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edited book

B1 Pierre Bayle.  Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius.  Translated, edited, and introduced by Michael W. Hickson.  Brill’s Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 256/18.  Leiden: Brill, 2016. 

Articles, Chapters, entries

A24 “Racionalismo, ceticismo e a coerência do Commentaire Philosophique de Bayle.” DoisPontos 22, no. 1 (2025), special issue “Pierre Bayle – Crítica e luta filosófica”, 60-70.

A23 “From White to Black: Parts One and Two of Bayle’s Commentaire philosophique.” In Pensées diverses autour de Pierre Bayle: Mélanges en honneur de Antony McKenna et Hans Bots, edited by Olivier Mentz and Eva Rothenberger, 277-98 (Germany: Lit Verlag, 2025).

A22 “Pierre Bayle and the Persecutor’s Mind.”  In Alonso, Marta García, and Armando Menéndez Viso, “Ilustración y cristianismo en las obras de Bayle y Feijoo, Oviedo,” 42-58, Anejos de Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII 11 (2023).

A21 “Pierre Bayle”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/bayle/].

A20 “Illusory Checkmates: Why Chess is Not a Game.” Synthese 200, no. 5 (2022): 1-21.

A19 “Pierre Bayle.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

A18 “The Role of Skepticism in Bayle’s Theory of Toleration.” In Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought: A New Pan-American Dialogue, edited by Vicente Raga Rosaleny and Plínio Junqueira Smith, 161-76, Springer, 2021.

A17 “Simon Foucher and Anti-Cartesian Skepticism.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, edited by Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Steven Nadler, and Tad Schmaltz, 678-90, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

A16 “Bayle on Évidence as a Criterion of Truth.”  In Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique          (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), n° 14, La pensée de Pierre Bayle, edited by Antony McKenna (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018).

A15 “Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience.” Journal of the History of Ideas 79:2 (2018), 199-220.

A14 “Varieties of Academic Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: Pierre-Daniel Huet and Simon Foucher.”  In Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present, 320-341, edited by Diego Machuca and Baron Reed (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

A13 with Thomas M. Lennon. “The Rise of Religious Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century.” In The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-century Philosophy, 563-582, edited by Dan   Kaufman (New York/London: Routledge, 2018).

A12 “Disagreement and Academic Skepticism in Bayle.”  In Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Plínio Junqueira Smith and Sébastien Charles.  International Archives of the History of Ideas 221 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 293-318.

A11  “Pierre Bayle.” In The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, edited by Lawrence Nolan (Cambridge:       Cambridge University Press, 2016), 55-56.

A10 “The Immortality of the Soul.”  In The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, edited by Lawrence Nolan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 686-690.

A9   “Belief and Invincible Objections: Bayle, Le Clerc, Leibniz.” In Leibniz et Bayle: Confrontation et Dialogue, edited by Christian Leduc, Paul Rateau, and Jean-Luc Solère. Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 43 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015), 69-86. 

A8   “A Brief History of Problems of Evil.” In A Companion to the Problem of Evil, edited by Justin McBrayer and Daniel Howard-Snyder (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), 3-18. 

A7   “Theodicy and Toleration in Bayle’s Dictionary.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 51:1 (2013), 49-73.   

A6   with Thomas M. Lennon.  “The Skepticism of the First Meditation.”  In Descartes’     Meditations: A Critical Guide, edited by Karen Detlefsen, (Cambridge UP, 2013), 9-24.

A5   “Reductio ad malum: Bayle’s Early Skepticism about Theodicy.”  Modern Schoolman 88:3/4         (2011): 201-221. 

A4   “The Moral Certainty of Immortality in Descartes.”  History of Philosophy Quarterly 28:3 (July    2011), 227-46. 

A3   “Conscientious Refusals without Conscience: Why Not?”  Philo: A Journal of Philosophy 13:2 (2011), 167–84.

A2   “The Message of Bayle’s Last Title: Providence and Toleration in the Entretiens de Maxime et de Themiste.” Journal of the History of Ideas 71:4 (2010), 547-67. 

A1   with Thomas M. Lennon.  “The Real Significance of Bayle’s Authorship of the Avis.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17:1 (2009), 191–205.    

Popular

P3   “Why Canada Should Invest More in Teaching Kids How to Play Chess.”  The Conversation. 13 October 2022. 

P2   with Paul Frost, Michael Epp, and Marguerite Xenopoulos. “Scientific Certainty Survival Kit: How to Push Back Against Skeptics Who Exploit Uncertainty for Political Gain.” The Conversation.  3 January 2022. 

P1   “How a Huguenot Philosopher Realized that Atheists could be Virtuous.”  Aeon, 18 September 2018.

reviews

R10 “Pierre Bayle against the rationalists: on part II of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness.” History of European Ideas, 1–4. 2025.  Online first. (https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2436279)

R9   Review of José R. Maia Neto, Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy: The Charronian Legacy, 1601-1662 (Springer, 2014).  In International Journal for the Study of Skepticism.

R8   Review of Sébastien Charles and Plinio J. Smith (eds.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century : Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung (Springer, 2013), in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 6:4 (2016), 405-411.

R7   Review of Peter Anstey, John Locke and Natural Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2011), in Review of Metaphysics 67:2 (December 2013), 423-25.

R6   Review of John Christian Laursen and María José Villaverde (eds.), Paradoxes of Religious         Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2012), in Notre Dame Philosophical   Reviews, 2013.05.22 (online).

R5   Review of José Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen (eds), Skepticism in the      Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin (Brill, 2009), in International Journal for the         Study of Skepticism 3:4 (2013), 304-307.

R4   Review of Neven Leddy, Avi S. Lifschitz (eds.), Epicurus in the Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2009), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2010.06.34 (sic; online).

R3   Review of Gianni Paganini, Skepsis: Le débat des modernes sur le scepticisme (Paris: Libraire        Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008).  British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18:1 (January 2010).

R2   Review of Daniel Dahlstrom, Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel and         Their Contemporaries (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008).  The Review of Metaphysics vol. LXII, no. 3 (March 2009).

R1   Review of William Sweet, Religious Belief: The Contemporary Debate (Koramangala:          Dharmaram Publications, 2003).  Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, 3 (2005).

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