Professor

My philosophical interests include religious studies (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) and ancient and medieval metaphysics and philosophical psychology as well as issues of the relation and interaction of philosophical and religious thought in the medieval period with special emphasis on Islamic/Arabic philosophy, its sources and its influence. I have taught graduate courses on Aristotle, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy and Religion in the Middle Ages, Arabic/Islamic Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas and more. Undergraduate course I regularly teach include Theory of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and courses in the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. I have written on Aquinas, the Liber de causis, Averroes, et alia. My translation of Averroes's Long Commentary on the De Anima is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

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