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DANIEL NOLAN November 2019

Department of [email protected] 204 Malloy Hall Phone: (+1) 574 631 7299 of Notre Dame Fax: (+1) 574 631 0588 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

August 2016- McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy, , Indiana, USA. April 2014-July 2016 Professor (Level E2), Australian , Canberra, . 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, , Ann Arbor, USA. Sept 2006– July 2011 Professor of Philosophy, , Nottingham, UK. Sept 2005– Aug 2006 Professor of , University of , St Andrews, UK. Sept 2003– Aug 2005 (Level B), permanent, , St Andrews, UK. Sept 2002– Aug 2003 Assistant Professor, tenure-track, , 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 , Brisbane, Australia. Jan 1998–Dec 2000 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), , 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 Honours. University of Queensland, Brisbane. Feb 1990–Dec 1992 Bachelor of Arts (major in philosophy, major in /ancient history). University of Queensland, Brisbane.

AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALISATION

Metaphysics Philosophical and the Philosophy of Logic

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 .

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 51: 207-230 (9900 words)

2016 “The Possibilities of History”. Journal of the 10.3: 441-456 (6900 words)

2016 “Conditionals and Curry”. Philosophical Studies 173.10: 2629-2647 (10000 words)

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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 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 ”. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9: 61-88 (11000 words)

2014 “The Question of Moral ”. 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 , Ordinary Language and ’s Material Beings”. Humana.mente 13 pp 239-248 (4200 words)

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2010 “Fearing Spouses in ’s Ta Oikonomika”. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18.1: 1-8 (3500 words)

2009 “ and Side Constraints”. Journal of Moral Philosophy 6.1: 5-22 (8400 words)

2008 “Non-Factivity About : 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 ’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 “, Multiplicity and Parts”. Noûs 40.4: 716-737 (10300 words)

2006 “Stoic Gunk”. Phronesis 51.2: 162-183 (9700 words)

2005 “Moral 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?” 32.5: 523-538 (7000 words)

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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 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) and Its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 91-106 (8100 words)

2017 “Methodological 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 . 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 . Synthese Library Series, Springer, Dordrecht. pp 7-27 (11000 words)

2016 “Method in Analytic Metaphysics” in Cappelen, H., Gendler, T.S., and Hawthorne, J. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 159-178 (10600 words)

2015 “Temporary Marriage” in Brake, E. (ed) After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships. Oxford University Press, New York. pp 180-203 (10000 words)

2015 “Lewis’s Philosophical Method” in Loewer, B. and Schaffer, J. (eds) A Companion to Lewis. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. pp 25-39 (10000 words)

2014 “Balls and All” in Kleinschmidt, S. (ed) Mereology and Location. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 91-116 (12500 words)

2012 “Possible Worlds ” in Russell, G. and Fara, D.G. (eds) The Routledge Companion to the . Routledge, . pp 242-252 (6000 words)

6 2010 “Response to John Divers” in Hale, B. and Hoffman, A. (eds) Modality. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 220-226 (3200 words)

2010 “Metaphysics: 5 Questions” in Asbjorn Steglich-Peterson (ed) Metaphysics: 5 Questions. Automatic Press. pp 63-73 (4400 words)

2009 “Infinity and Metaphysics” in Le Poidevin, R., Simons, P., McGonigal, A. and Cameron, R. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. Routledge, London. pp 430-439 (5500 words)

2009 “Platitudes and Metaphysics” in David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola (eds) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. pp 267-300 (16000 words)

2009 “Modality” in Shand, J. (ed) Central Issues in Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. pp 95-106 (7000 words)

2006 “What Would Teleological Causation Be?” (with John Hawthorne) in John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 265-283 (9000 words)

2005 “Fictionalist Attitudes About Fictional Matters”, in Mark Kalderon (ed) Fictionalism in Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 204-233 (12000 words)

2002 “Modal Fictionalism” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu). (Main entry: 14000 words, plus three supplements of approximately 2000 words each.) Updated 2007, 2011, 2016.

Shorter entries in refereed reference works

2019 “Intensionality and Hyperintensionality” in Crane, T. (ed) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, London. (online REP, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/intensionality-and-hyperintensionality/v- 1) (3500 words)

2013 “ and Extension” in Pashler, H. (ed) The Encyclopedia of the Mind. Publications, Thousand Oaks. pp 424-427. (2300 words)

2012 “Moral Fictionalism” in Craig, E. (ed) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, London. (online REP, http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/L150 ) (2100 words)

2010 “The Canberra Plan” in Oppy, G., Trakakis, N., Burns, L., Gardner S. and Leigh, F. (eds.) A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. Publishing, . pp 98-100. (1400 words)

2009 “David Lewis” in A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. pp 370-2. (1000 words)

2006 “David Lewis” in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. (2000 words)

Book Reviews

2015 Review of Mark Jago’s The Impossible: An Essay on Hyperintensionality. Mind 124.496: 1299-1302 (1500 words)

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2007 Review of Joseph Melia’s Modality. Mind 116.461: 187-190 (1900 words)

2004 Review of Charles Chihara’s The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of . Studia Logica 76.3: 443-446 (1500 words)

2003 Review of Preyer, G. and Siebelt, F. (editors) Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Philosophical Review 112.2: 263-266 (1750 words)

2001 Review of Concha Martinez, Uxia Rivas and Luis Villegas-Forero (editors) Truth in Perspective: Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology. Studia Logica, 68.3: 404-407 (1300 words)

1999 Review of Michael Tooley’s Time, Tense and Causation. Erkenntnis 50: 141-148 (3500 words)

1998 Review of Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Diana Raffman and Nicholas Asher (editors) Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus. Philosophical Quarterly 191: 253-255 (1500 words)

Published Abstracts of Presented Papers

2017 “Reflections on Routley's Ultralogic Program”. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 23.3: 353 (100 words)

1999 “An Uneasy Marriage”. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5: 490 (100 words)

1997 “A on Hypergunk” (with A. P. Hazen). Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 3: 365 (100 words)

1996 “Expressive Completeness Without Possible Worlds: The Hazen Cases”. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 2: 116 (100 words)

PRESENTATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY

Talks in the last five years (excluding job talks)

2019 "Why Hope for a Global Method?" Midwest Epistemology Workshop (MEW), October 2019 (Lincoln, Nebraska)

2019 "What Would Lewis Do?" David Lewis and His Place in Conference, keynote address, June 2019 (Manchester, UK)

2019 "Infinite Barbarians" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2019 (Vancouver, Canada)

2019 "Counterpossibles, Consequence, and Context" Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties Workshop, April 2019 (Cologne, )

2018 "Space, Time and Parsons" Joshfest: A Memorial Conference for Josh Parsons, University of St Andrews, June 2018 (St Andrews, UK) 8

2018 "Marriage and its Limits" Derivative Metaphysics 3 Conference, , May 2018 (Barcelona, Spain)

2018 "Hyperintensionality and Impossible Worlds" Metaphysical Mayhem, , May 2018 (New Brunswick, USA)

2018 "Impossible Worlds: Logic and Metaphysics" Logic and Metaphysics seminar, , April 2018 (Princeton, USA)

2017 " and Impossibilia" André Fest, Syracuse University, September 2017 (Syracuse, USA), What Are We Talking About Workshop, University of Notre Dame, September 2019 (Notre Dame, USA).

2017 "Imaginative Resistance as Parochialism" Conceivability and Modality Conference, Sapienza University, June 2017 (Rome, ), University of Queensland, December 2017 (Brisbane, Australia)

2017/2018 "Time and Parsimony" LOGOS seminar, University of Barcelona, May 2017 (Barcelona, Spain), Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan, June 2017 (Milan, Italy), CMM seminar series, , June 2018 (Leeds, UK), Metaphysics Reading Group series, University of St Andrews, June 2018 (St Andrews, UK).

2017 “Theoretical Beauty” Philosophy of Science series, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, April 2017 (Ann Arbor, USA).

2016 “Reflections on Routley's Ultralogic Program” Association for Symbolic Logic Conference, University of Connecticut, May 2016 (Storrs, USA), Australasian Association For Logic Conference, Melbourne, July 2016 (Melbourne, Australia).

2016 “Towards an Uneasy Marriage” Kline Workshop on Ontological Commitment, University of Missouri, March 2016 (Columbia, USA)

2015 “Can Possible Worlds Help Explain Linguistic ?” Lewis Variations Workshop, University of Hamburg, September 2015 (Hamburg, Germany)

2015 “Time Travel, Self-Prediction, and Rational Action” Workshop on Probability and Time Travel, , June 2015 (Birmingham, UK)

2015/2016/2017 “Metaphysics and Theoretical ”/ “Theoretical Conservatism and Metaphysics” Epistemology of Metaphysics I Workshop, , May 2015 (Helsinki, Finland), Australasian Association for Philosophy Conference, July 2016 (Melbourne, Australia), University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (Milwaukee, USA).

2015 “The Ontology of Moral Reasons” Moral and Seminar, University of Helsinki, May 2015 (Helsinki, Finland)

2014/2016 “Naturalised Modal Epistemology” Epistemology of Modality Conference, University, September 2014 (Aarhus, ), Philsoc, Australian National University, June 2016 (Canberra, Australia) 9

2014/2015 “Chance and Necessity” Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, July 2014 (Canberra, Australia), Meta- Metaphysics Group, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 2015 (Berlin, Germany), , October 2015 (Charlottesville, USA).

2013/2017/2018 “Metaphysics Outside Grounding”/"Metaphysics Beyond Grounding" CRNAP Workshop on Metaphysical Structure I: Contemporary Work, Princeton University, April 2013 (Princeton, USA), Pacific APA Conference, April 2017 (Seattle, USA), Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY, April 2018 (New York, USA)

2012/2015 “Say It, But Don’t Mean It” National University of Singapore, June 2012 (Singapore), LOGOS Seminar, University of Barcelona, June 2012 (Barcelona, Spain), Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, July 2012 (Wollongong, Australia), , April 2015 (Stirling, UK).

2012/2017 "Temporary Marriage" Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory Seminar, ANU, March 2012 (Canberra, Australia), Minorities in Philosophy Seminar, Notre Dame, December 2017 (Notre Dame, USA)

2010/2018 “Epistemological Advantages and Disadvantages for Fictionalism” Surrogate Reasoning Workshop, Australian National University, August 2010 (Canberra Australia), Fictionalism Workshop, University of Hamburg, March 2018 (Hamburg, Germany)

2006/2007/2008/2011/2015 “Conditionals and Curry” What “If” Conference, University of Connecticut at Storrs, April 2006 (Storrs, USA), Australian National University, October 2006 (Canberra, Australia), , May 2007 (Melbourne, Australia), University of Michigan, November 2008 (Ann Arbor, USA), Conditionals Workshop, ANU, June 2011 (Canberra, Australia), MMM Group, Arché, University of St Andrews, April 2015 (St Andrews, UK), Keynote address, Issues on the (Im)possible III conference, September 2015 (Bratislava, Slovakia).

2000/2001/2013/2016 “Why Is It Bad To Be Ad Hoc?” Philsoc Seminar, ANU, August 2000 (Canberra, Australia), University of , November 2000 (Sydney, Australia), University of Queensland, April 2001 (Brisbane, Australia), Metaphysical Virtues Conference, University of Western Michigan, March 2013 (Kalamazoo, USA), North Carolina State University, April 2016 (Raleigh, USA).

A further 58 papers were delivered before 2015 – details available on request, or on my website.

Commentaries (Last Five Years)

June 2018 Workshop commentator for "Thinking Counterfactually with Daniel Nolan", Thinking Counterfactually Project, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK).

June 2017 Comments on Natalja Deng, "Making Sense of the Growing Block View", Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN), Syracuse University (Syracuse, USA).

March 2017 Comments on Michaela McSweeney, "Radical Representation and Abstract Objects", Metaphysics on the Mountain 2, the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (Sun Valley, USA)

10 March 2016 Comments on Vera Flocke, "Ontological ", Pacific APA Meeting (San Francisco, USA)

April 2015 Comments on Jennifer Wang, “Fundamentality and Modal Freedom”, Pacific APA Meeting (Vancouver, Canada)

A further 13 commentaries were delivered before 2015 – details available on request, or on my website.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate courses (6-80 )

Gateway Seminar: David Lewis (F2019) Infinity and Philosophy (F2017, S2019 University of Notre Dame) Honors Introduction to Philosophy (F2017, F2019 University of Notre Dame) Paradoxes (S2017, S2019 University of Notre Dame) Metaethics: Truth in (S2017, F2018 University of Notre Dame) Advanced Analytic Philosophy – David Lewis (Feb-June 2014 ANU) Meta-ethics (July-Nov 2013 ANU) Philosophy of Science (July-Nov 2012 ANU) Paradoxes (S2010 University of Nottingham) Honors Introduction to Philosophy (F2008 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Paradoxes (F2005 University of St Andrews) Philosophy of Logic (S2005 University of St Andrews) Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science (F2004, F2005 University of St Andrews) Philosophy of Value (S2004 University of St Andrews) Seminar for Majors: Natural Kinds (S2003 Syracuse University) Introduction to Philosophy for Honors Students (F2002 Syracuse University) Paradoxes (F2001 Syracuse University) Modal Logic (February-July 2001 University of Queensland) Metaphysics (August-December 1997 Macquarie University) Philosophy of Science (February-July 1997 Macquarie University)

Graduate seminars and equivalents

Infinity (F2018 University of Notre Dame) Philosophical Methodology (S2018 University of Notre Dame) Possible and Impossible Worlds (F2016 University of Notre Dame) Metaphysics II (with Philip Percival) (S2010 University of Nottingham) Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics: Possible Worlds (F2008 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Contemporary Texts in Metaphysics: Four Dimensionalism (S2006 University of St Andrews) Contemporary Texts in Metaphysics: On the Plurality of Worlds (S2005 University of St Andrews) Meta-Ethics: Truth in Ethics (S2003 Syracuse University) Possible Worlds (F2002 Syracuse University) Fictionalism (with Tamar Szabo Gendler) (S2002 Syracuse University) Identity, Personal Identity and Desire (with Caroline West) (Feb-July 2000 at Macquarie University) Meta-Ethics (with Caroline West) (August-December 1997 at Macquarie University)

Other Teaching

The Structure of Time, Divisibility and Causation (with Sara Bernstein) Master class, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan, June 2017.

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I have convened 3 undergraduate courses at ANU without teaching in them: convening in these circumstances involves arranging for PhD students to teach the courses and staying in touch with them about any challenges that arise. I convened PHIL1005 Logic and Critical Thinking in semester 2 2012; PHIL2082 Philosophy of in semester 2 2013, and PHIL1004 Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy in semester 1 2014.

Basic Logic (a remedial logic course for M. Litt students) (F2004 University of St Andrews) Masters Qualifying course on Laws of Nature (August-December 1997 Macquarie University)

Supervision and Individual Teaching

Primary supervisor of two PhD at Notre Dame from February 2017, May 2018, and co- supervisor of a third from November 2018.

I was chair of committee (i.e. supervisor) of five research postgraduate students at ANU: one from September 2011 to August 2014 on the metaphysics of time (awarded MPhil), a second from November 2011 to September 2014 on modal epistemology (awarded MPhil), a third from February 2012 to October 2015 on theories of subject matter and mental content (awarded PhD), a fourth from March 2012 to December 2016 on agent-relativity in meta-ethics (awarded PhD), and a fifth (co-supervisor from August 2016) from May 2013 until February 2018 (awarded PhD).

I was a supervisor for three PhD candidates at the University of St Andrews. I was co-supervisor for one on the metaphysics of vagueness (from Sept 2004 to Sept 2006); and primary supervisor for one year each for candidates working on the limits of possibility (from Sept 2005 to Sept 2006); and on counterfactual theories of causation (from Sept 2005 - Sept 2006).

I was acting supervisor of one PhD candidate on personal identity (Sept 2005 - Jan 2006 University of St Andrews). I co-supervised two PhD candidates at the University of Nottingham in January-June 2010: one working on de re modality, and one working on the challenge to reliance on intuitions.

I supervised five M. Litt dissertations, on the connectionist/language of thought debate; contemporary non-naturalism in ethics; and on truthmakers and (all S2004 University of St Andrews); on the semantic/metasemantic distinction (S2005 University of St Andrews), and on analyticity and the a priori (S2006 University of St Andrews).

I am currently on the dissertation committee of two other PhD students at the ANU in philosophy (1 from semester 2 2012, 1 from semester 2 2016), and I am an associate supervisor for one student at the University of Queensland (from November 2018).

I have previously served on a further 14 dissertation committees: 4 at Notre Dame; 7 in philosophy at ANU; 1 in the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at ANU; 1 at the at Davis (external member); 1 at the University of Miami (external member). I was also on the dissertation defence committee of one PhD student at Syracuse (external member).

I supervised one student doing orals exam preparation at Notre Dame (Fall 2019), and co- supervised another (Spring 2017), I supervised one student preparing for a dissertation proposal defense (Fall 2016), and co-supervised another (Spring 2018), I served on two additional dissertation proposal committee at Notre Dame (Fall 2016, Fall 2018), and four additional orals defense committees at Notre Dame (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, 2 in Spring 2018).

I taught a research course for one PhB student at the ANU in semester 2 2010, one in semester 2 2011, and one in semester 2 2013. One PhB combined teaching/research course for one student 12 in semester 2 2012, and one in semester 2 2013. The PhB is a research-focused undergraduate degree for exceptionally able students.

Supervised one senior thesis (2018-19, Notre Dame) Supervised four undergraduate honours dissertations, (full year 2012, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014 ANU). Supervised an honours coursework component for one student (Semester 2 2012, ANU), supervised honours coursework components for two students (Semester 2 2013, ANU), supervised honours coursework components for six students (Semester 1 2014 ANU). Supervised two undergraduate dissertations, (S2010 University of Nottingham) Supervised four undergraduate honours dissertations, (F2005 University of St Andrews) Supervised a graduate independent study course, on minimalism about truth (F2001 Syracuse University) Supervised a graduate independent study course, on the metaphysics of possible worlds (S2001 University of Queensland)

SERVICE

Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Notre Dame (Jan-Feb 2018) Member of the Committee for Appointments and Promotions, University of Notre Dame (Jan 2018-April 2018) Member of the Full Professor Committee, University of Notre Dame (April 2017-April 2018) Member of the Endowed Chairs Committee, University of Notre Dame (September 2016-) Member of the Department of Philosophy job search committee, University of Notre Dame (October 2016-February 2017)

Deputy Head of School, School of Philosophy, Australian National University (from July 2012 to December 2014, ANU). The primary role of the deputy head of school was to run the undergraduate teaching program.

Member of the School of Philosophy job search committee (September 2013-April 2014 ANU). Member of the of Arts and Social Sciences Education Committee (from Aug-Dec 2012, July 2013-September 2013 ANU). Member of the College of Arts and Social Sciences Coursework Committee (from Aug-Dec 2012, July 2013-September 2013 ANU)

Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library Advisory Sub-Committee (from August 2011 to August 2013, ANU). Member of the department long-listing search committee (Spring 2010, University of Nottingham). Placement officer (Spring 2010, University of Nottingham) Royal Institute of Philosophy Research Seminar Coordinator (Spring 2010, University of Nottingham) Co-Director of the St Andrews-Sterling Postgraduate Program (SASP) (2005-2006) Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies, Departments of Philosophy (2005-6, University of St Andrews) Member of the University Postgraduate Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee (2005-6, University of St Andrews) Member of the Philosophy Department Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee (2004-6, University of St Andrews) Exams Officer, Departments of Philosophy (2004-5, University of St Andrews) Member of the Postgraduate Committee, Departments of Philosophy (2004, University of St Andrews) Search Committee, Department of Philosophy (F 2002-S 2003 Syracuse University) Executive Committee, Department of Philosophy (F 2002-S 2003 Syracuse University) 13 Freshman Faculty Advisor (F 2002-S 2003 Syracuse University) Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy (S 2002 Syracuse University)

Professional Activities Grants, other than major grants listed on page 1-2: 2014 Chief Investigator, Research Collaboration Grant, University of . Topic: “Explanation in Metaphysics”. Samuel Baron as Primary Investigator, and other Chief Investigators were Jamin Asay, David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan, Lina Jansson, Kristie Miller, Michael Rubin, Jonathan Tallant and Alastair Wilson. $A20 000. 2009 ’s Fund Award for “Fictionalism”, University of Nottingham. £4000. 2004 British Academy Grant, “The Metaphysics of Parthood” (with ), collaboration with Hud Hudson and Ned Markosian (Western Washington University). £4500. 2002 William P. Tolley Summer Teaching Development Grant, an internal teaching development grant at Syracuse University. $US750. 1999 Macquarie University Research Grant (MURG), an internal competitive research grant, for $A1368.

Associate Fellow of Arché, the Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, University of St Andrews, 2004-present. I was also a visitor to Arché from April-July 2015. Program Visitor, Philosophy Program, Australian National University, September 2006-July 2007 Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy, , 2010-2015. Member of the workshop network associated with the AHRC project “Metaphysical Indeterminacy”, based at the University of Leeds ( investigators: E.J. Barnes, R. Cameron and J.R.G. Williams), 2010-2013. Associate Researcher, Modal Epistemology project funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, based at (principal investigator: Asbjorn Steglich- Petersen), 2011-present. International Member, Ontology After Quine, Research Group (DFG Funded), University of Hamburg, 2013-present. Member of the Project Advisory Board, Thinking Counterfactually Project, University of Leeds (AHRC funded), 2016-present. Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan, June 2017.

Member of the Editorial Board, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Member of the Editorial Board as one of the Subject Editors (Metaphysics) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Member of the Editorial Board, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic Member of the Editorial Board, Philosophy Compass. Member of the Editorial Panel, Thought. Member of the Advisory Board, Organon F Member of the International Advisory Board, Diametros. Member of the Academic Board, Praxis. I was an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy from 2007-2008. I was a member of the Editorial Board, Philosophical Quarterly 2004-2006.

Judge, 2015 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics, run by Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.

External Reviewer in the Australian Group of Eight Quality Review System pilot project in 2012/13.

Peer Reviewer for the Italian eValuation of Quality of Research (VQR) 2004-2010 held by the National Agency for the Evaluation of and Research Institutes (ANVUR) in 2012/2013.

14 Proposal referee for the Australian Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, UK, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, , the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Fellowship Application Reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Main Speaker at a Faculty Manuscript Workshop, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at Austin, November 2016.

Organizer of a workshop, "What Are We Talking About?", University of Notre Dame, September 2019.

Book proposal and manuscript referee for Oxford University Press (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2018) Book proposal referee for Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 Manuscript referee for Routledge 2013, book proposal referee for Routledge 2017 Book proposal referee for Springer 2015

Article referee for American Philosophical Quarterly; Analysis; Australasian Journal of Logic; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Biology and Philosophy; British Journal for Aesthetics; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Bulletin of the Section of Logic of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Dialectica; Diametros; Erkenntnis; European Journal of Analytic Philosophy; Grazer Philosophische Studien; HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science; International Journal of Philosophical Studies; Journal of General Philosophy of Science; Journal of Political Philosophy; Journal of the Philosophy of History; Logic and Logical Philosophy; Mind; Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic; Noûs; Oxford Studies in Metaphysics; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophia; ’ Imprint; Philosophical Papers; Philosophical Perspectives; Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies; Philosophical Review; Philosophy Compass; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Thought.

External examiner of 8 PhD theses: University of New South Wales 2000, University of 2005, 2007, 2007, Australian National University 2009, University of Melbourne 2011, Macquarie University 2015, Humboldt University of Berlin 2017.

External examiner for a habilitation: University of Regensburg 2009.

Internal examiner of PhD theses: two at the University of St Andrews 2005.

Publicity, Outreach, and Other Presentations

Appeared, with C.S. Jenkins, on Life Matters on ABC Radio National (Australia), 21 December 2006, to discuss the philosophy of flirting.

Took part in a round-table discussion “Lie to Me: An Anatomy of Truth Across Disciplines” organised by Burton and Garran Hall, ANU, 14 August 2013

Co-presented “Early Academic Career” with Dana Goswick at the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference in Melbourne, 5 October 2013. (Advice to postgraduate students about the job market.)

Guest Blog Post on the "Extinct" blog, 12 December 2016, on philosophy of the historical sciences: http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2016/12/12/historical-sciences-and-great-man- approaches-to-history

15 Guest Blog Post on the "Letter of the Month" blog run by The Age of Metaphysical Revolution Project, , on 28 November 2018. The post is about an important letter about knowledge and vagueness that David Lewis sent in 1999. http://www.projects.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/lewis/letter-of-the-month-november- 2018/

I also posted a supplementary paper about the letter I discuss in the above blog post at https://philpapers.org/archive/NOLLOW.pdf

CITIZENSHIP

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