Publications
"Statecraft and Self-Government: On the Task of the Statesman in Plato's Statesman"
Ergo, vol. 9, no. 27 (2022).
"Schelling and the Philebus: Limit and the Unlimited in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature" (with Naomi Fisher)
Epoché , vol. 26, no. 2 (2022): 347-367.
"Against Isocrates"
Nexus, vol. I (2021).
"Normativity in Plato's Philebus"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 8 (2020): 966-980.
"A Plausible Doctrine of the Mean"
The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 71, no. 1 (2018): 53-75.
"Measurement and Mathematics in Plato's Statesman"
Ancient Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 1 (2018): 69-78.
"Epictetus on the Epistemology of the Art of Living"
Apeiron, vol. 48, no. 1 (2015): 20-44.
"Epictetus's Moral Epistemology"
In Epictetus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance, eds. Gordon, D. and Suits, D. (Rochester, NY: RIT Press) (2014): 77-87.
Ergo, vol. 9, no. 27 (2022).
"Schelling and the Philebus: Limit and the Unlimited in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature" (with Naomi Fisher)
Epoché , vol. 26, no. 2 (2022): 347-367.
"Against Isocrates"
Nexus, vol. I (2021).
"Normativity in Plato's Philebus"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 8 (2020): 966-980.
"A Plausible Doctrine of the Mean"
The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 71, no. 1 (2018): 53-75.
"Measurement and Mathematics in Plato's Statesman"
Ancient Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 1 (2018): 69-78.
"Epictetus on the Epistemology of the Art of Living"
Apeiron, vol. 48, no. 1 (2015): 20-44.
"Epictetus's Moral Epistemology"
In Epictetus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance, eds. Gordon, D. and Suits, D. (Rochester, NY: RIT Press) (2014): 77-87.
Papers under Submission (titles omitted)
None at the moment.
Work in Progress
"Social Justice in the Aristotelian Tradition"
This book-length project traces the history of the concept of social justice within the Aristotelian tradition--the tradition in which the phrase 'social justice' was coined--and then explicates the implications of this view for how we think about social justice today. I start with Aristotle's account of general justice, move on to consider Aquinas' account of legal justice, and then end with an overview of social justice as it appears in Catholic Social Teaching (both in the work of Luigi Taparelli SJ, and in various papal documents). According to this tradition, social justice takes the common good as its primary object, and social justice consists in the duties that citizens themselves have to contribute to the common good through the virtuous conduct of their lives.
"Aristotle against the State"
This paper considers the multiple arguments that Aristotle gives for why political communities must be of a relatively small size (small relative to contemporary states, at least). Most of these arguments point to problems that contemporary states have addressed or solved. However, I argue that Aristotle's considered argument for the necessity of relatively small political communities does indeed point to a serious problem for the contemporary nation-state--namely, that such states must, in virtue of their size, act unjustly in the distribution of offices, which is, in turn, seriously inimical to the common good.
"Aristotle, Particularism, and the Purpose of Ethical Theory"
This paper explores ethical generalizations in Aristotle's ethics. It classifies the various kinds of ethical generalizations that Aristotle either mentions or implicitly appeals to and then analyzes whether Aristotle gives a particularist or generalist treatment of them. The result is that Aristotle does not fit neatly into either the particularist or generalist camp. The paper closes with some reflections on what the purpose of ethical theory is, given Aristotle's treatment of ethical generalizations.
"The Demise of the Philosopher-King: Statecraft in Plato's Late Dialogues"
This paper explicates the epistemology of the Philebus and the final definition of statecraft in the Statesman, and then it shows that given the discussions in these two dialogues, the late Plato has clearly abandoned the Republic's ideal of the philosopher-king and that he has done so for decidedly Platonic reasons.
This book-length project traces the history of the concept of social justice within the Aristotelian tradition--the tradition in which the phrase 'social justice' was coined--and then explicates the implications of this view for how we think about social justice today. I start with Aristotle's account of general justice, move on to consider Aquinas' account of legal justice, and then end with an overview of social justice as it appears in Catholic Social Teaching (both in the work of Luigi Taparelli SJ, and in various papal documents). According to this tradition, social justice takes the common good as its primary object, and social justice consists in the duties that citizens themselves have to contribute to the common good through the virtuous conduct of their lives.
"Aristotle against the State"
This paper considers the multiple arguments that Aristotle gives for why political communities must be of a relatively small size (small relative to contemporary states, at least). Most of these arguments point to problems that contemporary states have addressed or solved. However, I argue that Aristotle's considered argument for the necessity of relatively small political communities does indeed point to a serious problem for the contemporary nation-state--namely, that such states must, in virtue of their size, act unjustly in the distribution of offices, which is, in turn, seriously inimical to the common good.
"Aristotle, Particularism, and the Purpose of Ethical Theory"
This paper explores ethical generalizations in Aristotle's ethics. It classifies the various kinds of ethical generalizations that Aristotle either mentions or implicitly appeals to and then analyzes whether Aristotle gives a particularist or generalist treatment of them. The result is that Aristotle does not fit neatly into either the particularist or generalist camp. The paper closes with some reflections on what the purpose of ethical theory is, given Aristotle's treatment of ethical generalizations.
"The Demise of the Philosopher-King: Statecraft in Plato's Late Dialogues"
This paper explicates the epistemology of the Philebus and the final definition of statecraft in the Statesman, and then it shows that given the discussions in these two dialogues, the late Plato has clearly abandoned the Republic's ideal of the philosopher-king and that he has done so for decidedly Platonic reasons.
Dissertation |
"Nothing in Excess: The Ethics of Measure and the Mean in Plato and Aristotle"