Publications
14. “Ancient” in Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, ed. Michael Raven. Forthcoming.
13. “This” Dialogoi: Ancient Philosophy Today. (2019) 1: 38-63. [draft] (pdf)
12. “Empty Negations and Existential Import in Aristotle” Apeiron. (2018) 51: 201-19. [article] [offprint](pdf)
11. Ontological Dependence and Grounding in Aristotle. Oxford Handbooks Online in Philosophy. (2016). DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.31. [article]
10. Aristotle on Predication. European Journal of Philosophy. (2015) 23: 793-813. [preprint] (pdf)
9. Generality and Logical Constancy. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia. Metaphysics: Contemporary Issues. ed. Ricardo Barroso Batista. (2015) 71: 755-69.
8. Presentism, Truthmakers and Distributional Properties. Synthese. (2014) 191: 3427-46. [offprint] (pdf) [Online First]
7. Critical Notice of Michail Peramatzis, Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2011. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. (2013) 43: 136-56. [preprint] (pdf) [Early View]
6. Substance and Independence in Aristotle. Varieties of Dependence, edd. Benjamin Schnieder, Alex Steinberg and Miguel Hoeltje. Basic Philosophical Concepts Series, Philosophia Verlag (Munich). 2013. Pp. 36-67. [preprint] (pdf)
5. Aristotle on Mathematical Truth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. (2012) 20: 1057-76. [article] [offprint] (pdf)
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4. Meta-conceivability. Philosophical Methodology. Special Volume of Essays in Philosophy, ed. James McBain. (2012) 13: 195-210. [article]
3. Attention, Perception and Thought in Aristotle. Dialogue (2010) 42: 199-222. [preprint] (pdf)
2. Aristotle on Nonsubstantial Individuals. Ancient Philosophy (2009) 29: 289-310. [article] [offprint] (pdf)
1. Aristotle on Ontological Dependence. Phronesis (2008) 53: 65-92. [article] [offprint] (pdf)
Invited Talks
14-15. Cause and Context. (2) University of Kansas. November 2019. (2) (as “Context and Causal Explanation”) Dalhousie University, June 2018.
13. Ancient. Workshop on the Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, University of Hamburg, May 2018.
12. Salience and Metaphysical Explanation. University of Victoria, March 2017.
11. Metaphysical Explanation. The Creighton Club: New York Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Syracuse, October 2016. Commentator: Paul Audi.
8-10. Aristotle on Artifacts. (1) Syracuse University, September 2016. (2) (as “Explaining Artifacts”) Invited Symposium: The Metaphysics of Artifacts, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2016. Commentator: Simon Evnine. (3) 2015 Metaphysics Workshop: Artifacts and Metaphysical Explanation, Banff, May 2015. [Conference Site]
7. Aristotle on Logic and Science. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, March 2014.
6. Natural Priority in Aristotle. Invited Symposium: Aristotle and Ontological Priority, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012. Commentator: Alan Code.
4-5. Is the Syllogistic a Logic? (1) Arché Centre, University of St Andrews, March 2012. (2) University of California, Los Angeles, History of Philosophy Workshop, February 2012.
3. Is Aristotle an Aristotelian Realist? Ontological Dependence Conference, Colorado, March 2009. Commentator: Christian Lee. [Conference Site]
1.-2. Aristotle on Logical Consequence. (1) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2005. (2) University of Alberta, January 2005.
Refereed Talks
35. Separating the Forms: Aspects of Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato. UNAM Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, May 2020.
34. Aristotle’s Validation of the Syllogistic. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver April 2019.
32-33. Context and Causal Selection. (1) American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Denver, February 2019. (2) 2018 Language and Essence Conference, Victoria, October 2018.
29-31. Salience and Metaphysical Explanation. (1) Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Montreal, June 2018. Commentator: Jonathan Payton. (2) 3rd Epistemology of Metaphysics Workshop, Helsinki, August 2017. (2) Society for Exact Philosophy, Calgary, May 2017.
28. Aristotle on Artifacts. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, March 2016.
27. This. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, St. Louis, February 2015. Commentator: Christopher Frey.
26. Contingency in the Metaphysics of Time. Society for the Philosophy of Time at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2014.
25. Snub. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2013.
24. Presentism and Distributional Properties. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013. Commentator: Andrew Bailey.
23. Aristotle on Quantification. International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9th Biennial Meeting, Halifax, Canada, June 2012.
21-22. Aristotle on Existence. (1) Thirty-Fourth Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, March 2011. Commentator: Robin Smith. (2) American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December 2010. Commentator: Tim Clarke.
20. Aristotle and the Foundations of Logic. Conference on the Foundations of Logical Consequence, Arché Centre, University of St. Andrews, June 2010. [Conference Site]
19. Aristotle on Reference and Generality. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2010. Commentator: Scott O'Connor.
18. Is Aristotle an Aristotelian Realist? American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York, December 2009. Commentator: Jeff Brower.
16-17. Are Aristotle's Universals Sortals? (1) American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2009. Commentator: Jurgis Brakis. (2) 2008 International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, October 2008.
15. Apriority and Logical Constancy. Society for Exact Philosophy, Vancouver, May 2007.
13-14. Aristotle on Mathematical Existence. (1) American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2007. Commentator: John Mouracade. (2) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
10-12. Aristotle on Consciousness. (1) Symposium Paper, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2006. Commentators: Margaret Scharle, Paul Studtmann. (2) Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, University of Western Ontario, May 2005. Commentator: Byron Stoyles. (3) American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005.
9. Does Size Matter? Etchemendy's Finitist Argument. Northwest Philosophy Conference, Bellevue, Washington, October 2004. Commentator: Meggan Payne.
5-8. Aristotle on Logical Consequence. (1) Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004. Commentator: Dwayne Raymond. (2) American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2004. Commentator: Michael Scanlan. (3) 2003 International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, November 2003. Commentator: Tad Brennan. (4) Twenty-Sixth Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy at Texas A&M University, March 2003. Commentator: Robin Smith.
2-4. Ontological Independence in Aristotle's Categories. (1) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 2003. (2) Berkeley-Stanford Philosophy Graduate Conference, Stanford, May 2003. Commentator: Neil Van Leeuwen. (3) Fourth Annual Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Princeton, April 2003. Commentator: Dimitrios Dentsoras.
1. Parts and Properties in Aristotle's Categories. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2002.
Commentary
9. Comments on Cruz Davis, “Geometric Possibility, Supersubstantivalism and Ideological Parsimony.” Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Toronto, November 2019.
8. Comments on Emily Katz, “Are Numbers Hylomorphic Unities?” Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, March 2019.
7. Comments on Daniel Devereaux, “Puzzles Concerning Definition in Metaphysics Z 5.” Allan Gotthelf Memorial Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, October 2015.
6. Comments on Kathy Fazekas, “Special Relativity and Multiple B-Series.” Society for the Philosophy of Time at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013.
5. Comments on Jurgis Brakis, “Aristotle’s Homonyms Reconsidered.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
4. Comments on David Bronstein, “Aristotle on Learning, Knowledge and Meno’s Paradox in Posterior Analytics I 1.” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 2005.
3. Comments on Dwayne Raymond, “Drawing Upon an Ancient Logical Intuition.” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004.
2. Comments on David C. Williams, “Aristotle on the Methodology of Mathematical Concept Acquisition: Resolving an Apparent Inconsistency Between Metaphysics 1077B16 and 1077B33.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena, March 2004.
1. Comments on John Thorp, “Aristotle on Splitting the Semantic Atom.” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2003.
Other talks
2-4. Socratic Intellectualism. (1-2) Guest lecture in Kathrin Koslicki’s undergraduate course “‘The Trial and Execution of Socrates’: An Interdisciplinary Course Incorporating Blended and Project-Based Learning,” University of Alberta, Nov 2014 and Oct 2015. (3) Presentation in an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Trial and Execution of Socrates, Edmonton, May 2015.
1. Aristotle. Guest lecture in Jeff Pelletier’s History of Logic graduate seminar, Simon Fraser University, January 2006. [photographic proof]
Reviews
4. Review of Anna Marmodoro and David Yates (eds.), The Metaphysics of Relations, Oxford, 2016, Notre Dame Philosophical Review. 2016.07.09. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/68119-the-metaphysics-of-relations/
3. Review of Daniel Novotný and L. Novák (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics. Notre Dame Philosophical Review. 2014.08.06. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/49601-neo-aristotelian-perspectives-in-metaphysics/
2. Review of Charles Kahn, Essays on Being, OUP, 2009, Journal of Hellenic Studies (2010) 130: 285-86. [article] [preprint] (pdf)
1. Review of Gisela Striker, Aristotle’s Prior Analytics Book 1. Clarendon, 2009, Journal of the History of Philosophy (2010) 48: 236-37. [article]
Recent Professional Service
American Philosophical Assn. Pacific Division Program Committee, 2013-15
Reviewer for (*multiple assignments): *Analysis, Ancient Philosophy, *Apeiron, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, *Australasian Journal of Philosophy, *British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Broadview Press, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, dialectica, Dialogue, Ergo, *Erkenntnis, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, *Journal of the History of Philosophy, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, *Mind, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Palgrave McMillan Press, *Philosopher’s Imprint, Polish Journal of Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Studia Philosophica Estonica, Routledge Press, *Synthese; American Philosophical Assn. Pacific Division Meeting, Canadian Philosophical Assn. Annual Congress, Western Canadian Philosophical Assn. Meeting.
Recent Grants
Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Research Fund Grant, 2019.
Vice President Research Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant Assist Bridge Funding, 2016-17.
Vice President Research Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 4A Grant, 2013-15.
Izaac Walton Killam Cornerstone Grant, 2010.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant # 410-2008-0431, “Aristotle on Ontological Dependence,” 2008-12.
References
Victor Caston
Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan
vcaston AT umich DOT edu
Alan Code
Philosophy Department
Stanford University
alancode AT stanford DOT edu
Kathrin Koslicki
Department of Philosophy
University of Alberta
Kathrin DOT Koslicki AT ualberta DOT ca
Marko Malink
Philosophy Department
New York University
mm7761 AT nyu DOT edu
current as of November 2019