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University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy
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Stephen D. Dumont Professor of Philosophy Fellow of the Medieval Institute |
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Department of Philosophy Malloy Hall 100 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556
Office: Malloy Hall 305 574-631-3757
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I am a member of the Department of Philosophy and a Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. I came to Notre Dame in 2001 after having taught at the University of Toronto for sixteen years, where I held appointments in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies, and the Department of Philosophy.
My area of research is medieval philosophy and theology, with a teaching interest in ancient philosophy. My publications have focused on the high scholastic period of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with a major interest in John Duns Scotus (d. 1308). I have written on most areas of his thought, paying special attention to his intellectual relationship to his contem poraries, particularly his predecessor and principal source, Henry of Ghent (d. 1293), as well to the literary difficulties of his notoriously unstable corpus. For the past two years, I have been a part of an NEH supported collaborative grant at Notre Dame (NEH Grant RQ-50549-11) to produce a critical edition of Scotus’s Parisian works. I am also currently finishing a project on the medieval problem of intensification and remission of forms, a topic notable for its role in the fourteenth-century development of a mathe matical analysis of motion. Most recently, I been awarded an NEH Fellowship for my longer term project on the medieval theory of the will, particularly on the reception of Anselm of Canterbury’s doctrine of the ‘two affections’, which Scotus developed in an important way as part of his volun tarism.
I am married to Carrie, who is an attorney with DHX Media. |
