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
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. 2016. "How to Think about Whether We are Brains in a Vat." In The Brain in a Vat, edited by Sanford Goldberg, 27-36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leite, Adam. 2019. "Skepticism and Epistemic Asymmetry." Philosophical Issues 29 (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.
Schmitt, Frederick. 2010. "The Assurance View of Testimony." In Social Epistemology, edited by Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar and Duncan Pritchard, 216--242. Oxford University Press.
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