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Andrew W. Arlig

Asst Professor   Department: Philosophy   Location: 3307 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x6214   Fax: 718-951-4675   Email:

Professor Arlig has previously taught at Fordham University and Hunter College. Education: Ph.D., OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - 2005 (PHILOSOPHY) M.A., OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - 2002 (PHILOSOPHY) B.A., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - 1994 (PHILOSOPHY) Areas of Expertise: Medieval Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; Metaphysics He is currently studying medieval theories of parts and wholes. Books and Publications "The Metaphysics of Individuals in the Opuscula Sacra," in The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, edited by John Marenbon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 129-54. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 Book review of "Aristotle on Truth", by Paolo Crivelli, Philosophical Inquiry 30 (2008): 199-202. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Abelard's Assault on Everyday Objects," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81, no. 2 (2007): 209-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 "Medieval Mereology," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2006 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Abelard on Material Constitution," Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), May 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Abelard's Realism," The 27th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy, Fordham University (New York, NY), October 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Aristotle's 'De Anima' I.5," seminar leader, New York Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (New York, NY), April 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009 "Peter Abelard on Material Constitution," The Western Ontario Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Metaphysics in the Aristotelian Tradition), University of Western Ontario (London, ON), October 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 Comments on Karen Zwier's "Aristotle's Syllogism on the Basis of a Hypothesis," The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (Philadelphia, PA), December 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Early Medieval Solutions to a Mereological Sorites: The Evidence from the De generibus et speciebus," Les Glosulae super Priscianum, Guillaume de Champeaux, Abélard: arts du langage et théologie aux confins des XIe-XIIe, les conditions et enjeux d'une mutation, CNRS (Paris, France), February 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Is the Collection Theory of Universals Defensible?" Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), June 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Is There a Medieval Mereology?" Aristotelian Logic East and West 500-1500: Methods and Methodologies, Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK), February 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "On a Mereological Sorites Argument," Fifth Annual Midwestern Conference in Medieval Philosophy, St Louis University (St. Louis, MO), October 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007