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Updated October 2018

PERSONAL DETAILS:

BORN: , May 25, 1964

ADDRESS: USC School of 3709 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles CA 90089

EMAIL: [email protected]

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Part of three person Templeton Award (with Yoaav Isaacs and Aron Wall) for two year project on fine-tuning. Fellow of British Academy (elected 2013) Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University (for Summer 2014) Project Leader of New Insights In Religious , a three year project at Oxford funded by the Templeton Foundation (since 2012). Visiting Lecturership, University of Helsinki, 2012. Nelson Visiting Fellow, Michigan University, 2011. Centre for Study of Mind and Project at University of Oslo. Project Associate since 2009. Visting Fellowship at 2005. Visiting Astor Lecturer, Oxford 2004. Research Fellowship at Australian National University (1993-1995) Grant from Australian Research Council for work on Grammar of book, 1991- 1993. Dissertation Prize for best Dissertation at (1991) First Honors, (1985)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

1 Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA (part-time 2013-July 2015, full time from July 2015). Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK (2006 to July 2015) Professor of Philosophy (part-time), (2009-2012) Professor, (2001-2006) Professor, Syracuse University (1996-2001) Assistant Professor, (1995-1996) Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales (1991-1995)

EDUCATION:

PhD. Syracuse University (1991) B.A. in Philosophy and Politics, University of Manchester (1985)

2 PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

Monographs

Narrow Content (with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, , 2018).

Metaphysics (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)

(with David Manley),The Reference Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

(with ),Relativism and Monadic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

(with Jan Cover),Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

(with Mark Norris Lance),The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Content (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Collected Papers Metaphysical Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), 1-312 (includes six previously unpublished essays.),

Epistemological Essays (in preparation for Oxford University Press, will include some previously unpublished essays).

Edited Collections

(with Matt Benton and Dani Rabinowitz) God, Belief and : New Insights (Oxford University Press, 2018)

(with Lee Walters), Conditionals, Probability and Paradox: Themes from the Philosophy of , forthcoming Oxford University Press.

(with and Dean W. Zimmerman), Contemporary Debates in (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).

(with Tamar Szabó Gendler),Perceptual Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

3 (with Tamar Szabó Gendler), Conceivability and Possibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

(with Michaelis Michael), Philosophy in Mind: The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1994).

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

“The Necessity of Mathematics (with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri), forthcoming Nous.

‘Pragmatic Encroachment and Closure’ (with Charity Anderson), forthcoming in volume of papers on pragmatic encroachment, edited by Brian Kim and Matthew McGrath (Routledge).

‘Operator Arguments Revisited’ (with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri), forthcoming Philosophical Studies.

‘Plenitude in Metaphysics’ (with Maegan Fairchild), forthcoming in special issue of Philosophy.

‘Possible Patterns’ (with Jeffrey Russell), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

‘Reflections on Reasons’ (with Ofra Magidor), forthcoming in Oxford Handbook on Reasons and Normativity.

‘Fine-tuning fine-tuning’, with Yoaav Isaacs, Hawthorne, Rabinowitz and Benton (eds.), God, Belief and Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2018 (also co-author of introduction to that volume).

‘More Misapprehensions abut the Fine-Tuning Argument’ (with Yoaav Isaacs), Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, volume 81, 2017.

‘Scotus on Universals’, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 4, 2017 .

‘Scepticism’ (with Billy Dunaway), forthcoming in Abraham and Aquino, eds., Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of Theology.

‘The Epistemic ‘Ought’’, forthcoming in Hawthorne and Walters, eds., Conditionals, Probability and Paradox: Themes from the philosophy of Dorothy Edgington.

4 ‘Belief is Weak’ (with Daniel Rothschild and Levi Spectre), Philosophical Studies, 173, 2016, 1393-1404.

‘Some Remarks on Imagination and Convention,’ Mind and Language 31, 2016, 625- 634.

‘Higher Order Free Logic and the Kaplan-Prior Paradox’ (with Andrew Bacon and Gabriel Uzquino), Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46, 2016, 493-541.

‘General Dynamic Trivality Theorems’ 125, 2016, 303-339.

‘Evil and Evidence’ (with Yoaav Isaacs and Matthew Benton), Oxford Studies in , 7, 2016, 1-31..

‘Cretan Deductions’ (with Rachel Fraser), Philosophical Perspectives 29, 2015, 163-178.

‘Comments on Transient ’, Inquiry 2015, 619-626.

‘Knowledge, Practical Adequacy and Stakes’ (with Charity Anderson), forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Epistemology.

‘Embedding Epistemic Modals’, (with Cian Dorr) Mind 122 (2013), 867-914.

‘Semantic Plasticity and Speech Reports’ (with Cian Dorr), The Philosophical Review 123, 2014, 281-338.

‘Knowledge from False Belief’ (with Dani Rabinowitz), forthcoming in OUP volume on Gettier problem.

‘Knowing Against the Odds’, (with Cian Dorr and Jeremy Goodman), Philosophical Studies 170, 2014, 277-287.

‘Groupthink’ (with Lara Buchak and Jeffrey Russell), Philosophical Studies 172, 2015, 1287-1309 (reprinted in The Annual).

‘Naturalness’ (with Cian Dorr) Zimmerman and Bennett, eds., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2013).

‘Aquinas on Faith and Knowledge’ in John Marenbon, ed., Continuity and Innovation in Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press (2013)

‘Knowledge and Epistemic Necessity,’ Philosophical Studies 158, 2012, 493-501.

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‘Some Comments on Fricker’s ‘Stating and Insinuating’, Supplementary Volume 86, 95-108 (2012).

‘Disagreement without Transparency: Some Bleak Thoughts’ (with ) in Lackey and Christensen, eds., The Epistemology of Disagreement, New Essays, Oxford University Press, 2013.

‘Replies to Lasersohn, Macfarlane and Richard’ (with Herman Cappelen), Philosophical Studies.

Replies to Glanzbert, Soames and Weatherson’ with Herman Cappelen), Analysis Reviews.

‘Assertion and Epistemic Opacity (with Ofra Magidor), Mind 119, 1087-1105 (2010).

‘Words’ (with Ernie Lepore), Journal of Philosophy 108, 447-485 (2011).

‘How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of A Pin?’ (with Gabriel Uzquiano), Mind 120, 53-81 (2011)

‘A Metaphysician looks at the Everett Interpretation’, in Saunders, Barratt, Kent and Wallace eds, Many Worlds? Oxford University Press, 2010.

(with Maria Lasonen-Aarnio),‘Knowledge and Objective Chance’, Williamson on Knowledge ed. Patrick Greeugh and Duncan Pritchard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

‘Superficialism in ,’ Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology ed. David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 213-30.

(with Ofra Magidor),‘Assertion, Context, and Epistemic Accessibility’, Mind, 118, 2009), pp. 377-97.

(with Andrew McGonigal),‘The many minds account of ’, Philosophical Studies, 138 (2008), pp. 435-440.

(with ),‘Knowledge and Action’ Journal of Philosophy, 105 (2008), 571- 590.

‘Three Dimensionalism vs Four Dimensionalism’, Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics ed. Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and (Blackwell Publishing, 2008).

6 (with Elisabeth Camp), ‘Sarcastic ‘Like’: a Case Study in the Interface of Syntax and ’, Philosophical Perspectives, 22, (2008), pp. 1-21.

‘Eavesdroppers and Epistemic Modals’, Philosophical Issues 17, 92-101 (2007)

‘A Priority and Externalism’ in Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology ed. Sanford C. Goldberg (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), pp. 201-18.

‘Cartesian Dualism’, in Persons Human and Divine ed. Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), pp. 87-98.

‘Eavesdroppers and Epistemic Modals’, Philosophical Issues, 17 (2007), pp. 92-101.

‘Craziness and Meta-Semantics’ (a reply to Williams), The Philosophical Review, 116 (2007), pp. 427-41.

‘Context-Dependency and Comparative Adjectives,’ Analysis, 67 (2007),pp. 195-204.

‘Direct Reference and Dancing Qualia’ Phenomenal and Phenomenal Knowledge ed. Torin Alter and Sven Walter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 195-208.

(with Herman Cappelen),‘Locations and Binding,’ Analysis, 67 (2007), 95-105.

‘Religious Knowledge’ , Philosophical Exchange, 2007.

‘Testing for Context-Dependence’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 73 (2006), pp. 443-50.

(with Karson Kovakovich and Scott Sturgeon),‘Disjunctivism’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 106 (2006).

‘Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity’ in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Vol. 2 ed. Dean W. Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 289-322.

(with Tamar Szabó Gendler),‘Perceptual Experience’ in Perceptual Experience ed. John Hawthorne and Tamar Szabó Gendler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 1-30.

(with Tamar Szabó Gendler),‘The Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts For Your Epistemic Enemies’, Philosophical Studies, 124 (2005), pp. 331-352.

‘Knowledge and Evidence’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 70 (2005), pp. 452-58.

7 ‘Chance and Counterfactuals’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 70 (2005), 396-405.

(with Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson), ‘Epistemic Modals in Context’ in in Philosophy ed. Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 131-69.

‘Vagueness and the Mind of God’, Philosophical Studies, 122 (2005), pp. 1-25.

‘Ideology’, in The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (2nd edition, London and New York: Routledge, 2005).

‘The Case for Closure’, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology ed. M. Steup and E. Sosa (Malden Mass: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 26-43.

(with David Manley),‘Stephen Mumford. Dispositions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998’, Nous, 39 (2005), pp. 179-195.

(with Frank Arntzenius), ‘Gunk and Continuous Variation’, , 88 (2005), 441- 465.

(with Frank Arntzenius and Adam Elga), ‘Bayesianism, Infinite Decisions and Binding’, Mind, 113 (2004), pp. 251-283.

‘Replies’, Philosophical Issues, 14 (2004), pp. 510-523.

‘Précis of Knowledge and Lotteries’, Philosophical Issues, 14 (2004), pp. 476-81.

‘Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds’, Nous, 38 (2004), pp. 351-58.

(with Brian Weatherson), ‘Chopping Up Gunk’, The Monist, 87 (2004), 339-351.

(with Mark Scala and Ryan Wasserman), ‘Recombination, Causal Constraints, and Humean Supervenience’, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics ed. D. Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 301-18.

‘’ in Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics ed. Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 99-130.

(with Ted Sider), ‘Locations, Philosophical Topics, 30 (2002), pp. 53-76, ISSN: 02762080; reprinted in John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 31-52.

‘Deeply Contingent A Priori Knowledge’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65 (2002), pp. 247-69 (reprinted in The Philosophers Annual).

8 (with Tamar Szabó Gendler), ‘Conceivability and Possibility’ in Conceivability and Possibility ed. John Hawthorne and Tamar Szabó Gendler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 1-70, ISBN: 9780198250890 (hardback); ISBN: 9780198250906 (paperback)

‘Lewis, the lottery and the preface’, Analysis, 62 (2002), pp. 242-251.

‘Precis’ and ‘Replies’, Symposium on The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Content, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65 (2002), pp. 177-217.

‘Blocking Definitions of Materialism’, Philosophical Studies, 110 (2002), pp. 103-13.

‘Advice for Physicalists’ Philosophical Studies, 109 (2002), pp. 17-52.

‘Practical Realism?’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64 (2002), 169-78.

‘Intrinsic Properties and Natural Relations’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63 (2001), pp. 399-403.

(with Jan Cover), ‘Infinite Analysis and the Problem of the Lucky Proof’, Studia Leibnitiana, 32 (2001), pp. 53-165.

‘Causal ’, Philosophical Perspectives, 15 (2001), pp. 361-378.

‘Freedom in Context’, Philosophical Studies, 104 (2001), pp. 63-79.

‘Before-Effect and Zeno ’ Nous, 34, (2000), pp. 622-33.

(with Mark Scala), ‘Seeing and Demonstration’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 61 (2000), pp. 199-206.

(with Tamar Szabó Gendler), ‘Origin Essentialism: The Arguments Reconsidered’ Mind, 109 (2000), 285-98.

‘Implicit Belief and A Priori Knowledge’ in Spindel Supplement to The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 38 (1999), 191-210.

‘Arguments for Atheism’, Reason for the Hope Within, ed. Michael J. Murray (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999), 116-134.

(with Jan Cover), ‘A World of Universals’, Philosophical Studies, 91 (1998), pp. 205-19.

(with Jeffrey McDonough), ‘Numbers, Minds and Bodies: a fresh look at mind-body dualism’, Philosophical Perspectives (supplement to Nôus), Language, Mind and Ontology, 12 ed. James Tomberlin (1998), 349-71.

9 (with Daniel Howard-Snyder), ‘Transworld Sanctity and Plantinga’s Free Will Defense’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 44 (1998), pp. 1-21.

(with Graham Oppy), ‘Minimalism and Truth’, Nous, 31 (1997), 170-96.

(with Jan Cover), ‘Framing the Thisness Issue’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 75 (1997), pp. 102-108.

(with Daniel Howard-Snyder), ‘Are Beliefs about God Theoretical Beliefs? Reflections on Aquinas and Kant’, Religious Studies, 32 (1996), 233-58.

‘The Epistemology of Possible Worlds: A Guided Tour’, Philosophical Studies, 84 (1996), pp. 183-202.

(with Philip Pettit), ‘Strategies for Free Will Compatibilists’ Analysis, 56 (1996), 191- 201.

(with Huw Price), ‘How to Stand Up for Non-Cognitivists’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996), pp. 275-92.

(with Michaelis Michael), ‘Compatibilist Semantics in Metaphysics: A Case Study’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996), pp. 117-134.

(with André Gallois), ‘Externalism and Scepticism’, Philosophical Studies, 81 (1996), 1- 26.

(with Jan Cover), ‘Haecceitism and Anti-Haecceitism in Leibniz's Philosophy’, Nous, 30 (1996), 1-30.

(with Jan Cover), ‘Materialism and Human Freedom’ in Faith, Freedom and Rationality (festschrift for William Rowe), ed. J. Jordon and D. Howard-Snyder (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 47-71.

(with Daniel Nolan), ‘Reflexive Fictionalisms’, Analysis, 56 (1996), 23-32.

(with Brian McLaughlin), ‘Dennett's Logical Behaviorism’, Philosophical Topics, 22 (1995), pp. 189-258.

(with Ralph Baergen), ‘Reliabilism and World-Counting’, Philosophia, 24 (1995), pp. 377-88.

‘Anti-Realism, Before and After Moore’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 12 (1995), pp. 443-467.

(with Andrew Cortens), ‘Towards Ontological Nihilism’, Philosophical Studies, 79 (1995), pp. 143-65.

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‘The Bundle Theory of Substance and the Identity of Indiscernibles’, Analysis, 55, (1995), pp. 191-96.

‘Truth-Aptness and Belief’, Philosophy in Mind ed. John O'Leary-Hawthorne and Michaelis Michael (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1994), pp. 215-241.

(with Michaelis Michael), ‘Philosophy in Mind’ introductory essay to Philosophy in Mind ed. John O'Leary-Hawthorne and Michaelis Michael (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1994), pp. 1-8,.

(with Daniel Howard-Snyder), ‘On the A Priori Rejection of Evidential Arguments from Evil’, Sophia, 33 (1994), pp. 33-47.

‘On the Threat of Eliminativism’, Philosophical Studies, 74 (1994), 325-46. ‘A Corrective to the Ramsey-Lewis Account of Theoretical Terms’, Analysis, 54 (1994), pp. 105-10.

‘What Does Van Fraassen's Critique of Show?’ The Monist, 77 (1994), pp. 128-45.

‘Belief and Behavior’, Mind and Language, 8 (1993), pp. 461-486.

‘God, Schmod and Gratuitious Evil’ (with Daniel Howard-Snyder), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53 (1993), pp. 861-874.

‘Meaning and Evidence: A Reply to Lewis’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 71 (1993), pp. 206-210.

‘Comment on Stich's “What is a Theory of ?”’, pp. 52-58, and ‘Comment on ‘Intentionality and Naturalism’, pp. 124-128, in Prospects for Intentionality: Working Papers in Philosophy, 3, ed. Karen Neander and Ian Ravenscroft (Australia: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1993)

(with Andrew Cortens), ‘The Principle of Necessary Reason’, Faith and Philosophy, 10 (1993), 60-67.

‘Comment on Redding’, in Interpretative Psychology, Medicine, Philosophy, ed. G. McDonell (Australia: School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, 1992.

(with Jan Cover), ‘Leibnizian Essentialism, Transworld Identity, and Counterparts’, History of Philosophy Quarterly: HPQ, 9 (October 1992), pp. 425-444.

‘Non-Organic Theories of Value and Pointless Evil’, Faith and Philosophy, 9 (1992), 387-391.

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(with Jan Cover), ‘Leibniz on Superessentialism and World-Bound Individuals’ Studia Leibnitiana, 22 (1990), 175-83.

‘A Note on “ and Language”’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 68 (1990), pp. 116-18.

(with Mark Lance), ‘From A Normative Point of View’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 71 (1990), 28-47.

‘On The Compatibility of Connectionist and Classical Models’, Philosophical Psychology, 2, (1989), 5-15.

EDITING

Oxford Studies in Epistemology, biannual journal co-editor in chief with Tamar Szabó Gendler (since 2008).

Philosophical Perspectives, annual volume of invited essays, co-editor in chief with Jason Turner (since 2003)

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