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DANIEL NOLAN November 2019 DANIEL NOLAN November 2019 Department of Philosophy [email protected] 204 Malloy Hall Phone: (+1) 574 631 7299 University of Notre Dame Fax: (+1) 574 631 0588 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT August 2016- McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. April 2014-July 2016 Professor (Level E2), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. July 2011–March 2014 Professor (Level E1), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. July 2010–July 2011 Senior Fellow (Level D), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Sept 2008–Dec 2008 Visiting Full Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Sept 2006– July 2011 Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Sept 2005– Aug 2006 Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Sept 2003– Aug 2005 Lecturer (Level B), permanent, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Sept 2002– Aug 2003 Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Syracuse University, Syracuse USA. Sept 2001–Aug 2002 Allen and Anita Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Syracuse University, Syracuse USA. Feb 2001–July 2001 Lecturer (Level B) (part time), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Jan 1998–Dec 2000 Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Feb 1997– Dec 1997 Lecturer (Level B), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Sept 1995 - Dec 1995 Lecturer (Level A) (part-time), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. EDUCATION Feb 1994–April 1998 PhD, Australian National University, Canberra. Feb 1993–Dec 1993 Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy (1-year graduate degree). First Class Honours. University of Queensland, Brisbane. Feb 1990–Dec 1992 Bachelor of Arts (major in philosophy, major in history/ancient history). University of Queensland, Brisbane. AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALISATION Metaphysics Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Science Epistemology HONOURS, AWARDS AND MAJOR GRANTS 2015-16 William J. Bouwsma Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina for the 2015/16 northern academic year. 2013- Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 2013-2016 ARC Discovery Grant. $300 000 (with Alan Hájek and R.A. Briggs) 2005- Honorary Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland (renewable 3 year terms). 2 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize. A total of 25 of these are awarded annually across a range of disciplines in the UK to younger researchers. £50 000. 2001 Allen and Anita Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, held at Syracuse University. 1998 Macquarie University Research Fellowship (Postdoctoral fellowship). 1994–1997 Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian National University (Doctoral award). 1993 Don Mannison Memorial Prize, University of Queensland. For the best results in philosophy honours. PUBLICATIONS Monographs 2005 David Lewis. Philosophy Now series, Acumen Publishing (UK), McGill-Queen’s University Press (Canada) and Routledge (UK and USA). January 2005 (Acumen), April 2005 (MQUP), November 2014 (Routledge). (106 000 words). Reviews of David Lewis Brian Weatherson Mind. (2007) 116.461: 191-193 Craig Bourne Metascience. (2006) 15: 283-285 Tim Henning Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. (2008) 62.3: 449-452 2002 Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds. Studies in Philosophy, Outstanding Dissertations Series, Routledge Press. February 2002. (100 000 words). Reprint Edition, Hardback and Paperback, 2011. Review of Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds Chris Daly Philosophical Books. (2003) 44:360-361 Monograph Under Contract (not yet published) Theoretical Virtues, contract with Oxford University Press. Journal Articles forthcoming “It’s a Kind of Magic: Lewis, Magic and Properties”. Synthese. 2019 "Infinite Barbarians". Ratio 32.3: 173-181 (6200 words) 2018 "Reflections on Routley's Ultralogic Program". Australasian Journal of Logic 15:2: 407-430 (10300 words) 2016 “Chance and Necessity”. Philosophical Perspectives 30.1: 294-308 (7600 words) 2016 “Stoic Trichotomies”. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51: 207-230 (9900 words) 2016 “The Possibilities of History”. Journal of the Philosophy of History 10.3: 441-456 (6900 words) 2016 “Conditionals and Curry”. Philosophical Studies 173.10: 2629-2647 (10000 words) 3 2015 “Utility Monsters for the Fission Age”. (with R.A. Briggs) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 96.3: 392-407 (7000 words) 2015 “Noncausal Dispositions”. Noûs 49.3: 425-439 (8500 words) 2015 “Personification and Impossible Fictions". British Journal of Aesthetics 55.1: 57-69 (7100 words) 2015 “The A Posteriori Armchair”. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93.2: 211-231 (11000 words) 2015 “The Unrealistic Effectiveness of Abstract Metaphysics”. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9: 61-88 (11000 words) 2014 “The Question of Moral Ontology”. Philosophical Perspectives 28: 201-221 (10600 words) 2014 “The Dangers of Pragmatic Virtue”. Inquiry 57.5-6: 623-644 (11200 words) 2014 “Creationism and Cardinality”. (with Alexander Sandgren) Analysis 74.4: 615-622 (3200 words) 2014 “Hyperintensional Metaphysics”. Philosophical Studies 171.1: 149-160 (5800 words) 2013 “Why Historians (and Everyone Else) Should Care About Counterfactuals”. Philosophical Studies 163.2: 317-335 (10000 words) 2013 “Impossible Worlds”. Philosophy Compass 8.4: 360-372 (7000 words) 2012 “Epistemic Dispositions” (with R.A. Briggs) Logos & Episteme 3.4: 629-636 (3200 words) 2012 “Disposition Impossible”. (with C.S. Jenkins) Noûs 46.4: 732-753 (10900 words) 2012 “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”. (with R.A. Briggs) Analysis 72.2: 314-316 (800 words) 2011 “The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity”. Philosophical Perspectives 25.1: 313-339 (14500 words) 2011 “Categories and Ontological Dependence”. The Monist 94.2: 277-300 (10500 words) 2010 “Maximising, Satisficing and Context”. (with C.S. Jenkins) Noûs 44.3: 451-468 (9200 words) 2010 “Metaphysical Language, Ordinary Language and Peter van Inwagen’s Material Beings”. Humana.mente 13 pp 239-248 (4200 words) 4 2010 “Fearing Spouses in Aristotle’s Ta Oikonomika”. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18.1: 1-8 (3500 words) 2009 “Consequentialism and Side Constraints”. Journal of Moral Philosophy 6.1: 5-22 (8400 words) 2008 “Non-Factivity About Knowledge: A Defensive Move”. The Reasoner 2.11: 6-7 (1000 words) 2008 “Truthmakers and Predication”. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 4: 171-192 (8200 words) 2008 “Backwards Explanation”. (with C.S. Jenkins). Philosophical Studies 140.1: 103-115 (7100 words) 2008 “Liar-Like Paradox and Object-Language Features”. (with C.S. Jenkins) American Philosophical Quarterly 45.1: 67-73 (3500 words) 2008 “Properties and Paradox in Graham Priest’s Towards Non-Being”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76.1: 191-198 (2900 words) 2008 “Finite Quantities”. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108.1: 23-42 (7500 words) 2007 “Contemporary Metaphysicians and Their Traditions”. Philosophical Topics, 35.1&2: 1-18 (9400 words) 2007 “A Consistent Reading of Sylvan’s Box”. Philosophical Quarterly 67.229: 667-673 (3600 words) 2006 “Selfless Desires”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73.3: 665-679 (7000 words) 2006 “Vagueness, Multiplicity and Parts”. Noûs 40.4: 716-737 (10300 words) 2006 “Stoic Gunk”. Phronesis 51.2: 162-183 (9700 words) 2005 “Moral Fictionalism Versus The Rest”. (with Greg Restall and Caroline West) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83.3: 307-329 (12500 words) 2004 “Liberalism and Mental Mediation”. (with Caroline West) Journal of Value Inquiry 38.2: 195-202 (3100 words) 2004 “Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk”. The Monist 87.3: 303-21 (6700 words) 2003 “Defending a Possible-Worlds Account of Indicative Conditionals”. Philosophical Studies 116.3: 215-269 (21500 words) 2001 “What’s Wrong With Infinite Regresses?” Metaphilosophy 32.5: 523-538 (7000 words) 5 1999 “Is Fertility Virtuous in its Own Right?” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50.2: 265-282 (8500 words) 1997 “Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach”. Notre Dame Journal for Formal Logic 38.4: 535-572 (20000 words) 1997 “Three Problems for ‘Strong’ Modal Fictionalism”. Philosophical Studies 87.3: 259-275 (6500 words) 1997 “Quantitative Parsimony”. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48.3: 329-343 (8000 words) 1996 “Recombination Unbound”. Philosophical Studies 84.2-3: 239-262 (8500 words) 1996 “Reflexive Fictionalisms” (with John O’Leary-Hawthorne). Analysis 56.1: 26-32 (4000 words) Book Chapters forthcoming “Impossibility and Impossible Worlds” in Bueno, O. and Shalkowski, S. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Modality. Routledge, New York. 2018 “Cosmic Loops” in Bliss, R. and Priest, G. (eds) Reality and Its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 91-106 (8100 words) 2017 “Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics” in McPherson, T. and Plunkett, D. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. Routledge, New York, pp 659-673 (8100 words) 2017 “Causal Counterfactuals and Impossible Worlds” in Beebee, H., Hitchcock, C. and Price, H. (eds) Making a Difference. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 14-32 (9500 words) 2017 “Does the World Contain States of Affairs? Yes” in Barnes, E. (ed) Current Controversies in Metaphysics. Routledge, New York. pp 81-91 (5100 words) 2017 “Naturalised Modal Epistemology” in Fischer, R. and Leon, F. (eds) Modal Epistemology After Rationalism. Synthese Library Series, Springer, Dordrecht. pp 7-27 (11000 words) 2016 “Method
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