Tuomas E. Tahko Contact Department of Philosophy [email protected] Cotham House, Cotham Hill [email protected] University of Bristol Web: www.ttahko.net Bristol Google Scholar: https://goo.gl/VKkNqh BS6 6JL Phone: +44 77 311 67426 UK Office: Cotham House 1.02 Position Professor of Metaphysics of Science, University of Bristol 08/2021 { Specialisation Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Logic Competence Philosophy of Mind, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy Education Durham University 10/2005 { 06/2008 PhD in Philosophy Date awarded: 25 June 2008 Dissertation: \The Necessity of Metaphysics" Advisor: E.J. Lowe University of Helsinki Docent in Theoretical Philosophy 12/2013 Principal Investigator 09/2013 MA (inclusive of BA) in Theoretical Philosophy 09/2002 { 09/2005 Previous Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol 09/2018 { 07/2021 Appointments Reader in Metaphysics of Science Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies, University of Helsinki University Lecturer (with tenure) 01/2015 { 08/2018 Academy of Finland Research Fellow 09/2013 { 08/2018 Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher 01/2011 { 08/2013 Department of Philosophy, Durham University 12/2008 { 12/2010 Research Fellow Visiting Centre for Time, University of Sydney 4 { 7/2017 Appointments Visiting Scholar, Sponsored by Kristie Miller Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto 1 { 3/2017 Visiting Scholar, Sponsored by Jessica Wilson Department of Philosophy, University of Reading 10 { 12/2014 Visiting Scholar, Sponsored by David S. Oderberg Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 01 { 06/2012 Visiting Scholar, Sponsored by L.A. Paul Department of Philosophy, New York University 03 { 06/2011 Visiting Scholar, Sponsored by Kit Fine eidos Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva 11 { 12/2009 Visiting Scholar Framwellgate School Durham 05/2007 { 05/2008 Teaching Fellow Awards and European Research Council Consolidator Grant (1 995 304 EUR) 09/2018 { 08/2023 Grants MetaScience: The Metaphysical Unity of Science Postdocs Alex Franklin, Toby Friend, Sam Kimpton-Nye, Vanessa Seifert; PhD Francesca Bellazzi Academy of Finland Research Project (528 489 EUR) 09/2014 { 08/2018 1 Curriculum Vitae, Tuomas E. Tahko Updated August 4, 2021 The Epistemology of Metaphysics: From Rationalism to Nominalism Postdocs Markku Kein¨anenand Donnchadh O'Conaill; PhD Sanna Mattila Academy of Finland Senior Research Fellowship (425 005 EUR) 09/2013 { 08/2018 Essential Knowledge: The Metaphysical Basis of Scientific Realism Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (246 240 EUR) 01/2011 { 08/2013 A Study of the Foundations of Metaphysics: Apriority, Modality, and Essence Alfred Kordelin Foundation Postdoctoral Research Grant (18 000 EUR) 2008 Academy of Finland \Research Abroad" Grant (30 000 EUR) 2008 The Finnish Cultural Foundation PhD Grant (16 000 EUR) 2007 County Durham Economic Partnership and the Ogden Trust Teaching Award ($13 800) 2007 Helsingin Sanomain 100-year Foundation PhD Grant (19 000 EUR) 2005 Publications Monographs 1. 2021. Unity of Science, Elements in Philosophy of Science (Cambridge University Press). 2. 2015. An Introduction to Metametaphysics, Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy (Cambridge University Press). -Korean edition published in 2020 by Seogwang Publishing; translated by Junho Park. Edited Volumes 1. 2021. New Frontiers in Ground, Essence, and Modality (with Donnchadh O'Conaill), Special Issue of Synthese, Vol. 198, supplement issue 6. 2. 2016. Possibility (\Mahdollisuus", in Finnish) (with Ilkka Niiniluoto and Teemu Toppinen), (Helsinki: Philosophical Society of Finland). 3. 2014. Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essence and Ground (with Riin Sirkel), Special Issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica, Vol. 7.2. 4. 2012. Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press). -Japanese edition published in 2015 by Shunjusha Press. Research Articles 1. 2021. \A Survey of Logical Realism", Synthese 198: 4775{4790. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02369-5. 2. 2021. \Bohmian Holism", in Limnell, P. and Vad´en,T. (Eds.), Unfolding the Big Picture: Essays in Honour of Paavo Pylkk¨anen (Helsinki: Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki 50), pp. 7{18. 3. 2021. \New Frontiers in Ground, Essence, and Modality: Introduction", Synthese 198: 1219{1230. doi:10.1007/s11229-018-02067-8. 4. 2020. \Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71 (3): 799{825. doi:10.1093/bjps/axy044. Editor's Choice. 5. 2019. \Bundle Theory with Kinds" (with Markku Kein¨anen), The Philosophical Quarterly 69 (277): 838{857. doi:10.1093/pq/pqz021. 6. 2018. \The Epistemology of Essence", in Carruth, A., Gibb, S.C., and Heil, J. (Eds.), Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe (Oxford University Press), pp. 93{110. 7. 2018. \Fundamentality and Ontological Minimality", in Bliss, R. and Priest, G. (Eds.), Reality and its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality (Oxford University Press), pp. 237{253. 8. 2017. \Disentangling Nature's Joints", in Simpson, W., Koons, R., and Teh, N. (Eds.), Neo- Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge), pp. 147{166. 9. 2017. \Moderately Naturalistic Metaphysics" (with Matteo Morganti), Synthese 194: 2557{2580. doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1068-2. 2 Curriculum Vitae, Tuomas E. Tahko Updated August 4, 2021 10. 2017. \Empirically-Informed Modal Rationalism", in Fischer, R.W. and Leon, F. (Eds.), Modal Epistemology After Rationalism, Synthese Library (Dordrecht: Springer), pp. 29{45. 11. 2016. \Empirical Elements in Modal Epistemology" (in Finnish), in Niiniluoto, I., Tahko, T.E. and Toppinen, T. (Eds.), Mahdollisuus (Helsinki: Philosophical Society of Finland), pp. 153{158. 12. 2016. \Minimal Truthmakers" (with Donnchadh O'Conaill), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 97 (2): 228{244. doi:10.1111/papq.12064. 13. 2016. \Armstrong on Truthmaking and Realism", in Calemi, F.F. (Ed.) Metaphysics and Scien- tific Realism: Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong, EIDE Foundations of Ontology series (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 207{218. 14. 2015. \The Modal Status of Laws: In Defence of a Hybrid View", The Philosophical Quarterly 65 (260): 509{528. doi:10.1093/pq/pqv006. 15. 2015. \Natural Kind Essentialism Revisited", Mind 124 (495): 795{822. doi:10.1093/mind/fzv027. 16. 2014. \The Metaphysical Interpretation of Logical Truth", in Rush, P. (Ed.), The Metaphysics of Logic: Logical Realism, Logical Anti-Realism and All Things In Between (Cambridge University Press), pp. 233{248. 17. 2014. \Boring Infinite Descent", Metaphilosophy 45 (2): 257{269. doi:10.1111/meta.12084. 18. 2013. \Truth-Grounding and Transitivity", Thought 2 (4): 332{340. doi:10.1002/tht3.94. 19. 2013. \Soames's Deflationism About Modality", Erkenntnis 78 (6): 1367{1379. doi:10.1007/s10670-012-9428-x. 20. 2013. \Metaphysics as the First Philosophy", in Feser, E. (Ed.), Aristotle on Method and Meta- physics, Philosophers in Depth series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 49{67. 21. 2012. \Boundaries in Reality", Ratio 25 (4): 405{424. Reprinted in Oderberg, David S. (Ed.), Classifying Reality (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 41{60. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00554.x. 22. 2012. \Counterfactuals and Modal Epistemology", Grazer Philosophische Studien 86: 93{115. 23. 2012. \On the Common Sense Argument for Monism" (with Donnchadh O'Conaill), in Goff, P. (Ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Philosophers in Depth series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 149{166. 24. 2012. \In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics", in Tahko, T.E. (Ed.), Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press), pp. 26{43. 25. 2011. \A Priori and A Posteriori: A Bootstrapping Relationship", Metaphysica 11 (2): 151{164. doi:10.1007/s12133-011-0083-5. 26. 2010. \Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy", in Jacquette, D. (Ed.), Cannabis: What Were We Just Talking About?, in the Philosophy for Everyone series (Wiley- Blackwell), pp. 149{161. 27. 2009. \On the Modal Content of A Posteriori Necessities", Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philos- ophy 75 (2): 344{357. doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.2009.01048.x. 28. 2009. \The Law of Non-Contradiction as a Metaphysical Principle", The Australasian Journal of Logic 7: 32{47. doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v7i0.1806. 29. 2009. \Against the Vagueness Argument", Philosophia 37 (2): 335{340. doi:10.1007/s11406-008- 9172-2. 30. 2008. \A New Definition of A Priori Knowledge: In Search of a Modal Basis", Metaphysica 9 (2): 57{68. doi:10.1007/s12133-007-0022-7. 31. 2008. \The Metaphysical Status of Logic", in Peliˇs,M. (Ed.), The Logica Yearbook 2007 (Prague: Filosofia), pp. 225{235. 32. 2008. \The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics", in Hanna, P. (Ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies (Athens: ATINER), pp. 53{63. Handbook Entries and Encyclopedia Articles 1. 2020. \A Priori or A Posteriori?", in Bliss, R. and Miller, J. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (Routledge), pp. 353{363. 3 Curriculum Vitae, Tuomas E. Tahko Updated August 4, 2021 2. 2020. \Ground and Structure", in Raven, M. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding (Routledge), pp. 387{395. 3. 2018. \Fundamentality", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 4. 2018. \Meta-metaphysics", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 5. 2015. \Ontological Dependence" (with E.J. Lowe), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. -Substantive revision in 2020. Commentaries, Book Reviews, and Symposia 1. 2016. Review