Name: John James Macintosh Nationality: Canadian Degrees: B.A. University of New Zealand (Now University of Auckland), 1957

Name: John James MacIntosh

Nationality: Canadian

Degrees: B.A. University of New Zealand (now University of Auckland), 1957 M.A. University of New Zealand (now University of Auckland), 1958 B. Phil. University of Oxford, 1961

Teaching: 1959 Junior Lecturer, University of Auckland 1960-61 Part-time tutoring, Merton College, Oxford 1961-63 Research lecturer, Merton College, Oxford 1963-66 Fellow and lecturer, St. John's College, Oxford 1964-66 C.U.F. lecturer, University of Oxford 1966-70 Associate Professor, University of Calgary 1970-71 Canada Council Research Fellow 1970-present Professor, University of Calgary 1981 Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo (Spring Session) 1981 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland 1981 SSHRC Research Fellow 1983 University of Calgary Humanities Institute Fellow 1989 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland 1999-2000 University of Calgary Humanities Institute Research Fellow 1999-2002 SSHRC Research Fellow 2003 Killam Resident Fellow, University of Calgary 2004-5 Programme Director, metaphysics, history of philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting

Current Areas of Specialization: History of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Identity Theory, Philosophy of Religion

Teaching experience: (omitting introductory courses): bioethics, contemporary philosophy, early modern science and religion, epistemology, ethics, history and philosophy of science, history of philosophy (mainly: stoics, various twelfth to fourteenth century philosophers, various seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers, 20th century philosophy), Iberian philosophy (classical and mediaeval), logic, metaphysics, philosophy in literature, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, political philosophy.

I have also taught joint classes on one or more occasions with members of the Departments of Biology, History, Mathematics, Psychology, and with other philosophers in the Universities of Auckland, Oxford, and Calgary.

Graduate supervision has been mainly in the areas of Epistemology, Ethics, Logic, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

Students' Union Teaching Award 2007-8

Papers read, on one or more occasions, to various departments, institutes, schools, at the following universities:

Alberta; Auckland; Birmingham; British Columbia; Calgary; Cambridge; Canterbury (Christchurch); Dalhousie; Edinburgh; Hanover; Keele; Lethbridge; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Queensland); Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (Toronto); Manchester; Massey (Palmerston North); National University of Ireland (Maynooth); Newcastle; North Carolina; Ottawa; Oxford; Queensland; Queen's University of Belfast; Regina; Saskatchewan; Simon Fraser; Toronto; Trinity College (Dublin); Victoria (Canada); Uppsala; Washington; Waterloo; Western Ontario; York (Canada) and on one or more occasions to the following societies or conferences:

Alberta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference; Alberta Universities Philosophical Association; American Philosophical Association; Apeiron Society; Aristotelian Society; Arthur Prior Memorial Conference (Christchurch); Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Australasian Association of Logic; Australasian Association of Philosophy; Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division; Berkeley Tercentenary Conference (Dublin); Canadian Association for Irish Studies; Canadian Philosophical Association; Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers; Canadian Society for Epistemology; Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science; Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas; Descartes 400 Conference (Toronto); Descartes Workshop (Toronto); Dubrovnik International Universities Centre Ethics conference; Dubrovnik International Universities Centre Philosophy of Science conference; Epicureanism and Stoicism Conference (Calgary); Eternal Truths Conference (Calgary); First International Conference on Thinking (Suva); (U. S.) History of Science Society; History of Logic Workshop (Wellington); History of Neurology Interest Group, University of Calgary; Humanities Institute, University of Calgary; John Locke Tercentenary Conference (Oxford); Joint conference, Cheiron, The international Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences, and ISHN, The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences; Jowett Society (Oxford); Leibniz Gesellschaft (Hanover); Mind Association/Aristotelian Society Joint Session; Mont Tremblant conference on 'Changing conceptions of "Life" from the mediaeval to the early modern period'; Moral Sciences Club (Cambridge); Newman Society (Oxford); New Zealand Kant Conference (Auckland); Ockham Society (Oxford); Oxford Socratic Society; Pascal Society (Ottawa); Philosophical Society (Oxford); Philosophy of Mind Conference in Honour of William Lyons (Dublin); Royal Irish Academy Conference on Metaphysics (Dublin); Royal Philosophical Society, Belfast; Royal Philosophical Society, London; Royal Philosophical Society, Newcastle; University of British 3

Columbia/Simon Fraser University History of Philosophy Conference; Society of Canadian Medievalists; Southwest Logic Conference; Stalbridge Boyle Symposium; 12th International Conference on Persons (Lund); University of Calgary Chaplains' Association; University of Calgary History and Philosophy of Science Group; University of Calgary Undergraduate Philosophy Society; Western Canada Philosophical Association; World Congress of Philosophy.

Editing:

1975-78: Board of Referees, Dialogue 1982-87: Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2000-present: Board of Referees, Dialogue

Refereeing (papers, books, book proposals), on one or more occasions for:

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Broadview Publishing Co.; Cambridge University Press; Canadian Graduate Students Philosophy Conference; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Philosophical Association; Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science; Cornell University Press; Dialogue; Edinburgh University Press; Eidos; Hackett Publishing Co.; Interchange; Kluwer Academic Publishers; McGill-Queens University Press; Mind; Osiris; Oxford University Press; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; University of Calgary Press; University of Ottawa Press; Western Canada Philosophical Association

Assessing (promotions, tenure, research proposals, programmes, departments) on one or more occasions for:

Auburn University; Auckland University; Connaught Fund; Hampton Fund; Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto; McMaster University; Mount Royal University, Calgary; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada; University of Alberta; University of British Columbia; University of Guelph; University of Saskatchewan; University of Toronto; Wilfrid Laurier University

Books:

1. The Business of Reason, ed. with S. Coval (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969) 2. The First Critique, ed. with T. Penelhum (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1969) 3. New Essays in the Philosophy of Mind, II, ed. with D. Copp (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1985) 4. Faith, Scepticism, and Personal Identity, ed. with H. Meynell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994) 5. Boyle on Atheism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 6. The Excellencies of Robert Boyle (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2008) 7. The Arguments of Aquinas: A Philosophical View (New York: Routledge, 2017) 4

Other Publications:

1. 'Francis Bacon,' in R. Harré, ed., Early Seventeenth Century Science and Scientists (Oxford: Pergammon Press, 1965), 25-47. 2. 'On Logic,' Oxford Magazine, 1966. 3. 'Is Self-Knowledge Incorrigible?,' Common Factor, 1966, 57- 61. 4. 'Transcendental Arguments,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol., 1969, 181-193. 5. 'Memory and Personal Identity,' in J. J. MacIntosh and S. Coval, eds., The Business of Reason (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 150-167. 6. 'Belief In,' Mind, 1970, 395-407. 7. 'Leibniz and Berkeley,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1971, 147-163. 8. 'Spinoza's Views on Knowledge,' in G. Vesey, ed., Reason and Reality (London: Macmillan, 1972), 28-48. 9. 'Roles and Role Playing,' Second Order, 1972, 53-73. 10. 'A Problem About Identity,' Dialogue, 1974, 455-474. 11. 'Primary and Secondary Qualities,' Studia Leibnitiana, 8, 1976, 88-104. 12. 'Berkeley's Views on Time,' in Jarrett, C. E., King-Farlow, J, and Pelletier, F. J., eds, New Essays on Rationalism and Empiricism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supp. vol. 4, (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1978) 153-163. 13. 'An Extension of a Proof of Prior's,' Analysis, 1980, 86-89. 14. 'Knowing and Believing,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1979-80, 169-185 15. 'The Impossibility of Kantian Immortality,' Dialogue, 19, 1980, 219-234. 16. 'The Logic of Privileged Access,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61, 1983, 142- 151. 17. 'Perception and Imagination in Descartes, Boyle and Hooke,' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 13, 1983, 327-352. 18. 'Some Propositional Attitude Paradoxes,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1984, 21- 25. 19. 'Fitch's Factives,' Analysis, 44.4, 1984, 153-158. 20. 'A Reasonable Belief?' in H. Meynell, ed. Religion and Irreligion (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1985), 71-89. 21. 'Introduction' to New Essays in the Philosophy of Mind, II, ed. with D. Copp (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1985), 1-7 22. 'Sexist Language,' Last Issue, 4, 1986, 34. 23. 'The Objects of Propositional Attitudes,' in Philosophie et Culture, Actes du XVII Congres Mondial de Philosophie (Montreal: Editions du Beffroi, 1987). 24. '"Nuclear War" and other Euphemisms,' in T. Govier, ed., Selected Issues in Logic & Communication (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1988). 25. 'Reincarnation and Relativized Identity,' Religious Studies, 25, 1989, 153-165. 26. 'Time and St Thomas,' in To Myself from Others, ed. David Miller (Warwick: University of Warwick Publication, 1989), 42-43. 27. 'Ethics and Spy Fiction,' Intelligence and National Security, 5, 1990, 161-184; reprinted in W. K. Wark, ed., Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence 5

(London: Frank Cass, 1991). 28. 'Aquinas, Ockham, and Prior (and the unexpected examination),' Auckland Philosophy Papers, 1990.1. 29. 'Robert Boyle on Epicurean Atomism and Atheism,' in M. J. Osler, ed., Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991) 197-219. 30. 'Space, Time and Eternity: Arguments for a Finite World,' in [R. Jennings], ed., Here and Now, (Vancouver: Simon Fraser University publication, 1991), 3-29. 31. 'Adverbially Qualified Truth Values,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 72, 1991, 131- 142. 32. 'Theological Question Begging,' Dialogue, 30, 1991, 531-547. 33. 'Reincarnation, Closest Continuers, and the Three Card Trick: a Reply to Noonan and Daniels,' Religious Studies, 28, 1992, 235-251. 34. 'Adverbs, Identity, and Multiple Personalities,' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22, 1992, 301-321. 35. 'Robert Boyle's Epistemology: The Interaction between Scientific and Religious Knowledge,' International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 6, 1992, 91-121. 36. 'Sleigh's Leibniz and Arnauld,' Essay review of Robert C. Sleigh, Leibniz and Arnauld, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), Dialogue , 33, 1994, 473 - 516 37. 'Locke and Boyle on Miracles and God's Existence,' in M. Hunter, ed., Robert Boyle Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 193-214 [reprinted in P. Anstey, ed., John Locke: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 2006)] 38. 'St Thomas and the Traversal of the Infinite,' American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 68, 1994, 157 - 177. 39. 'The Impossibility of Miraculous Reincarnation,' in J. J. MacIntosh and H. A. Meynell, eds., Faith, Scepticism and Personal Identity: Essays in Honour of Terence Penelhum (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994), 211-233. 40. 'Belief-in Revisited: A Reply to Williams,' Religious Studies, 30, 1994, 487 - 503. 41. Thirty-one short pieces in T. Honderich, ed., The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995): 'Accident,' 'Antilogism,' 'Baier, Annette,' 'Baier, Kurt,' 'Belief-in,' 'Boyle, Robert,' 'Cantor, Georg,' 'Cantor's paradox,' 'Confectionery Fallacy,' 'Conway, Anne Finch,' 'Counterfactuals,' 'De Re and De Dicto,' 'Dutch book,' 'Entropy,' 'Five ways,' 'Gassendi, Pierre,' 'Geulincx, Arnold,' 'Hacking, Ian,' 'Kinesis,' 'Latitudinarianism,' 'Lucas, John,' 'Masked man fallacy,' 'Mochus,' 'Mortalism,' 'Necessary and contingent existence,' 'Newton, Isaac,' 'Pietism,' 'Scope fallacies,' 'Teaching Philosophy,' 'Transposition,' 'Traversal of the Infinite.' 42. 'St Thomas on Angelic Time and Motion,' The Thomist, 59, 1995, 547-575. 43. 'Animals, Morality, and Robert Boyle,' Dialogue, 35, 1996, 435-72. 44. 'The argument from the need for similar or 'higher' qualities: Cudworth, Locke, and Clarke on God's existence,' Enlightenment and Dissent, 16, 1997, 29-59. 45. 'Aquinas and Ockham on Time, Predestination and the Unexpected Examination,' Franciscan Studies, 55, 1998, 181-220 46. 'Aquinas on Necessity,' American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 72.3, 1998, 470- 6

503 47. 'Is Pascal's Wager Self-Defeating?' Sophia, 39, 2000, 1-30 48. 'Boyle, Bentley and Clarke on God, Necessity, Frigorifick Atoms and the Void,' International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 15, 2001, 33-47 49. 'Robert Boyle', The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Summer 2002 Edition, most recent revision 2015), no pagination, approx. 20,000 words http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/boyle/, (Peter Anstey added as co-author Summer 2006) 50. 'Ensinar Filosofia,' Portuguese translation by Desidério Murcho of 'Teaching Philosophy,' [original in T. Honderich, ed., The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), #40 above], Critica, 2002, http://critica.no.sapo.pt/fil_ensinarfilosofia.html, and at Portal Brasileiro da Filosofia & Filosofia Da Educação, http://www.filosofia.pro.br/textos/ensinarfilosofia.htm 51. Entry: 'Penelhum, Terence Michael,' Dictionary of American Philosophers, 4 vols. (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005), 3:1902-1905 52. 'Boyle and Locke on Observation, Testimony, Demonstration and Experience,' Croatian Journal of Philosophy, vol. V, no. 14, 2005, 275-88 53. 'Sceptical ultimism, or not so sceptical atheism?', Philo, 14.1, spring/summer, 2011 54. 'Robert Boyle,' in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Peter Anstey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 73-95 55. 'Hooke's Mechanical Mind,' in Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience, eds. C. Smith and H. Whitaker (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014), 59-73 56. 'Theological and Scientific Applications of the Notion of Necessity in the Mediaeval and Early Modern Periods,' in Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The story of necessity, edited Max Cresswell, Adriane Rini, and Edwin Mares (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 91-112 57. 'Mechanism in the Early Modern Period,' Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, 2016 58. 'Hunter's Multi-faceted Boyle,' Essay review of Michael Hunter, Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91), Metascience, 26(2), 2017, 175-181 59. 'Robert Boyle's Epistemology,' in The Bloomsbury Companion to Boyle (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, forthcoming). This is an updated, revised version of no. 35.

Work in Progress:

A book with the working title: Science, God, and Knowledge: the Philosophical Views of Robert Boyle, philosopher and natural philosopher Various papers on philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of philosophy

Recent Reviewing:

1. Review of Ian Hacking The Social Construction of What? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus 7

philosophiques, 20, 2000, 183-6 2. Review of Douglas M. Jesseph, Squaring the Circle: the War Between Hobbes and Wallis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, 20, 2000, 357-8 3. Review of Fred Wilson, The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), Canadian Journal of History, 36, 2001, 632-3 4. Review of vols. 13 and 14 of The Works of Robert Boyle, ed. Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis, 14 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999-2000), On the Boyle: The Boyle Newsletter, No. 4, January 2001, 7-10 5. Review of Antony Flew, Merely Mortal? Can you survive your own death? (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000), Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, 21, 2001, 334-6 6. Review of Kevin Corcoran, ed., Soul. Body, and Survival. Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), Philosophical Books, 44, 2003, 278-9 7. Review of Peter Anstey, The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (London: Routledge, 2000), and Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle 1627-1691: Scrupulosity and Science (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000), Dialogue, 44.1, 2005, 167-9 8. Review of Jack Zupko, John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 2003), Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophique, 25, 2005, 153-155 9. Review of J. Howard Sobel, Logic and Theism: Arguments For and Against Beliefs in God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Dialogue, 45, 2006, 822-24 10. Review of Graham Oppy, Arguing about Gods (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), Philosophical Books, 2008, 49.3, 285-287, 11. Review of John Schellenberg, The Wisdom to Doubt (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), Religious Studies, 45.1, 2009, 114-118 12. Review of Jeff Jordan, Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), Dialogue, 47.3-4, 2008 13. Review of Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19.1, 2011, 153-156 14. Review of J. Angelo Corlett, The Errors of Atheism (New York and London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010), Analysis 2012; doi: 10.1093/analys/ans010 15. Review of Sorana Corneanu. Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Journal of the History of Philosophy, 51.1, 2013, 127-128 16. Review of Emily Thomas, Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52677

Recent paper presentations: 8

Papers marked with an asterisk are invited talks.

1. *'Boyle and Bentley on God, necessity, frigorifick atoms and the void,' Humanities Institute, University of Calgary, February, 2000 2. *'Boyle, Bentley and Clarke on God, necessity, frigorifick atoms and the void,' Annual International Universities Centre Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Dubrovnik, April, 2000 (a revised and expanded version of 1) 3. *'Locke, Plantinga, and the Aquinas/Calvin Model,' paper given at a symposium with Jill LeBlanc, Richard Davis, and Alvin Plantinga, Joint Session, Canadian Philosophical Society and the Society for Christian Philosophy, Edmonton, May, 2000; available on-line at http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/Plantinga-MacIntosh.html 4. 'Boyle, Bentley and Clarke on God, necessity, frigorifick atoms and the void,' Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Learned Societies meeting, Edmonton, May, 2000 (a revised and condensed version of 2) 5. *'Aristotle on Demonstration,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Edmonton, Oct. 8, 2000 6. *'Seventeenth Century Proofs of God's Existence,' University of Lethbridge, March, 2001 7. 'Robert Boyle's Modal Proof of God's Existence,' Royal Irish Academy Conference on Metaphysics—read in my absence (due to ill health) by Professor Jonathan Gorman (Dublin, May, 2001) 8. *'Necessity in the Later Seventeenth Century,' Conference 'Eternal Truths in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,' Calgary, June 2002. 9. *'Locke and Boyle on Observation, Testimony, Demonstration and Experience,' Annual International Universities Centre Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Dubrovnik, April, 2003 10. 'Hume's inflammatory argument,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Lethbridge, October, 2003 11. *'Morality and False Belief: a reply to Jonathan Strand's 'September 11th, Missing Persons, and the Dilemma of Possible Tragedy',' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Lethbridge, October, 2003 12. 'Locke and Boyle on Primary/Secondary Quality Distinctions,' John Locke Tercentenary Conference, Oxford, March, 2004 13. *'Descartes and the function of the passions: moods, memory, and self-knowledge in the early modern period,' Philosophy of Mind Conference in honour of William Lyons, Dublin, April, 2004 14. *'Necessity and Divinity,' Symposium on Fred Wilson's The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies, Canadian Philosophical Association, Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Conference, Winnipeg, May 2004 15. 'Boyle and Locke on Testimony and Reliable Knowledge in Science and Religion,' Canadian Society for Epistemology Conference, Sherbrooke, September, 2005 16. *'Boyle on Ethics,' Apeiron Society, Calgary, September 2005 17. 'Natural Philosophy and Religious Arguments: Bentley's Invocation of the New 9

Philosophy in Proofs of God's Existence,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, October, 2005 18. 'Models and Method in the Early Modern Period: 4 case studies,' Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Toronto, May, 2006 19. *'On Amy Schmitter's 'Engineering Human Nature: Receptivity and functional Explanation in Descartes' Meditations',' Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, May, 2006 20. *'Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century: The moral and modal demonstrations of Robert Boyle and 'A Person of Honour',' University of Toronto, November 2006 21. *'Gravity, God, and Newtonian Atoms: Bentley and Newton on God's Existence,' Annual International Universities Centre Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Dubrovnik, April, 2007 22. 'Robert Boyle on Laws of Nature,' Canadian History and Philosophy of Science Society annual meeting, Saskatoon, May 2007 23. 'Locke and Boyle on the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinctions or Why the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction Isn't,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, October, 2007 24. *'Lying and Deceit: Augustine, Aquinas, and Some Formalities,' University of Waterloo, March 2008 25. *'Science, Society, and Superstition: contrasting views of the relation between rationality and belief in our society and that of the 17th/18th Centuries,' Apeiron Society, Calgary, March 18, 2008 26. 'Augustine and Aquinas on Lying,' (an expanded version of part of paper 24), Western Canada Philosophical Association, October 2008, Edmonton 27. 'Lies and Deception,' a talk expanding portions of 24 and 26, Australasian Association of Philosophy annual conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2008 28. *'Seventeenth century modal theological arguments,' University of Uppsala, October, 2009 29. *'Sceptical ultimism, or not so sceptical atheism?', Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, May, 2010 30. 'Ayer on Identity,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Calgary, October, 2010 31. *'Robert Boyle on Causation and Laws of Nature,' University of Calgary History and Philosophy of Science Group, January 18, 2011 32. *'What is Lying and Why is it Wrong?' University of Calgary Undergraduate Philosophy Society, March 2011 33. 'Hooke’s Mechanical Model of Mind-Body Interaction,' Joint conference, Cheiron, The international Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences, and ISHN, The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Banff, June 2011 34. *'Gravity, God, and the Nature of Stars: Bentley and Newton on God's Existence,' University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July 2011 35. 'Models and Method in the Early Modern Period: 4 case studies,' (an expanded and updated version of 18) Australasian Philosophy Association Annual 10

Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 2011 36. *'Lying and Deception: Problems and Formalities,' University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July 2011 37. 'Hooke's Mechanical Mind,' (a revised version of 33) History of Neurology Interest Group, University of Calgary, October 4, 2011 38. 'Hooke's Mechanical Mind,' (a revised version of 37) Western Canada Philosophical Association, Victoria, October, 2012 39. 'Kant's Defence of Quantum Mechanics: Yet another look at Kant on Causality,' Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division conference, Wellington, December, 2012 40. *'Necessity and necessary truths in the mediaeval and early modern periods,' History of Necessity Workshop, Wellington, December, 2012 41. 'Persons, Identity, and Irenaean Theodicies,' 12th International Conference on Persons, Lund, Sweden, August, 2013 42. *'Boyle discovered something all right, but was it Boyle's law?' University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, February, 2014 43. *'Reason and Rationality: the Views of Locke and Boyle,' Annual International Universities Centre Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Dubrovnik, April, 2014 44. 'Aquinas, Ibn Sīnā, and the Five Ways, or: Why Ibn Sīnā and Aquinas were right about causality (and you and Hume are wrong),' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Vancouver, October, 2014 45. *'The Soul and the Embryo,' Mont Tremblant conference on 'Changing conceptions of 'Life' from the mediaeval to the early modern period,' Mont Tremblant, January, 2015 46. *'Why Ibn Sīnā and Aquinas were right about causality (and you and Hume are wrong),' National University of Ireland, Maynooth, February, 2015 47. 'Is Mathematics a science?—the seventeenth century debate between logicians and mathematicians,' Society for Natural Philosophy conference in honour of Marcelo Epstein, Calgary, August, 2015 48. 'Is Mathematics a science?—the seventeenth century debate between logicians and mathematicians,' Western Canada Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, October, 2015 (a revised, expanded, version of 47) 49. *'Boyle's 'failed' experiments: negative results, limited results, and real life catastrophes in Boyle's experimental work,' Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto, April, 2016 50. 'Robert Boyle: Philosopher and Natural Philosopher,' Canadian Association for Irish Studies conference, Banff, May, 2016 51. *'Kant's defence of quantum mechanics,' part of a joint Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science / Canadian Philosophical Association symposium on History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Calgary, Calgary, May, 2016 52. *'Signs, Causes, and Explanations,' Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science symposium on Peter Harrison's The Territories of Science and Religion, Calgary, May, 2016 53. 'Conflict and Change in the Notion of Demonstration,' ANZAMEMS (Australia 11

and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), Wellington, February, 2017 54. *'Boyle's 'failed' experiments: negative results, limited results, and real life catastrophes in Boyle's experimental work,' Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, March, 2017 55. 'Demonstration in the Early Modern Period,' Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, Toronto, May, 2017 56. *'Five Ways and Three Puzzles from Aquinas,' Dept. of Philosophy, University of Calgary, January, 2017 57. *'Five Ways and Three Puzzles from Aquinas,' Joint meeting: Philosophy departments of St Thomas More College and University of Saskatchewan, January, 2017