Selected Publications

Books

The Journey of Metaphysics, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions (Pearson Publishing, 2004, 2006, 2008).

The Metaphysical Quest, editor, Second Edition (Dubuque, IO: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1997).

The Metaphysical Quest: Historical Sources and Contemporary Challenges, edited with Arthur F. Gianelli and Paul Gaffney  (Dubuque, IO: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1995).

Articles and Reviews

“Dialectical Pluralism,” Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Science, Philosophy and Religion, edited by William Desmond, John Steffen, and Koen Decoster (Louvain University Press, 2001), 135–45.

"Dialectical Pluralism in the Thought of Paul Weiss,” Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics as a Cultural Presence, edited by William Desmond and Joseph R. Grange (SUNY Press 2000) 143–53.

“Pluralism about Truth: Crispin Wright’s Truth and Objectivity,” Reason Papers, Fall, 1997, No. 22, 130–39.

“Paul Weiss’s Method(s) and System(s),” Review of Metaphysics, Vol. L No. 1, September 1996, 5–33.

“Adumbration and Metaphysics After Pragmatism,” The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. 23, edited by Lewis E. Hahn (Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing Co., 1995), 253–68.

Critical Review of Robert Cummings Neville, The Highroad Around Modernism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992), The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, IX, 4, 1995, 300–04.

Review of Frederick L. Will, Beyond Deduction: Ampliative Aspects of Philosophical Reflection (New York: Routledge, 1992), Review of Metaphysics, XLV, 3, March 1992, 643–45.