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Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics; Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. 1969 (philosophy), Warwick; B.A. 1967 (philosophy), Oxford.
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Research Interests: logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
Affiliations: Association of Symbolic Logic, American Philosophical Association, American Mathematical Association.
Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1994-1995; Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1981-1982; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1978-1979.
Selected Works:
Books:
Worlds, Times and Selves (Duckworth, 1977), with A. N. Prior
Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985)
The Limits of Abstraction (OUP, 2002)
Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (OUP, 2005)
Semantic Relationism (Blackwell, 2007)
Online Papers:
"Arguing for Non-Identity: A Response to King and Frances," Mind vol. 115, no. 460 (2007).
"Cantorian Abstraction: A Defense and Reconstruction," Journal of Philosophy XCV12, 599-634 (1998).
"Essence and Modality," in Philosophical Perspectives 8 (ed. J. Tomberlin) as the Nous Casteneda Memorial Lecture, pp. 1-16 (1994).
"In Defense of Three-Dimensionalism," Journal of Philosophy, CIII.12, 699-714 (2006).
"The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter," Mind vol. 112, 195-234 (2003).
"Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects," in Oxford Studies in Epistemology: vol. 1 (ed. T. S. Gendler & J. Hawthorne), 89-110, Oxford: Clarendon Press (2005).
"The Problem of Possibilia," in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (eds. D. Zimmerman & M. Loux), Clarendon Press:Oxford, 191-179 (2003).
"A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form," in Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (ed. Scaltsas, Charles, Gill), pp. 13-40, Clarendon Press: Oxford (1994).
"The Question of Ontology," to appear in a volume on meta-ontology, OUP.
"The Reality of Tense," Synthese 150:3, 399-414 (2006).
"Relatively Unrestricted Quantification," in Chapter 1 of Absolute Generality (eds. A. Rayo and G. Uzquiano), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006).
"The Role of Variables," Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 12, 605-631, 2003, reprinted in the "Philosophers' Annual" (2003).
"Tense and Reality," in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (OUP, 2005).
"The Varieties of Necessity," in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (OUP, 2005).
"Aristotle's Megarian Maneuvers," to appear in a volume of recent work on Aristotle, edited by N. White, Cambridge University Press (2007).
Courses
Undergraduate
Set Theory Fall 2001
Advanced Logic Spring 2000
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