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University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy
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Stephen D. Dumont Professor and Chairperson |
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Department of Philosophy Malloy Hall 100 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556
Chair: Malloy Hall 100 574-631-7579
Office: Malloy Hall 301 574-631-3757
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I am a member of the Department of Philosophy and a Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. I came to Notre Dame in 2001 after having taught at the University of Toronto for sixteen years, where I held appointments in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies, and the Department of Philosophy. I am currently serving as Chairperson of the Department.
My area of research is medieval philosophy and theology, with a teaching interest in ancient philosophy. My publications have focused on the high scholastic period of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with a major interest in John Duns Scotus (d. 1308). I have written on most areas of his thought, paying special attention to his intellectual relationship to his contem poraries, particularly his predecessor and principal source, Henry of Ghent (d. 1293). I have also done some work on the literary difficulties of Scotus’s notoriously unstable corpus. I am currently finishing a project on the medieval problem of intensification and remission of forms, a topic notable for its role in the fourteenth-century development of a mathe matical analysis of motion. My longer term project is on the medieval theory of the will, particularly on the reception of Anselm of Canterbury’s doctrine of the ‘two affections of will,’ which Scotus took up and developed in an important way as part of his volun tarism.
I am married to Carrie, who is an attorney with Cookie Jar Entertainment. |
