About

photo (1)I am currently the McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tulsa. Before coming to Tulsa, I was a professor at The University of South Carolina and The University of Chicago.

I work primarily on the history of ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics. I am writing a book entitled The Principle of Life: Aristotelian Souls in an Inanimate World. It concerns the distinction between the animate and the inanimate, the unity of living organisms, nutrition, birth, death and, more generally, what one’s metaphysical world-view looks like if one takes life to be central.

In addition to this main area of research, I have secondary projects (and occasionally publish) in the philosophy of perception and mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of action.