Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago (2010)

Research

My main research has been in the history of metaphysics and the history of philosophy of mind. Right now I’m particularly interested in the history of idealism, intentionality, and panpsychism. My published work has focused on early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, but also Cavendish and Descartes. I’m increasingly interested in late 19th- and early 20th- century Idealism and phenomenology, and I have long-standing interests in continental philosophy, philosophy of art, and philosophical theology.

Publications

Work in progress and forthcoming:

  • Spinoza on Mind: Metaphysics, Idealism, and Intentionality (a monograph)
  • Co-editor, with Antonio Salgado Borge (Nottingham): Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes (under contract with CUP)
  • “How to be a mereological panpsychist”, in Systematicity in Metaphysics, ed. Aaron Segal and Nick Stang, Oxford UP / Mind Association Occasional Series, 2025

Selected recent publications:

  • Co-editor, with Justin Steinberg(Cornell), Cambridge Lexicon to Spinoza, 2024. Authored entries on Beings of reason and universals, Idealist Readings (with Stephen Zylstra), Following, Language, and Infinite intellect (with Josefine Klingspor).
  • “Spinoza on expression and grounds of intelligibility” (2022), with Róbert Mátyási, Philosophical Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab056.
  • “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s philosophy” (2022), in the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Selected for the Philosopher’s Annual 2022
  • “Spinoza’s epistemology and philosophy of mind”, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-epistemology-mind/
  • “Spinoza on the limits of explanation” (2021), in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12711. 
  • “Spinoza on universals” (2021), in the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, ed. Y. Melamed.