Andrew W. Arlig
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Location: 3311 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3228
Fax: 718.951.4675
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Andrew Arlig previously taught at Fordham University and Hunter College (CUNY). He served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brooklyn College from September 2014 to June 2018. He is presently the Program Director for the Program in Studies in Religion at Brooklyn 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:
Andrew Arlig specializes in Medieval and Ancient Greek metaphysics. Currently he is intensively studying medieval theories of parts and wholes (see http://historyofphilosophy.net/mereology-arlig). Professor Arlig is also interested in 17th-century philosophy, philosophical theology, Islamic law, and Islamic political theory (both classical and modern). He is an avid fan of street art, and he loves to walk around cities looking for murals and public installations.
Books and Publications
"Abelard and Other Twelfth-Century Thinkers on Social Constructions." Philosophies 7, no. 4: 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040084 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar at an NEH Summer Institute entitled "Between Medieval and Modern: Philosophy from 1300-1700". University of Colorado Boulder. July 6-31 (http://www.colorado.edu/neh2015/). (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
"Is There a Boethian Mereology?" (virtual) The Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought. University of Groningen, The Netherlands, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Brooklyn College Chapter (inducted 1994, University of Chicago). 2007
"Part-Whole Interdependence and the Presence of Form in Matter according to Some Fifteenth-century Platonists." Bruniana et Campanelliana 28: 103-22. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
"Identity and Sameness." The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. Eds. Richard Cross and JT Paasch. New York and London: Routledge. 126-38. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"Introduction." Mereology in Medieval Logic and Metaphysics: Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics. Eds. Fabrizio Amerini, Irene Binini, and Massimo Mugnai. Pisa: Edizione della Normale. 7-30. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
Christina Van Dyke and Andrew W Arlig, eds., Medieval Philosophy. Critical Concepts in Philosophy. New York / London: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2019
"Multiplex Composition and the Prospects for Substantial Unity." Hylomorphism and Mereology, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 15. Eds. Gyula Klima and Alex Hall. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 1-20. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Abelard." Handbook of Mereology. Eds. Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt, Guido Imaguire, and Stamatios Gerogiorgikas. Munich: Philosophia Verlag. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Boethius." Handbook of Mereology. Eds. Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt, Guido Imaguire, and Stamatios Gerogiorgikas. Munich: Philosophia Verlag. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Medieval Mereology." Handbook of Mereology. Eds. Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt, Guido Imaguire, and Stamatios Gerogiorgikas. Munich: Philosophia Verlag. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Medieval Mereology." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Substantially revised 3rd edition; originally published 2006. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
"Remarks on Pasnau's Metaphysical Themes: 1274-1671." Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern. (Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 11) Eds. Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 9-26. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
Review of The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, by Gabriele Galluzzo. Journal of the History of Philosophy 52: 170-71. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Some Twelfth-century Reflections on Mereological Essentialism." Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 1: 83-112. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Parts, Wholes, and Identity." The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. John Marenbon. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press. 445-67. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Peter Abelard on Material Constitution." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 94: 119-46. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Boethius." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 2. 168-75. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Early Medieval Solutions to Some Mereological Puzzles: the Content and Unity of De generibus et speciebus." Arts du langage et théologie aux confins des XIe-XIIe siècles: Textes, maitres, débats. Ed. Irène Rosier-Catach. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 485-508. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Is There a Medieval Mereology?" Methods and Methodologies: Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500. Eds. Margaret Cameron and John Marenbon. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. 161-89. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Mereology." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 13. 763-71. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Metaphysics." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 13. 771-80. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Universals." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 21. 1353-59. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"The Metaphysics of Individuals in the Opuscula Sacra." The Cambridge Companion to Boethius. Ed. John Marenbon. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press. 129-54. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2009
"Abelard's Assault on Everyday Objects." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81.2: 209-27. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"The Architecture of a Human Being and Her Soul: A Brief Study of the Graeco-Arabic Influence on Medieval Latin Metaphysics." Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Spring 2020 Workshop: Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: New Investigations. Columbia University, New York, N.Y., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Even as I Speak, I Have Changed: The Return of Heraclitus in Medieval Scholasticism." Lafayette College. Easton, P.A., November (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
(with Christina Van Dyke) " 'I Am Become God!': Mystic Union and Self-loss in Islamic and Christian Medieval Contemplatives." Midwestern Medieval Philosophy Colloquium. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"Al-Farabi as Ancient Philosopher." Diversifying Ancient Greek Philosophy. Queens College. Queens, N.Y., December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
"Comments on Irene Rosier-Catach's 'The "Linguistic Turn" of Medieval Logic in the Early 12th Century'." The University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Toronto, O.N., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"God Made All Creatures 'Out of One Blood': Anne Conway on Substance and Universal Sympathy." Humanities 214: Medieval and Renaissance World, Common Lecture. University of North Carolina-Asheville. Asheville, NC, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Some Aspects of Conway's Ontology." Expanding the Canon: Transitions and Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Schloss Neuhaus (Gais, Italy), July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Unpacking Composition." Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Brooklyn, N.Y., June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Comments on Colleen McCluskey's 'Black on the Outside, White on the Inside: Peter Abelard's Use of Race'." The American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Kansas City, M.O., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"On the Priority of the Part." Fall 2017 Colloquium Series. The Department of Philosophy, Columbia University. New York, N.Y. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Sliced and Diced but Still No Parts: Some Medieval Ideas about Non-mereological Composition." Touts et Parties: Approches Historiques et Systematiques de la Metaphysique de la Composition. Ecole Normale Supérieure. Paris, France. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
(with Prof. Christina Van Dyke), "She Who Wears this Garment is None Other than God: Reflections on Self-"Annihilation" in the medieval Islamic and Christian Contemplative Traditions." Universitaet Konstanz. Konstanz, Germany. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Panelist. "Making Our Philosophy Courses More Inclusive." Rethinking Philosophy's Past: 1300-1800. Columbia University. New York, N.Y., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2017
"Multiplex Composition and the Prospects for Substantial Unity." A session organized by the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics ("Hylomorphism and Mereology"). A satellite session of the 89th annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Boston, M.A., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2015
"Medieval Mereological Principles (a case study): Existence Postulates for Successive and Non-successive Entities." Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Sameness and Identity in the 12th Century." Roundtable participant. Moody Workshop on Medieval Logic and Philosophy. University of California at Los Angeles. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"The Problem of Too Many Animals (1): Abelard." 8th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: The Ontology of Material Objects in Medieval Philosophy. Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Montreal. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
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