I am currently on sabbatical (July 2026–June 2027). Course pages below contain syllabi, handouts, and other materials made openly available. Students in current courses should use Brightspace for all course administration.
Current Courses (2025–26)
PHILOSOP 2202G — Early Modern Philosophy (Winter, enrolment 85)
A survey of European philosophy from Descartes through Hume. → Course page
PHILOSOP 3024G — Leibniz (Winter, enrolment 23)
An advanced undergraduate course devoted to the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. → Course page
PHILOSOP 3031F — Women in Early Modern Philosophy (Fall, enrolment 29)
An examination of early modern women philosophers: Cavendish, Conway, Astell, du Châtelet, and others. → Course page
PHILOSOP 4991F/9047A — The History of Philosophy of Language: Ancient and Medieval (Fall, combined enrolment 43)
A combined undergraduate/graduate seminar from the Pre-Socratics through the late medieval period. → Course page
Graduate Supervision
Current PhD Students
Fabio Malfara — Dissertation in progress (supervisor)
Leonie Webb — Dissertation in progress (supervisor)
Austin Noonan — Dissertation in progress (advisory committee)
Recent Completions
Benjamin Formanek — George Berkeley and the Activity of Finite Spirits (PhD, defended February 2026)
James Mackey — The 17th Century Legacy of Stoic Ethics (PhD, 2024); now postdoc, University College Dublin
Lingxiang Du — “Margaret Cavendish on Voluntary Action” (MA, 2025)
Eric Fontaine — “Rational Perception and the Plenum in Margaret Cavendish” (MA, 2025)
Leonie Webb — “Exploring Ecofeminism and Ecocentrism in Margaret Cavendish’s Metaphysics” (MA, 2025)
Sydney Turner — “Food as Intimacy” (MA, 2024)
Graduate Student Support
I maintain an open-access series of guides for graduate students in philosophy, covering every stage from pre-application through the job market. → Graduate Student Support Series
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