Articles / Writings (Alphabetized by Title)

  • A Humean Response to Scotus’s Concept of Infinite Being.
    • Ideas y Valores (1999) 110: 3-19.
  • An Analysis of Freedom in the Political Doctrines of Suárez & Filmer.
    • Philosophical Inquiry (2004 26: 53-82.
  • Awareness and Consciousness: Switched-On Rheostats.
    • Journal of Consciousness Studies (2007) 14: 101-106 (by invitation).
  • Checks and Balances: The Welcomed Tension between Philosophy and Science.
    • The Quarterly Review of Biology (2008) 83: 1-12.
  • The Chewbacca Defense: A South Park Logic Lesson – Ch. 2: Logic & Fallacies.
    • Introducing Philosophy Via Pop Culture, ed. Irwin & Johnson (Wiley, 2010), 40-53.
  • Creating a Controlled Vocabulary for the Ethics of Human Research: Towards a Biomedical Ethics Ontology (with David Koepsell, Jennifer Fostel, Barry Smith).
    • The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (2009) 4: 43-58.
  • The Double Life of Justice and Injustice in Thrasymachus’s Account.
    • Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought (2009) 16: 17-29.
  • Environments of Our Hominin Ancestors, Tool Usage & Scenario Visualization.
    • Biology & Philosophy (2006) 21: 95-117.
  • Evolution and Two Popular Proposals for the Definition of Function.
    • Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2006) 37: 2-12.
  • The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind.
    • Origins of Mind, ed. Liz Stillwagon (Springer, 2013), 220-241.
  • Finding Unapparent Connections: How Our Hominin Ancestors Evolved Creativity by Solving Practical Problems.
    • Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism, ed. Tibor Solymosi & John Shook (Palgrave, 2014), 135-146.
  • Frege, As-If Platonism, and Pragmatism.
    • Journal of Critical Realism (2005) 4: 1-27.
  • Freud’s Wretched Makeshift and Scheler’s Religious Act.
    • Journal of Philosophical Research (2000) 25: 405-429.
  • Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology (with Barry Smith).
    • Nature Precedings (2008) 1941: 1.
  • Hegel and the Prospect of Perpetual Peace.
    • Dialogos (2000) 34: 71-100.
  • Homeostatic Organization, Emergence, and Reduction.
    • Philosophia Naturalis (2007) 44: 238-270.
  • Hume’s Mitigated Skepticism and the Design Argument.
    • American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (1998) 72: 539-558.
  • Hume’s Morality, Reason, and Sentiment.
    • Journal of the Irenaeus Society (2000) 3: 1-13.
  • Husserl, the Transcendental, and the Mundane.
    • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2004) 35: 168-179.
  • Husserlian Penetrability of the Transcendental and Mundane Spheres.
    • Human Studies (2004) 27: 221-239.
  • If the Devil did not Exist, It May be Necessary to Invent Him in Certain Contexts.
    • Philosophical Approaches to the Devil, McCraw & Arp (Routledge, 2016), 180-200.
  • Information in the Biological Sciences (with Alfredo Marcos).
    • The Philosophy of Biology, ed. Kampourakis (Springer, 2013), 511-548.
  • Life and the Homeostatic Organization View of Biological Phenomena.
    • Cosmos and History (2008) 4: 260-285.
  • Objectification, Care Ethics, and the Case against Pornography.
    • Under Review.
  • Ontologies Just May Save Your Savings Accounts, in.
    • Progress in Economics Research, Volume 16, ed. Tavidze (Nova, 2010), 115-129.
  • Ontologies of Cellular Networks (with Barry Smith).
    • Science Signaling (2008) 1: mr2.
  • Ontology: Not Just for Philosopher’s Anymore.
    • Practical Philosophy (2010) 10: 81-103.
  • Philosophical, Domain, and Formal Ontology.
    • The Reasoner (2008) 1: 12.
  • Philosophical Ontology, Domain Ontology, Formal Ontology, in.
    • Key Terms in Logic, ed. Williamson & Russo (Continuum, 2010) 74-75.
  • Plotinus, Mysticism, and Mediation.
    • Religious Studies (2004) 40: 145-163.
  • The Pragmatic Value of Frege’s Platonism for the Pragmatist.
    • Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2005) 19: 22-41.
  • The Quinque Viae of Thomas Hobbes.
    • History of Philosophy Quarterly (1999) 16: 367-394.
  • Radiological and Biomedical Knowledge Integration: The Ontological Way.
    • Scholarship in Radiology Education, ed. Chhem et al. (Springer, 2009), 87-106.
  • Realism and Antirealism in Informatics Ontologies.
    • The American Philosophical Association: Philosophy and Computers (2009) 9: 19-23.
  • Resolving Conflicts in Evolutionary Psychology with Cognitive Fluidity.
    • Southwest Philosophy Review (2007) 35: 91-101.
  • Re-thinking Hobbes’s Materialistic and Mechanistic Projects.
    • Hobbes Studies (2002) 15: 3-31.
  • Selectivity, Integration, and the Psycho-Neuro-Biological Continuum.
    • Journal of Mind and Behavior (2005) 26: 35-64.
  • Scenario Visualization: One Explanation of Creative Problem Solving.
    • Journal of Consciousness Studies (2005) 12: 31-60.
  • Should Batman Kill the Joker? – Ch. 12: Argument.
    • The Norton Sampler, ed. Cooley. 8th ed. (Norton, 2013), 545-549.
  • Should Batman Kill the Joker? – Ch. 13: Argument.
    • The Norton Sampler, ed. Cooley. 9th ed. (Norton, 2017), 481-485.
  • Suárez and Filmer on Freedom.
    • Philosophical Frontiers, ed. Corrigan & Farrell (Continuum, 2009), 39-66.
  • Suffering as Theodicy.
    • Cahiers Simone Weil (2000) 23: 413-433.
  • Vindicating Kant’s Morality.
    • International Philosophical Quarterly (2007) 7: 5-22.

Book Reviews (Editors asked me to write)

“Gry Oftedal, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Peter Rossel, and Michael Slott Norup (eds.), Evolutionary Theory: Five Questions,” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, (2012) 32, 6: 4.1-4.3.

“F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O’Connor, and David P. Fauri, Comparative Approaches to Program Planning,” The American Journal of Psychology (2010) 123, 3: 369-371.

“Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology,” Science & Education (2010)

“Devin Stauffer, Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice,” Polis: Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought (2002) 19: 67-72.

Reviewing/Refereeing For

  • Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Cambridge University Press.
  • Cengage Learning.
  • McGraw-Hill Publishers.
  • MIT Press.
  • Oxford University Press.
  • Prentice-Hall Publishers.
  • Routledge.
  • SAGE Publishers.
  • Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
  • Entropy.
  • History of Philosophy Quarterly.
  • International Journal of Computer Engineering Research.
  • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
  • Iyun: Israel Journal of Philosophy.
  • Journal of Consciousness Studies.
  • Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
  • Journal of the History of Philosophy.
  • Philosophy & Technology.
  • Science and Education.
  • Social Semiotics.
  • Synthesis philosophica.
  • Theoria.