Lecturer in Philosophy
Nicholas Westberg received his PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, USA in Spring 2024. His research focuses on a variety of topics in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and epistemology in early modern and medieval philosophy. His dissertation, Descartes and the metaphysics of causality in the material world, analyzes the metaphysical underpinnings of Cartesian physics, offering new accounts of Descartes’s understanding of bodily force, divine concurrence, and the laws of nature. His most recent publications include: “Francisco Suárez on the Ontological Ground of Logical Possibility,” Metaphysics 6, 1 (2023): 60-74; “Descartes on God and Duration: Revisited,” with Jean-Luc Solère, Philosophica, Special Issue on Time (forthcoming); “Descartes and the Scholastic Theory of Divine Concurrence,” Res Philosophica (forthcoming).