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FORTHCOMING AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

A Historical Afterward, in Darwinian Science and Classical Liberalism: Biological and Political Theories in Tension? (forthcoming 2012).
Locke on Newton’s Principia Mathematica: Mathematics But Not Natural Philosophy?.

BOOKS

Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction (Oxford University Press 2012).
JA71 .W455 2012
Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction (Oneworld 2003).
JA71 W455 2003
Partisan or Neutral? The Futility of Public Political Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield 1997).
JA71 .W4558 1997
The Continuous and the Discrete: Ancient Physical Theories from a Contemporary Perspective (Oxford University Press 1992).
Q175 .W569 1992
Certainty and Surface in Epistemology and Philosophical Method: Essays in Honor of Avrum Stroll (A. P. Martinich and Michael White eds., E. Mellen Press 1991).
BD171 .C47 1991
Agency and Integrality: Philosophical Themes in the Ancient Discussions of Determinism and Responsibility (Springer 1985).
B187 .D47 W44 1985

ARTICLES

The First Amendment's Religion Clauses: 'Freedom of Conscience' Versus Institutional Accommodation, 47 San Diego L. Rev. 1075 (2010).
K23 .A53
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Augustinian Citizenship and the Moral Ideal of the Citizen, 6 J.Catholic Soc.Thought (2009).
Sextus Empiricus on Causation, Symposium Hellenisticum, Delphi, Greece, 2007.
Commentary, Steven D. Smith on Hart’s Onion, 16 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 283 (2006).
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On Doubling the Cube: Mechanics and Conics, 39 Apeiron: J. Ancient Phil.& Sci. 201 (2006).
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Comments, Patrick Brennan’s ‘On What Sin (and Grace) Can Teach Crime’, 6 Punishment & Society, 109 (2004).
The Problem of Aristotle’s Nous Poiêtikos, 57 Rev. Metaphysics 725 (2004).
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Pluralism of Values and Civic Virtues in Contemporary Constitutional Democracies, Occasional Paper of the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, No. 5, 2003.
Religion and the Common Good, 12 J. Peace & Justice Studies 27 (2002).
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The Unclear, the Inconsequential, and Aristotelian Agency, 42 Int’l Phil Q. 509 (2002).
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Aristotle’s Physics and the Hegemony of His Prior Commitment, 32 Apeiron: J. Ancient Phil. & Sci. 141 (1999).
Incommensurables and Incomparables: On the Conceptual Status and the Philosophical, 40 Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 420 (1999).
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The Lessons of Prior’s Master Argument, 2 Hist. Phil. & Logical Analysis 225 (1999).
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Peace or Justice?, 8 J. Peace & Justice Studies 69 (1997).
Greek Concepts of Space, 19 Apeiron: J. Ancient Phil. & Sci 183 (1996).
Guide for Perplexed Liberals: Second Installment, 15 Law & Phil. 417 (1996). (book review)
K12 A832
A Puzzle from Leibniz Zettel, 12 Hist. Phil. Q. 405 (1995).
Pluralism and Secularism in the Political Order: St. Augustine and Theoretical, 22 U Dayton Rev. 137 (1994).
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Aristotle on the Non-Supervenience of Local Motion, 53 Phil. & Phenomenological Research 143 (1993).
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The Foundations of the Calculus and the Conceptual Analysis of Motion: the Case Of the Early Leibniz (1670-1676), 73 Pac. Phil. Q. 283 (1993).
AP 2 .P46
The Metaphysical Location of Aristotle's Mathematika, 38 Phronesis 166 (1993).
B 1 .P59
David W. Cowles & Michael White, Vague Objects for Those Who Want Them, 63 Phil. Studies 203 (1991).
B 21 .P53
Aristotle on ‘Time’ and ‘A Time’, 22 Apeiron: J. Ancient Phil. & Sci 207 (1989).
What to Say to a Geometer, 30 Greek, Roman, & Byzantine Studies 297 (1989).
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An ‘Almost Classical’ Period-Based Tense Logic, 29 Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 438 (1988).
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On Continuity: Aristotle Versus Topology?, 9 Hist. & Phil. Logic 1 (1988).
The Unimportance of Being Random, 76 Synthese 171 (1988).
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The Spatial Arrow Paradox, 68 Pac. Phil. Q 71 (1987).
AP 2 .P46
Can Unequal Quantities of Stuffs be Totally Blended?, 3 Hist. Phil. Q. 379 (1986).
B 1 .H57x
The Fourth Account of Conditionals in Sextus Empiricus, 7 Hist. & Phil. Logic 1 (1986).
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What Worried the Crows?, 36 Classical Q. 534 (1986).
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Harmless Actualism, 47 Phil. Studies 183 (1985).
B 21 .P53
Causes as Necessary Conditions: Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and J. L. MacKie, 10 Can. J. Phil. Supp. 157 (1984).
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The Necessity of the Past and Modal-Tense Logic Incompleteness, 25 Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 59 (1984).
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Could Rossini Actually Have Written Don Giovanni?, 43 Phil. Studies 337 (1983).
B 21 .P535x
Time and Determinism in the Hellenistic Philosophical Schools, 65 Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie 40 (1983).
B 3 .A69
Zeno’s Arrow, Divisible Infinitesimals, and Chrysippus, 27 Phronesis 239 (1982).
B 1 .P59
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Fatalism and Causal Determinism: An Aristotelian Essay, 31 Phil. Q. 231 (1981).
B 1 .P49
On Some Ascending Chains of Brouwerian Modal Logics, 40 Studia Logica 75 (1981).
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‘Diodorus’ ‘Master’ Argument: A Semantic Interpretation, 15 Erkenntnis 65 (1980).
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Aristotle’s Concept of Theôria and the Energeia-Kinêsis Distinction, 18 J.Hist. Phil. 253 (1980).
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Aristotle’s Temporal Interpretation of Necessary Coming-to-be and Stoic Determinism, 34 Phoenix: J. Classical Ass’n Canada 208 (1980).
Aspects of Megarian Fatalism: Aristotelian Criticisms and the Stoic Doctrine of Eternal, 10 Can. J. Phil. 189 (1980).
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Necessity and Unactualized Possibilities in Aristotle, 38 Phil. Studies 287 (1980).
B 21 .P535x
An S5 Diodorean Modal System, 88 Logique & Analyse 497 (1979).
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Aristotle and Temporally Relative Modalities, 39 Analysis 88 (1979).
B 1 .A11x
Functionalism and the Moral Virtues in Aristotle, 11 Int’l Studies Phil. 49 (1979).
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The First Person Pronoun: A Reply to Anscombe and Clarke, 39 Analysis 120 (1979).
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Plantinga and the Actual World, 37 Analysis 97 (1977).
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A Suggestion Regarding the Semantical Analysis of Performatives, 30 Dialectica 117 (1976).
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Davidson and Non-Trivial T-Sentences, 10 Erkenntnis 87 (1976).
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Genus as Matter in Aristotle?, 7 Int’l Studies Phil. 42 (1975).
B 1 .A215x
‘Time’ and ‘A Time’ in Book IV of Aristotle’s Physics.
A Traditional Moral and Religious View of Pornography.
Ancient and Early Modern Skepticism: A Continuity?.
Aristotle’s Temporal Account of the Modalities in De Gen. Et Cor. 2.11.
Augustine and the Problem of Theoretical Pluralism.
Descriptive and Revisionary Moral Theory: Crusaders or Democrats?.
How Real Are the Reals? On Incommensurables and Incomparables.
Making Room for Euclid and His Parallel Postulate (In an Aristotelian Cosmos).
Philosophical Problems With Euclid’s Parallel Postulate and With Geometrical Arguments Appealing to the Translation of Figures.
Plotinus and Human Autonomy.
Pythagorean and Non-Pythagorean Ancient Metamathematics.
Rawls’ Version of Political Liberalism.
Stoic Compatibilism.
The Instant of Change/Transition: The History of the Misinterpretation of an Idea.
The Logic of Actuality.
The Natural Law Theory of H. L. A. Hart.
Time, Fatalism, and Causal Determinism in Aristotle.
Two Kinematic Mistakes in Aristotle’s Physics.
What Does the Metatheory of Modal-Tense Logic Have to Do With the History Of Philosophy?.
Why, According to Aristotle, Is Up Up and Down Down.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Prenatal Enhancement and Issues of Responsibility, in Building Better Humans?: Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism (Hava Tirosh-Samuelson & Kenneth L. Mossman eds., Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2012).
B821 .B85 2012
Pluralism and Secularism in the Political Order: St. Augustine and Theoretical Liberalism, in Augustine and Modern Law (Richard O. Brooks & James Bernard Murphy, Ashgate 2011).
JC51 .A8 2011
Stoicism and Punishment: Social Practices and Human Attitudes, in The Philosophy of Punishment and History of Political Thought (Peter Karl Koritansky, University of Missouri Press 2011).
Aristotle on the Infinite, Space, and Time, in A Companion to Aristotle (Georgios Anagnostopoulos ed., Wiley-Blackwell 2009).
B485 .C59 2009
Hugh H. Benson, Plato and Mathematics, in A Companion to Plato 228 (Blackwell Publishing 2007).
B395 .C64 2006
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Michael White & Patrick M. Brennan, The Disappearance of Natural Authority and the Elusiveness of Nonnatural Authority, in Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (Lexington Books 2007).
BT88 .C58 2007
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Michael White & Brad Inwood, Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology), in The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics 124 (Cambridge University Press 2003).
B528 .C26 2003
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A.P. Martinich & Michael J. White, Folk Theories and Physical Metrics, in Certainty and Surface in Epistemology And Philosophical Method 135 (E. Mellen Press 1991).
BD171 .C47 1991

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