Academic Papers
‘Quantum Action and Substance Causation,’ Symposium Thomisticum VIII (“Aquinas Universal Doctor”), Prague (Jun 2025)
“Braine’s ‘Two Mythologies’: Causation of Action in the Quantum Age,” American Maritain Association Annual Conference (Apr 2025)
‘Thomistic Free Speech? Political Pluralism and the Challenge of Democracy,’ Plenary Speaker, “What Would Aquinas Do? The Crises of Our Age and the 800th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Aquinas”, The Institute of Spirituality at the Angelicum and the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University (Jan 2025)
‘Thomistic Free Expression,’ Plenary Speaker, Symposium Thomisticum VII (“Aquinas in History”), Dominikanerkloster, Vienna (Jun 2024)
‘Hylomorphism and Synchronic Dependency’, The Biennial Henle Conference (“Hylomorphism and Contemporary Science”), Saint Louis University, Department of Philosophy (Mar 2024)
‘Human Embodiment,’ Plenary Speaker, with response to Prof. Alan Jasanoff (MIT, Biological Engineering), University of Pennsylvania (Jun 2023)
‘Friendship and Civil Discourse’, Princeton University, Love and Fidelity Network (Apr 2023)
‘Thomistic Free Expression’, Ave Maria School of Law (Apr 2023)
‘The Philosophy of Motherhood’, College of the Holy Cross (Mar 2023)
‘Truth and Civil Liberties’, University of Oxford and University of St Andrews, Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology (Sept 2022)
‘Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind’, Center for Philosophy of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (Aug 2022)
‘The Right to Work’, St. John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy and International Human Rights, Ave Maria School of Law / Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw (May 2022)
‘Critics of Free Speech in the Academy’, The Morningside Institute at Columbia University (Dec 2021)
Keynote: ‘St John Paul II on the Future of Humanity: An Integral Reading of Laborem Exercens and Familiaris Consortio’, The Catholic University of America and the Napa Institute (Oct 2021)
‘The Paradox of Faith and Freedom: Can Catholic Education Be Pluralistic?’, American Catholic Philosophical Association (Mar 2021)
‘Religio and the First Amendment’, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Feb 2020)
‘Choice and Omission in Anscombe’s Theory of Action Descriptions’, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (Nov 2019)
‘Religion as a Philosophical Concept and Practice: Contributions from G.E.M. Anscombe’, Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania (Oct 2019)
‘Action Descriptions and the Specification of Goodness: Contemporary Development of bonum ex integra causa’, Oxford, Anscombe Bioethics Centre and Blackfriars Hall (July 2019)
‘The Philosophical Meaning of Religious Exercise’, Corpus Christi College, Programme for the Foundations of Law & Constitutional Government (June 2019)
‘Are Act Omissions the Exercise of Two-Way Powers?’, Corpus Christi College, Faculty of Philosophy (June 2019)
‘Remarks on De Ente et Essentia’, University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall (May 2019)
'Thomistic Animalism II', University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall. The ‘Agency in Human Beings and Other Animals’ Colloquia Series (May 2017)
‘Aristotle’s Political Naturalism’, University of Oxford, Pembroke College. With commentator Ursula Coope (Oxford). Seminar in Constitutional Thought and History, ‘Aristotle, Political Philosophy, and Government’ (Mar 2016)
'Thomistic Animalism', University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall. Aquinas Institute Special Seminar (Nov 2015)
‘Against a Causalist Approach to Divine Action’, University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity. With commentator Sarah Broadie (St Andrews). The ‘Uniformity in Nature: Natural Laws, Natural Powers, or Divine Action?’ Conference (May 2015)
Commentator on ‘Practical Truth in Aquinas’, for Stephen Brock (Santa Croce), Pontifical Gregorian University, Faculty of Philosophy. The ‘Practical Knowledge: Aristotle, Aquinas, Anscombe’ Workshop (Jun 2012)
Commentator on ‘Aristotle’s Philosophy of Time’, for Janine Gühler (Oxford), University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy. The University of St Andrews Graduate Philosophy Seminar (Nov 2011)
‘Thomistic Conceptions of Practical Rationality’, The University of Chicago. ‘Aquinas and Contemporary Ethical Theory’ Seminar, Lumen Christi Institute (Jun 2011)
‘What are Reasons for Acting Lovingly?’, KU Leuven. ‘Reasons of Love’ International Conference, Institute of Philosophy (May 2011)
‘Anscombe on Action Explanation: Description and Typology’, University of Notre Dame, Center for Ethics and Culture. The Center for Ethics and Culture 9th Annual Fall Conference (Nov 2008)
Conferences and Colloquia
“John Stuart Mill and Free Speech,” John Peter DiIulio (University of Pennsylvania) (Oct 2023)
‘Teaching Civil Discourse: A Summer Seminar for Faculty,’ Duke University (Aug 2022)
“Befriending a Bad Person,” Alice Ramos (St John’s University), Annual Aquinas Lecture, Ave Maria University (Feb 2022)
‘Understanding Justice: Learning from Practice in Political Liberalism,’ Institute for Humane Studies Manuscript Workshop for Greg Robson (Iowa State) (May 2021)
Metaphysics and Theology Work-In-Progress Seminar Series, University of Cambridge (2020-2021)
‘Manufacturing Minds,’ University of Pennsylvania Department of Neuroscience (Nov 2020)
‘Anscombe and Aquinas,’ University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Reading Group (Fall 2019)
‘Metaphysics of Action’ Workshop, University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall (Jun 2018)
Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom Manuscript Workshop, George Washington University (Nov 2017
‘Agency in Human Beings and Other Animals’ Workshop, ‘Agency in Human Beings and Other Animals’ Workshop, University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall (May 2017)
‘What Do We Really Know About Right and Wrong?’, AMU Annual Aquinas Lecture, J. Budziszewski (Jan 2017)
‘Civil Disobedience and Resistance to Tyrants in Thomas Aquinas’, AMU Faculty Seminar, J. Budziszewski (Jan 2017)
‘Why We Need the Humanities’, Donald L. Drakeman (University of Cambridge/University of Notre Dame). AMU Faculty Seminar (Feb 2016)
‘Law and the Normativity of Obligation’, Thomas Pink (King’s College London). AMU Faculty Seminar (Dec 2015)
‘Neo-Aristotelian Philosophy of Physics’ Workshop, University of Cambridge, Jesus College (Mar 2013)
Philosophy of Action Colloquium Series, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy (2012-2013)
‘Philosophical Foundations of the American Republic’ Summer Institute, Jack Miller Center (Jul 2012)
Social Trends Institute Seminar in Emotional Culture and Identity, University of Navarra (May 2011)
‘Contemporary Natural Law Consultation’ Workshop, Princeton University, James Madison Program (Oct 2010)