“Descartes and Gassendi on Matter and Mind: From Aristotelian Pluralism to Early Modern Dualism,” Meeting of the Minds (Recontres de Philosophie Medievale, 7), ed. Stephen F. Brown (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998) , pp. 145 - 166.

"Francis Hutcheson and the Glasgow School of Logic," Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. P. Easton, North American Kant Society, (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 83-97.

"Daniel Sennert on Matter and Form: At the Juncture of the Old and the New," Early Science and Medicine, pp. 272 - 300, 1997.

"Gassendi's Modified Epicureanism and British Moral Philosophy,” History of European Ideas, 1995, pp. 743 -761.

"Thomas Lennon's The Battle of the Gods and Giants" , Locke Newsletter, 1995, pp.156-172.

"Francis Hutcheson's Confusing University Career," Notes and Queries, March 1995, pp. 56-59.

"Gassendi's Method Illustrated by His Account of the Soul", Pierre Gassendi 1592-1992, vol. 1 (Digne-Les-Bains: Societe Scientifique et Litteraire des Alpes de Haute-Provence, 1994), pp. 181-193.

"The Nature and Influence of Late Renaissance Paduan Psychology", History of Universities, Fall, 1993, pp.65-94.

"Averroes and the Plurality of Forms, "Franciscan Studies, 1992, pp. 155-182.

"Vegetarianism and Virtue: Gassendi's Epicurean Defense", Between the Species, vol.7, 1991, pp. 61-72.

"Hierarchy and Early Empiricism" in Anti-Foundationalism Old and New (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991), pp. 85-104.

"The Theory of Ideas in Gassendi and Locke," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 51, 1990, pp.379-399.

"A Note on Gassendi in England," Notes and Queries, vol.235, 1990, pp. 297-299.

"Hutcheson's Account of Beauty as a Response to Mandeville," History of European Ideas, vol. 12, 1990, pp.655-668.

"Corporeal Ideas in Seventeenth Century Psychology," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol.50,1989, pp.31-48.

"Two Early Modern Concepts of Mind: Reflecting Substance vs. Thinking Substance,"
Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol.27, 1989, pp.29-47.

"Gassendi On Sensation and Reflection: A Non-Cartesian Dualism," History of European Ideas, vol.9, 1988, pp.583-595.

"Reid's Hume: Remarks on Hume in Some Early Logic Lectures of Reid," Monist, vol.70, 1987, pp.508-526.

"Francis Hutcheson on Aesthetic Perception and Aesthetic Pleasure", British Journal of Aesthetics, vol.24, 1984, pp.241 -255.

"An Examination of the Influence of Boole's Algebra on Peirce's Developments in Logic" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.20, 1979, pp.801 -807.

"Some Considerations in Medieval Tense Logic" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.20, 1979, pp.794 -800.

"A Note on Peirce on Boole's Algebra of Logic" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.20, 1979, pp.636 -639.

"Peirce on the Nature of Logic," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.20, 1979, pp. 84 -88.

"An Adaptation of Kant's Definition of Logic in the Early Manuscripts of C.S. Peirce", Transactions of the C.S.Peirce Society, vol. 14, 1978.

"A Note on the Roots of Peirce's Division of Logic into Three Branches", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.18, 1977.

"Peirce on Individuals", Transactions of the C.S.Peirce Society, vol.12, 1976, pp.321 -330.

"Peirce's Earliest Contact with Scholastic Logic", Transactions of the C.S,Peirce Society, vol.12, 1976, pp.46 -56.

"Peirce's Paradoxical Solution to the Liar's Paradox", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.16, 1975, pp.369 -373.

"Peirce's Early Study of the Logic of Relations, 1865 -1867", Transactions of the C.S.Peirce Society, vol.10, 1974, pp.63 -75.

RECENT ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:

“Thomas Harriot,” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), vol. 3, p. 119.

“Concept of Humanity,” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), vol. 3, pp. 233 - 235.

“Psychology,” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), vol. 5, pp. 184 - 186.

"Pierre Gassendi," Encyclopedia of Empiricism, ed. Barbanell & Garrett (Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 113 - 121.

SELECTED RECENT REVIEWS:

La Mettrie, Machine Man and Other Writings , ed. By Ann Thomson (Cambridge, 1996), British Journal for the History of Science , 1998.

The Enigmatic Parting Shot, by James Sommerville, British Journal of the History of Philosophy , 1998.

Descartes’s Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking, by Dennis Sepper, Journal of the History of Philosophy , 1998.

Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic, by E. Stump, Informal Logic, 1998.

Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Descartes's Metaphysics, edited by John Cottingham History of European Ideas , 1996.

Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics by R.S. Woolhouse, History of European Ideas , 1996.

The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics by A.P. Martinich History of European Ideas , 1996.

Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism by Laurie M. Johnson. History of European Ideas, 1996.

Treatise on Nature and Grace. by Nicolas Malebranche. Translated with an introduction and notes by Patrick Riley. History of European Ideas, 1994.

Britische Gassendi-Rezeption am Beispiel John Lockes, by Rolf W. Puster, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1993.

Lord Herbert of Chirbury (1582-1648), by John Butler, History of European Ideas, 1992.

Introduzione All'Aristotelismo Padovano, 2nd edition, by Antonino Poppi, History of Universities, 1992.

EDITING:

Writings of Charles S. Peirce, volume 1, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1982 (Harvard Lectures of 1865; Lowell Lectures of 1866; Unpublished manuscripts on logic).

SELECTED RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED (1991 - 2002):

“Reid’s Misunderstood Response to Hume’s Skepticism,” Graduate Center, CUNY, Oct. 2002.

“John Wyclif’s Corpuscular Matter Theory” Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova, Sept. 2002.

“John Wyclif’s Atomism” History of the Philosophy of Science Conference, Montreal, June 2002.

“John Wyclif on Body and Mind,” (invited) American Philosophical Association Meetings, Eastern Division, December 1999.

“From Jean Le Clerc to Thomas Reid: Two Early Modern Conceptions of Logic,” Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society, Utrecht, 1998

“Reid’s Unpublished ‘System of Logic Taught at Aberdeen’: A Critique of the Scottish Logic of Ideas,” International Reid Conference, Aberdeen, 1998

“The Aristotelian Context of Descartes’ Conception of Mind and Matter,” Hunter, 1998

“Averroes’ Influence on Scholastic Theories of Matter and Form,” New York University Medieval Colloquium, March, 1997.

“Non-Thomistic Renaissance Aristotelianism,” Villanova, October 1996.

“Daniel Sennert’s Atomism”, Conference on Corpuscular Matter Theory, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 1996.

“Reid’s Critique of the Logic of Ideas,” Hume Society Meetings, Nottingham, July, 1996.

“From Latin Pluralism to Early Modern Dualism,” Conference of La Societété Internationale pour l’ étude de la philosophie medievale, Boston College, June, 1996.

“At the Dawn of Early Modern Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April, 1996.

"Averroes and Latin Pluralism," Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, September, 1995.

"Francis Hutcheson's Logicae Compendium and Scottish Epistemological Logic," Conference on Early Modern Logic and Epistemology, University of Western Ontario, May, 1995.

"Body and Mind in Renaissance Latin Pluralism," Long Island Philosophical Society, April, 1995.

"From Harmony to Conflict: Mind and Body in the Renaissance," Conference on the History of Mind and Body in Western Thought, University of Western Ontario, October, 1994.

"The Scottish Enlightenment and the Logic of Ideas," Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., October, 1992.

Symposium on Gassendi and Hobbes on Body, Invited Paper. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 1992.

"Gassendi's Method Illustrated by his Account of the Soul", Digne, France, Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Gassendi's Birth, May 1992.

"The Development of Paduan Psychology", Magdalen College, Oxford, May, 1991.

DISTINCTIONS:

Grants and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and others.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Referee Journal of the History of Philosophy; Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. Editorial Board: History of Philosophy Quarterly.