Editor, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (ACPQ)

Academic History
Ph.D., Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
M.S., History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 
M.S., Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
B.S., Mathematics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Expertise
Early Modern Philosophy
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Logic
History and Philosophy of Science

Representative Publications and Presentations
"Systemic Reflections on the De auxiliis Controversy." Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, August 2008. 

Descartes' Theory of Ideas (London: Continuum Press, 2007).   

"The metaphysics of cognition in Descartes and some seventeenth-century Jesuit texts." Conference "Bohemia Jesuitica," Prague, April 2006.      
 
"Descartes' Direct Realisms." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, April 2005.
 
"Much Ado About Non-Things."  American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, March 2004; Eighth Annual Southern California Conference of Philosophy, Riverside, October 2003. 
 
"Material Falsity in Descartes: A Non-Issue?" American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, April 2002.

"A Paradox of Actuality." Analysis 61 (2001): 139-41.
 
"Priest's Paradox." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.  Albuquerque, April 2000

"Berkeley, Anselm and Semantic Paradox: A New Perspective on the Master Argument." International Berkeley Society Conference, Newport, R.I., April 21-24, 1999.  

"On the Consistency of Realism." Southwest Philosophy Review 15 (1999): 55-64.