On Leave - 2012-2013 Academic Year

Academic History
Ph.D., Philosophy, Saint Louis University, October 2008
           Dissertation: The Truthmakers for Modal Truths in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas
           Committee: Eleonore Stump (Chair), Scott Berman, and Joseph Salerno

Academic Positions and Employment
Visiting Assistant Professor through the Analytic Theology Residential Fellowship, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, 2012-2013

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Thomas, 2008-

Areas of Specialization
Contemporary Metaphysics
Thomistic Philosophy (esp. Metaphysics)
Philosophy of Religion

Areas of Competence
Epistemology
Logic

Publications: Articles and Book Chapters
"Traditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism," The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.1 (2012): 197-218.

"Transubstantiation, Tropes, and Truthmakers," The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012): 71-96. 

""The Five Ways" in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas, ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012): 115-131.

"The Five Ways" in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (ed. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011): 9-17.

The Possibility Principle and the Truthmakers for Modal Truths," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88.3 (2010): 417-428.

"Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven," (co-authored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): 398-419. 

Publications: Encyclopedia Entries
"Divine Immutability," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009
http://www.iep.utm.edu/div-immu/
"St. Thomas Aquinas" The Literary Encyclopedia, 2009
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=135
Publications: Reviews and Booknotes
Paul Weingartner's God's Existence: Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, Ontos Verlag, 2010; The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3:1 (2011): 243-248.

Mark Ian Thomas Robson's Ontology and Providence in Creation: Taking Ex Nihilo Seriously, Continuum, 2008; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.