Aristotle’s scientific inquiries into nature are just as much philosophical inquiries into scientific activity. A guiding motivation of my research is to extract the philosophical innovations that come out of his investigations. I am currently advancing this research primarily by way of a comprehensive project on Aristotle’s treatment of his predecessors and the role the tradition plays in shaping and measuring progress.

Publications

• “The Reception of Aristotle’s Rejection of the Elemental Soul” (forthcoming). Natural and Psychological Causality from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern World.

• “Soul-Searching in De Anima i 2” (forthcoming). Ancient Philosophy.

In Progress

• “Predication and Progress: How Aristotle Defines the Soul”

• “How ‘What?’ Became ‘Why?’”

• “Revisiting the Status of Plato’s Account in the Timaeus”

• “Speaker Transitions in Plato’s Republic”

• “Aristotle, Bertalanffy, and Biological Processes”