Recent Faculty Publications


Some of our faculty members' most recent publications:


Dr. Shannon Hoff

"Hegel and the Possibility of Intercultural Criticism." In Hegel and
Canada: Unity of Opposites?, 
edited by Neil G. Robertson and Susan M. Dodd, 342-367. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.

"Pain and Agency: A Critique of Liberal Political Ontology." In The Self
in Pain: Essays in Cultural Ontology, edited by Siby K. George, 211-223. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016.

Translating Principle into Practice: On Derrida and the Terms of Feminism.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy SPEP Supplement 29, no. 3 (2015): 403-414.


Dr. Scott Johnston

“Bildung, post-Kantian Idealism, and the Conversation of Mankind.” In Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy, edited by P. Fairfield and D. Bakhurst. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.


Dr. Sean McGrath

Co-edited, with Joseph Carew. Rethinking German Idealism. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. 

“Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy?” In Nature, Speculation, and the Return to Schelling. Special issue of Angeliki, edited by Daniel Whistler and Tyler Tritten, 2016.

 “Boehme’s Theology of Evil and its Relevance for Psychoanalysis.” In The Psychoanalysis of Evil, edited by Ronald C. Naso and Jon Mills. Routledge, 2016.


Dr. Seamus O'Neill

Brisson, Luc, Seamus O’Neill, and Andrei Timotin, eds. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

“Why the Imago Dei is in the Intellect Alone: A Criticism of a Phenomenology of Sensible Experience for Attaining an Image of God.” The Saint Anselm Journal 13. no 2 (Spring 2018): 19-41.

“Evil Demons in the De Mysteriis: Assessing the Iamblichean Critique of Porphyry’s Demonology.” In Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill, and Andrei Timotin, 160-189. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

“A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry.” In Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, edited by John F. Finamore and Danielle A. Layne, 93-123. Gloucestershire, UK: The Prometheus Trust, 2018.

“The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine.” In Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, edited by Benjamin McCraw and Robert Arp, 39-58. New York and London: Routledge, 2017.

“Privation, parasite, et perversion de la volonté: Une étude ontologique et psychologique de la doctrine augustinienne du mal.” Laval théologique et philosophique 73. no. 1 (février 2017): 31-52.

 "Augustine and Aquinas on Demonic Possession: Theoria and Praxis.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 90 (2016): 133-147.

"'aequales angelis sunt’: Demonology, Angelology, and the Resurrection of the Body in Augustine and Anselm.” The Saint Anselm Journal 12. no. 1 (Fall 2016): 1-18.


Dr. Suma Rajiva

“Solus Secedo and Sapere Aude: Cartesian Meditation as Kantian Enlightenment.” in Con-Textos Kantianos, International Journal of Philosophy, 2015.


Dr. Arthur Sullivan

(2018) The Constitutive A Priori: Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

(2017) “Evaluating the Cancellability Test”, Journal of Pragmatics (121): 162-74.

(2017) “The Port Royal Logic”, in History of the Philosophy of Language: A Sourcebook, M. Cameron, ed., Springer, pp. 529-31.


Dr. Peter Trnka

"Talk, Negotiate, or Blockade? Tactics & Strategies for Indigenous Power." Northern Public Affairs, 2015.

Co-authored with Patrick Tomlinson. "Aboriginal Citizenship in the Twenty First Century." Northern Public Affairs, 2015.