Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Metaphysics, Durham University
2017 - 2020
Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2011 - 2017
Official Fellow in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2008 - 2011
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy, and Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2007 - 2008
Departmental Lecturer at the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Education
2006
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Edinburgh University
2000
Laurea in Philosophy, University of Pisa
Books
Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics, forthcoming with OUP in 2021.
Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, OUP, March 2019, pp. xii + 221
Metafisica. Una Breve Introduzione, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, Carocci Editore, July 2017, pp. ii + 148
Everything in Everything. Anaxagoras’s Metaphysics, OUP, March 2017, pp. xi + 224
Aristotle on Perceiving Objects, OUP, June 2014, pp. ix + 304
Edited books
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, forthcoming with CUP in 2021, (co-edited with Sofia Xenofontos)
The Foundations of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time, forthcoming with OUP in May 2020 (co-edited with David Glick and George Darby)
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical, theological and historical studies, OUP, October 2018, pp. xi + 263 (co-edited with Neil McLynn)
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity, CUP, July 2018, pp. xi + 428 (co-edited with Sophie Cartwright, reprinted in paperback in 2020)
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity, OUP, February 2017, pp. xi + 304 (co-edited with Eirini Viltanioti)
The Metaphysics of Relations, OUP, January 2016, pp. xi + 304 (co-edited with David Yates)
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity, CUP, February 2015, pp. xi + 312 (co-edited with Brian Prince; reprinted in paperback in 2018)
The Author’s Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity, OUP, October 2013, pp. xiii + 448 (co-edited with Jonathan Hill)
The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, OUP, January 2011, pp. xix + 262 (co-edited with Jonathan Hill)
The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, Routledge, April 2010, pp. vii + 204 (reprinted paperback in 2013)
Reviewed in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review; recommended in the Oxford Bibliographies entry on dispositions.
Journal articles and book chapters
‘Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors’, in Julia Jorati (ed.) Oxford Philosophical Concepts volume on Powers, OUP, forthcoming in 2020
‘Aesthetic Cognitivism’, The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, forthcoming in 2020
‘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, forthcoming in November 2020
‘Hylomorphic Unity’, in Ricki Bliss and James Miller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, forthcoming in July 2020
‘Powers, Activity and Interaction’, in Anne Sophie 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
