Dr. Christopher Noble

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Contact

Phone Number

(941) 487-4611

Email Address

[email protected]

Location

Office

Palmer E 221

Mail

ACE 116

Department

Office or Division

Humanities Division

Philosophy

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy, Villanova University. Villanova, PA
M.A. Philosophy, Villanova University. Villanova, PA
B.A. Philosophy, German Studies, Boston College, Boston MA

Christopher P. Noble is a historian of philosophy specializing in the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has further interests in the history and philosophy of science, continental philosophy, philosophical historiography, and the global development and interaction of philosophical ideas.

Recent Courses

Medieval Philosophy
Classical Chinese Philosophy

Website

Selected Publications

“Self-Moving Machines and the Soul: Leibniz contra Spinoza on the Spiritual Automaton.” The Leibniz Review 27 (2017): 65-89.

“On Analogies in Leibniz’s Philosophy: Scientific Discovery and the Case of the Spiritual Automaton.” In The Continuing Relevance of Leibniz, ed. Charles Joshua Horn, special issue, Quaestiones Disputatae, 7, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 8-30.