Major Publications:
The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy, Cambridge 2009.
"Horror Vacui in the Third Century B.C.E.: When is a Theory not a Theory?" in Richard Sorabji (ed.), Aristotle and After, BICS suppl. vol. II (1997), 147-57.
"Euclid and the Sceptic: A Paper on Vision, Doubt, Geometry, Light and Drunkenness," Phronesis (1998), 176-96.
"Democritus and the explanatory power of the void," 183-91 in V. Caston and D. Graham (eds.), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (Ashgate Publishing 2002).
"Aristotle on pneuma and animal self-motion," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 23 (2002), 85-97.
"Galen and the Mechanical Philosophy," Apeiron: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, (2002), 235-53.
"Ancient Automata and Mechanical Explanation," Phronesis 48 (2003), 344-69.
"Necessitation and Explanation in Philoponus’ Aristotelian Physics," invited paper for Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics: Themes from the work of Richard Sorabji (Oxford University Press 2005).
"The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy," 1-21 in Jessica Riskin (ed.), Genesis Redux (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
"Teleology Without Tears: Aristotle and the Role of Mechanistic Conceptions of Organisms," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 357-70.
"The Evidence for Strato of Lampsacus in Hero of Alexandria’s Pneumatica," in W.W. Fortenbaugh (ed.), Strato of Lampsacus (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming).
"Rainbows, Mirrors and Light: Can Aristotle’s Theory of Vision be Saved?" in M. Martin and M. Stone (eds.), Problems of Perception and Vision, London Studies in the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
Courses Taught:
Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy' 'Ancient Science and Natural Philosophy,'