Associate Lecture in Early Modern Philosophy, University of St Andrews || Spinoza, Conway, and Motion ⚪ he/him/his
Dundee, Scotland
Joined April 2015
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My paper, "Anne Conway on the Silence of Mechanism," wherein I argue that all members of Conway's created ontology not only have phenomenal capacities, but have actualized phenomenal states (specifically, pain), has just been published in the History of Philosophy Quarterly!
Expect a talk with lots of variety (qualitatively speaking). Come for the metaphysics, stay for the mechanics.
Very happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Expansive Necessitarianism," has been published open access in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Turns out when you have a wild metaphysics, as Spinoza does, you also get a pretty wild ontology.
I'm happy to share (on Anne Conway's 394th birthday, by coincidence) that my paper, "Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole," has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy
doi.org/10.25894/jmp.2548
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @asalgadoborge and @alexxdouglas for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S00318191250…
That's my cue. Gonna go ahead and start tweeting about Star Wars and 17th-century metaphysics for 4 likes in a new venue. If that's your jam, find me at 1part-harmony.bsky.social
After spending the past four years closely dissecting certain features of Cartesian physics, today I have arrived at the tentative conclusion that Descartes *may* have gotten a few things very badly wrong.
normalize taking a day off work because you haven't emotionally recovered from your Lord of the Rings marathon yesterday
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The lottery is only legal because the government uses it to catch time travelers.
