Dr. Todd Buras
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Education
PhD Yale University, 2004
MAR Yale Divinity School, 1998
MA Baylor University, 1994
BA Ouachita Baptist University, 1993
Areas Of Interest
History of Early Modern philosophy, Reid, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
Recent Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
“Revisiting Reid on Religion,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 19.3 (2021): 261-274.
“Thomas Reid’s Commonsense Philosophy of Mind,” chapter 14 in Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, (The History of Philosophy of Mind, vol. 4), Rebecca Copenhaver, ed., Routledge, 2019.
“C. S. Lewis’ Argument from Nostalgia: A New Argument from Desire,” with Mike Cantrell, forthcoming, Two Dozen or so Good Theistic Arguments, Trent Dougherty and Jerry Walls, eds. Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 356-371.
“Parrying Parity: A Reply to a Reidian Critique of Idealism,” co-authored with Trent Dougherty, forthcoming Idealism: New Essays, Tyronn Goldschmidt, ed., Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 1-17.
“Educating the Whole Person: Whose Narrative, Which Curriculum?” (co-authored with Michael Beaty and Darin Davis) in Whole Person Education: Sino-West Dialogue, Wu Youneng, ed., National Taiwan Normal University (2017) 38-57.
“The Argument from Reason, and Mental Causal Drainage: a Reply to van Inwagen,” co-authored with Brandon Rickabaugh, Philosophia Christi 19 (2017): 381-400.
“Thomas Reid’s Experimentum Crucis,” in Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value, Rebecca Copenhaver and Todd Buras, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015.
“Introduction: Reid in his Time and Ours,” in Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value, Rebecca Copenhaver and Todd Buras, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015.
“On the Failures of Naturalism,” Review and Expositor 111 (2014): 259-273.
“Reidian Dual Component Theory Defended,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplement, 2011. Reprinted in New Essays on Thomas Reid, Patrick Rysiew, ed., (New York: Routledge, 2015) 4-24.
“The Function of Sensations in Reid,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 47.3: (2009) 329-353.
“An Argument against Causal Theories of Mental Content,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 46.2 (2009): 117-129.
“Three Grades of Immediate Perception: Distinctions from Thomas Reid,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008): 603-632.
“Counterpart Theory, Natural Properties and Essentialism,” Journal of Philosophy 103 (2006): 27-42.
“The Nature of Sensations in Reid,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 22 (2005): 221-238.
“The Problem with Reid’s Direct Realism,” Philosophical Quarterly, 52 (2002): 457-477. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays, John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds., (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003) 44-65.
Edited Books
Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value, with Rebecca Copenhaver, Oxford University Press, 2015.