- Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Document: CV
Areas of Specialization
- Medieval Philosophy
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind
Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
- Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
Biography
Jordan will join the Department of Philosophy in January 2025. Since receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2022, he has been the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval Philosophy at Purdue University. Jordan’s research focuses on theories of consciousness, intentionality, and sensation in medieval and early modern philosophy. His current projects examine these themes in fourteenth-century scholasticism and in seventeenth-century Cartesianism.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2022
- M.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 2017
- B.A., Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2014
Scholarly Achievements
Two articles:
“The Beatific Vision and the Metaphysics of Conscious Experience in John of Ripa,” Res Philosophica, 99(2), 2022, 187-212.
“The Mark of the Mental in the Fourteenth Century: Volitio, cognitio, and Adam Wodeham’s Experience Argument,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(6), 2023, 1128-1150.