Areas of Specialization: Medieval and Ancient Philosophy

Areas of Competence: Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy: Emory University (2004)

M.A. in Philosophy: San Francisco State University (1998) 

B.A. in Philosophy: University of California at Davis (1990)

Publications

Books

Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus: Natural Theology in the High Middle Ages. Continuum Studies in Philosophy. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2007.

Articles/Chapters

“John Buridan: Fourteenth-Century Nominalism and Aristotle’s Categories.” In Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s “Categories,” edited by Lloyd Newton. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008.

“Confused Univocity?” In Proceedings of the Society of Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 7 (2007): 18-31 <http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/SMLM/>

“Aquinas, Scientia, and a Medieval Misconstruction of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics.” In Proceedings of the Society of Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 3 (2003): 4-14 <http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/SMLM/>

Reviews & Encyclopedia

Review of Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II; De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio, translated with an introduction by John Lee Longeway. Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 1 (2008): 170-72.

Thomas Aquinas. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500. Edited by Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht: Springer (forthcoming).

Translations

Thomas Aquinas. “Super Psalmo 32.” In The Aquinas Translation Project, edited by Stephen Laughlin <http://www4.desales.edu/~philtheo/loughlin/ATP/index.html> (forthcoming)

Presentations

"Whence Ockham?" The 34^th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association. Saint Louis University, October 2008.

"Confused Univocity." The American Catholic Philosophical Association. Marquette University, November 2007.

"Scotus and Aquinas on Signification in Theological Discourse." The Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, May 2006.

 "Natural Theology in the High Middle Ages: Aquinas and Scotus on Univocity and Analogy." Invited paper. Atlanta’s Invisible College, July, 2005.

 "John Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas on Our Natural Knowledge of God." The Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, May 2005.

 "Aquinas, Scientia and a Medieval Misconstruction of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics." The American Catholic Philosophical Association. The University of St. Thomas, October 2003.

 "Aquinas’s Natural Theology and a Medieval Misconstruction of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics." The 28^th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association. University of Arkansas, October 2003.

 "Aquinas and Scotus on Analogy and Univocity." Medieval Studies Roundtable. Emory University, January 2003.

 "Scientia as Analogia in Aquinas." Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, May 2002.

 "The Unity and Significance of Plato’s Phaedrus." Friday Philosophy Forum. Emory University, September 1998.

Positions Held

Clayton State University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Fall 2005-)

Emory University, Visiting Lecturer (Fall/Spring 2004-05)

Clayton College and State University, Adjunct Faculty (Fall/Spring 2001-02)

LaGrange College, Instructor (Fall/Spring 2003-04)

Emory University, Graduate Teaching Associate (Fall/Spring 2002-03)

Clayton College and State University, Adjunct Faculty (Fall/spring 2001-02)

Berry College, Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2001)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Introduction to Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Medieval Philosophy, Logic/Critical Thinking, Humanities

Graduate: Classics of Philosophy

Languages

Classical Greek, Latin, French

Professional Affiliations

American Philosophical Association, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Medieval Academy of America, Society for Christian Philosophers, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, South Eastern Medieval Association