I’m an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Florida. My research focuses on early modern European philosophy, in particular on the history of discussions of materialism. The project began by looking at the materialist philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and the reactions of other modern philosophers to Hobbes’s views. As the project has developed, I’ve been looking more at Leibniz’s criticisms of materialism, and at the work of other early modern materialists, such as John Toland and Margaret Cavendish.

Email: sdrd at ufl dot edu for UF things, sdrduncan at gmail dot com for everything else
C.V.: duncan-cv-web.pdf

For information about classes, office hours, etc, please see my UF homepage.

Selected publications

• “Hobbes on Language: Propositions, Truth, and Absurdity”. In A. P. Martinich & Kinch Hoekstra (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes (Oxford University Press, 2016) 57-72.
• “Leibniz on the Expression of God”. Ergo 2 (2015): 83-103.
• Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses (Routledge, 2013), edited with Antonia LoLordo
• “Leibniz’s Mill Arguments Against Materialism”, Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2012): 250-72.
• “Debating Materialism: Cavendish, Hobbes, and More”, History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2012): 391-409.
• “Toland, Leibniz, and Active Matter”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 6 (2012): 249-78.

For a complete list of publications, see my publications page or my philpapers profile.