Select publications

 
Books
  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Be Good Bankers: The Economic Interpretation of Matthew's Gospel. Regnery Gateway, 2025.
  • The Company We Keep: True Friendship and Why It Matters. Scepter Press, 2025.
  • Nicomachean Ethics VIII and IX, translation with commentary, Clarendon Aristotle Series, 1998.
Articles
  • "Cleaving the Natural Law at Its Joints," The Thomist, 88 (2024): 41–76.
  • "Degrees of Separation in the Phaedo," Phronesis, vol. 48, (2003), pp. 1–27.
  • "Friendship and the Comparison of Goods," Phronesis 37, 1992, pp. 111–130.
  • "The Egalitarianism of the Eudemian Ethics," Classical Quarterly, vol. 48, n. 2, 1998, pp. 411–432.
  • "The Meaning of Aristotelian Magnanimity," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 26, Spring 2004, pp. 241–275.
  • "The Ultimate Final Argument," Review of Metaphysics, 63.3, 643–677, 2010.
  • "A Defense of Scottish Commonsense," Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 52, 2002, 151–168. (Reprinted in John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds. The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays, Blackwell, 2003.)
  • "A Claim of Conscience: The Duty to Prove Oneself a Resistor," with Catherine R. Pakaluk, The Linacre Quarterly, (2024); 0(0), 1–16.
Chapters
  • "The Interpretation of Bertrand Russell's Gray's Elegy Argument," in A. Irvine and G. Wedeking, eds. Bertrand Russell and Analytic Philosophy, University of Toronto Press, 1993, 37–65.
  • "Natural Law and Civil Society," in Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, eds., Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton University Press, 2001, 131–150.
  • "Is the Common Good of Political Society Limited and Instrumental?" Review of Metaphysics, vol. 55, 2001, pp. 799–816.
  • "Structure and Method in Aquinas's Appropriation of Aristotelian Ethical Theory", in Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams, eds., Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • "Reading Aristotle," in James Warren and F.C.C. Sheffield, eds., The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.
  • "The Unity of the Nicomachean Ethics," in Jon Miller, ed., Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • "Aristotle" in the Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Jens Timmermann and Sacha Golob, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 42–56.
  • "Aristotle on God as Creator," in Proceedings of the XVII Session of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas, Serge-Thomas Bonino and Guido Mazzotta, eds., Urbiana University Press, 2018, pp. 29–46.
  • "Contempt in Classical Philosophy," in The Moral Psychology of Contempt, ed. Michelle Mason, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 17–36.
  • "The Meaning of Sex Differences and Marriage in Maritain," in Heidi Giebel, ed., The Things that Matter: Essays on the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
  • "The Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Universities and Colleges: Newman's Unrealized Ideals," in Juan Velez, editor, Newman's Educational Philosophy, Writing and Legacy. Gracewing, forthcoming, 2025.
  • "Approaches to Reading Newman as a Philosopher," in J. Velez, ed. A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought, The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
  • "Away from Omelas," in T. Borland and A. Hillman, eds., Dissenting Philosophers, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.
Reviews
  • M. Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014.03.04.
  • C. Shields, Aristotle, reviewed in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2012.
  • J. Howland, The Paradox of Political Philosophy, reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2000 (2.36).
  • A. Kenny, Aristotle on the Perfect Life, reviewed in Ancient Philosophy 15, 1995.
Select Lectures and Seminars
  • "A Dumb Ox's Prayer to Bellow," Thomistic Summer Institute, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, June 7, 2025.
  • "The Gospel of St. John," Honors Program Distinguished Lecture Series, Providence College, Providence, RI, November 12, 2021.
  • "Puzzles of Condolence: Why We are Pleased When a Friend Shares Our Sorrow," Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford, May 20, 2017.
  • "Identification and Identity in Aristotelian Friendship," Fall Lecture Series on Friendship, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, September 30, 2016.
  • "Aristotle a Living Authority for the American Founders," Research Seminar in Political Philosophy, Pembroke College, Oxford, England, March 18, 2015.
  • “Accounting Professionalism and IFRS Convergence,” Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Norwalk, CT, July 21, 2009.