Columbia University • Ph.D. with distinction • Philosophy, specialty in ethics
PUBLICATIONS
1) ACADEMIC |
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“What Did Adam Smith Learn from François Quesnay?” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 18.2: 175-91 |
2020 |
“Adam Smith’s Newtonian Ideals,” Adam Smith Review 11: 297-314 |
2019 |
*“Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand: A Brief History,” Adam Smith Review 9: 88-104 |
2017 |
“Always or Never: Two Approaches to Ceteris Paribus,” Erkenntnis 77: 317-33 |
2012 |
“The ‘Sub-Rational’ in Scottish Moral Science,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9: 225-38 |
2011 |
“Aristotle and the Argument to End All Arguments,” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell), 98-100 |
2011 |
Footnote to a Footnote, Isis 100: 861-62 |
2009 |
“The Invisible Hand of Natural Selection, and Vice Versa,” Biology and Philosophy 13: 427-42 |
1998 |
“What Conflict-of-Duty is Not,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66: 204-215 |
1985 |
“Contrary-to-Duty Justification,” Philosophical Studies 36: 1-18 |
1979 |
Review of Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, Journal of Philosophy 76: 88-91 |
1979 |
“Institutional versus Moral Obligations,” Journal of Philosophy 74: 587-89 |
1977 |
“How to Confuse Commitment with Obligation,” Journal of Philosophy 72: 276-284 |
1975 |
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2) INDEPENDENT SCHOLARLY |
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“When Worlds (Moral and Causal) Collide,” Philosophy Now 137 (April/May) |
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2020 |
“Hail, Malthus,” Philosophy Now 125 (Apr/May) |
2018 |
“Moral Certainty,” Philosophy Now 118 (Feb/Mar) |
2017 |
“Town-Gown Collaboration: The Example of Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” The Independent Scholar |
2016 |
“The Life and Death of Common Sense,” Philosophy Now 110 (Oct/Nov) |
2015 |
“‘That Mystery of Mysteries’ (the Origin of Species),” Philosophy Now 105 (Nov/Dec) |
2014 |
“Consilience,” Philosophy Now 95 (Mar/Apr) |
2013 |
“Hypotheses (Non) Fingo,” Philosophy Now 88 (Jan/Feb) |
2012 |
“Parsimony, In as Few Words as Possible,” Philosophy Now 81 (Oct/Nov) |
2010 |
“Two Wise Clubs: The Legacy of Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment,” International Journal of Independent Scholars, inaugural issue |
2010 |
“Don’t Blame Adam Smith,” Philosophy Now 73 (May/June) |
2009 |
“The Better-Best Fallacy,” Philosophy Now 70 (Nov/Dec) |
2008 |
“Is Philosophy Progressive?” Philosophy Now 59 (Jan/Feb) |
2007 |
“The Ontological Argument and the Sin of Hubris,” Philosophy Now 53 (Nov/Dec) |
2005 |
“John Herschel, ‘Independent Amateur,’” The Independent Scholar 19:1 |
2005 |
“John Herschel,” Philosophy Now 48 (Nov/Dec) |
2004 |
“The Enlightenments,” Philosophy Now 40 (Mar/Apr) |
2003 |
“Why Philosophy Matters, or Just Say ‘If’,” The Independent Scholar 17:1 |
2003 |
“Taming the Skeptical Dragon,” Philosophy Now 35 (Mar/Apr) |
2002 |
“The Noble Legacy (and Present Eclipse) of Independent Scholarship,” The Independent Scholar 14:1 |
2000 |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, 2000-PRESENT
May 2024: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Princeton Theological Seminary |
July 2023: Adam Smith Society, St. Andrews |
October 2022: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Ottawa |
August 2020: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, via Zoom |
July 2018: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Glasgow University |
March 2017: Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton |
March 2016: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Pittsburgh |
July 2015: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Rotterdam |
June 2015: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Yale University |
October 2014: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Montreal |
June 2014: International Society for Intellectual History, University of Toronto |
July 2013: International Adam Smith Society, the Sorbonne |
June 2013: International Society for Intellectual History, Princeton University |
September 2012: Conference on Scottish Common Sense, Princeton Theological Seminary |
April 2012: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Columbia, South Carolina |
July 2011: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Aberdeen, Scotland |
March 2011: Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Penn State Ambler |
June 2010: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Princeton |
March 2010: American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Albuquerque |
January 2009: Adam Smith Society, Balliol College, Oxford University |
October 2004: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, New York City |
April 2003: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Charleston, South Carolina |
October 2002: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Vancouver |
October 2000: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Raleigh, North Carolina |
March 2000: Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah |
AFFILIATIONS
AWARDS
2023 NCIS presentation grant for paper presented at the University of St. Andrews |
2018 Ronin Institute travel/presentation grant for paper presented in Glasgow |
*2017 NCIS Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize (co-presentee) |
2015 PRF Frances C. Hutner Presentation Grant for paper presented in Rotterdam |
2011 PRF Frances C. Hutner Presentation Grant for paper presented in Aberdeen |
2009 NCIS travel/presentation grant for paper presented at Balliol College, Oxford |
Phi Beta Kappa |
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