Education

Fordham University

Ph.D., Philosophy – August 2017.

Dissertation: ‘The development of the medieval Parisian account of formal consequence’

Director: Gyula Klima.

Defense date: 15 May 2017 – passed without corrections.

Dissertation Committee: Graham Priest (external reader, CUNY), Giorgio Pini, Christopher Cullen, John Drummond.

Doctoral Certificate in Medieval Studies – August 2017.

Arché Philosophical Research Centre, University of St. Andrews

Visiting postgraduate – Fall 2014.

University of Houston

M.A., Philosophy (cum laude) – May 2011.

Franciscan University of Steubenville

B.A., Philosophy (cum laude) – May 2009.

Areas of specialization

History and philosophy of logic; medieval philosophy; metaphysics.

Areas of research competence

Philosophy of religion; early modern philosophy.

Areas of teaching competence

Ethics; ancient philosophy; philosophy of human nature.

Interdisciplinary areas of competence

Latin; classics; mathematical logic; paleography and manuscript studies; historical theology.

Foreign languages

Latin – reading fluency.

French – reading fluency, speaking and writing competence.

German – reading competence, speaking ability.

Programming languages

OWL/RDF, Java, C#, SQL, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Research

Publications

Edited volume

2018                 Consequences in medieval logic. Vivarium 56:3-4, 201-366.

Journal articles

2019                 ‘Counterpossibles and normal defaults in the filioque controversy’. Logica Universalis 13:4, 443-455.

2018                 ‘Introduction: consequences in medieval logic’. Vivarium 56:3-4, 201-221.

‘Consequence and formality in the logic of Walter Burley’. Vivarium 56:3-4, 292-319.

2017                 ‘The monadothergy: discovering transcendence with Leibniz and Levinas’. Heythrop Journal 58:4, 650-661.

‘Monotonic and non-monotonic embeddings of Anselm’s proof’. Logica Universalis 11:1, 121-138.

2015                 ‘Nature, will, and the Fall in Augustine and Maximus the Confessor’. Augustiniana 65:3-4, 205-230.

2014                 ‘Aquinas, the a priori/a posteriori distinction, and the Kantian dependency thesis’. Religious Studies 50:2, 175-192.

Book chapters

Forthcoming     ‘The teaching of the trivium at Bec and its bearing upon the Anselmian program of fides quaerens intellectum’. In M. Healy-Varley, G. Younge, and Giles E. M. Gasper (eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (Brill).

2017                 ‘Leibnizian intelligibility’. In M. Fichant, R. Pisano, A. R. E. Oliveira, P. Bussotti (eds.), Leibniz and the Dialogue between Sciences, Philosophy and Engineering, 1646-2016. New Historical and Epistemological Insights (College Publications), 1-20.

Conference proceedings

2018                 ‘Mereological hylomorphism and the development of the medieval substitutional account of formal consequence’. In G. Klima and A. Hall (eds.), Hylomorphism and Mereology: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics Volume 15 (Cambridge Scholars), 81-103.

Web-based publications

2015                 ‘On the future of research in the history of philosophy’. Philosophers’ Carnival 178.

Distinguished fellowships and grants

Distinguished fellowships

2016-2017         Alumni Dissertation Fellowship. Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. $30,450 and reprieve from teaching responsibilities.

2015-2016         Mark and Kathryn Tomasic Endowed Fellowship. Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. $26,530 and reprieve from teaching responsibilities.

2015                 Summer Research Fellowship. Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, $4,000.

Competitive grants

2017-2018         Ernst Mach Grant. University of Salzburg, Institut für Philosophie. Awarded for the project: ‘Grounding Logical Consequence’. Supervisor: Prof. Julien Murzi. Financed by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Centre for International Cooperation & Mobility. Sep 1-May 31. 9,450 €.*

2015                 Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University, spring term, $1,762.

Professional Development Grant, Graduate Student Association, Fordham University, spring term, $1,180.

2014                 Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University, fall term, $1,600.

*Declined

Presentations

APA presentations

2017                 ‘Powers presentism’. APA Eastern Division Meeting. Symposium paper. Baltimore, MD. January 4-7.

2016                 ‘A note on dispositional modalities, constant domains, and the (4) axiom’. APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL. March 2-5.

Invited talks

2016                 ‘The development of the distinction between formal and material consequence in medieval logic’. UConn Logic Group. University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT. February 19.

Conferences

2019                 ‘Dialectically situating medieval accounts of the subject matter of logic’. International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, UK. July 1-4.

2018                 ‘The semantic account of formal consequence, from Alfred Tarski back to John Buridan’. Indiana Philosophical Association, Fall 2018 meeting. Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. November 16-17.

‘Divided modality for Ockhamists’. 6^th World Congress on Universal Logic. Campus Albert Londres. Vichy, France, June 21-26.

2017                 ‘Counterpossible conditionals in the Filioque Controversy’. 2^nd World Congress on Logic and Religion. University of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. June 18-22.

2016                 ‘Consequence and formality in the logic of Walter Burley’. HOPOS 2016: Eleventh International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. June 22-25.

‘Mereological hylomorphism and the development of the Buridanian account of formal consequence’. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 12-15.

‘Deflationism, liars, and the ontic use of ‘true’’. Long Island Philosophical Society Spring 2016 Conference. Molloy College. Rockville Centre, NY. April 9.

‘Distinguishing Leibniz’s system of pre-established harmony from the system of occasional causes’. The Continuing Relevance of Leibniz. Franciscan University of Steubenville. Steubenville, OH. April 8-9.

2015                 ‘Model-theoretic inferentialism for bilateral natural deduction’. Inferentialism Workshop. University of St. Andrews. St. Andrews, United Kingdom. November 25-26.

‘Three medieval accounts of the subject matter of logic’. 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science. Fordham University. New York, NY. October 23-25.

‘Interpretations of quantifiers and logical hylomorphism’. Entia et Nomina V Workshop. Jagiellonian University. Krakow, Poland. September 9-11.

‘The teaching of the trivium at Bec and its bearing upon the Anselmian program of fides quaerens intellectum’. Reading Anselm: Context and Criticism. Boston College. Boston, MA. July 27-30.

‘The monadothergy’. Emmanuel Levinas across the Generations and Continents: North American Levinas Society Annual Meeting 2015. Purdue University. Lafayette, IN. July 27-30.

‘The teaching of the trivium at Bec and its bearing upon the Anselmian programme of fides quaerens intellectum’. International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom. July 6-9.

‘John Buridan on forms and formal logic’. Durham Day of Medieval Thought. Durham University. Durham, United Kingdom. July 5.

‘Interpretations of quantifiers and logical hylomorphism’. Aristotelian Solutions to Contemporary Problems. Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, IN. April 25-26.

‘Is the reticulational model of scientific change based on a misunderstanding? Revisiting the Laudan-Kuhn debate’. Long Island Philosophical Society Conference. St. John’s University. Queens, NY. April 18.

‘Monotonic and non-monotonic variations on Anselm’s proof’. 1^st World Congress on Logic and Religion. Hotel Tropical Tambaú. João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. April 1-5.

2014                 ‘Consequence and proportionality in Boethius’ De Topicis Differentiis’. Analogical Reasoning – East and West: Formal Models and Practical Applications. Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg, Germany. November 24-25.

‘Leibnizian intelligibility’. Eighth annual conference of the Leibniz Society of North America. University of South Florida. Tampa, Florida. October 31-November 2.

‘Authority, order of reading, and authenticity in two medieval manuscripts of the Logica Vetus’. International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom. July 7-10.

2013                 ‘On Leibnizian harmony and Malebranchian occasionalism: Leibniz’s Cartesian route out of Cartesian dualism’. Theistic Metaphysics and Naturalism: Society of Christian Philosophers 2013 Eastern Division Conference. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL. October 24-26.

2012                 ‘Nature, will, and the Fall in Augustine and Maximus the Confessor’. Divine and Human Action: Agency and Action in Philosophy and Theology. Houston Baptist University. Houston, TX. March 30-31.

2009                 ‘Agnosia and henosis in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’. Neoplatonism and its Legacy. Franciscan University. Steubenville, OH. April 25.

Workshops and discussion groups

2016                 ‘The semantic account of formal consequence, from Alfred Tarski back to John Buridan’. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY. Oct 31.

2014                 ‘Minimalism, liars, and pre-sentential truth’. Models, Modality, and Meaning Group. University of St. Andrews. St. Andrews, United Kingdom. November 6, 2014.

Discussant

2018                 Seungil Lee, ‘The rate of time’s passage and special relativity’. Indiana Philosophical Association, Fall 2018 meeting. Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. November 16-17.

2015                 Joanna Luc, ‘Necessary and accidental qualities in CIFOL’. Entia et Nomina V Workshop. Jagiellonian University. Krakow, Poland. September 9-11.

Graduate conferences

2016                 ‘Powers presentism’. The Philosophy of Time: 2016 Graduate Gateway Conference. University of Missouri, St. Louis. St. Louis, MO. April 23-24.

2014                 ‘The monadothergy’. Philosophy on Trial: The Others of Philosophy. DePaul University Graduate Philosophy Conference. DePaul University. Chicago, IL. February 14-15.

Teaching

Instructor of record

2017-2018         Metaphysics, Highlands Latin School (1 section).

Classical Political Philosophy, Highlands Latin School (2 sections).

Latin, second year, Highlands Latin School (2 sections).

Spring 2015       Philosophical Ethics, Fordham University (2 sections).

Spring 2014       Philosophy of Human Nature, Fordham University (1 section).

Fall 2013           Philosophy of Human Nature, Fordham University (1 section).

Spring 2013       Philosophy of Human Nature, Fordham University (1 section).

Fall 2012           Philosophy of Human Nature, Fordham University (1 section).

Teaching assistant

Fall 2010           Introduction to Philosophy, University of Houston – Primary instructor: Bredo C. Johnsen (1 section).

Spring 2010       Introduction to Philosophy, University of Houston. Primary instructor: Gregory Brown (2 sections).

Fall 2009           Introduction to Philosophy – Primary instructor: Helen Hattab. University of Houston (1 section).

Service

Manuscript work

Identification of the text of Smith Medieval/Renaissance Fragment 27. Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http://ucblibrary4.berkeley.edu:8088/xtf22/search?smode=basic;text=Med Smith/Ren;rmode=digscript;docsPerPage=1;startDoc=22;fullview=yes.

Referee

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Journal of Pure and Applied Logic

Kriterion

Logica Universalis

Vivarium

Session chair

2017                 Logic and Western Christianity. 2^nd World Congress on Logic and Religion. University of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. June 18-22.

2016                 Symposium: Post-Aristotelian Science in the Fourteenth Century. HOPOS 2016: Eleventh International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. June 22-25.

Hans Thomas Adriaenssen, ‘Substantial forms between physics and metaphysics. John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand’; and Henrik Lagerlund, ‘The mechanization of philosophy between 1300-1700: some reflections’. Workshop on Medieval Natural Philosophy. University of St. Thomas. St. Paul, MN. June 22.

2015                 Thomas Kivatinos. ‘Humean metaphysics and grounding: a peculiar alliance’. The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Grounding and Fundamentality. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY. December 10-11.

2015                 Maya Eddom. ‘Intrinsic explanations and numerical representations’. The Metaphysics of Quantity. New York University. New York, NY. May 1-3, 2015.

Research assistant

2011-2012         Research Assistant to Giorgio Pini and Christopher Cullen – Fordham University, spring 2012; fall 2011.

Professional affiliations

American Philosophical Association

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science

Society for Ancient Greek and Islamic Philosophy

Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

Select Graduate Coursework

History of Philosophy

Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy of language and logic. Gyula Klima. Fordham University, fall 2012.

Aquinas vs. Buridan on the soul. Gyula Klima. Fordham University, spring 2012.

Medieval exemplarism. Christopher Cullen, S. J. Fordham University, spring 2012.

Aquinas’ questions on God: Summa Theologiae Ia, qq. 1-27. Brian Davies, O. P. Fordham University, fall 2011

Augustine’s early dialogues. Mark Roberts. Franciscan University of Steubenville, summer 2008.

Duns’ Scotus’ questions on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. John R. White. Franciscan University of Steubenville, fall 2007.

Early modern philosophy

Leibniz and Spinoza. Ohad Nachtomy. Fordham University, fall 2011.

Leibniz and Newton. Gregory Brown. University of Houston, fall 2010.

Philosophy and the scientific revolution. Gregory Brown. University of Houston, fall 2009.

Ancient philosophy

Aristotle’s De Anima. Jakovos Vasiliou. CUNY Graduate Center, spring 2014.

Aristotle’s Prior Analytics. Mark Roberts, Franciscan University of Steubenville, spring 2008.

Logic and mathematics

Paradoxes of truth and vagueness. Hartry Field. New York University, fall 2013.

First-order modal logic. Melvin Fitting and Richard L. Mendelsohn. CUNY Graduate Center, fall 2013.

Introduction to non-classical logic. Graham Priest. CUNY Graduate Center, spring 2013.

Philosophy of mathematics. James W. Garson. University of Houston, spring 2010.

Logic and Philosophy. J. D. K. Brown. University of Houston, spring 2010.

Medieval studies

History

The 12^th century renaissance. Alex J. Novikoff. Fordham University, spring 2014.

Manuscript studies

Medieval books and readers. Richard Gyug. Fordham University, spring 2014.

Manuscript culture. Susanne Hafner. Fordham University, fall 2012.

Latin palaeography. John R. Clark. Fordham University, spring 2012.

Medieval theology

Medieval scholasticism. Franklin T. Harkins. Fordham University, summer 2013.

Medieval biblical exegesis. Franklin T. Harkins. Fordham University, fall 2011.

References

Gyula Klima, Professor of Philosophy

Fordham University

Department of Philosophy

Collins Hall 101

441 E. Fordham Rd

Bronx, NY 10458

Stephen Read, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Logic

Arché Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics, and Epistemology

17-19 College St.

University of St Andrews

Scotland KY16 9AL

United Kingdom

Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Graduate Center, City University of New York

Department of Philosophy

365 5^th Ave

New York, NY 10016

Giorgio Pini, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Fordham University

Department of Philosophy

Collins Hall 101

441 E. Fordham Rd

Bronx, NY 10458

John J. Drummond, Robert Southwell S. J. Distinguished Professor in the Humanities  [Teaching Reference]

Fordham University

Collins Hall 101

441 E. Fordham Rd

Bronx, NY 10458