Robert Miner

Email: Robert_Miner@baylor.edu

Education

Ph.D. - University of Notre Dame
M.A. - University of Notre Dame
B.A. - Rice University

Areas of Interest

Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy

Selected Recent Publications

Books:

Thomas Aquinas on the Passions (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Truth in the Making (Routledge, 2004)

Vico, Genealogist of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002)

Recent Essays:

“A Metaphysics of Humility and Greatness: An Introduction to the Liber Metaphysicus of Giambattista Vico.”  Introduction to Vico’s De antiquissima Italorum sapientia, trans. Jason Taylor (Yale University Press, forthcoming).

“Pascal on the Uses of Scepticism.”  Logos 11 (2008): 111-22.

“Augustinian Recollection.”  Augustinian Studies 38 (2007): 435-450.

“Suarez as Founder of Modernity?  Reflections on a Topos in Recent Historiography.”  History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (2001): 17-36.
 
“Is Hobbes a Theorist of the Virtues?”  International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001): 269-284.

“Non-Aristotelian Prudence in the Prima Secundae of the Summa Theologiae.”  The Thomist 64 (2000): 401-422.

“Verum-factum and Practical Wisdom in the Early Writings of Giambattista Vico.”  Journal of the History of Ideas 59 (1998): 53-73.