Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1249 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-3164
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: macintos@ucalgary.ca

Education

B.Phil., Oxford University
M.A., University of New Zealand
B.A., University of New Zealand

Areas of Interest

Identity Theory
Philosophy of Religion
History of Philosophy
History of Science

Honours and Awards

Killam Resident Fellow, Fall 2003
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 1988-2001

Selected Publications

Boyle on Atheism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)

"Boyle and Locke on observation, testimony, demonstration and experience," Croatian Journal of Philosophy 5, no. 14 (2005) 275-88.

"Robert Boyle," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002.

"Boyle, Bentley and Clarke on God, Necessity, Frigorifick Atoms and the Void," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 (2001) 33-47

"Is Pascal's Wager Self-Defeating?" Sophia 39 (2000) 1-30.

"Aquinas and Ockham on Time, Predestination and the Unexpected Examination," Franciscan Studies 55 (1998) 181-220.

"Aquinas on Necessity," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72, (1998) 470-503.

"The argument from the need for similar or "higher" qualities: Cudworth, Locke, and Clarke on God's existence," Enlightenment and Dissent 16, (1997) 29-59.

"Animals, Morality, and Robert Boyle," Dialogue 35, (1996) 435-72.

"St Thomas on Angelic Time and Motion," The Thomist 59, 1995, 547-575.

"Belief-in Revisited," Religious Studies 30 (1994).

Recent Teaching

Logic I (PHIL 279)
The Medieval and Renaissance Period (PHIL 303)
Aquinas: Philosophical Problems (PHIL 507.04)
Science and religion in the early modern period (PHIL 517.05)

Supervisees

PhD

• 1981 - Kornfein, Roger: Kant and the metaphysics of reference
• 1972 - Hewins, Patrick: Rationality in Science

MA

• 2005 - Rondeau, Meaghan: The Piety of Storks
• 1999 - Viney, Christine: The History of Catholic Sexual Morality
• 1996 - McIvor, Trevor: Reason and Reformed Epistemology
• 1995 - Wyatt, Nicole: Aquinas and Scotus: Free Will, Teleological Ethics and Deontic Logic
• 1994 - Anderson, J. Mark: (Course-based)
• 1986 - Cunningham, Martin: Perception and Consciousness: An Evolutionary Approach
• 1984 - Park, Shelley: Rationality Without Linguistic Ability
• 1983 - Heyd, Thomas: 'Consciousness' in Philosophy and Psychology
• 1980 - Nasim, Moira: Personal Identity and "Split-Brain"
• 1972 - Wood, Thomas: Proof
• 1968 - Haynes, Peter: Memory
• 1967 - Kooistra, John E.: Persons