BOOKS
Descartes: The Probable and the Certain, Würzburg/Amsterdam, Königshausen + Neumann and Rodopi, 1986, x + 374pp.
The Origins and Implications of Kant’s Critical Philosophy: NC ≈ PK, Lewiston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, vii + 299pp.
The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012, xii + 356pp.
"I AM": Monotheism and the Philosophy of the Bible, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, xii + 248pp.
Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2021, x + 260pp.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
‘Prime Matter, Predication, and the Semantics of Feature-Placing,’ in A. Kasher, ed., Language in Focus, Dordrecht-Holland, D. Reidel, 1976, pp. 75-104.
‘General and Special Non-relativity: Philosophy and Science in the Meditations,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume II, pp. 36-56.
‘The Fisher King,’ in Haim Marantz, ed., Judaism and Education: Essays in Honour of Walter Ackerman, Beer Sheva, Israel, Ben Gurion University Press, 1998, pp. 25-53.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
‘The Substance of Bundles,’ The Personalist LVI, 1975, pp. 38-46.
‘Strawson’s Hidden Realism,’ The Journal of Critical Analysis V, 1975, pp. 135-145.
‘Kant on Receptivity: Form and Content,’ Kant-Studien 66, 1975, pp. 313-330.
‘Space and Analogy,’ Mind LXXXIX, 1975, pp. 355-373.
‘Doctrine and Method in the Philosophy of P.F. Strawson,’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XXVI, 1976, pp. 364-383.
‘Matter and Rationality,’ Apeiron 11, 1977, pp. 11-31.
‘Hume on Modes,’ Hume Studies III, 1977, pp. 32-50.
‘How Philosophers See “Red”,’ Grazer Philosophische Studien 4, 1977, pp. 43-64.
‘On Reference,’ Manuscrito I, 1977, pp. 83-100.
‘Semantic Determinacy and Ontology,’ Idealistic Studies 8, 1977, pp. 109-131.
‘Dummett on Aristotle’s “In” and Frege’s “Of”,’ Logique et Analyse 77-78, 1977, pp. 159-164.
‘Cartesian Substances as Modal Totalities,’ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XVII, 1978, pp. 320-343.
‘The Distinction Between “Transcendental” and “Metaphysical” in Kant’s Philosophy of Science,’ The Modern Schoolman LV, 1978, pp. 357-385.
‘Cognition and Predication: Towards a New Typology,’ Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 33, 1979, pp. 3-22.
‘Leibniz and Relationality,’ Critica XI, 1979, pp. 29-49.
‘Intellectual Intuition and Cognitive Assimilability,’ The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10, 1979, pp. 153-163.
‘The Dawn of Conceptuality: A Kantian Perspective,’ Idealistic Studies 9, 1979, pp. 187-212.
‘The Methodological Development of Critical Philosophy,’ Journal of the History of Philosophy XVII, 1979, pp. 217-242.
‘A Stratified Bundle Theory,’ Synthese 42, 1979, pp. 379-410.
‘Conceptuality: An Essay in Retrieval,’ Kant-Studien 70, 1979, pp. 383-408.
‘Tractatus: Monism or Pluralism?’ Mind LXXXIX, 1980, pp. 17-36.
‘Causation, Cognition and Historical Typology,’ Dialectica 34, 1980, pp. 211-227.
‘Language and World,’ Metaphilosophy 11, 1980, pp. 229-243.
‘Berkeley and Kant: Ectypes vs Archetypes,’ Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia XXXVI, 1981, pp. 139-155.
‘Berkeley and Cognition,’ Philosophy 56, 1981, pp. 213-221.
‘Complete Causes,’ Logique et Analyse 94, 1981, pp. 231-244.
‘Reason and Substance: The Kantian Metaphysics of Conceptual Positivism,’ Kant-Studien 73, 1982, pp. 1-16.
‘Abstraction and Determinacy: The Ideological Background of Berkeleianism,’ Idealistic Studies 12, 1982, pp. 14-34.
‘A Problem of Causation and Metaphysical Realism,’ Philosophical Inquiry IV, 1982, pp. 129-152.
‘Consciousness and Cognition: From Descartes to Berkeley,’ Studia Leibnitiana IV, 1982, pp. 244-265.
‘Cartesian Probability and Cognitive Structure,’ Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 36, 1982, pp. 564-579.
‘The Structure of Cartesian Scepticism,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXI, 1983, pp. 343-357.
‘Mind and Body: Two Real Distinctions,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXII, 1984, pp. 347-359.
‘Descartes’ Proto-Critique,’ History of European Ideas 6, 1985, pp. 153-171.
‘Cartesian Certainty: Toward the Categorial Core,’ Idealistic Studies 15, 1985, pp. 219-247.
‘Cartesian Uncertainty: Descartes and Dummett,’ Grazer Philosphische Studien 27, 1986, pp. 101-124
‘God Incorporated,’ Sophia 26, no. 3, 1987, pp. 13-21.
‘Structure and the Interpretation of Classical Modern Metaphysics,’ Metaphilosophy 18, 1987, pp. 20-287.
‘Cartesian Uncertainty: Descartes and Rorty,’ Philosophia 17, 1987, pp. 271-295.
‘Interpreting Bradley: The Critique of Fact-Pluralism,’ History and Philosophy of Logic 9, 1988, pp. 205-223.
‘Transcendental Idealism: Materials for a Motivating Interpretation,’ Idealistic Studies 18, 1988, pp. 247-265.
‘Objectivity and Method: How the Euthyphro Works,’ Logique et Analyse 125-126, 1989, pp. 41-54.
‘The Sense/Intellect Continuum in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Analytic Interpretation,’ The Modern Schoolman LXVII, 1989, pp. 49-70.
‘Thinning Thick Reflectivity: A Feature of Philosophical Rhetoric,’ The Journal of Speculative Philosophy III, 1989, pp. 190-212.
‘Error Theory: Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy,’ The Journal of Speculative Philosophy IV, 1990, pp. 37-65.
‘Certainty, the Cogito, and Cartesian Dualism,’ Studia Leibnitiana XXII, 1990, pp. 123-137.
‘Kant’s Diversity Theory: A Dissenting View,’ History of Philosophy Quarterly 7, 1990, pp. 461-474.
‘Transcendental Idealism: The Dialectical Dimension,’ Dialectica 45, 1991, pp. 31-45.
‘Berkeley’s Cartesian Anti-Abstractionism,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 40, 1991, pp. 51-64.
‘Intermediate Possibility and Actuality: Cartesian Error Theory,’ American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXV, 1991, pp. 63-82.
‘The Meditations: Towards an Integrated Reading,’ The Modern Schoolman LXVIII, 1991, pp. 305-319.
‘Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism: Reply to Moked,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 40, 1991, pp. 315-318.
‘Euthyphro: A Guide for Analytic Instruction,’ Teaching Philosophy 15, 1992, pp. 33-49.
‘Kant’s “Critical” Rationalism: The Dialectical Dimension,’ Idealistic Studies 21, 1992, pp. 107-121.
‘Rewriting Kant’s Antinomies: A Meta-Interpretive Discussion,’ The Philosophical Forum XXV, 1993, pp. 1-18.
Cogito: Inference and Certainty,’ The Modern Schoolman LXX, 1993, pp. 81-98.
‘Transcendental Idealism and the End of Philosophy,’ Metaphilosophy 24, 1993, pp. 97-112.
‘John Locke: An English Transcendentalist?’ Idealistic Studies 23, 1993, pp. 111-123.
‘Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism,’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2, 1994, pp. 145-163.
‘Theory and Form in Descartes’ Meditations,’ Man and World 26, 1993, pp. 261-274.
‘The Palinode of the Analyst: Rationality and Self in the Euthyphro,’ Philosophical Inquiry XVI, 1994, pp. 38-55.
‘P.F. Strawson and the Ghost of F.H. Bradley,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 43, 1994, pp. 243-363.
‘The Prussian Sphinx: Interpreting Modern Philosophy,’ Idealistic Studies 25, 1995, pp. 255-280.
‘Gods, Giants, Fractals, and the Geometry of Early Modernity: Descartes, Gassendi, and the Rise of Science,’ Perspectives on Science 3, 1995, pp. 480-519.
‘Philosophy and Egypt,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 46, 1997, pp. 3 28.
‘The King and “I”: Agency and Rationality in Athens and Jerusalem,’ Ratio X, 1997, pp. 10-34.
‘Spinoza à la Mode: A Defense of Spinozistic Anti-Pluralism,’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75, 1997, pp. 38-66.
'The Counter Bible: Western Culture and the Self-Critical Book,’ Journal for the Critical Study of Religion 2, 1997, pp. 53-81. [A slightly earlier version of this paper was published, by editorial inadvertence, in Mentalities/Mentalités 12, 1997, pp. 47-67.]
‘Descartes’s Wax and the Typology of Modern Philosophy,’ The Modern Schoolman LXXIV, 1997, pp. 117-141.
‘Jacob’s Ladder: Personality and Autonomy in the Hebrew Scriptures,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 13, 1998, pp. 9-27.
‘Im-manual Can’t: Activity, Cognition, God, and Transcendental Idealism,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 48, 1998, pp. 235-264.
‘Cartesian Realism and G/P-Implosion,’ Journal of Philosophical Research XXIII, 1998, pp. 307-329.
‘Psycho-Semitic: Unity and Personality in the Bible,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 14, 1999, pp. 1-21.
‘The Practical World: Synthesis, Science, and Kant’s Idealism,’ Idealistic Studies 29, 1999, pp. 1-31.
‘Inhumanity and Polity: An Essay on Plato’s Republic,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 49, 2000, pp. 235-281.
‘Invitation to a Beheading: The Career of Philosophy,’ Philosophia 28, 2001, pp. 39-66.
‘Two Humanisms: Athens and Jerusalem,’ Soundings 84, 2001, pp. 449-480.
‘Our Odd Esse: Nothingness and Western Identity,’ University of Toronto Quarterly 70, 2001, pp. 593-619.
‘The Bible Files Chapter 11: Part One’ Mentalities/Mentalités 17:1, 2002, pp. 52-65.
‘The Bible Files Chapter 11: Part Two,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 17:2, 2002, pp. 11-19.
‘Athens and Jerusalem: Two Tales of the City,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 51, 2002, pp. 252-294.
‘The Book of Man: Humanism in the Bible,’ The Midwest Quarterly XLIII, 2002, pp. 255-280.
‘Noman’s Land: Bernard Williams Performs CPR on Philosophy,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 52, 2003, pp. 3-40.
‘Achilles’s Tent and René’s Room: Interiority and Subjectivity,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2004, pp. 243-273.
‘An Offer He Can’t Refuse? The Binding of Abraham,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 19:2, 2005.
‘The Whole Story: Either Kant is not a “critical” philosopher or “critical” does not mean what Kant says it does,’ Kant-Studien 98, 2007, pp. 1-39.
‘Israelite Idol: The Proto-Humanist versus the Proto-Philosophers,’ Philosophy & Theology 19, 2007, pp. 57-78.
‘The Birth of Death in Athens and Jerusalem,’ The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII, 2007, pp. 210-232.
‘Monstrocity: The Bible’s Anti-Philosophy of Mind,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 56, 2007, pp. 267-294.
‘Of Mice and Men: God and the Canadian Supreme Court,’ Ratio Juris 21, 2008, pp. 107-124.
‘Transcendental Idealism: What Jerusalem has to say to Königsberg,’ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XLIX 2010, pp. 25-51.
‘God is Love, Zeus is Sex: Theology and Anthropology in the Bible,’ Philosophy & Theology 22, 2010, pp. 285-311.
‘“And the spirit of God hovered on the face of the water”: An Introduction to the Bible for Philosophers,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 60, 2011, pp. 3-31.
‘“I am the Lord your God”: Religion, Morality, and the Ten Commandments,’ The Heythrop Journal LII, 2011, pp. 541-558.
‘Descartes, Scientia, and Pure Enquiry,’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19, 2011, pp. 873-886.
‘The Holy One: What the Bible’s philosophy is and what it isn’t,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 62, 2013, pp. 43-66.
‘The First Professor of Biblical Philosophy,’ Sophia 52, 2013, pp. 503-519.
‘“Where Were You?” God, Job, and the Quinizer,’ The Heythrop Journal 56, 2014, pp. 1-14.
‘“On One Leg” The Stability of Monotheism,’ Philosophy & Theology 26, 2014, pp. 187-206.
‘“O God, O Montreal!” Secularity and Turbo-Charged Humanism,’ Philo 17, 2014, pp. 23-43.
‘Is there philosophy in the Bible?` The Jerusalem Review 8, 2015, pp. 57-94. [The editors sprinkled excerpts from several essays of mine into the essay that I submitted, and added a bit of their own. The result is, in parts, unintendedly funny. Perhaps a bit of comedy is welcome in this area; God is no George Burns.]
‘The Being of Mind: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos and the Book of Genesis,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 66, 2017, pp. 3-26.
‘Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G. A. Cohen,’ University of Toronto Quarterly 86, 2017, pp. 593-620.
‘Artificial Respiration: What does God really do in the beginning?’ New Blackfriars 99, 2018, pp. 578-600.
‘His Royal I-ness: The Function of God in the Bible,’ Philosophy & Theology 31, 2019, pp. 101-111.
‘Persons are the Only Creatures: Non-Naturalism in the Bible,’ The Heythrop Journal LXI, 2020, pp. 951-963
CRITICAL STUDIES
Leonard Nelson, Progress and Regress in Philosophy, Philosophia 5, 1975, pp. 529-540.
P.F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays, Philosophia 6, 1976, pp. 321-332.
Eckart Förster, ed., Kant’s Transcendental Deductions: The Three Critiques and the Opus Postumum, Dialogue XXIX, 1990, pp. 575-582.
REPRINTED ARTICLES
‘Cartesian Probability and Cognitive Structure,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume I, pp. 511-528. From: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 36, 1982.
‘Cartesian Substances as Modal Totalities,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume III, pp. 363-384. From: Dialogue XVII, 1978.
‘Berkeley and Cognition,’ in Walter E. Creery, ed., George Berkeley: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991. From: Philosophy 56, 1982.
MISCELLANEOUS
Review of “I AM”: Monotheism and the Philosophy of the Bible, and author’s response. http://readingreligion.org/books/i-am#comment-4154