Faculty with particular interests in Metaphysics and Epistemology include:
Note: Several faculty members included in our History of Philosophy research area focus on the history of metaphysical and epistemological issues.
Metaphysics
Berry, Sharon. 2019. "Gunk Mountains: A Puzzle." Analysis.
Ebbs, Gary. “Carnap on Analyticity and Existence: A Clarification, Defense, and Development of Quine’s Reading of Carnap’s Views on Ontology,” Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy, 7(5), September 2019, pp. 1–62.
Ebbs, Gary. “The Very Idea of Sameness of Extension Across Time,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 3 (2000): 245-268.
O'Connor, Timothy. 2020. Emergent Properties. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Zalta. Palo Alto: CSLI.
O’Connor, Timothy. 2013. "Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?" In The Puzzle of Existence, edited by Tyron Goldschmidt, 22-45. New York: Routledge.
O'Connor, Timothy. 2011. "Agent-Causal Theories." In The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition, edited by Robert Kane, 309-328. Oxford University Press.
O'Connor, Timothy, and John Ross Churchil. 2009. "Nonreductive physicalism or emergent dualism : The argument from mental causation." In The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, edited by Robert C. Koons and George Bealer. Oxford University Press.
Wood, Rega. 2010. "First Entity as the Subject of Metaphysics." In Johannes Duns Scotus, 1308-2008: Investigations into His Philosophy, edited by L. Honnefelder and et. al., 87-105. Aschendorff Verlag.
Epistemology
Ebbs, Gary. “Putnam on Trans-theoretical Terms and Contextual Apriority,” in James Conant and Sanjit Chakraborty, eds., Engaging Putnam (De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 131–155.
Ebbs, Gary. “Can We Take Our Words at Face Value?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 56, Number 3 (1996): 499-530.
Leite, Adam. 2018. "Changing One's Mind," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 97:1, 150-171.
Leite, Adam. 2019. "Skepticism and Epistemic Asymmetry." Philosophical Issues29 (1): 184-197.
Ludwig, Kirk. 2016. "Thought Experiments in Experimental Philosophy." In The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, edited by Mike Stuart, James Robert Brown and Yiftach J. H. Fehige, 385-405. Routledge.
O’Connor, Timothy. 2013. "Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?" In The Puzzle of Existence, edited by Tyron Goldschmidt, 22-45. New York: Routledge.
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