For the next few years, I will be working almost exclusively on two large projects, a monograph on the medieval origins of modern philosophy (aka "The Grand Unified Theory"), and a new Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy.
The Grand Unified Theory
Today is the last day of my sabbatical, and I have now written nineteen chapters. Unfortunately, the plan for the book now calls for a total of 32 chapters. Here is the revised table of contents.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
This volume will update the Kretzmann et al. volume of 1982, and provide a more comprehensive picture of medieval philosophy in its different aspects, from East to West, and from the ninth century through the fourteenth. Here is my brief Introduction to the volume.
Forthcoming Papers
"The Event of Color," Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
Abstract. I argue that there is another, hitherto unnoticed way of thinking about color: that colors are not standing properties or dispositions of objects, but events that take place when an surface is illuminated by light. If physicalism about color is true at all, this is its most defensible form.
Unpublished Translations
- Siger of Brabant, Questions on De anima Book III
- A complete translation, albeit rough and unchecked, including some suggested emendations to the text.
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Francisco Suarez, On Quantity (excerpt from Disputationes Metaphysicae XL).
- A translation, with facing Latin, of section 2 of Suarez's interesting account of the category of quantity,
where he argues against the nominalist's (esp. Ockham's) reductive treatment of quantity, and sketches his own view.
- Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscentia
- A rough translation of chapters two and three, based on the Leonine edition.
- Peter John Olivi, Questions on the Sentences, Book II
- These translations are revised versions of what appears in the appendix of my dissertation.
- Peter Aureol, Does an accident have an essence and reality that is bounded and complete? (IV Sent. d.12 q.1 a.1)
- A dense but rewarding discussion of the ontological status of accidents.
Unpublished Texts and Notes
Last revised December 4, 2007.