My research is focused on the place of causation in Plato's metaphysics, natural philosophy, and cosmology. Most recent work on the subject takes the cosmology of "Timaeus" to be an application of the Forms-as-causes theory, the theory of causation that Plato begins to develop in "Phaedo". But this interpretation raises many problems. For example, the Forms are immutable and non-temporal, so it is unclear how they could enter into causal relations, even as models used by the Demiurge to create mutable, temporal particulars. I am working on an interpretation of the place of causation in Plato's philosophy that provides answers to some of these problems.

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