THOMAS M. WARD CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Philosophy | Baylor University | Waco, TX [email protected] | (562)-505-5487 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Baylor University, 2017- Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, 2012-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University, 2011–2012 EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011 M.Phil., Theology, Oriel College, University of Oxford, 2006 B.A., Philosophy, Biola University, 2004 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion AREAS OF COMPETENCE Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy PUBLICATIONS BOOK John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism. Brill, 2014. JOURNAL ARTICLES “Losing the Lost Island,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Forthcoming. “Many Exits on the Road to Corpuscularianism,” Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 15. Forthcoming. “Voluntarism, Atonement, and Duns Scotus,” The Heythrop Journal 58:1 (2017) 37-43. “Reconstructing Aquinas’s World: Themes from Brower,” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 4 (2016), 184-197. “Thomas Aquinas and John Buridan on Hylomorphism and the Beginning of Life,” Res Philosophica 93:1 (2016), 1-17. “Transhumanization, Personal Identity, and the Afterlife: Thomistic Reflections on a Dantean Theme,” New Blackfriars 96:1065 (2015), 564-575. “Animals, Animal Parts, and Hylomorphism: John Duns Scotus’s Pluralism about Substantial Form,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 50:4 (2012), 531-558. [Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founders’ Award, 2013] “Spinoza on the Essences of Modes,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:1 (2011), 19-46. [British Society for the History of Philosophy Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2009] “Relations without Forms: Some Consequences of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Relations,” Vivarium 48:3-4 (2010), 279-301. “How Aquinas Could Have Argued that God is Really Related to Creatures,” Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 6 (2006), 95-107. BOOK CHAPTERS “Parts, Wholes, and the Elements in Some Medieval Philosophers,” Parts and Wholes, ed. Andrew Arlig. Turnhout: Brepols. Forthcoming. “Deiform Morality,” in The New Theists, ed. Josh Rasmussen and Kevin Vallier. Routledge, forthcoming. “Scotus and Ockham on the Relations of Matter and Form,” Relations, ed. Christophe Erismann. Turnhout: Brepols. Forthcoming. “Vincent Ferrer’s Theory of Natural Supposition,” Modern Views of Medieval Logic, ed. Benedikt Löwe et al.. Leuven: Peeters. Forthcoming. “Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier” with Brian Copenhaver, in Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters in Honor of John Monfasani, ed. A. Frazier. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 546-604. “Either Demons Exist or God Doesn’t,” The Devil and Philosophy, ed. Robert Arp. Chicago: Open Court, 2014, 151-158. REFERENCE ARTICLES “Forms,” The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. Richard Cross and JT Paasch. London: Routledge. Forthcoming “John Duns Scotus,” T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, ed. Adam Johnson. T&T Clark, 2017. “The Place of God in the Meditations,” The Great Books Reader, ed. John Mark Reynolds. Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 2011, 153-155. BOOK REVIEWS Edward Feser, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, in Pro Ecclesia 26:1 (2017), 127-132. John Duns Scotus, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle’s ‘De Interpretatione’, trans. E. Buckner and J. Zupko, in History and Philosophy of Logic 37:3 (2015), 292-294. Thomas Aquinas, Basic Works, ed. J. Hause and R. Pasnau, in Comitatus 46 (2015), 305-307. Ward CV - 1 Katherine Lewis, Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England, in Comitatus 45 (2014), 272-273. Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Virtue, trans. Jeffrey Hause and Claudia Eisen Murphy, Comitatus 42 (2011), 223-225. A. Minnis and R. Voaden (eds.), Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c.1100-c.1500, in Comitatus 42 (2011), 276-278. John J. Conley, S.J., Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port Royal, in Comitatus 41 (2010), 241-244. Leo Strauss, On Plato’s Symposium, in Philosophia Christi 6:2 (2004), 363-365. WORK IN PROGRESS Several papers on Scotus and other topics PRESENTATIONS PAPERS (* INVITED) “The Inherence of Accidents Immediately in Prime Matter: A Crisis in Late Scholastic Metaphysics” *Rio Colloquium on Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2017 “Logical Possibility, Natural Goodness, and Divine Commands: Rethinking Scotus’s Voluntarism” *Analytic Theology Seminar, Fuller Theological Seminary, January 2017 *Scientia Workshop, UC Irvine, December 2016 The Meaning of Love conference, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, May 2016 Journal of the History of Philosophy Master’s Class, University of Toronto, June 2015 “Deiform Morality” *New Theists conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, August 2016 “Disabled Relative to What? Aquinas on Beatific Vision and Human Nature” *Philosophy of Disability Sympoisum, UNC Asheville, April 2016 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN, April 2016 “Of Gods and Butterflies: Dante’s Concept of Transhumanization” *Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, Oct. 2015 “‘Without God, Everything is Permitted’: Some Medieval Reflections on Morality and God’s Freedom” *Friday Faculty Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, Sept. 2015 “Modes of Signifying without Ontology: The Strange Case of Symphorien Champier’s Isagoge” *Brian Fest, a Celebration of the Work and Career of Brian Copenhaver, UCLA, Jan. 2015 “Transhumanization, Personal Identity, and the Afterlife: Thomistic Reflections on a Dantean Theme” Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, July 2014 “Hylomorphism, the Beginning of Life, and John Buridan” *Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Eastern APA, Baltimore, Dec. 2013 “Unity of Order in Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Substance” Unum Bonum Verum conference, Lisbon, Apri 2013 “Scotus and Ockham on the Relations of Matter and Form” *Medieval Theories of Relation Workshop, Lausanne, March 2013 “Doing a Part: Scotus on the Parthood of Matter and Form” Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic conference, Prague, June 2010 “Logic and Ontological Commitment: Vincent Ferrer’s Theory of Natural Supposition” Medieval Logic and Applied Modern Logic workshop, Bonn, June 2007 “How Aquinas Could Have Argued that God is Really Related to Creatures” Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, ACPA, Granville, OH, Oct. 2006 “The Ontology of Relations According to Aquinas” Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 2006 RESPONSES Jeffrey Brower, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World Author Meets Critic session, APA Central, Chicago, March 2016 Author Meets Critic session, ACPA, Boston, Oct. 2015 Shane Wilkins, “How Unicity Theorists can recover the Elements from Material Substances” Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics session, ACPA, Boston, Oct. 2015 Guy Consolmagno, “Science, Religion, and the Art of Storytelling” Academy for Catholic Thought and Imagination, Loyola Marymount University, March 2015 Ginger Clausen, “Virtue and the Right Apportionment of Affection” USC/UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, USC, Feb. 2010 COURSES TAUGHT BAYLOR Classical Philosophy (x2) Philosophy and the Inklings Medieval Philosophy LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY (LMU) Philosophy of Human Nature (x6) Ward CV - 2 First Year Seminar: Inklings (x6) Medieval Philosophy (x4) Honors Philosophical Inquiry (x3) Philosophical Inquiry (x3) Ethics (x2) Philosophy of Religion Philosophy and Literature: Inklings Justice in the Franciscan Tradition Anselm (MA seminar) Duns Scotus (MA seminar) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA) Historical Introduction to Philosophy Medieval Logic (PhD seminar, co-taught with Brian Copenhaver) AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (APU) Introduction to Philosophy (x5) Ancient Greek Philosophy Medieval Philosophy Early Modern Philosophy OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES Dissertation Committee Member: Dissertation Committee External Member: - Joseph Dowd, “The Many Forms of Pluralism: Three Essays on the Medieval Unitarian/Pluralist Debate,” UC Irvine, 2016 Study Abroad Instructor: -LMU Summer in Oxford, 2015 -LMU Summer in Rome, 2014 Senior Thesis Advisor: -“Medieval Metaphysics of Light” Spring 2015 -“Don Quixote as Homo Hispanicus in 20th Century Spanish Philosophy” Fall 2014 Independent Study Instructor: -Medieval Aesthetics, Spring 2014 -Aquinas’s Legal Philosophy, Fall 2012 -Modal Logic, Spring 2012 AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS Academy for Teaching and Learning Summer Faculty Institute, Baylor, Summer 2018 Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, LMU, Summer 2015 Academy for Catholic Thought and Imagination Fellowship, LMU, Spring 2015 Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founders’ Award, 2013 Center for Teaching Excellence Core Course Development Grant, LMU, 2013 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2010-2011 CMRS Lynn and Maude White Fellowship, UCLA, 2010-2011 (declined) British Society for the History of Philosophy Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2009 Harvey Fellowship, 2009-2011 Graduate Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2008-2009 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2007, 2008, 2009 University Fellowship, UCLA, 2006-2007 Oriel College Examination Prize, 2006 EKE (Biola’s baccalaureate honors society) Order of Sts.