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BLAKE D. DUTTON [email protected]

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 1993 Dissertation: Descartes’s Theistic and Its Scholastic Context. Co-Directors: James Ross and Gary Hatfield

University of North Texas

B.A. in , 1985 B.M. in Music Composition, 1985

EMPLOYMENT

Loyola University Chicago, Professor (2016 – present)

Loyola University Chicago, Associate Professor (2004 – present)

Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Professor (1998 – 2004)

Georgia State University, Adjunct Professor (1995 – 1997)

Emory University, Visiting Assistant Professor (1994 – 1995)

Cornell University, Visiting Assistant Professor (1994)

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

AOS: , Early ,

AOC: , Classical , History of

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK

Augustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Study (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016)

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“The Privacy of the Mind and the Fully Approvable Reading of Scripture: Augustine on Genesis 1:1,” in William E. Mann (ed.), Augustine’s Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography (: Oxford University Press, 2014) 155-180

“Universals,” in Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, edited by Andrew Pyle and A.C. Grayling. (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2007).

“Divine Sovereignty and the Causal Power in Creatures: Aquinas’s Answer to the Mutakallimūn,” in Jeremiah Hackett, William Murnion & Carl Still (eds.), and Thought in Aquinas. (Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, 2004).

“Benedict de Spinoza,” in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (www.utm.edu/research/iep/)

“Augustine, Academic Skepticism and Zeno’s Definition,” in Augustiniana, 53 (2003) 7-30.

“Descartes’s Dualism and the One Principal Attribute Rule,” in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2003) 395-415.

"Al-Ghazālī on Possibility and the Critique of ," in Medieval Philosophy and , 10 (2001) 23-46.

“Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and Galileo,” in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 36 (1999) 49-71.

"Indifference, Necessity and Descartes's Derivation of the Laws of Motion," in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34 (1996) 193-212.

"Nicholas of Autrecourt and on , and the of Motion," in Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 5 (1996) 63-85.

"Suarezian Foundations of Descartes's Ontological Argument," in The Modern Schoolman, 70 (1993) 245-258.

"The Ontological Argument: Aquinas's Objection and Descartes's Reply,” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67 (1993) 430-450.

PBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Simo Knuutilla, Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), in The Review of Metaphysics, 60 (2006)

Review of Steven Nadler, Spinoza’s Heresy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41 (2003) 130-131.

Review of Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Companion to Augustine. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40 (2002) 118-119

Review of Roger Ariew, Descartes and the Last Scholastics. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 38 (2000) 275-277.

Review of Mark S. McLeod, and Theistic . (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), in The Philosophical Review, 104 (1995) 484-486.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“Augustine and the Objection from Tactile Sensation,” presented at the Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Cornell University), Summer, 2018,

“Al-Ghazālī and Hume on Causal Connection and Skepticism,,” presented at the Workshop on Scepticism and Religion in al-Ghazālī, Maimonides, and Hume, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (University of Hamburg), Fall, 2017.

“Sensation, Extension, and the Soul in Augustine,” presented at the APA/Central Division, Spring, 2017.

“Spinoza the Heretic,” presented at the Meet the Professors Lecture Series (Beth Hillel Synagogue, Wilmette, Il), Spring, 2016

“Situating Islam in Relation to Judaism and Christianity,” presented at the Meet the Professors Lecture Series (Beth Hillel Synagogue, Wilmette, Il) Spring, 2015

“Augustine on of First Person ,” presented at the Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (University of Toronto), Fall, 2014.

“Augustine on Why a Skeptic Cannot Be Happy,” presented at the Conference on Happiness and the , D.B. Reinhart Institute for in Leadership (Viterbo University), Spring, 2014.

“Islam and the Children of Abraham,” presented as a public lecture (Dickenson House, Lake Forest, Illinois), Fall, 2010.

“Augustine on the Legacy of ’s Academy,” presented as part of the Catholic Minds, Catholic Matters lecture series sponsored by the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Loyola University Chicago), Spring, 2008

“Islam as an Abrahamic Religion,” presented as part of the Religions of the World Lecture Series (Illinois Institute of Art), Spring, 2008.

“Augustine on Convicting the Academics of Error,” presented at the Fifth Annual Midwest Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Saint Louis University), Fall, 2007.

“Augustine on the Inaction (Apraxia) Objection,” presented at the Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Cornell University), Summer, 2007.

“Augustine on the Misery of the Skeptics,” presented at the Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Cornell University), Summer, 2005.

“Skepticism and the Threat of Deception: Augustine, Descartes and the Uniqueness of the Cogito,” presented at the Second Annual Midwest Conference in Medieval Philosophy (University of Iowa), Fall, 2004.

Response to Justin Skirry, “Ontological Independence and Dependence in Descartes’s Substance/Mode Ontology,” presented at APA/Central Division, Spring, 2004.

“ and the Law: Maimonides’ Critique of Necessitarianism,” presented at the Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (Cornell University), Summer, 2002.

“Cosmology and the Law: Maimonides’ Critique of Necessitarianism,” presented on the Philosophy Colloquium Series (Loyola University Chicago), Fall, 2001.

“Emanation and the Naturalization of Prophecy in Al-Fārābī, Maimonides and Aquinas,” presented at the IGCS/CEMERS Conference (Binghamton University), Fall, 2001.

Response to Peter Adamson, “Ghazālī, Causality and Knowledge,” presented at the APA/Central Division, Spring, 2000.

"Scotus and the Cartesian God," presented at the IGCS/CEMERS Conference (Binghamton University), Fall, 1999.

“Al-Ghazālī on Necessary Causal Connection,” presented at the AAR/Southwest Division on a special session devoted to the reception of in Islam, Spring, 1999.

"Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and Galileo," presented the Southeastern Seminar in (University of Charleston), Spring, 1996.

“Descartes and Galileo on Science and Religion,” presented at the ILS Conference on Science and Religion (Kentucky State University), Spring, 1995.

“Nicholas Autrecourt and William of Ockham on Atomism, Nominalism, and the Ontology of Motion,” presented on the Philosophy Colloquium Series (Emory University), Fall, 1994.

"Divine Indifference in Descartes," presented on the Philosophy Colloquium Series (Cornell University), Spring, 1994.

"Athanasius and Augustine on the Insufficiency of the : A Study of the Arian and Pelagian Controversies,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association (St. Mary’s University), Spring, 1994.

"Causa Sui and Ens Summe Perfectum: Descartes and Some Scholastics," presented on the Colloquium Series of the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Boston College), Spring, 1993.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Loyola University Chicago Faculty Research Leave, Fall, 2006.

Loyola University Chicago Summer Research Stipend, 2001.

Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Boston College, 1997-1998.

Research Fellow at the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Boston College, fall, 1993.

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-1993.