MacIntosh, Jack -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Jack
Last Name: 
MacIntosh
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
University Affiliation: 
University of Calgary
Phone: 
4032203164
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Science
Geographical Region: 
Great Britain
Time Period: 
17th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of philosophy, currently especially Robert Boyle, early modern natural philosophy
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy (B. Phil)
PHD University: 
Oxford University
PHD Date: 
1961
Major Publications: 
MacIntosh, Jack. The Excellencies of Robert Boyle Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008. Print. Boyle on Atheism, transcribed and edited, with an introduction, commentary, and a life of Boyle (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006); The Excellencies of Robert Boyle, edited with an introduction and commentary (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2008); "Adverbs, Identity, and Multiple Personalities," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22, 1992, 301-321; "St Thomas on Angelic Time and Motion," The Thomist, 59, 1995, 547-575; "Animals, Morality, and Robert Boyle," Dialogue, 35, 1996, 435-72; "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; "Aquinas and Ockham on Time, Predestination and the Unexpected Examination," Franciscan Studies, 55, 1998, 181-220; "Aquinas on Necessity," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 72.3, 1998, 470-503; "Is Pascal's Wager Self-Defeating?" Sophia, 39, 2000, 1-30; "Boyle, Bentley and Clarke on God, Necessity, Frigorifick Atoms and the Void," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 15, 2001, 33-47
Membership in Academic Societies: 
CPA
Courses Taught: 
bioethics, contemporary philosophy, early modern science and religion, epistemology, ethics, history and philosophy of science, history of philosophy (mainly: stoics, various twelfth to fourteenth century philosophers, various seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers), Iberian philosophy (classical and mediaeval), logic, metaphysics, philosophy in literature, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, political philosophy. I have also taught joint classes on one or more occasions with members of the Departments of Biology, History, Mathematics, and Psychology.