Ward, Thomas M.: - THOMAS M. WARD, PhD (UCLA), MPhil (Oxon.) is a historian of the philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages. He is the author of Divine Ideas and John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism, and the translator of Duns Scotus's Treatise on the First Principle (De Primo Principio). Ward is an associate professor of philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.