Area of specialization:
History of philosophy, in particular the early modern period
(Descartes to Kant), and twentieth-century Continental philosophy
(Husserl and Heidegger).
Book publications: Inroads. Paths
in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy (University
of Toronto Press, 2003, xxiv + 666pp.), Insight and Inference.
Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy (University
of Toronto Press, 1999, xx + 564pp.), Leibniz Lexicon (co-editor, Georg
Olms Verlag, 1988, vii + 419), Logik
und Metaphysik bei Kant (Vittorio Klostermann Verlag,
1978,307pp.) Click here for images.
Some More Recent Papers: "Plato
on Suicide (Phaedo 60c-63c)." Phoenix. Vol.
55, 3-4 (2001), pp. 244-258. "Ueberlegungen zum Metaphysik-Begriff
Kants." Perspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch.
Band 30, (2004), pp. 37-62. "Kant's Copernican Revolution:
Toward Rehabilitation of a Concept and Provision of a Framework
for the Interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason."
Kant-Studien. Vol. 97, Issue 1 (2006), pp. 1-32. "Descartes's
Method." In: Janet Broughton and John Carriero, eds. Companion
to Descartes. Blackwell Publishing (2007). "Analytic
Method, the Cogito, and Descartes's Argument for
the Innateness of the Idea of God." Epoché.
Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring 2010), pp. 289-320. « Connaissance
de Dieu et conscience de soi chez Descartes ». Dialogue:
Revue canadienne de philosophie, 49 (2010), pp. 1-24. Entries "Existence," "Essence," "Deduction," and "Common Notions" in The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2015), "Kant's 'Five Ways': Transcendental Idealism in Context." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. Vol. 18, n. 3 (2018): 137-161. "The Three Faces of the Cogito: Descartes (and Aristotle) on the Knowledge of First Principles." Roczniki Folozoficne (Philosophical Annals), Vol. 68, No. 2 (2020).
Current research focus: a
book on the second great turning point in modern philosophy,
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Teaching: Introductory philosophy
(using Inroads), the rationalists, Kant, and various
offerings in epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology
on themes related to the research programme described above.
