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Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University (1996)

Ph.D., Classical Philology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986)

M.A., Roman History (UNC-CH (1981)

B.A., Kent State University (1978)

Research

• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
• Philosophy of Biology
• Analytic Philosophical Theology

My teaching and research interests lie in the history and philosophy of the natural sciences, especially evolutionary biology and the biomedical sciences. I have written on Aristotleā€™s logic and epistemology, on the structure of evolutionary theory, mechanistic explanation in the philosophy of chemistry, and the role of indeterminacy in scientific theories generally. I have a keen interest in the history of philosophy, especially ancient Greek philosophy.

I am a participating faculty member in the , and a faculty associate in .

A partial list of work in progress.

Aristotleā€™s Scientific Realism. (Book manuscript)

Explaining Nature and the Nature of Explanation: A History of Philosophical and Scientific Naturalism (Book manuscript).

ā€œThe Logic of Disjunctive Properties in Anselmā€™s De processione Spiritus Sanctiā€ (under review)

ā€œAgainst Genic Selectionismā€ (in progress)

Recent Publications

Aristotle on Meaning and Reference. History of Philosophy Quarterly 20.4 (October 2003) 319-337.

Aristotle on Existential Import and Nonreferring Subjects. Synthese 124 (2000) 343-360.

Some Comments on Education and Computer Technology. Classical World 91.6 (1998) 513ā€“520.

The Indeterministic Character of Evolutionary Theory: No ā€˜No Hidden Variables Proofā€™ but No Room for Determinism Either. Philosophy of Science 63 (September 1996) 315ā€“337. Anthologized in Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology, ed. Stefan Linquist (Ashgate, forthcoming).

Sober on Brandon on Screening-off and the Levels of Selection. Philosophy of Science 61 (1994) 475-486.

Asconius in Cornelianam 68.7-69.13 (Clark) and Roman Legislative Procedure: A Textual Note. American Journal of Philology 109 (1988) 537-542.

Linguistically Oriented Greek Scansion. Computing and the Classics, 4.4, Supplement (August 1988) 1-8.

DICTIONARY and VERB DATABASE: A Morphological Database for the IBM-PC. Interactive Learning International, 4.2 (1987) 4-7.

Teaching

Fall Semester 2015 H4

• PHIL 3100: Ancient Greek Philosophy
• PHIL 4120/5120: Philosophy of Biology

Spring Semester 2016 H4

• PHIL 3110: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
• PHIL 4180/5180: Plato