Susan Brower-Toland (Ph.D., Cornell 2002) specializes in medieval philosophy and has general research and teaching interests in language, mind, and philosophy of religion. Her current research focuses on the philosophy of William of Ockham, and on later-medieval discussions in philosophy of mind including: the nature of intentionality, theories of consciousness, and theories of judgment.

Recent publications include:

• “Aquinas on Mental Representation: Concepts and Intentionality,” (with Jeffrey E. Brower) The Philosophical Review 117 (Jan 2008): 193-243.

• “Intuition, Externalism, and Direct Reference in Ockham,” History of Philosophy Quarterly  24 (Oct 2007):317-336.

• “Ockham on Judgment, Concepts, and the Problem of Intentionality,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007): 67-110.

• “Facts vs. Things: Adam Wodeham and the Later Medieval Debate over Objects of Judgment,” The Review of Metaphysics 60 (2006): 597-642.

• “Instantaneous Change and the Physics of Sanctification: Quasi-Aristotelianism in Henry of Ghent’s Quodlibet XV q.13,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2002): 19-46

• “William Ockham and Walter Chatton on Objects and Acts of Judgment,” in Gyula Klima (ed.), Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).

Papers in progress:

• “Can God Know More? A Case Study in the Late Medieval Debate about Propositions.”

• “Walter Chatton.” (To appear in Henrik Laugerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500 .

• “Ockham and Chatton on Self-Knowledge (they’re both HOT) ”

Brower-Toland teaches graduate courses in medieval philosophy (recent seminars: “Ockham on Mind and Cognition”; “Thought & Agency in Augustine”) and philosophy of language. She co-directs (with Colleen McCluskey) a weekly Latin reading group. Brower-Toland was recently awarded the Berlin Prize for a research stay (for 2010) at the American Academy in Berlin.