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Research
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Books

The Search for Mind-Body Flourishing in Spinoza’s Eudaimonism, Brill (forthcoming).
 

Journal Articles

“Spinoza's Dual Pleasure Problem," Journal of Spinoza Studies (forthcoming). 

"Weak Democritean Eudaimonism" Arché (forthcoming). 

Healthy and Happy Natural Being: Spinoza and Epicurus Contra the Stoics," Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 16, 2024, pp. 412-441. 

“Spinoza’s Early Modern Eudaimonism: Corporeal and Intellectual Flourishing,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue Canadienne De Philosophie, 2023, pp. 1-26. 
 

“Spinoza’s Strong Eudaimonism." Journal of Modern Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 3, 2023, 1-21. 

Spinoza’s Metaethical Synthesis of Nature and Affect.” Ithaque, no. 30, 2022, pp. 89‐112.

Popular Philosophy

“Healthy and Happy Natural Being: Spinoza and Epicurus Contra the Stoics," Ergo Blog, 23 January 2025.

"Consequence, Duty, and Character: An Exploration of Traditional Ethical Paradigms in the Ethics,” Undercurrent Philosophy, 27 August 2023.

“How Important is Philosophy to Happiness? Weak vs. Strong Eudaimonism," TheCollector, 19 August 2023.

Works-in-Progress

Spinoza on the Good Life (co-authored with Carlos Fraenkel; under contract with Cambridge)

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