Books and Papers

‘Mereological Causation’ in A. Seagal and N. Stang (eds.), Systematic Metaphysics, OUP, forthcoming in February 2026

‘Successors of Aristotle’s Stripping Away Argument in the IV century’, in N. Polloni (ed.), A Philosophical History of Prime Matter. Vol. 1: Ancient and Pre-Scholastic Conceptions, CUP, forthcoming in 2026

‘Themistius’ De Virtute; Socrates’ virtue ethics ‘reconditioned’’ in E. Coda (ed.), Themistius and the Power of Words. Philosophy and Rhetoric on the Crossroad of Ages and Languages, De Gruyter, forthcoming in October 2025 

‘Gregory of Nyssa’s “Stripping Away” thought experiment in the in Hexaemeron,’ in J. Zachhuber and A. Marmodoro (eds.), Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron, OUP, forthcoming in April 2025

What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!’ in C. Austin, A. Marmodoro and A. Roselli (eds.) Powers, Time and Free Will, Springer, March 2022, pp. 1-15 

‘Why studying the history of philosophy matters’, Think. A Journal of the Royal Institute for Philosophy, issue 60, Spring 2022, pp. 5-20

‘Instantiation’, Metaphysics 4 (1), January 2022, pp. 32-46

‘Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors’, in J. Jorati (ed.) Powers. A History, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, OUP, April 2021, pp. 10-27

‘Power gunk, or unlimitedly divided powers’, co-authored with Andrea Roselli, in U. Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy. A History from Antiquity to the Present, Bloomsbury Academic, December 2020, pp. 420-9

‘Gioacchino da Fiore sulla Trinità (e la sua ricezione da parte di Tommaso d’Aquino)’, in M. Bruni and A. Gatto (eds.) Disegnare con il pensiero: La filosofia dell’immagine di Gioacchino da Fiore, Mimesis, November 2020, pp. 37-74

‘Hylomorphic Unity’, in R. Bliss and J. Miller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, July 2020, pp. 284-299

‘Aesthetic Cognitivism’, The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, June 2020, pp. 33-44

‘Powers, Activity and Interaction’, in A. S. Meincke (ed.) Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Springer, April 2020, pp. 55-66

‘The power of color’, co-authored with M. Grasso, American Philosophical Quarterly, 57:1, January 2020, pp. 65-77

‘Structure versus whole versus one’, in L. Bellotti, L. Gili, E. Moriconi, G. Turbanti (eds.) Third Pisa Colloquium in Logic, Language and Epistemology. Pisa: ETS, May 2019, pp. 239-50

‘Plotinus on Perception’, in B. Glenney and J. F. Silva (eds.), The Senses and the History of Perception, Routledge, March 2019, pp. 81-95

‘Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity (with focus on his Letter ad Ablabium)’, in A. Marmodoro and N. McLynn (eds.), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical, theological and historical studies, OUP, October 2018, pp. 220-234

‘Whole, but not one’, in J. Heil, S. Gibb and A. Carruth (eds.) Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe, OUP, October 2018, pp. 60-69

'Potentiality in Aristotle's metaphysics', in K. Engelhard and M. Quante (eds.) The Handbook of Potentiality, Springer, April 2018, pp. 15-43 

‘Structural powers and the homeodynamic unity of organisms’, co-authored with C. Austin, in R. Koons, N. Teh, W. Simpson (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Modern Science, Routledge, October 2017, pp. 169-183

‘Stoic blends’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 32, August 2017, pp. 1-24

‘Aristotelian powers at work: reciprocity without symmetry in causation’, J. Jacobs (ed.), Causal Powers, OUP, April 2017, pp. 57-76

‘Power mereology: structural versus substantial powers', in M.P. Paoletti and F. Orilia (eds.) Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, Routledge, February 2017 pp. 110-127 (reprinted in paperback in 2019) 

‘Dispositional modality vis-à-vis conditional necessity’, Philosophical Investigations, Vol 39, No 3, July 2016, pp. 205-214

‘Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts’, co-authored with B. Page, Vivarium, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2016, pp. 1-21

‘Anaxagoras’s Qualitative Gunk’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 23, issue 3, March 2015, pp. 402-422

‘Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World’, in A. Marmodoro and B. Prince (eds.) Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity, CUP, February 2015, pp. 94-111

‘Aristotle’s hylomorphism without reconditioning', Philosophical Inquiry, Volume 37, Issue 1/2, winter/spring 2013, pp. 5-22 

‘Moral Character versus Situations: an Aristotelian contribution to the debate', Journal of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 1-24

‘The Metaphysics of Extended Mind in ontological entanglements’, in A. Marmodoro and J. Hill (eds.) The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, OUP, January 2011, pp. 206-228 

‘Peter Abelard's metaphysics of the incarnation', co-authored with J. Hill, Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 22, numbers 1&2, 2010, pp. 27-48 

‘Composition models of the incarnation: unity and unifying relations’, co-authored with J. Hill, Religious Studies, Vol. 46, issue 4, 2010, pp. 469-488 

‘Do powers need powers to make them powerful? From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 337-352

‘Is Being One Only One?' – The Argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms’, Apeiron, Volume XLI 4, December 2008, pp. 211-227 

‘Modeling the Metaphysics of the Incarnation', co-authored with J. Hill, Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 20, 2008, pp. 99-128

‘The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle: Physics III 3’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 32, 2007, pp. 205-232

‘It’s a Colorful World’, American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2006, pp. 71-80

Guest-edited special issues of peer-reviewed international journals:

Philosophical and Theological Issues in Joachim of Fiore and the Joachimite Tradition. Special issue of the journal Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, Volume 89, issue 2, February 2023

Powers in the world of science, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, co-edited with Andrea Rosselli, published online 2021-22 https://link.springer.com/collections/bhcgjaggac

Aristotelian Biology and Christian Theology in Late Antiquity. Special thematic section of the Journal of Ancient Philosophy, co-edited with Christopher Austin and Vito Limone, Vol. 15 No. 2, October 2021

Form, Structure and Hylomorphism. Special issue of the journal Synthese, co-edited with Michele Paolini Paoletti, Volume 198, supplement issue 11, June 2021

Mental Powers. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, co-edited with Matteo Grasso, Volume 39, issue 5, November 2020

The Metaphysics of the Trinity. New Directions. Special issue of the journal Religious Studies, co-edited with Martin Pickup and Daniel Kodaj, vol. 54, issue 3, September 2018

Stoic Metaphysics. Special issue of the journal Rhizomata. A journal for ancient philosophy and science, co-edited with Ricardo Salles, 6: 1, August 2018

Powers, Abilities and Skills in Early Modern Philosophy. Special issue of the journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy, co-edited with Federico Boccacini, 25:3, June 2017

Empedocles’ Metaphysics. Special issue of the journal Rhizomata. A journal for ancient philosophy and science, 4:1, Summer 2016

Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in classical and late antiquity. Special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22:5, January 2015

The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, vol. 34, issue 2, October 2015

Aristotelian and Contemporary Perspectives on the Mind. Special issue of the journal Res Philosophica, 91:2, 2014

Powers of the Mind: Contemporary Problems and Ancient Answers. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, 31:2, 2012 

I have published book reviews and contributed to book symposia in: the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2022), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2011), the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2014 and 2019), the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2003, 2008, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2025), the Classical Review (2012 and 2021), Faith and Philosophy (2018), The International Journal of Philosophical Studies  (2025), the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition (2011), Metascience (2013 and 2018), Mind (2011), the Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2014, 2018, 2020), Philosophie Antique (2016, 2025), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2011), Religious Studies (2024), Studia Graeco-Arabica (2020), the Times Literary Supplement (2010), The Thomist (2024).