My research focuses on the history of ideas.

• Social Science and Humanities Research Council support for (a) graduate research and (b) a conference/book, Ideas Under Fire (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010).
• Visiting Fellow: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (UK), 2010 (declined).
• Visiting Fellow: Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College (University of Toronto), 1999-2000.
• Student Visiting Fellow: American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1995.

I have employed many student assistants in Brantford. Brantford students have helped complete work on the following projects: several editions of Critical Thinking (Broadview Press); Literary Form, Philosophical Content; a special issue of Poetics Today on genres of philosophical writing; Ideas Under Fire; and currently, Life Examined.

I am willing to supervise students working on the history of ideas and the history of philosophy.

• Critical Thinking, co-authored with the late William Hughes, various editions (Broadview Press).
• Ideas Under Fire: Case studies of philosophy and science in adversity (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012), co-edited.
• Literary Form, Philosophical Content (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010), co-edited.
• Poetics Today 28 (2&3), a special double issue on genres of philosophical writing, guest editor.