Wilson Conference, Dartmouth College, June 22-24, 2012
New England Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, Harvard University, May 18-20, 2012
KCL/UNC Joint Conference on "Theories of Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy", UNC, May 13-15, 2011
Comments by Antonia LoLordo
Travel Literature, The New World, and Locke's Philosophy
Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 4-7, 2012
Comments by Jan-Erik Jones
Newton and God's Sensorium
New York City Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University, February 25-27, 2011
Locke and the Oxford Scientific Communities of the 1660s
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, UNC, February 18-19, 2011
Comments
Comments on Stewart Duncan's Materialism from Hobbes to Locke
Eastern APA, New York City, January 15-18, 2024
Comments on Shelley Weinberg's "Locke's Epistemology of Traditional Revelation"
John Locke Society Conference, American University in Bulgaria, June 21-23, 2022
Comments on Scott Harkema's "Berkeley on True Motion"
Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC, April 13-16, 2022
Comments on Katharine Loevy's "Tracking the Non-Western Plato"
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland State University, November 12-13, 2021
Comments on Antonia LoLordo's "Powers in Britain, 1689-1827"
Workshop on Powers: A History, Human Abilities Research Center, Berlin, June 23-24, 2021
Comments on Geoffrey Gorham's "Locke on Space, Time, and God" and Stewart Duncan's "Locke, God, and Materialism" (with Jessica Gordon-Roth)
Eastern APA, New York, NY, January 7-10, 2019
Comments on James Harris' "Locke vs. Fulmer Revisited"
Locke Workshop, University of Oxford, July 16-18, 2018
Comments on Ruth Boeker's "Locke and His Early Critics and Defenders"
Workshop on Boeker's Locke on Persons and Personal Identity, Columbia University, March 12-13, 2018
Comments on Shelley Weinberg's "Locke on Reason, Faith, and Miracles"
Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 12-15, 2017
Comments on Simona Vucu's "Medieval Views on Causal Powers: The Case of Henry of Ghent"
Central APA, Kansas City, MO, March 1-4, 2017
Comments on Jan-Erik Jones' "Locke, Essences and Ontology"
Locke Workshop, Washington and Lee University, October 26-27, 2012
Comments on Kurt Smith's "Was Hobbes an Idealist?"
Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, University of North Carolina, March 16, 2012
Awards and Fellowships
Lehigh University Paul J. Franz, Jr. Faculty Fellowship (2021)
Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship for Experience Researchers (2020-2021)
(Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler)
Held at Humboldt University of Berlin Host: Prof. Dominik Perler
NEH Summer Stipend (2020)
Lehigh Provost Faculty Research Grant (2019)
ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Early Achievement in Teaching Award (2017)
ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Research Grant (2015)
ISU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Small Grant (2014)
UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference Travel Award (2012)
UNC Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship (2012)
UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Award for research on Locke manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (2011)
UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference Travel Award (2011)
Mellon Fellowship for Early Modern English Paleography Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (2009)
Horace Williams Fellowship, UNC (2007-2008)
Teaching
Johns Hopkins University
American Indian Philosophy (Fall 2024)
Philosophical Issues in Newton and Newtonianism (Fall 2023)
History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2023)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
History of Modern Philosophy (Fall 2022)
Introductory Ethics (Fall 2022)
Lehigh University
Early Modern Philosophy (Spring 2020, Spring 2022)
Philosophy of Religion (Spring 2020, Spring 2022)
Bioethics (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2021)
American Indian Philosophy (Fall 2021)
Humans and Other Animals (Fall 2019)
Medieval Philosophy (Spring 2019)
Descartes and Newton (Spring 2018)
Ethics (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
Independent Study: Political Philosophies of Locke and Spinoza (Spring 2019)
Independent Study: Bioethics in Developing Nations (Spring 2018)
Thesis Supervision: Carceral Justice (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)
Thesis Supervision: Spinoza (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
Thesis Supervision: Newton (Spring 2019-Fall 2019)
Iowa State University
Medieval Philosophy (Spring 2015, Spring 2017)
Moral Theory and Practice (First-Year Interest Group on Happiness)
(Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
Moral Theory and Practice
(Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Introduction to Mathematical Logic (Summer 2013)
Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense (Spring 2012)
History of Modern Philosophy (Summer 2011)
Introduction to Philosophy: Main Problems (Summer 2010)
Bioethics - Online Course (Spring 2010)
Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2009)
Bioethics (Summer 2009)
Service
Executive Committee Member, John Locke Society, 2016-present
Philosophy Associations Coordinator, International Berkeley Society, 2021-present
Subject Editor, PhilPapers (John Locke: Philosophy of Religion), 2015-2022
Governing Council Member, Gipson Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2017-2022
Lehigh Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society Faculty Advisor, Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Fall 2021-2022
University Faculty Committee on Advancement, 2019-2020
Referee for:
2018-present: Berkeley Studies; British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Cambridge University Press (book manuscript); History of Philosophy Quarterly; Intellectual History Review; Journal of Modern Philosophy (x3); Journal of the History of Philosophy (x2); Locke Studies; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Science in Context; Springer (book proposal); Studi Lockiani
2013-2017: American Historical Review; Cambridge University Press (chapter manuscript); Ergo; Forum Philosophicum; History and Anthropology; History of Philosophy Quarterly; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Locke Studies; Oxford Bibliographies Online; Routledge (book manuscript); Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Philosopher-in-Residence, George Berkeley's Whitehall Museum House, July 2019 and July 2017
Co-Organizer, 2017 Lehigh University Conference on "Women in Early Modern Philosophy"
PhD Committee Member 2017-2018
Cal Parks, History Department, Lehigh University, 2019-2022
Steven Dezort, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, 2017-2018
MA Committee Member 2016-2017
Benjamin Nelson, History Department, Iowa State University
Co-President, Iowa Philosophical Society 2014-2017
Co-Organizer, 2016 Iowa Philosophical Society Conference
Co-Organizer, 2015 Iowa Philosophical Society Conference
Faculty Advisor, ISU Philosophy Club 2014-2016
Committee Chair, Department Majors Recruitment & Retention Committee 2015-2017
Committee Member, ISU Socrates Prize 2014-2017
Local Organizing Committee Member, Midwest Conference on British Studies, 2016
Philosophy Department Outreach Coordinator, 2010-2011
Co-Organizer, 2011 Joint King's College, London/University of North Carolina Conference on "Theories of Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy"
Graduate and Professional Student Federation Representative to UNC Faculty Senate, 2009-2010
Memberships
American Philosophical Association
John Locke Society
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
International Berkeley Society
European Hobbes Society
American Association of University Professors
References
Available on request