Andrew W. Arlig

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 philosophy, ancient philosophy and metaphysics. He is currently studying medieval theories of parts and wholes. In addition to his academic specialization, Arlig is interested in theology, Islamic law and Islamic political theory.

Books and Publications

"Parts, Wholes, and Identity." The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. John Marenbon. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press. 445-67. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012

"Peter Abelard on Material Constitution." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 94: 119-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

"Boethius." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 2. 168-75. (Books and Publications: 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: 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: Chapter) 2011

"Medieval Mereology." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Substantially revised 2nd edition; originally published 2006. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"Mereology." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 13. 763-71. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

"Metaphysics." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 13. 771-80. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

"Universals." The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. Part 21. 1353-59. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

Review of On Determining What There Is, by Paul Symington. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online), March 30 (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=23169). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 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: Chapter) 2009

Review of Aristotle on Truth, by Paolo Crivelli. Philosophical Inquiry 30: 199-202. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Abelard's Assault on Everyday Objects." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81.2: 209-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 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

"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

"Entia Successiva and Successive Continuants." Group session sponsored by the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale. The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Atlanta, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012

"On the Priority of the Part to the Whole." Marist College. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Some Remarks on Pasnau's Metaphysical Themes." A session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (Robert Pasnau's Metaphysical Themes: Author Meets Critics). The 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012

"The Problem of the Many Animals" keynote talk. Research Colloquium. Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Twelfth Century Reflections on Mereological Changelessness." The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Some Twelfth-century Reflections on Mereological Changelessness." Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Conference. Fordham University. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Comments on John Marenbon's 'Abelard's Semantics.'" Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy. University of Toronto, Ontario. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Identity and Parthood According to Some Medieval Philosophers." Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Medieval Mereology: Do Metaphysical Intuitions Remain Constant Despite Changing Physical Theories?" The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy Colloquium at Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Nothing Other than the Parts." The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy Colloquium at Cambridge. Cambridge University. Cambridge, United Kingdom, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Peter Abelard on Material Constitution." Metaphysics: Old and New, Society of Christian Philosophers 2010 Eastern Regional Conference. Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem, N.C., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Abelard on Material Constitution." Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Abelard's Realism." 27th Annual Joint Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy. Fordham University. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Comments on Tiberiu Popa's 'Aristotle on Pure Stuffs.'" The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. New York, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 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, Ontario, October. (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, December. (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, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Is the Collection Theory of Universals Defensible?" Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., June. (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, United Kingdom, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"On a Mereological Sorites Argument." Fifth Annual Midwestern Conference in Medieval Philosophy. St Louis University. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Professional Leadership

Faculty representative, Executive Committee, Brooklyn College Policy Council. 2011-2013. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Faculty Council representative, Department of Philosophy, 2009-12. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009

Member, review panel, Philosophy Division of the University Committee on Research Awards, CUNY, 2008-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008

Community Activities

Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Brooklyn College Chapter (inducted 1994, University of Chicago). 2007

Other Professional Activities

Collaborating editor, Handbook of Mereology. Eds. Hans Burkhardt, Guido Imaguire and Johanna Seibt (to present). 2009

Roundtable participant, New Directions in Medieval Scholarship. CUNY Graduate Center, November 13. 2009