Timothy Pickavance

Contact Talbot Department of Philosophy 562.944.0351 x3524 Information Biola University [email protected] 13800 Biola Ave. [email protected] La Mirada, CA 90639

Academic Biola University, La Mirada, California Position Held Assistant Professor 1B, 2008-present

Area of Metaphysics Specialization

Areas of Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion Competence

Education University of Texas, Austin, Texas Ph.D., Philosophy, 2008 • Dissertation: “Universals, Particulars, and the Identity of Indiscernibles” • Committee: Robert Koons (Chair), Joshua Dever, Herbert Hochberg, Mark Sains- bury, David Sosa, Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Biola University, La Mirada, California M.A., Philosophy (Highest Honors), 2003

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas B.S., Economics (Magna Cum Laude), 2000

Publications Academic Book The Fundamentals of Metaphysics, with Robert C. Koons (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2011/12)

Academic Articles “The Natural View of Properties of Identity”, in Robert Garcia (ed.), Substance (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, forthcoming 2010/11) “In Defense of ‘Partially Clad’ Bare Particulars,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89.1 (2009) “Properties of Identity and Trivial Indiscernibility,” Southwest Philosophy Review 25.1 (2009) “The Farewell to Leibnizian Essences Matured,” Philosophia Christi 6.1 (2004) “Bare Particulars and Individuation” (with J. P. Moreland), Australasian Journal of Phi- losophy 81.1 (2003)

Popular Article “Burying Your Head in the Sandman”, in Ben Dyer (ed.), Supervillains and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2009) Presentations Refereed November 2009: “A New(ish?) Argument Against Humeanism”, Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana February 2009: “Trivializing Naturalness,” American Philosophical Association Central Di- vision Meeting, Chicago, Illinois November 2008: “Properties of Identity and Trivial Indiscernibility,” 70th Annual South- western Philosophical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri

Invited March 2010: “The Problem of the Criterion”, California State University, Sacramento March 2010: “The Natural View of Properties of Identity”, California State University, Sacramento February 2007: “Plantingian Worlds, World-Indexed Properties, and WOOPpy LEMings,” Biola University Colloquium Series, La Mirada, California

Comments May 2006: “Comments on Arnon Cahen’s ‘The Trope Solution to Mental Causation, Mul- tiple Realizability, and the “Qua” Problem’,” 2006 Gateway Philosophy Graduate Con- ference, St. Louis, Missouri April 2005: “Comments on Adam Sennet’s ‘Theta Roles and Counterfactuals: Symmetry and Asymmetry’,” 2005 University of Texas Graduate Student Conference, Austin, Texas April 2004: “Comments on Bence Nanay’s ‘Synchronous Supervenience and Nonreductive Materialism’,” 2004 University of Texas Graduate Student Conference, Austin, Texas

Church October 2010: “Inerrancy,” Ethnos Community Church, San Diego, CA October 2009: “Ethics and Apologetics,” Ocean View Baptist Church, San Pedro, CA June 2009: “Christian Ethics in the 21st Century?” 2009 Theology Conference, Shepherd of the Hills (Woodland Hills) Church, Woodland Hills, CA

Other August 2010: Two-day logic training seminar for faculty at Legacy Christian Academy, Frisco, TX

Courses Taught Biola University (all courses graduate level) Epistemology I Epistemology II: Contextualism Symbolic Logic Metaphysics I Metaphysics II: Modal Metaphysics Philosophy of Religion

Departmental Biola University Activity Organizer, Graduate Philosophy Working Group, Fall 2009, Spring 2010 Organizer and Moderator, Ph.D. Preparation LEMMing (Language-Epistemology-Mind- Metaphysics) Reading Group, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010 Organizer and Moderator, Ph.D. Preparation Ethics & Political Philosophy Reading Group, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010 University of Texas Conference Organizing Committee Member, 2008 University of Texas, Austin Graduate Student Conference Graduate Student Mentor, Spring 2007 (as part of the Pre-Graduate School Internships through Intellectual Entrepreneurship, University of Texas, Austin) Conference Organizing Committee Member, 2007 University of Texas, Austin Graduate Student Conference Conference Coordinator, 2006 University of Texas, Austin Philosophy Graduate Student Conference Conference Coordinator, 2005 University of Texas, Austin Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

Honors and Biola Unviersity Awards 2010: Faculty Research & Development Grant

University of Texas 2007: University Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas, Academic Year 2007-8 2006: Cogburn Philosophical Foundation Essay Prize for “Soames on Strong Two-Dimensionalism” 2003: Research Internship (a University of Texas Fellowship) with Robert Koons, Academic Year 2003-4 2000: Jack Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, University of North Texas

University of North Texas 1997: Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Alumni Scholarship, University of North Texas, Academic Years 1997-8, 1998-9, 1999-2000

Service to the Referee Profession Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2) Erkenntnis Philosophia Christi

Academic Society of Christian Philosophers Affiliations Evangelical Philosophical Society