CURRICULUM VITAE
E. J. LOWE
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Education
St Edmund Hall,
Degrees
BA (Cantab) in
History, First Class, 1971 (MA 1975)
BPhil (Oxon) in
Philosophy, 1974
DPhil (Oxon) in
Philosophy, 1975
Research undertaken for higher degrees
BPhil thesis,
DPhil thesis,
Employment
Lecturer in
Philosophy (Temporary), University of Reading, 1978-79
Lecturer in
Philosophy, University of Durham, 1980-90
Senior Lecturer
in Philosophy, University of Durham, 1990-92
Reader in
Philosophy, University of Durham, 1992-5
Professor of
Philosophy,
British
Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, 2003-04
General Editor
(with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
monograph series
Member of RAE
sub-panel 60 (Philosophy), from 2005
Member of
Membership of professional organisations
Member of: the Aristotelian Society,
the Mind Association, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the
British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Royal Institute of
Philosophy, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association,
the Philosophy of Science Association, the British Philosophy Association
External examining appointments
A. Undergraduate
degree programmes
External Examiner in Philosophy for the BA in Combined Studies at Sunderland University, 1985-1989 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, 1991-1995 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, 1992-3
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of London, 1995-7 inclusive and 2000
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, 1996-98 inclusive
External Examiner in PPP, Philosophy & Modern Languages, and Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, 2002-04 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, 2004-06 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, 2005-07 inclusive
B. Postgraduate
taught degree programmes
External Examiner
for the MA in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, 2004-06 inclusive
External Examiner
for the MLitt in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, 2005-07 inclusive
C. Postgraduate
research theses
1992:
TEACHING AND SUPERVISION
A. Undergraduate
teaching
Areas of specialism: metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy
of mind, Locke
Areas of competence: history of modern philosophy from Descartes
to Kant, philosophy of language, political philosophy, philosophy of science
Current undergraduate teaching responsibilities
Metaphysics: third year module, sole
responsibility
Logic: second year module, sole responsibility
B. Postgraduate
research supervision
Sharon Ney: PhD student, topic: the
logical possibility of time travel, degree awarded 1993
Susan Southgate: PhD student, topic:
personal identity, degree awarded 1994
Paul S. McDonald: PhD student [AHRB funded],
supervised jointly with Prof. D. E. Cooper, topic: Cartesian doubt and
Husserlian phenomenology, degree awarded 1996
Man Cheung Chung: PhD student, supervised
jointly with Dr A. J. Hamilton, topic: philosophical issues in psychology and
psychiatry (registration temporarily suspended)
Martin Connor: PhD student, supervised
jointly with Dr P. J. FitzPatrick, topic: the Stoics on nature and truth, degree
awarded 2001
Nicholas Southgate: PhD student, topic: the
philosophy of personal identity, degree awarded 1999
Sophie Gibb: PhD student, topic: the
metaphysics of mental causation, degree awarded 2003
William J. Pollard: PhD student [AHRB funded],
topic: norms and rationality, degree awarded 2002
Geraldine Coggins: PhD student, topic:
metaphysical problems of existence, degree awarded 2003
Yasushi Ihara: PhD student, topic:
metaphysics and Zen philosophy
George Rea: PhD student, topic:
induction and scientific method
Daisuke Kaida: PhD student, topic:
metaphysics of mind
Phillip Meadows: PhD student, topic:
geometry of visual space
Paul Winstanley: PhD student, topic: modal
metaphysics and the mind-body problem
Matthew Conduct: PhD student [AHRB funded],
topic: perception and action
Richard Clarkson: PhD student, topic:
ontology and mental representation
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Current departmental responsibilities:
Chairman of the
Board of Examiners in Philosophy,
Current college responsibilities:
College tutor for
University College Durham (jointly with Mrs S. L. Lowe)
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Main research interests: problems of identity and
substance; the logic of sortal terms; the logic of conditionals; problems of
causation and natural law; induction and scientific method; problems of space
and time; the philosophy of perception; the philosophy of action; the problem
of free will; the mind-body problem; philosophical and psychological problems
of human rationality; the philosophical thought of John Locke
A1. Published
books
1. Kinds
of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms
(Aristotelian Monograph Series, No. 10), Oxford & New York: Basil
Blackwell, 1989, pp. vi + 210. Reviews: P. F. Snowdon, Philosophical
Books 32, 1991, 37-9; H. W. Noonan, Philosophy
66, 1991, 248-9; G. Engelbretsen, Iyyun
40, 1991, 100-105; P. Simons, Mind
101, 1992, 581-2; M. Baur, Review of
Metaphysics 46, 1992, 166-8
2. Locke on Human Understanding, London
& New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. x + 203. Reviews: A. Miller, Locke
Newsletter 26, 1995, 141-55; P. Snowdon, Mind 105, 1996, 348-51; B. Maund, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 1996, 528-30; N. Unwin, Philosophical Books 38, 1997, 97-8; E.
Barbanell, Canadian Philosophical Reviews
15, 1995, 410-12; D. W. Hamlyn, Philosophical Investigations 20, 1997,
155-9; D. Doering, Jahrbuch zur
Liberalismus-Forschung 8, 1996, 251-2; A. Nelson & L. Nolan, Philosophia 27, 1999, 665-8
3. Subjects of Experience, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. x + 209. Reviews: K. Sutherland, Times
Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 11, 1996, 21; J. Heil, Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 10,
1997, 27; G. Madell, Philosophy 72,
1997, 147-50; J. Brown, Philosophical
Books 39, 1998, 56-8; K. Paprzycka, Canadian
Philosophical Reviews 17, 1997, 45-7; J. L. Bermudez, Philosophical Quarterly 49, 1999, 272-5; U. Uus, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6,
1999, 90-1; C. Macdonald, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 60, 2000, 224-8; C. J. L. Talmage, Dialogue 37, 1998, 631-3
4. The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance,
Identity and Time, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. viii + 275. Reviews: F.Jackson, Times Literary Supplement, Apr. 9, 1999, 33; K. Hawley, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 50, 1999, 478-82; S. McLeod, History
and Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999, 141-3; E. Olson, Mind 109, 967-9; J. Heil, Philosophical
Review 110, 91-4; G. Rosenkrantz, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research 64, 2002, 728-36
5. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiii + 318. Reviews: M. di Francesco, Il Sole 24 Ore, 292, Oct. 29 2000, 34;
St.E. Cuypers, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
3, 2001; S. Crawford, Times Literary
Supplement, 5167, Apr. 12 2002, 29] Spanish language version: Filosofia
de la Mente, trans. O. Fernandez Prat, Idea Books, 2000, pp. 281
6. A Survey of Metaphysics, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2002, pp. xiii + 402. Reviews:
T. Crane, Times Higher Education
Supplement, May 31, 2002; G. Keil, Zeitschrift
fur Philosophische Forschung 57, 2003, 320-4
7. Locke,
London & New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. xiii + 220.
8. The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical
Foundation for Natural Science, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
A2. Edited
volumes
1. Analytic
Philosophy Without Naturalism, ed. A. Corradini, S. Galvan & E. J.
Lowe, London & New York: Routledge, 2005.
B. Published articles
1. Neither intentional nor unintentional, Analysis 38, 1978, 117-18
2. Indicative and counterfactual conditionals, Analysis 39, 1979, 139-41
3. For want of a nail, Analysis 40, 1980, 50-2
4. Peacocke and Kraemer on
5. Active and passive euthanasia: an objection, Philosophy 55, 1980, 550-1
6. Reply to
7. Sortal terms and natural laws, American Philosophical Quarterly 17,
1980, 253-60 [Prize Essay]
8. An analysis of intentionality, Philosophical Quarterly 30, 1980,
294-304
9. Against an argument
for token identity, Mind 90, 1981,
120-1
10. “All actions
occur inside the body”, Analysis 41,
1981, 126-9
11. Indirect
perception and sense data, Philosophical
Quarterly 31, 1981, 330-42
12. Laws,
dispositions and sortal logic, American
Philosophical Quarterly 19, 1982,
41-50
13. The paradox
of the 1,001 cats, Analysis 42, 1982,
27-30
14. Reply to
Geach, Analysis 42, 1982, 31
15.
Intentionality and intuition: a reply to
Davies, Analysis 42, 1982, 85
16. On being a
cat, Analysis 42, 1982, 174-7
17.
Intentionality: a reply to Stiffler, Philosophical
Quarterly 32, 1982, 354-7
18. On the alleged necessity of true identity statements, Mind 91, 1982, 579-84
19.
Instantiation, identity and constitution, Philosophical
Studies 44, 1983, 45-59
20. A
simplification of the logic of conditionals, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24, 1983, 357-66
21. On the identity of artifacts, Journal of Philosophy 80, 1983, 220-32
22. Reply to
Hornsby on actions, Analysis 43,
1983, 140-1
23. A note on a
response of Hornsby’s, Analysis 44,
1984, 196-7
24. Wright versus
Lewis on the transitivity of counterfactuals, Analysis 44, 1984, 180-3
25. Reply to
26. “If A and B,
then A”, Analysis 45, 1985, 93-8
27. Sortal terms
and absolute identity, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 64, 1986,
64-71
28. Necessity and
the will in Locke’s theory of action, History
of Philosophy Quarterly 3, 1986, 149-63 [reprinted in U. Thiel (ed.), Locke: Metaphysics,
29. Reply to
Wright on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis
45, 1985, 200-2
30. What do we
see directly?, American
Philosophical Quarterly 23, 1986, 277-85
31. The topology
of visual appearance, Erkenntnis 25,
1986, 271-4
32. Miracles and
laws of nature, Religious Studies 23,
1987, 263-78
33. Reply to
Dale, Analysis 46, 1986, 83-5
34. Substance, An Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. G. H.
R. Parkinson,
35. Noonan on
naming and predicating, Analysis 46,
1986, 159
36. The indexical
fallacy in McTaggart’s proof of the unreality of time, Mind 96, 1987, 62-70
37. Not a
counterexample to modus ponens, Analysis
47, 1987, 44-7
38. On a supposed temporal/modal parallel, Analysis 46, 1986, 195-7
39. Reply to
Over, Analysis 46, 1986, 200
40. What is the “problem of induction”?, Philosophy 62, 1987,
325-40
41. Lewis on
perdurance versus endurance, Analysis
47, 1987, 152-4 [reprinted in H. Noonan (ed.), Identity,
42. Reply to
Noonan, Analysis 47, 1987, 201-3
43. Reply to Le
Poidevin and Mellor, Mind 96, 1987,
539-42
44. Substance,
identity and time, Aristotelian Society
Supplementary Volume 62, 1988, 61-78
45. What is a
criterion of identity?, Philosophical Quarterly 39, 1989, 1-21 [reprinted in H. Noonan
(ed.), Identity,
46. The problems
of intrinsic change: rejoinder to Lewis, Analysis
48, 1988, 72-7
47. David Lewis, Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology,
ed. H. Burkhardt & B. Smith,
48. Impredicative
identity criteria and Davidson’s criterion of event identity, Analysis 49, 1989, 178-81
49. Conditionals,
context and transitivity, Analysis
50, 1990, 80-7
50. Real selves:
persons as a substantial kind, Human
Beings, ed. D. Cockburn,
51. Objects and
criteria of identity, A Companion to the
Philosophy of Language, ed. R. Hale & C. Wright, Oxford & Cambridge
MA: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 613-33
52. Experience
and its objects, The Contents of
Experience, ed. T. Crane,
53. Contributions
to Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher et al.,
Oxford & Aberdeen: Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 1993: a
priori; abstract ideas; epistemology;
natural kinds; sortal terms [reprinted in Concise
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language, ed. P. V. Lamarque, Oxford:
Elsevier Science, 1997]
54.
55. Substance and
selfhood, Philosophy 66, 1991, 81-99
56. One-level
versus two-level identity criteria, Analysis
51, 1991, 192-4
57. Noun phrases,
quantifiers, and generic names, Philosophical
Quarterly 41, 1991, 287-300
58. Rationality,
deduction and mental models, Rationality,
ed. K. Manktelow & D. Over,
59. Primitive
substances, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 54, 1994, 531-52
60. The problem
of psychophysical causation, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 70, 1992, 263-76 [reprinted in T. O’Connor & D.
Robb (eds), Philosophy
of Mind: Contemporary Readings,
61. McTaggart’s
paradox revisited, Mind 101, 1992,
323-6
62. Reply to
Ramachandran on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis 52, 1992, 77-80
63. Perception: a
causal representative theory, New
Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception, ed. E.
Wright,
64. Comment on Le
Poidevin, Mind 102, 1993, 171-3
65. Contributions
to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy,
ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995: a priori and a
posteriori; A-series and B-series; affirmative and negative propositions;
analytic and synthetic statements; axiom; being; Bennett; capacity; Carnap;
cat, Schroedinger’s; class; contingent and necessary statements; Dummett;
existence; existential proposition; fact; generalization; identity, criterion
of; Jackson; kind, natural; Kripke; Mellor; mereology; mode; monism and
pluralism; names; necessary and sufficient conditions; necessity, epistemic;
necessity, logical; necessity, metaphysical; nominalism; ontology; particulars
and non-particulars; philosophical logic; potentiality; propensity; Ramsey; realization;
recursion, definition by; redundancy theory of truth; reflective equilibrium;
rigid designator; self; semantic theory of truth; specious present; Stalnaker;
Strawson; things; thought experiments; time; time preference; time travel;
truth; universals; Wiggins
66. Self,
reference and self-reference, Philosophy
68, 1993, 15-33
67. Are the
natural numbers individuals or sorts?, Analysis 53,1993, 142-6
68. Vague
identity and quantum indeterminacy, Analysis
54, 1994, 110-14
69. The causal
autonomy of the mental, Mind 102,
1993, 629-44
70. Ontological
dependency, Philosophical Papers 23,
1994, 31-48
71. Die
Metaphysik und ihre Möglichkeit, Metaphysik—Neue
Zugänge zu alten Fragen, ed. J. Brandl, A. Hieke & P. Simons, St.
Augustin: Academia Verlag, 1995, 11-32
72. The truth
about counterfactuals, Philosophical
Quarterly 45,1995, 41-59
73. The problem
of the many and the vagueness of constitution, Analysis 55, 1995, 179-82
74. Coinciding
objects: in defence of the “standard account”, Analysis 55, 1995, 171-8
75. Tense and
persistence, Questions of Time and Tense,
ed. R. Le Poidevin,
76. The
metaphysics of abstract objects, Journal
of Philosophy 92, 1995, 509-24
77. There are no
easy problems of consciousness, Journal
of Consciousness Studies 2, 1995, 266-71 [reprinted in Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem,
ed. J. Shear,
78. Why is there
anything at all?, Aristotelian
Society Supplementary Volume 70, 1996, 111-20
79. John Locke;
Identity, Encyclopedia of Empiricism,
ed. D.Garrett &
80. Reply to
Noonan on vague identity, Analysis
57, 1997, 88-91
81. John Locke, Companion to the Philosophers, ed. R. L.
Arrington,
82. Ontological
categories and natural kinds, Philosophical
Papers 26, 1997, 29-46
83. Philosophical
logic, Contemporary British and American
Philosophy and Philosophers, ed. O. Kang, forthcoming
84. Conditional
probability and conditional beliefs, Mind
105, 1996, 603-15
85. Why there are
no easy problems of consciousness [abstract], History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter 22, Spring 1996, 17-18
86. Concreta:
substance—introduction, Metaphysics:
Contemporary Readings, ed. S. D. Hales,
87. Personal
experience and belief: the significance of external symbolic storage for the
emergence of modern human cognition, Cognition
and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage, ed. C. Scarre
& C. Renfrew, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
1998, 89-96
88. Whose
rationality? Logical theory and the problem of deductive competence, Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current
Psychology of Cognition 16, 1997, 140-6
89. Entity,
Identity and Unity, Erkenntnis 48,
1998, 191-208
90. Form without
Matter, Ratio 11, 1998, 214-34
[reprinted in Form and Matter: Themes in
Contemporary Metaphysics, ed. D. S. Oderberg,
91. Contributions
to The Fontana/Norton Dictionary of
Modern Thought, ed. A. Bullock and S. Trombley, 3rd edn, London:
Harper Collins, 1999: behaviourism; conventionalism; meaning; nominalism; realism; relativism
92. Self, agency
and mental causation, Journal of
Consciousness Studies 6, 1999, 225-39 [reprinted in The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will, ed. B.
Libet, A. Freeman & K. Sutherland, Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 1999]
93. Contributions
to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,
ed. R. Audi, 2nd edn,
94. Abstraction,
properties and immanent realism, Proceedings
of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics, ed.
T. Rockmore,
95. Commentary on
A. J. Hamilton’s ‘False Memory Syndrome and the Authority of Personal Memory
Claims’, Philosophy, Psychiatry and
Psychology 5, 1998, 309-10
96. Vague
identity and quantum indeterminacy: further reflections, Analysis 59, 1999, 328-30
97. In defence of the simplicity argument, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78, 2000, 105-12
98.
Individuation,
99. Causal
closure principles and emergentism, Philosophy
75, 2000, 571-85
100. Identity,
composition, and the simplicity of the self, Soul, Body and Survival, ed. K. J. Corcoran,
101. Locke,
Martin and substance, Philosophical
Quarterly 50, 2000, 499-514
102. Event
causation and agent causation, Grazer
Philosophische Studien 61, 2001, 1-20
103. Properties,
modes and universals, The Modern
Schoolman 74, 2002, 137-50
104. Ontic
indeterminacy of identity unscathed, Analysis
61, 2001, 241-5
105. Dispositions
and laws, Metaphysica 2, 2001, 5-23
106. Metaphysical
nihilism and the subtraction argument, Analysis
62, 2002, 62-73
107. Kinds,
essence and natural necessity, Individuals,
Essence and Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics, ed. A. Bottani, M.
Carrara & P. Giaretta,
108. A defence of
the four-category ontology, Argument und
Analyse, ed. C. U. Moulines & K. G. Niebergall, Paderborn: Mentis,
2002, 225-40
109.
Is knowing a state of mind? Critical notice of T. Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits, International Journal of Philosophical
Studies 10, 2002, 483-9
110. Substantial
change and spatiotemporal coincidence, Ratio
16, 2003, 140-60
111. The rational
and the real: some doubts about the programme of ‘rational analysis’, Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of
Rationality, ed. J. L. Bermudez & A. Millar,
112. Recent
advances in metaphysics [abstract], Formal
Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International
Conference,
113. Material
coincidence and the cinematographic fallacy: a response to Olson, Philosophical Quarterly 52, 2002, 369-72
114. Locke:
compatibilist event-causalist or libertarian substance-causalist? Critical
study of G. Yaffe’s Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68,
2004, 688-701
115. La
connaissance metaphysique, Revue de
metaphysique et morale, 2002, 453-71
116. A serious
look at serious naturalism: review essay on W. L. Craig & J. P. Moreland (eds), Naturalism: A
Critical Analysis, Philosophia
Christi 4, 2002, 197-2002
117. In defense of medium-sized specimens of dry goods, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
68, 2003, 704-10
118. Personal
agency, Minds and Persons, ed. A.
O’Hear,
119. [With Storrs
McCall] 3D/4D equivalence, the twins paradox, and absolute time, Analysis 63, 2003, 114-23
120. Substance causation, persons, and free will, Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. C. Kanzian, J. Quitterer & E. Runggaldier, Vienna, 2003, 76-88
121. Metaphysical realism and the unity of truth, Monism, ed. A. Bachli & K. Petrus,
122. Recent advances in metaphysics, Facta Philosophica 5, 2003, 3-24
123. Some formal ontological relations, Dialectica 58 (2004), 297-316
124. Physical causal closure and the invisibility of mental
causation, Physicalism and Mental
Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, ed.
S. Walter & H.-D. Heckmann,
125. Identity, Individuality and Unity, Philosophy 78, 2003, 321-36
126. Entries in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn, ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005: animalism in personal identity; causal asymmetry or direction; counterpart theory; disquotation; emergence; essentialism; frame problem; modal realism; modality and metaphysics; presentism; probabilistic causality; reasoning, psychology of; slingshot arguments; tense; time’s arrow; truth (revised); zombies
127. [With Storrs McCall] Indeterminist free will, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
128. The four-category ontology: reply to Kistler, Analysis 64, 2004, 152-7
129. Non-Cartesian dualism, Philosophy
of Mind: A Guide and Anthology, ed. J. Heil,
130. Review essay on J. Heil’s From an Ontological Point of View, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
131. Lois et dispositions, La structure du monde: objets, proprietes, etats de chose: Renouveau de la metaphysique dans l’ecole australienne de philosophie, ed. J.-M. Monnoyer, Paris: J. Vrin, 2004, 299-313
132. Vagueness and endurance, Analysis 65 (2005), 104-112
133. Is conceptualist realism a stable position? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
134. How are ordinary objects possible? The Monist, 2005
135. Ideational theories of meaning, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edn, ed. K. Brown, Elsevier, 2005
136. Syntax and ontology: reflections on three logical systems, The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy
of Fred Sommers, ed. D. S. Oderberg,
137. Can the self divide? Personal identity, psychopathology, and
disunities of consciousness, Dementia:
Mind, Meaning and the Person, ed. J. Hughes, S. Louw & S. Sabat,
138. The particular–universal distinction: a reply to MacBride, Dialectica 58 (2005), 335-40
139. Could volitions be epiphenomenal? Journal of Consciousness Studies, forthcoming
140. Dualism, Oxford Handbook
of Philosophy of Mind, ed. B. McLaughlin & A. Beckermann,
141. Obituary of W. von Leyden, Locke Studies, forthcoming
142. Dualism, Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience, ed. U. Windhorst, M. Binder & N. Hirokawa, Berlin: Springer, forthcoming
143. Identity, vagueness and modality, Thought, Language and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth
Evans, ed. J. L. Bermudez,
144. Agent causation/Jonathan Bennett, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edn, ed. D. M. Borchert,
145. Rational selves and freedom of action, Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism, ed. A. Corradini, S. Galvan & E. J. Lowe, London & New York: Routledge, 2005
146. Endurance versus perdurance and the nature of time, Philosophical Writings, forthcoming
147. [With Storrs McCall] The 3D/4D controversy: a storm in a teacup, Nous, forthcoming
148. Ontological dependence, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. N. Zalta, 2005, https://plato.stanford.edu
149. Substance and identity, Substanz,
ed. K. Trettin,
150. Metaphysics, Routledge
Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Moran,
151. Needs, facts, goodness and truth, The Philosophy of Need, ed. S. Reader,
151. Truthmaking as essential dependence, Metaphysics and
Truthmakers, ed. J.-M. Monnoyer,
C. Published book reviews
1. J. O. Urmson’s Berkeley and G. J. Warnock’s Berkeley,
British Journal of 18th
Century Studies 6, 1983, 89-90
2. P. Jones’s Hume’s Sentiments, British
Journal of 18th CenturyStudies 7, 1984, 139-40
3. T. V. Morris’s Understanding Identity Statements, Philosophical Books 26, 1985, 252-4
4. J. Bennett’s A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics, British
Journal of 18th Century
Studies 9, 1986, 116-17
5. R. C. Stalnaker’s Inquiry, Philosophical Books
27, 1986, 101-3
6. R. J. Delahunty’s Spinoza, Durham University
Journal 78, 1986, 392-3
7. G. Forbes’ The Metaphysics of Mind, Mind
95, 1986, 135-8
8. G. Schlesinger’s The Intelligibility of Nature, Philosophical
Books 27, 1986, 234-6
9. K. Konyndyk’s Introductory Modal Logic, Philosophical
Books 28, 1987, 165-6
10. D. Berman
(ed.), George Berkeley: Essays and
Replies,
11. S. G. Shanker
(ed.), Philosophy in
12. W. Garnett’s The Springs of Consciousness, Durham University Journal 80, 1988, 366
13. D. Lewis’s Philosophical Papers Volume II, Mind 97, 1988, 484-7
14. A. Brennan’s Conditions of Identity, Philosophical Books 30, 1989, 103-6
15. D. Berman’s A History of Atheism in
16. F. L. Will’s Beyond Deduction, Philosophy 64, 1989, 424-5
17. S. Wolfram’s Philosophical Logic: An Introduction, Philosophical Books 31, 1990, 34-5
18. H. Noonan’s Personal Identity, Mind 99, 1990, 477-9
19. K. Campbell’s
Abstract Particulars, Philosophical Quarterly 41, 1991, 104-6
20. D. H.
Sanford’s If P then Q: Conditionals and
the Foundations of Reasoning, Philosophical Books 32, 1991, 31-2
21. G. Strawson’s
The Secret Connexion, M. Tooley’s Causation, and E. Fales’ Causation and Universals, Philosophical Quarterly 41, 1991, 494-8
22. M. A. Box’s The Suasive Art of David Hume, Durham University Journal 83, 1991, 316-17
23. P. Humphreys’
The Chances of Explanation,
24. M. C.
Banner’s The Justification of Science and
the Rationality of Religious Belief, Religious
Studies 27, 1991, 421-2
25. R. Coburn’s The Strangeness of the Ordinary, Mind 101, 1992, 151-3
26. S. Stich’s The Fragmentation of Reason, Philosophical Quarterly 42, 1992, 98-101
27. K. Lambert
(ed.), Philosophical Applications of Free
Logic, History and Philosophy of
logic 13, 1992, 246-7
28. D. Hodgson’s The Mind Matters: Consciousness and Choice
in a Quantum World, Philosophical Books 34, 1993, 33-4
29. D. H.
Mellor’s Matters of Metaphysics, Philosophy 67, 1992, 268-70
30. W. Spohn et
al. (eds), Existence
and Explanation, History and
Philosophy of Logic 14, 1993, 130-1
31. A. Phillips
Griffiths (ed.), A. J. Ayer: Memorial
Essays, Philosophy 69, 1993,
107-8
32. P.
Bailhache’s Essai de Logique Deontique,
History and Philosophy of Logic 14,
1993, 249-50
33. T.
Williamson’s Identity and Discrimination,
Mind 102, 1993, 210-12
34. C. A. J.
Coady’s Testimony: A
Philosophical Study, Philosophy 68,
1993, 413-15
35. A. Newman’s The Physical Basis of Predication, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
55, 1995, 490-2
36. J. Heil’s The Nature of True Minds, Philosophical Books 35, 1994, 56-7
37. D. Braine’s The Human Person, Philosophy 69, 1994, 244-6
38. M. Dummett’s Origins of Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy 69, 1994, 246-8
39. R. Nozick’s The Nature of Rationality, Philosophical Quarterly 45, 1995, 397-9
40. R. I. G.
Hughes (ed.), A Philosophical Companion to First-Order
Logic, History and Philosophy of
Logic 15, 1994, 255-6
41. G.
Rosenkrantz’s Haecceity, Mind 104, 1995, 202-5
42. T. C. Potts’ Structures and Categories for the
Representation of Meaning, History
and Philosophy of Logic 16, 1995, 140-1
43. H. Robinson’s
Perception, Philosophy 70, 1995, 463-6
44. H. Harris
(ed.), Identity, Philosophical Quarterly 47, 1997, 395-7
45. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vols 1
& 2, Philosophical Books 38,
1997, 30-1
46. F. P.
Ramsey’s Notes on Philosophy, Probability
and Mathematics, ed. M. C. Galavotti, British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48, 1997, 300-1
47. R. A.
Wilson’s Cartesian Psychology and
Phyiscal Minds, History and
Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter 26, 1998, 19-20
48. T. Pink’s The Psychology of Freedom, Philosophy 73, 1998, 305-7
49. J. Copeland
(ed.), Logic and Reality, History and Philosophy of Logic 19,
1998, 179-81
50. M. Tooley’s Time, Tense, and Causation, Philosophical Books 40, 1999, 45-7
51. M. Jubien’s Contemporary Metaphysics and M. J.
Loux’s Metaphysics: A
Contemporary Introduction, European
Journal of Philosophy 6, 1998, 365-8
52. A. Biletzki
and A. Matar (eds), The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes, History and Philosophy of Logic 20,
1999, 64-5
53. U. Meixner’s Axiomatic Formal Ontology, Studia Logica 64, 2000, 137-40
54. A. Gallois’s Occasions of Identity, Mind 109, 2000, 354-7
55.
56. D. Lewis’s Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Logic 20,
1999, 138-9
57. E. Castellani
(ed.), Interpreting Bodies: Classical and
Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51, 2000, 353-5
58. N. Jolley’s Locke: His Philosophical Thought, Locke Newsletter 30, 1999, 145-8
59. F. Jackson’s Mind, Method and Conditionals: Selected
Essays, Mind 110, 2001, 211-15
60. J.
Etchemendy’s The Concept of Logical
Consequence, History and Philosophy
of Logic 21, 2000, 236-7
61. J. Kim’s Mind in a Physical World, American Journal of Psychology 114, 2001,
303-08
62. J. Foster’s The Nature of Perception, Times Literary Supplement 5151, Dec. 21,
2001, 24
63. R. Mason’s Before Logic, Philosophical Books 43, 2002, 41-3
64. D. Owens’s Reason without Freedom, Ratio 15, 2002, 309-11
65. A Pyle (ed.),
The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century
Philosophers, The Seventeenth Century,
forthcoming
66. R. L.
Epstein’s Five Ways of Saying ‘Therefore’,
History and Philosophy of Logic 23,
2002, 147-8
67. B.
O’Shaughnessy’s Consciousness and the
World, Philosophy 77, 2002, 283-7
68. D. Cockburn’s
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind,
T. Crane’s Elements of Mind and K. T.
Maslin’s An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Mind, Times Higher
Education Supplement, May 31, 2002, iv
69. D. Davidson’s
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective,
Philosophy 78, 2003, 555-8
70. W. G. Lycan’s
Real Conditionals, Philosophical Books 44, 2003, 177-8
71. K. Hawley’s How Things Persist, Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2003, 613-16
72. D. Wiggins’s Sameness and Substance Renewed, Mind 112, 2003, 816-20
73. J. Baggini
& P. Fosl’s The Philosopher’s Toolkit,
Times Higher Education Supplement,
Oct. 24, 2003, 31
74. J. C. Beall
& B. C. van Fraassen’s Possibilities
and Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued
Logic, History and Philosophy of
Logic 25, 2004, 329-30
75. G. Molnar’s Powers: A Study in
Metaphysics, British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, 817-22
76. J. Bennett’s A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, Philosophical Books 46 (2005), 158-60
77. H.
Lillehammer & G. Rodriguez-Pereyra (eds), Real Metaphysics, European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming
78. C. H. Conn’s Locke on Essence and Identity, Locke Studies 4, 2004, 243-53
79. U. Meixner’s The Two Sides of Being, Erkenntnis, forthcoming
80. J. W.
Yolton’s The Two Intellectual Worlds of
John Locke, Locke Studies,
forthcoming
81. T. Crane
& K. Farkas (eds), Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 27, 2005, xi
82. U. Meixner’s The Two Sides of Being, Journal of Consciousness Studies,
forthcoming
A. Invited and submitted papers delivered at
major conferences & special lectures
1. Northern Universities Philosophy Society
Conference,
2. Logic and Language Conference,
3. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and
the Mind Association,
4. Analysis 50 Conference,
5. Conference on Perception and Perceptual
Content, King’s College London, May 1990: Experience and its objects
6. Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference,
Lampeter, July 1990: Real selves: persons as a substantial kind
7. Greensboro Symposium,
8. International Conference on Thinking,
Plymouth Polytechnic, July 1992: Rationality, deduction and mental models
9. Conference on Metaphysics and Ontology,
10. 3rd
Conference of the Austrian Society of Philosophy,
11. Greensboro
Symposium,
12. Joint Session
of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University College
Dublin, June 1996: Why is there anything at all?
13. Workshop on
the Archaeology of External Symbolic Storage, Mcdonald Institute for
Archaelogical Research,
14. Conference on
Contemporary Metaphysics, University of Reading, April 1997: Form without
matter
15. Conference on
Analytic Ontology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, September 1997: Entity,
identity and unity
16. Conference on
Rationality and Naturalism, University of Stirling, May 1998: Reply to Chater
and Oaksford on the rational analysis of cognition
17. Twentieth
World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998: Abstraction, properties and
immanent realism
18. Conference on
the Completeness of Physics, University of London School of Advanced Study, May
1999: Causal closure principles and emergentism
19. Conference on
Locke, Bolton Institute, May 1999: Locke, Martin, and substance
20. Conference on
Dispositions, University of Edinburgh, January 2000: Dispositions and laws
21. Greensboro
Symposium, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2000: Substantial
change and spatiotemporal coincidence
22. Conference on
Individuals, Essence and Identity, University of Bergamo, June 2000: Kinds,
essence, and natural necessity
23. Workshop on
Agents and their Actions, GAP Conference, University of Bielefeld, September
2000: Agent causation and event causation
24. Gesellschaft
für Analytische Philosophie [GAP] Conference, University of Bielefeld,
September 2000: A defence of the four-category ontology
25. Royal Irish
Academy Conference on Metaphysics, Dublin, May 2001: Metaphysical knowledge
(Keynote Address)
26. Formal
Ontology in Information Systems Conference, Ogunquit, Maine, October 2001:
Recent advances in metaphysics (Keynote Address)
27. Royal
Institute of Philosophy Lecture, London, February 2002: Personal agency
28. International
Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2002: Substance causation,
persons, and free will
29. Conference on
Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person, Centre for Life, Newcastle, October 2002: Personal identity and fragmented minds
30. Formal
Concepts Conference, University of Geneva, November 2002: Some formal
ontological relations
31. Royal
Institute of Philosophy Symposium on Being One, December 2002: Identity,
individuality and unity
32. Royal
Institute of Philosophy Symposium on Natural Kinds, University of Durham, May
2003: Natural kinds, natural necessity and scientific essentialism
33. Conference on
Objects, Reid Hall, Paris, May 2003: The concept of an object in formal
ontology
34. Conference on
Analytic Philosophy without Naturalism, Catholic University of Milan, June
2003: Rational selves and freedom of action
35. Conference on
The Categories: Space and Time in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy,
University of Geneva, June 2003: Endurantism and perdurantism
36. Workshop on
Epiphenomenalism, GAP Conference, University of Bielefeld, September
2003: Could volitions be epiphenomenal?
37. Royal
Institute of Philosophy Conference on the Philosophy of Need, University of
Durham, September 2003: Needs, facts, goodness and truth
38. Royal
Institute of Philosophy Lecture, University of Aberdeen, November 2003:
Ontological categories and categorial schemes
39. Workshop on
Parts, University of St Andrews, March 2004: How are
ordinary objects possible?
40. Conference on
Truthmakers and Modality, University of Leeds, March 2004: Truthmaking,
necessity and essential dependence
41. Conference on
the Number of Substance, University of Edinburgh, May 2004: Is number a property
of substances?
42. Third Arché
Vagueness Workshop, University of St Andrews, September 2004: Vagueness and
endurance
43. Conference on
Criteria of Identity, Catholic University of Leuven, December
2004: How are identity conditions grounded?
44. Conference on
Identity: Ontological Perspectives, Free University, Amsterdam, May 2005: Substance and identity
45. Conference on
Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, June 2005: Between agent causationism and volitionism: a middle
path
B. Invited talks and lectures delivered at
other universities
1. University of Reading, February 1981:
Instantiation, identity and constitution
2. University of St Andrews, December 1981:
Absolute identity and sortal terms
3. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, January
1982: Absolute identity and sortal terms
4. University of Nottingham, October 1982:
Double vision
5. University of Hull, January 1983: Animals,
artifacts and contingent identity
6. University College London, December 1983: Conditionals
and transitivity
7. University of Stirling, March 1984: Language,
thought and imagination
8. University of Dundee, March 1984: What is the “problem of induction”?
9. University of York, November 1984: Necessity
and the will in Locke’s theory of action
10. University of
York, November 1984: Dicing with death: on intentionality and chance in human
action
11. University of
Hull, October 1986: Is there a criterion of personal identity?
12. University of
Bradford, October 1986: Is there a criterion of personal identity?
13. University of
Leeds, October 1986: What sorts of things are there?
14. University of
Lancaster, January 1988: Context and conditionals
15. University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, February 1988: Is there a criterion of personal identity?
16. University of
Nottingham, January 1988: Acting, causing and willing
17. University of
Oxford, October 1988: Real selves: persons as a substantial kind
18. University of
York, October 1989: A substantival theory of the self
19. University of
Sheffield, October 1989: Real selves: persons as a substantial kind
20. University of
York, November 1989: Real selves: persons as a substantial kind
21. University of
York, November 1989: Noun phrases, quantifiers, and generic names
22. London School
of Economics, February 1990: A substantival theory of the self
23. University of
Liverpool, November 1990: Self, reference, and self-reference
24. University of
St Andrews, October 1991: Objects and criteria of identity
25. University of
Stirling, October 1991: Objects and criteria of identity
26. University of
Edinburgh, October 1991: Objects and criteria of identity
27. University of
Edinburgh, January 1992: The self
28. University of
York, January 1992: Primitive substances
29. University of
York, January 1992: Mental causation
30. Davidson
College, North Carolina, April 1992: Self, reference, and self-reference
31. University of
Bradford, October 1992: The causal autonomy of the mental
32. University of
Leeds, January 1994: The possibility of metaphysics
33. Queen’s
University of Belfast, February 1994: The metaphysics of abstract objects
34. Irish
Philosophical Club, February 1994: The possibility of metaphysics
35. University of
Keele, March 1994: The possibility of metaphysics
36. London School
of Economics, March 1994: The truth about counterfactuals
37. University of
Manchester, October 1994: Language, thought and imagination
38. University of
Sheffield, October 1994: Language, thought and imagination
39. St David’s
University College, Lampeter, December 1994: Tense and persistence
40. University of
Wolverhampton, October 1995 [Workshop on consciousness]: Why there are no easy
problems of consciousness?
41. University of
Leeds, October 1995: Why is there anything at all?
42. University of
Cambridge, Moral Sciences Club, November 1995: Conditional probability and
conditional beliefs
43. Davidson College, North Carolina, April 1996: Conditional probability and conditional beliefs
44. Birkbeck
College London, April 1996: Conditional probability and conditional beliefs
45. University
College London, January 1997: Objects and quasi-objects [Special lecture
series]
46. University College London, January 1997: What in the world is a fact? [Special lecture series]
47. University of
Nottingham, February 1997: Facts, worlds and propositions
48. University of
Sheffield, February 1997: The elusiveness of facts
49. University of
Stirling, May 1997: Self, agency and mental causation
50. University of
Glasgow, April 1998: Abstraction, properties, and immanent realism
51. University of
Aberdeen, February 1999: Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the self
52. University of
Edinburgh, February 1999: Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the self
53. Davidson
College, North Carolina, March 1999: Locke, Martin, and substance
54. University of
Manchester, February 2000: Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the
self
55. Davidson
College, North Carolina, March 2000: Dispositions and laws
56. University of
Cambridge, Moral Sciences Club, February 2001: Metaphysical nihilism and the
subtraction argument
57. University of
Sheffield, March 2001: Properties, modes, and universals
58. North
Carolina State University at Raleigh, April 2001: Properties, modes, and
universals
59. Davidson
College, North Carolina, April 2001: Metaphysical knowledge
60. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 2001: Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument
61. University of
Bergen, September 2001: Recent advances in metaphysics
62. Davidson
College, North Carolina, April 2002: Recent advances in metaphysics
63. University of
Munich, January 2003: Can the self disintegrate?
64. University of
Bristol, February 2003: Rational selves and freedom of action
65. Davidson
College, North Carolina, April 2003: Can the self disintegrate?
66. University of
Edinburgh, October 2003: Ramsey’s problem
67. University of
Dresden, January 2004: Ontological categories and categorial schemes
68. University of
Aberdeen, April 2004: The four-category ontology and its rivals
69. University of Munich, July 2004: Modal epistemology and two-dimensional modal semantics.
70. University of
Munich, July 2004: Non-Cartesian substance dualism and the problem of mental
causation