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.
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. 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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