Unpublished philosophical pieces

Unpublished Philosophical Pieces

"Christ: Unum vel duo? Esse, Union, and the Incarnation in St. Thomas" (2006): This is an outline of a presentation I gave at the 2006 Summer Thomistic Institute, University of Notre Dame.

"Comments on Sleigh and Carriero" (1997): These are comments I gave in reply to Robert Sleigh's paper "The Scholastic Influences on Leibniz's Doctrine of Divine Physical Concurrence" and John Carriero's paper "Substance and Teleology in Leibniz"

Comment on John Jenkins's "Intellect, Will, and the Assent of Faith in Thomas Aquinas"(1996)

"The Necessity for Revelation: A Primer on Summa Contra Gentles 1, chaps. 1-9"(1996)

Comment on Michael Murray's "Leibniz on Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and Human Freedom" (1993)

"St. Thomas's Rejection of Ockham's Way Out" (1992)

Comment on Brian Leftow's "Aquinas on Dimensions and Individuation" (1991)

"A Suarezian Model of Efficient Causality" (1990) (An extensively revised version of this paper appears as a part of the introductory essay, "Suarez on Metaphysical Inquiry, Efficient Causality, and Divine Action," in Francisco Suarez, On Creation, Conservation, and Concurrence: Metaphysical Disputations 20, 21, and 22 (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, November 1999).

Comment on Peter van Inwagen's "The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God" (1987)