Professor Duncan works on early modern philosophy. His dissertation work was on the metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes. He's now working on the relationships between Hobbes' views and those of Locke and Hume.
Area of Specialization
- Early Modern Philosophy
Areas of Competence
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Science
- Applied Ethics
Publications
- "Hobbes's Materialism in the Early 1640s", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming
- "Knowledge of God in Leviathan", History of Philosophy Quarterly 22:1 (2005), 31-48
Presentations
- "Locke and the 'obscure and relative Idea of Substance in general'", Iowa State University, February 2005
- "Locke, Thoughts of Substance, and What Substance Really Is", University of Florida, January 2005
- "Locke and the 'obscure and relative Idea of Substance in general'", Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Florida, April 2004
- "Hobbes's Methodological Materialism", UC San Diego Graduate Student Conference, April 2003
- "Hobbes's Materialism", University of Iowa, January 2003
- "Hobbes's Materialism and the Third Objections", First Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, June 2002
- "Hobbes's Materialism and the Third Objections", New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association, Monmouth University, April 2002
- "Hume's View of Geometry in the Treatise", Syracuse Graduate Student Conference, March 1999
