Faculty
Assistant Professor
Complete information, deadlines, and application can be found at https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01620
Department Chair: John Bowin
Graduate Program Director: Janette Dinishak
Undergraduate Program Director: Abe Stone
Placement Officer: Rachel Achs
Colloquium Coordinator: Abe Stone
Personnel Director: Nico Orlandi
Climate Committee: Hande Tuna, Carolina Flores
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Philosophy Department
- Affiliations Classical Studies
- Phone 831-459-5676
- Website
- Office Location
- Cowell College Faculty Office Addition, Office 103, Cube A
- Cowell A 103
- Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient World / Classics, Classics, Classical Studies
- Courses PHIL 9: Introduction to Logic; PHIL 100A: Ancient Greek Philosophy; PHIL 116: Logic, Sets and Functions; PHIL 118: Stoic Ethics; PHIL 122: Metaphysics; PHIL 190: Topics in Ancient Greek Philosophy; PHIL 202: Topics in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Research Interests
Ancient philosophy, esp. ancient science and metaphysics, and contemporary analytic metaphysics
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago
M.B.A. Finance and International Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
B.A. English Literature, University of Chicago
Selected Publications
- "Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24, May 2003, 239-251.
- "Aristotelian Infinity," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 32, May 2007, 233-250.
- “Aristotle on Identity and Persistence,” Apeiron, vol. 41, no. 1, March 2008, 63-88.
- "Aristotle on the Order and Direction of Time," Apeiron, vol. 42, no. 1, March 2009, 49-78.
- "Aristotle on the Unity of Change: Five Reductio Arguments in Physics viii 8," Ancient Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 2, December 2010, 319-345.
- "Aristotle on Various Types of Alteration in De Anima II 5," Phronesis, Vol. 56, No. 2, May 2011, 138-161.
- "Aristotle on 'First Transitions' in De Anima II 5," Apeiron, vol. 45, no. 3, July 2012, 262-282.
- “De Anima ii 5 on the Activation of The Senses,” Ancient Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 1, June 2012, 87-104.
- "Aristotle on the Perception and Cognition of Time", in History of Philosophy of Mind: Pre-Socratics to Augustine, Routledge 2017.
- "Aristotle’s Physics 5.1, 225a1-b5", Philosophical Inquiry Vol. 43, 2019.
- “Aristotle's Virtue Ethics" in A Companion to World Literature, Wiley 2017.
