Metaphysics
“Prime Matter and the Quantum Wave Function,” Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 6(1):92-119.
“Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies,” in Powers, Parts, and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers, Anna Marmodoro and Andrea Roselli (eds.), (London: Routledge, 2023).
"A Dynamic B Theory of Time," in Free Will and the Laws of Nature, Christopher Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli (eds.) (Synthese Library, 2022), pp. 69-82.
“Remnants of Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Resolution of the Puzzles,” (2020) Quaestiones Disputatae 10(2):53-68. (Develops an Aristotelian, hylomorphic account of modern physics and chemistry, distinguishing substances from fragments and remnants of substances.)
"Advancing the Aristotelian Project in Contemporary Metaphysics: A Review Essay," Philosophia Christi (2020) 21(2):434-444.
“Aristotelians and the A/B Theory Debate about Time: A Response to Edward Feser,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94(3):463-74 (2020).
"Forms as Simple and Individual Grounds of Things' Natures," Metaphysics 1(1):1-11 (2018). (A theory of Aristotelian substantial forms)
"Aristotle's Formal Identity of Intellect and Object: A Solution to the Problem of Modal Epistemology," Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 1(2019):84-107
“Staunch vs. Faint-hearted Hylomorphism: Toward an Aristotelian Account of Composition,” Res Philosophica 91 (2014):1-27. .
"Review of Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field," Mind 112(2003):119-126.
Book Review: Phil Dowe, Physical Causation, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(2003):244-248
"Teleology as Higher-Order Causation: A Situation Theoretic Account," Minds and Machines 8(Dec. 1998):559-585.
"Defeasible Reasoning," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (May 2017).
“Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies,” in Powers, Parts, and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers, Anna Marmodoro and Andrea Roselli (eds.), (London: Routledge, 2023).
"A Dynamic B Theory of Time," in Free Will and the Laws of Nature, Christopher Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli (eds.) (Synthese Library, 2022), pp. 69-82.
“Remnants of Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Resolution of the Puzzles,” (2020) Quaestiones Disputatae 10(2):53-68. (Develops an Aristotelian, hylomorphic account of modern physics and chemistry, distinguishing substances from fragments and remnants of substances.)
"Advancing the Aristotelian Project in Contemporary Metaphysics: A Review Essay," Philosophia Christi (2020) 21(2):434-444.
“Aristotelians and the A/B Theory Debate about Time: A Response to Edward Feser,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94(3):463-74 (2020).
"Forms as Simple and Individual Grounds of Things' Natures," Metaphysics 1(1):1-11 (2018). (A theory of Aristotelian substantial forms)
"Aristotle's Formal Identity of Intellect and Object: A Solution to the Problem of Modal Epistemology," Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi 1(2019):84-107
“Staunch vs. Faint-hearted Hylomorphism: Toward an Aristotelian Account of Composition,” Res Philosophica 91 (2014):1-27. .
"Review of Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field," Mind 112(2003):119-126.
Book Review: Phil Dowe, Physical Causation, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(2003):244-248
"Teleology as Higher-Order Causation: A Situation Theoretic Account," Minds and Machines 8(Dec. 1998):559-585.
"Defeasible Reasoning," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (May 2017).
Philosophy of Nature/Physics
“Essential Thermochemical and Biological Powers,” in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature, William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and James Orr, eds. (London: Routledge, 2022).
“The Neo-Aristotelian Renaissance,” Sapientia, 2020, https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/sapientia/.
“The Quantum Revolution and the Reconciliation of Science and Humanism,” The New Apologetics, Matthew Nelson (ed.) (Irving, TX: WOF Institute).
"Essential Thermochemical and Biological Powers," in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature, William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and James Orr, eds. (London: Routledge, 2022).
"Powers Ontology and the Quantum Revolution," (2021), European Journal of Philosophy of Science 11(1):1-28. (How quantum chemistry and the measurement problem support Aristotelian metaphysics)
"Thermal Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Ontology for the Quantum World," Synthese (2019), dot:10.1007/211229-019-02318-2.
"Hylomorphic Escalation: A Hylomorphic Interpretation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Chemistry," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92(2018):159-78.
"The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative," in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, ed. William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas Teh (Routledge 2017), pp. 61-104.
“The Neo-Aristotelian Renaissance,” Sapientia, 2020, https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/sapientia/.
“The Quantum Revolution and the Reconciliation of Science and Humanism,” The New Apologetics, Matthew Nelson (ed.) (Irving, TX: WOF Institute).
"Essential Thermochemical and Biological Powers," in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature, William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and James Orr, eds. (London: Routledge, 2022).
"Powers Ontology and the Quantum Revolution," (2021), European Journal of Philosophy of Science 11(1):1-28. (How quantum chemistry and the measurement problem support Aristotelian metaphysics)
"Thermal Substances: A Neo-Aristotelian Ontology for the Quantum World," Synthese (2019), dot:10.1007/211229-019-02318-2.
"Hylomorphic Escalation: A Hylomorphic Interpretation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Chemistry," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92(2018):159-78.
"The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative," in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, ed. William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas Teh (Routledge 2017), pp. 61-104.
Philosophy of Religion/Theology
“Does the God of Classical Theism Exist?” in Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God, ed. Jonathan Fuqua and Robert C. Koons (Routledge, 2023).
“Teleology and Design,” in God’s Grandeur, Ann Gauger, ed. (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023).
“Divine Action and the Emergence of Four Kinds of Randomness,” with Rana Dajani, Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence, Kelly James Clark and Jeffrey Koperski (eds.). Palgrave, 2022, 287-310.
“Reconciling Meticulous Divine Providence with Objective Chance,” Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence, Kelly James Clark and Jeffrey Koperski (eds.). Palgrave, 2022, 223-242.
"The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Skepticism," with Alexander R. Pruss, Philosophical Studies (2020) doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01482-3. (Denying the PSR leads to global empirical skepticism.)
"The Argument from Intuition," in Two Dozen or So Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Trent Dougherty and Jerry Walls, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 238-60. (An epistemological argument for God, drawing on Alvin Plantinga's EAAN.)
"Aristotle, God, and the Quantum," in Knowing Creation: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science, Andrew Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, eds. (HarperCollins, 2018), pp. 215-36. (The theological implications of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature, after the quantum revolution.)
"Divine Persons as Relational Qua-Objects," (2018), Religious Studies 54(3):337-357. (My Thomistic account of the Trinity, using modern logical tools.)
"The Grim Reaper Kalam Argument: From Temporal and Causal Finitism to God," in The Kalam Cosmological Argument, volume 1, William L. Craig and Paul Copan, eds. (Bloomsbury, London, 2017), pp 273-84. (My latest version of the Grim Reaper Kalam argument for a First Cause.)
Review of Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence, and the Abundant Life, by Michael Rota, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91(2017):328-331.
"Reason and Religion," in The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Graham Oppy, ed. (Routledge, New York, 2015), pp. 373-88. (Why faith is reasonable, and reason depends on faith)
"A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper," Nous 48(2014):256-67. (My first paper on the Grim Reaper Kalam argument)
"God's Existence," in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Metaphysics (2013), Daniel D. Novotny and Lukas Novak, eds. (Routledge, Oxford), pp. 247-68.
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Intelligent Design,” with Logan Paul Gage, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 (2011):79-97.
"Review of Logic and Theism by J. Howard Sobel," Faith and Philosophy 23 (2006):356-60. (My review of the best defense of atheism.)
"Sobel on Gödel's Ontological Proof," Philosophia Christi 8(2006):235-48.
“Science and Theism: Concord, Not Conflict,” in The Rationality of Theism, edited by Paul K. Moser and Paul Copan (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 72-90
"Dual Agency: A Thomistic Account of Providence and Human Freedom," Philosophia Christi 4(2002):397-410.
"The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism," in Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, William L. Craig and J. P. Moreland, eds. (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 49-63. (Scientific realism depends on a theistic account of the laws of nature.)
"A New Look at the Cosmological Argument," American Philosophical Quarterly 34(1997):171-92. (My first paper on the First Cause argument. Introduces defeasible reasoning, metrical isolation, and the inter-dependence of the cosmological and design arguments.)
"Faith, Probability, and Infinite Passion," Faith and Philosophy 10(April 1993):145-60. (I use probabilistic decision theory to develop an Kierkegaardian account of faith as "infinite passion.")
“Teleology and Design,” in God’s Grandeur, Ann Gauger, ed. (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023).
“Divine Action and the Emergence of Four Kinds of Randomness,” with Rana Dajani, Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence, Kelly James Clark and Jeffrey Koperski (eds.). Palgrave, 2022, 287-310.
“Reconciling Meticulous Divine Providence with Objective Chance,” Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence, Kelly James Clark and Jeffrey Koperski (eds.). Palgrave, 2022, 223-242.
"The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Skepticism," with Alexander R. Pruss, Philosophical Studies (2020) doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01482-3. (Denying the PSR leads to global empirical skepticism.)
"The Argument from Intuition," in Two Dozen or So Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Trent Dougherty and Jerry Walls, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 238-60. (An epistemological argument for God, drawing on Alvin Plantinga's EAAN.)
"Aristotle, God, and the Quantum," in Knowing Creation: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science, Andrew Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, eds. (HarperCollins, 2018), pp. 215-36. (The theological implications of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature, after the quantum revolution.)
"Divine Persons as Relational Qua-Objects," (2018), Religious Studies 54(3):337-357. (My Thomistic account of the Trinity, using modern logical tools.)
"The Grim Reaper Kalam Argument: From Temporal and Causal Finitism to God," in The Kalam Cosmological Argument, volume 1, William L. Craig and Paul Copan, eds. (Bloomsbury, London, 2017), pp 273-84. (My latest version of the Grim Reaper Kalam argument for a First Cause.)
Review of Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence, and the Abundant Life, by Michael Rota, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91(2017):328-331.
"Reason and Religion," in The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Graham Oppy, ed. (Routledge, New York, 2015), pp. 373-88. (Why faith is reasonable, and reason depends on faith)
"A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper," Nous 48(2014):256-67. (My first paper on the Grim Reaper Kalam argument)
"God's Existence," in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Metaphysics (2013), Daniel D. Novotny and Lukas Novak, eds. (Routledge, Oxford), pp. 247-68.
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Intelligent Design,” with Logan Paul Gage, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 (2011):79-97.
"Review of Logic and Theism by J. Howard Sobel," Faith and Philosophy 23 (2006):356-60. (My review of the best defense of atheism.)
"Sobel on Gödel's Ontological Proof," Philosophia Christi 8(2006):235-48.
“Science and Theism: Concord, Not Conflict,” in The Rationality of Theism, edited by Paul K. Moser and Paul Copan (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 72-90
"Dual Agency: A Thomistic Account of Providence and Human Freedom," Philosophia Christi 4(2002):397-410.
"The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism," in Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, William L. Craig and J. P. Moreland, eds. (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 49-63. (Scientific realism depends on a theistic account of the laws of nature.)
"A New Look at the Cosmological Argument," American Philosophical Quarterly 34(1997):171-92. (My first paper on the First Cause argument. Introduces defeasible reasoning, metrical isolation, and the inter-dependence of the cosmological and design arguments.)
"Faith, Probability, and Infinite Passion," Faith and Philosophy 10(April 1993):145-60. (I use probabilistic decision theory to develop an Kierkegaardian account of faith as "infinite passion.")
Philosophy of Mind/Action
"Must a Functionalist be an Aristotelian?" with Alexander R. Pruss, in Causal Powers (2017), Jonathan D. Jacobs, ed. (Oxford University Press), pp. 194-204. (Includes a devastating critique of functionalism as a materialist account of the mind.)
"Objects of Intention: A Hylomorphic Critique of the New Natural Law Theory," with Matthew B. O'Brien, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86(2012):655-703. (How the "new natural law" of Grisez-Finnis fails to account for intentional action, deviating from the model of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Anscombe.)
"Epistemological Objections to Materialism," in The Waning of Materialism (2010), Robert C. Koons and George Bealer, eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford), pp. 281-308.
"The Ontological and Epistemological Superiority of Hylomorphism,” Synthese doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1295-6 (2017)
"Objects of Intention: A Hylomorphic Critique of the New Natural Law Theory," with Matthew B. O'Brien, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86(2012):655-703. (How the "new natural law" of Grisez-Finnis fails to account for intentional action, deviating from the model of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Anscombe.)
"Epistemological Objections to Materialism," in The Waning of Materialism (2010), Robert C. Koons and George Bealer, eds. (Oxford University Press, Oxford), pp. 281-308.
"The Ontological and Epistemological Superiority of Hylomorphism,” Synthese doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1295-6 (2017)
Political Philosophy
Collectivism vs. Individualism, in Academic Questions, Winter 2019.
"Natural Law, the Moral Imagination, and Prudent Exceptions," in The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age (2018), Ryan Houston and Justin Garrison, eds. (SUNY Press, Albany).
"Political Representation, Human Nature, and the Problem of Scale," in in Besinnung auf das Subsidiaritätprinzip (2014), Anton Rauscher, ed. (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot). (Why scale matters in political theory, drawing on Aristotle.)
“The Modest College and the Imperial University,” in The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Culture: The Modest Republic, Michael Federici, Richard Gamble and Mark Mitchell (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
“Gauthier and the Rationality of Justice,” Philosophical Studies 76(1994): 1-26.
"Natural Law, the Moral Imagination, and Prudent Exceptions," in The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age (2018), Ryan Houston and Justin Garrison, eds. (SUNY Press, Albany).
"Political Representation, Human Nature, and the Problem of Scale," in in Besinnung auf das Subsidiaritätprinzip (2014), Anton Rauscher, ed. (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot). (Why scale matters in political theory, drawing on Aristotle.)
“The Modest College and the Imperial University,” in The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Culture: The Modest Republic, Michael Federici, Richard Gamble and Mark Mitchell (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
“Gauthier and the Rationality of Justice,” Philosophical Studies 76(1994): 1-26.