Maxwell Wade

Department

Philosophy

Publications

Wade, Max. “Gersonides on the Heavenly Bodies’ Relation to the Agent Intellect” in Mind, Soul and the Cosmos in the High Middle Ages, eds. Jack Cunningham, Adam Foxon and Rosamund Gammie. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM), vol. 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78876-5_11

Wade, Max. “Stoic Pantheism and Environmental Ethics in Pliny the Elder,” in Pantheism and Ecology: Cosmological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives, ed. Luca Valera. Ecology and Ethics, vol 6. Springer. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40040-7_2

Wade, Max. “Formless Matter in Gersonides’ Cosmology.” History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 26, 1 (2023): 79-103, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10068

Wade, Max. “Eriugena on the Eternity and Creation of the World.” Thaumàzein 10, no.2 (2022): 67-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/thau.v10i2.187

 

Presentations

“Existential Risk and the Anthropocene: Three Ancient Perspectives on Human Precarity” at the 2024 annual conference of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (SPCW). Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Worcester, MA. Jul. 17–21, 2024.

“Plotinus and the Stoics on Kinds of Bodies and How They are Unified” at the 21st annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS). Trinity College, Dublin: Dublin, Ireland. Jun. 19–22, 2024.

“Distinctive Features within Plotinus’ Elemental Theory” at the 2024 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Jan. 4–7, 2024.

“Plotinus’ Platonic Appropriation of Aristotle’s Bronze Statue” at the 20th annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS). Università degli Studi di Catania: Catania, Italy. Jun. 14–17, 2023.

“Relation and Resemblance: Gersonides and Crescas on the Sun’s Heating of the Air” at the New England Medieval Consortium 2022 Conference: Medieval Ecologies. Colby College: Waterville, ME. Oct. 8, 2022. 

“Universal Mind or World Soul? Gersonides on the Agent Intellect” at the first International Medieval Mind Conference. Bishop Grosseteste University: Lincoln, UK. Jun. 30-Jul. 2, 2022. 

“The Bones of Heaven: Formless Matter and the Rejection of Hylomorphism in Gersonides” at the Late Medieval Hylomorphism: Matter and Form 1300-1600 International Conference. KU Leuven: Leuven, Belgium. Jun. 9-11, 2022.

“Gaia and the Soul of Nature: Plotinus on the Generation of Plants and Minerals” at the ICHS USF Conference on Natural Resources and Flourishing in Ancient Greece. University of South Florida: Tampa, FL. Apr. 22-24, 2022. 

“Society, Ethics and Reason in the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob” at the Fordham Philosophical Society Graduate Conference. Fordham University: New York, NY. Feb. 2, 2022. 

“Thomas Aquinas and the Legacy of Pre-Socratic Theories of Perception” at the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy inaugural conference. Notre Dame: South Bend, IN. Oct. 3-6, 2021.