Bryan Reece
  

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Baylor University
bryan reece baylor edu

PhD

University of Toronto, Philosophy

Fellowships

Courses taught

  • Action, Freedom, and Responsibility
  • AI and the Ethics of Agency
  • Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
  • Arabic and Syriac Aristotelianism
  • Aristotle
  • Aristotle's Ethics
  • Contemporary Moral Problems
  • Happiness and Human Flourishing
  • Honors Introduction to Philosophy
  • Human Nature
  • Technology, Freedom, and the Self
  • The Rationalists

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My research focuses primarily on Aristotle's philosophy and on current debates that his work has inspired.

Books

Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding. Cambridge University Press (in press).
Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom. Cambridge University Press (2023).

Articles

Theophrastus on Intellect in Aristotle's De Anima. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 38.1 (2024): 1-27.
Aristotle on Divine and Human Contemplation. Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 7.4 (2020): 131-160.
Aristotle's Four Causes of Action. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97.2 (2019): 213-227.

Chapters

Grounding and the Work of Philosophy. In Ground and Fundamentality in Plato and Aristotle, ed. R. Neels, Routledge (2026): 349-355.
Out of Thin Air? Diogenes on Causal Explanation. In Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science, eds. H. Bartoš and C. King, Cambridge University Press (2020): 106-120.

Reviews

Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle, by Nathanael Stein. Journal of the History of Philosophy 64.1 (2026): 146-147.
Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good, by Marta Jimenez. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102.1 (2024): 246-247.