• "Hume on the Distinction of Reason," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming

Essays on Descartes (Oxford University Press, 2009). This includes two previously unpublished essays: "Passion and Motion in the New Mechanics" and "Descartes and Aquinas on Per Se Subsistence and the Union of Soul and Body."

 

• "Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation? Aquinas versus Early Modern Mechanism," in Larry Jorgensen and Samuel Newlands, eds., Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams, (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 295-312.
• "Freedom and Weakness of Will," Ratio 21, March, 2008 pp. 42-54.
• "The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body," in Janet Broughton and John Carriero, eds., A Companion to Descartes, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) pp. 390-403.
• "Descartes's Watch Analogy," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15, 2007, pp. 561-567. (Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution.)
• "Aquinas on Spiritual Change," Medieval Philosophy and Theology, forthcoming
• "Thomas Reid's Notion of Exertion," Journal of the History of Philosophy 44, 2006, pp. 431-447.
• "Locke on the Locked Room," Locke Studies, 5, 2005, pp. 57-74.
• "Aquinas on Threats and Temptations" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86, 2005, pp. 225-242.
• "Plato on Appetitive Desires in the Republic," Apeiron 36, 2003, pp. 171-174.
• "The Passions and Freedom of Will," in Passion and Virtue in Descartes, edited by André Gombay and Byron Williston (New York: Humanity Books, 2003), pp. 261-299.
• "Direct Realism, Intentionality, and the Objective Being of Ideas," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83, 2002, pp. 163-179.
• "Descartes's Theory of Distinction," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, 2002, pp. 57-78.
• "Cartesian Composites," Journal of the History of Philosophy 37, 1999, pp. 251-270.
• "The Being of Leibnizian Phenomena." Studia Leibnitiana 28, 1996, pp. 108-118.
• "Descartes on Misrepresentation," Journal of the History of Philosophy 34, 1996, pp. 357-381.
• "Responses to Chappell and Watson," Philosophical Studies 77, 1995, pp. 283-292.
• "Strength and Freedom of Will: Descartes and Albritton," Philosophical Studies 77, 1995, pp. 241-260.
• "Alternative Possibilities: A Reply to Lamb," (with John Fischer), Journal of Philosophy 91, 1994, pp. 321-326.
• "Three Dualist Theories of the Passions," Philosophical Topics 19, 1991, pp. 153-200.
• "Cartesian Passions and Cartesian Dualism," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 71, 1990, pp. 310-333
• "St. Thomas Aquinas on the Halfway State of Sensible Being," The Philosophical Review 99, 1990, pp. 73-92.
• "The Unity of Descartes's Man"The Philosophical Review 95, 1986, pp. 339-370.
• "Kripke on Private Language," Philosophical Studies 47, 1985, pp. 23-28.