PHD University:
University of Western Ontario
Major Publications:
“Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery Slope,” Dialogue 48 (2009) 59-76.
“Firstness, Evolution and the Absolute in Peirce's Spinoza,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44.4 (2008) 603-628.
“Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference,” The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. Thomas M. Lennon and Robert Stainton, Eds. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.
With Thomas M. Lennon, “Continental Rationalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (November 2007).
“‘Merely a Veil Over the Living Thought’: Mathematics and Logic in Peirce’s Forgotten Spinoza Review.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42.4 (Fall 2006) 501-517.
“Thomas Reid’s Rigourized Anti-Hypotheticalism.” The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3.2 (October 2005) 123-138.
Membership in Academic Societies:
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (2009-present);
The Achilles Project (2006-2007);
International Duns Scotus Society (2005-2007);
American Philosophical Association (2004-present);
Canadian Society for Existentialism, Phenomenology, Theory and Culture (2004-present);
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (2004-2007, 2009-present);
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (formerly the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought) (2003-present);
Canadian Philosophical Association (2002-present);
Charles Sanders Peirce Society (2002-2003, 2007-).
Courses Taught:
Peirce, Descartes and the Cartesians, The Achilles Inference and the Unity of Consciousness,Spinoza’s Ethics