Selected Papers

“Powers in Britain, 1689-1827,” in ed. Julia Jorati, Powers.  Oxford, 2021.

“Locke on the Guise of the Good.” Philosophical Explorations, January 2021, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2020.1868112.

“Mary Shepherd on Causation, Induction, and Natural Kinds.”  Philosophers’ Imprint 19.52 (December 2019).

“Persons in 17th and 18th Century British Philosophy.”  In ed. Antonia LoLordo, Persons.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2019. 

"Gassendi’s Critique of Cartesianism.”  In ed. Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesianism.  New York: Oxford, 2019.

“Hobbes and Gassendi on Knowledge” (with Stewart Duncan).  In ed. Stephen Gaukroger, Knowledge in Modern Philosophy.  Bloomsbury, 2018.

“Gassendi on the Problem of Universals.”  In ed. Stefano Di Bella and Tad Schmaltz, The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy.  Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Jonathan Edwards’s Monism.”  Philosophers’ Imprint 17.2 (2017).

“Locke on Freedom.”  In ed. Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, and Kevin Timpe, The Routledge Companion to Free Will.  New York: Routledge.  2016. 

“Gassendi on Skepticism.”  In ed. Diego Machuca and Baron Reed, Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present.  Bloomsbury.  2016.

“Copernicus, Epicurus, Galileo, and Gassendi.”  Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 51 (June 2015), 82-88.

“Jonathan Edwards’s Argument Concerning Persistence.”  Philosophers’ Imprint 14.24 (July 2014).

“Three Problems in Locke’s Ontology of Substance and Mode.”  In ed. Martin Lenz and Anik Waldow, ­Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy.  Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29, 51-64 (2013). 

“Primary and Secondary Qualities:  Gassendi, Charleton and 17th Century Atomism”.  In ed. Larry Nolan, Primary and Secondary Qualities:  The Modern Debate.  Oxford, 2011.

“Epicureanism and Early Modern Naturalism.”  British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19.4 (July 2011), 647-664.

“Locke on Substance, Mode, Person and ‘the moral Man.”  Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40.4 (December 2010), 643-688.

“Locke’s Problem Concerning Perceptual Error.”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXVII.3 (November 2008), 705-724.

“Epicurus and Galileo in Gassendi’s Physics.”  Philosophy Compass (Jan 2008) 3.2, 301-314.

“Descartes and Malebranche on Thought, Sensation and the Nature of the Mind.”  Journal of the History of Philosophy 43.4 (2005), 387-402.

“Gassendi on Human Knowledge of the Mind.”  Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 87.1, 1-21 (2005).

“'Descartes’ One Rule of Logic’:  Gassendi’s Critique of Clear and Distinct Perception.”  British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13.1 (2005), 51-72

“Probability and Skepticism about Reason in Hume’s Treatise.”  British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8.3 (2000), 419-446.