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Caleb Cohoe
Chair and Professor of Philosophy
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
[email protected]Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30-12; Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:30; and by appointment.
Research Interests
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Ancient Greek and Roman, Medieval Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
Teaching Interests
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Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind
Education
PhD in Philosophy
Princeton University
MA in Philosophy
Princeton University
BA in Liberal Arts
Thomas Aquinas College
Personal Website
Published Works
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Cohoe, C. (2025). Augustine’s Pursuit of Wisdom: Happiness as the Common Goal of Philosophy and Religion. (pp 30-55). BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004739147_004
Cohoe, C. (2023). Review of Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, Alex G. Long and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, Alex G. Long. Journal of the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2023.a902882
Cohoe, C. (2023). Review of Mind and World in Aristotle’s De Anima, Sean Kelsey. Ancient Philosophy, https://www.pdcnet.org/ancientphil/Ancient-Philosophy
Cohoe, C. (2022). Endurance, Acceptance, or Constitutional Gratitude: Non-Theistic and Theistic Attitudes to Suffering. Religions, 13(10), 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13101005.
Cohoe, C. (2022). Knowing in Aristotle part 1: Epistēmē, Nous, and non-rational cognitive states. Philosophy Compass, 17(1), e12801. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12801.
Cohoe, C. (2022). Knowing in Aristotle part 2: Technē, phronēsis, sophia, and divine cognitive activities. Philosophy Compass, 17(1), e12799. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12799.
Cohoe, C. (2022). To What Extent Must Creatures Return to the One?. (10, pp 270-278). Oxford University PressOxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862976.003.0010
Cohoe, C. (2022). Aristotle’s On the Soul: A Critical Guide. (). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641517
Cohoe, C. (2022). Introduction. (). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641517
Cohoe, C. (2022). The Separability of Nous. (). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641517
Grimm, R. S., Cohoe, C. (2021). What is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Why Philosophy as a Way of Life?. European Journal of Philosophy, 29(1), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12562.
Cohoe, C. (2020). What Does the Happy Life Require? Augustine on What the Summum Bonum Includes. Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, 8-40. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-studies-in-medieval-philosophy-volume-8-9780198865728?lang=en&cc=us.
Cohoe, C. (2020). Accounting for the Whole: Why Pantheism Is on a Metaphysical Par with Complex Theism. Faith and Philosophy, 37(2), 202-219. https://doi.org/10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.2.4.
Cohoe, C., Grimm, R. S. (2020). What it Takes to Live Philosophically: Or, How to Progress in the Art of Living. Metaphilosophy, 51(2-3), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12420.
Cohoe, C. . Syllabus for Death and Afterlife in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Religion. ,
Cohoe, C. (2020). Living Without a Soul: Why God and the Heavenly Movers Fall Outside of Aristotle’s Psychology. Phronesis, 65(3), 281-323. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12342116.
Cohoe, C. (2019). Review of Aristotle, De Anima: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary, Christopher Shields. The Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy001
Cohoe, C. (2018). How Could Prayer Make a Difference? Discussion of Scott A. Davison, Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 10(2), 171-185. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i2.2033.
Cohoe, C. (2018). Why the View of Intellect in De Anima I.4 Isn’t Aristotle’s Own. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(2), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1373061.
Cohoe, C. (2018). Review of Aristotle, De Anima: Translation, Introduction, and Notes, C.D.C. Reeve. Notre Dame Philosophical Review, ndpr.nd.edu/news/de-anima-2/
Cohoe, C. (2018). Why Continuous Motions Cannot Be Composed of Sub-motions: Aristotle on Change, Rest, and Actual and Potential Middles. Apeiron, 51(1), 37-71. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2016-0069.
Cohoe, C. (2017). Why the One Cannot Have Parts: Plotinus on Divine Simplicity, Ontological Independence, and Perfect Being Theology. Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqx008
Cohoe, C. . Syllabus for Happiness in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Course. ,
Cohoe, C. . Syllabus for Medieval Philosophy Course. ,
Poston, T., Cohoe, C., Baker, S. . Syllabus for Ancient Epistemology Course. ,
Cohoe, C. (2016). Getting Things Less Wrong: Religion and the Role of Communities in Successfully Transmitting Beliefs. Res Philosophica, https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2016.93.3.3
Cohoe, C. (2016). When and Why Understanding Needs Phantasmata: A Moderate Interpretation of Aristotle’s De Memoria and De Anima on the Role of Images in Intellectual Activities. Phronesis, 61(3), 337-372. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341311.
Cohoe, C. (2016). When and Why Understanding Needs Phantasmata: A Moderate Interpretation of Aristotle’s De Memoria and De Anima on the Role of Images in Intellectual Activities. Phronesis, 61(3), 337-372. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341311.
Cohoe, C. (2015). Review of "Aquinas’s Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia," Gaven Kerr . Notre Dame Philosophical Review, ndpr.nd.edu/news/61075-aquinas-s-way-to-god-the-proof-in-de-ente-et-essentia/
Cohoe, C. (2014). Nous in Aristotle’s De Anima. Philosophy Compass, 9(9), 594-604. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12156.
Cohoe, C. (2014). Review of Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Soul, Part I: Soul as Form of the Body, Parts of the Soul, Nourishment, and Perception. Journal of the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2014.0009
Cohoe, C. (2014). God, Causality, and Petitionary Prayer. Faith and Philosophy, 31(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil201312302.
Cohoe, C. (2013). Why the Intellect Cannot Have a Bodily Organ: De Anima 3.4. Phronesis, 58(4), 347-377. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341253.
Cohoe, C. (2013). There must be a First: Why Thomas Aquinas Rejects Infinite, Essentially Ordered, Causal Series. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 21(5), 838-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2013.816934.
Cohoe, C. (2013). Review of "The Powers of Aristotle's Soul". Notre Dame Philosophical Review, ndpr.nd.edu/news/40259-the-powers-of-aristotle-s-soul/