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Book Chapters
2009, 'Aristotelian realism', in Irvine AD (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Mathematics, Elsevier BV, North Holland, Netherlands, pp. 103 - 155
,2006, 'Artifice and the natural world: mathematics, logic, technology', in Haakonssen K (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, USA, pp. 817 - 853
,2005, 'Traditional Catholic philosophy: baby and bathwater', in Whelan M (ed.), Issues for Church and Society in Australia The Aquinas Academy Jubilee Lectures 2005, St Paul's Publications, Sydney, pp. 15 - 32
,2000, 'Artifice and the Natural World: Mathematics, Logic, Technology', in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 815 - 853, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521867436.009
,2000, 'Diagrammatic reasoning and modelling in the imagination: The secret weapons of the scientific revolution', in 1543 and all that: Image and word, change and continuity in the proto-scientific revolution, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 53 - 115
,1991, 'The ancient legal sources of seventeeth-century probability', in Gaukroger S (ed.), The Uses of Antiquity The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition, Springer Science & Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 123 - 144
,Journal articles
2023, 'Lay Involvement in the Australian Catholic Church, 1924–2023', Australasian Catholic Record, 100, pp. 445 - 460
,2023, ''Let no-one ignorant of geometry ...'": Mathematical parallels for understanding the objectivity of ethics', Journal of Value Inquiry, 57, pp. 365 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-021-09831-z
,2022, 'Catholic Action, Sydney Style: Catholic lay organisations from friendly societies to the Vice Squad', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 108, pp. 172 - 172
,2022, 'The global/local distinction vindicates Leibniz’s theodicy', Theology and Science, 20, pp. 445 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124481
,2022, 'A Hippocratic Oath for Mathematicians? Mapping the Landscape of Ethics in Mathematics', Science and Engineering Ethics, 28, pp. 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00389-y
,2022, 'Mathematics as a Science of Non-abstract Reality: Aristotelian Realist Philosophies of Mathematics', Foundations of Science, 27, pp. 327 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-021-09786-1
,2022, 'Late scholastic probable arguments and their contrast with rhetorical and demonstrative arguments', Philosophical Inquiries, 10, pp. 99 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v10i2.424
,2022, 'A Causal-Mentalist View of Propositions', Organon F, 29, pp. 47 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29103
,2021, 'Sydney 1803: When Catholics were tolerated and Freemasons banned', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 107, pp. 135 - 155
,2021, 'Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number: What Numbers Are and How They Are Known', PHILOSOPHIA MATHEMATICA, 30, pp. 127 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkab020
,2020, 'D.M. Armstrong: Sydney's most distinguished philosopher: life and work', Sydney Realist, pp. 1 - 6, https://philpapers.org/rec/FRADAS-4
,2020, 'Antitheodicy and the Grading of Theodicies by Moral Offensiveness', Sophia, 59, pp. 563 - 576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-020-00765-w
,2019, 'Philosophy's Loss of Logic to Mathematics: An Inadequately Understood Take-Over', PHILOSOPHIA MATHEMATICA, 27, pp. 440 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkz018
,2019, 'Emergentism as an option in the philosophy of religion: between materialist atheism and pantheism', Suri: Journal of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, 7, pp. 1 - 1
,2019, 'Catholic rural virtue in Australia: ideal and reality', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 40, pp. 39 - 61, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/ruralvirtue.pdf
,2018, 'Metaphysics and Scientific Realism: Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong, edited by Francesco F. Calemi', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96, pp. 183 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1306088
,2018, 'An argument against drug testing welfare recipients', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 28, pp. 309 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ken.2018.0019
,2017, 'The Sydney intellectual/religious scene, 1916-2016', St. Mark's Review: a journal of Christian thought and opinion, pp. 20 - 55
,2017, 'Perceiving Necessity', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98, pp. 320 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papq.12133
,2017, 'Discrete and continuous: a fundamental dichotomy of mathematics', Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 7, pp. 355 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.201702.18
,2016, 'Logical Probability and the Strength of Mathematical Conjectures', Mathematical Intelligencer, 38, pp. 14 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9612-3
,2016, 'Catholic missions to Aboriginal Australia: an evaluation of their overall effect', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 37, pp. 45 - 68, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=498374526468672;res=IELHSS
,2016, 'Elliptical orbits and the aristotelian scientific revolution: Comment on Groarke', Studia Neoaristotelica, 13, pp. 169 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20161326
,2015, 'Uninstantiated properties and semi-platonist aristotelianism', Review of Metaphysics, 69, pp. 25 - 45
,2015, 'Gerald Ridsdale, pedophile priest, in his own words', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 36, pp. 219 - 230
,2014, 'Global and Local', Mathematical Intelligencer, 36, pp. 4 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9482-0
,2014, 'Freedom from religion and freedom from irreligion', Connor Court Quarterly, 9, pp. 1 - 12, http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34
,2014, 'Archbishop Mannix: home life at Raheen', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 35, pp. 51 - 64, http://www.australiancatholichistoricalsociety.com.au/journal/
,2013, 'Convent slave laundries? Magdalen asylums in Australia', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 34, pp. 70 - 90, http://www.australiancatholichistoricalsociety.com.au/
,2013, 'Arguments whose strength depends on continuous variation', Informal Logic, 33, pp. 33 - 56, http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3610
,2012, 'Discussion paper: how much of commonsense and legal reasoning is formalizable? A review of conceptual obstacles', Law, Probability and Risk, 11, pp. 225 - 245
,2012, 'Global justice: An anti-collectivist and pro-causal ethic', Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics, 2, pp. Article 2 (12pp)
,2012, 'Memoirs by Australian priests, religious and ex-religious', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 33, pp. 142 - 162
,2012, 'Modeling extreme risks in ecology', Risk Analysis, 32, pp. 1956 - 1966
,2012, 'Science by Conceptual Analysis', Studia Neoaristotelica, 9, pp. 3 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studneoar2012911
,2012, 'Science by conceptual analysis: The genius of the late scholastics', Studia Neoaristotelica, 9, pp. 3 - 24
,2012, 'The missionary with 150 wives', Quadrant, 56, pp. 30 - 32
,2011, 'A text-based decision support system for financial sequence prediction', Decision Support Systems, 52, pp. 189 - 198
,2011, 'Aristotelianism in the philosophy of mathematics', Studia Neoaristotelica, 8, pp. 3 - 15
,2011, 'Caritas in Veritate: Economic Activity as Personal Encounter and the Economy of Gratuitousness', Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics, 1, pp. Article 3
,2011, 'The objective Bayesian conceptualisation of proof and reference class problems', Sydney Law Review, 33, pp. 545 - 561
,2010, 'The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis.', ISIS, 101, pp. 213 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653871
,2008, 'Evaluating extreme risks in invasion ecology: learning from banking compliance', Diversity and Distributions, 14, pp. 581 - 591
,2008, 'On the reality of the continuum discussion note: A reply to Ormell, `Russell`s moment of candour`, philosophy', Philosophy, 83, pp. 117 - 127
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