Education

University of Notre Dame PhD May, 1994

Dissertation Director: Alvin Plantinga

Brown University Visiting Scholar Fall, 1993

University of Notre Dame MA January, 1992

Ohio State University BA June, 1989

Academic Employment

Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, June 2008—Present

Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, August 2001—Present

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University, July 1998—August 2001

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University, August 1994—June 1998

Areas of Specialization Metaphysics, Epistemology

Areas of Competence Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

Books

1. Objects and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press]).

—Hardcover, 2001.

—Paperback, 2003.

2. Truth and Ontology (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press]).

—Hardcover, 2007.

Articles

3. “Endurance and Indiscernibility,” Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994): 165-184.

Reprinted in Michael J. Loux (ed.) Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings (London: Routledge, 2002.)

4. “A New Objection to A Priori Arguments for Dualism,” American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1994): 81-85.

5. “Warrant Entails Truth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995): 841-855.

6. “On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities,” Mind 104 (1995): 523-531.

Translated into Japanese and Reprinted in Tatsuya Kashiwabata, Takuo Aoyama, and Taku Tanikawa (eds.) Readings in Contemporary Metaphysics (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2006).

7. “On Behalf of the Coherentist,” Analysis 55 (1995): 306-309.

8. “Discussion of Jaegwon Kim’s Supervenience and Mind,” Philosophical Books 36 (1995): 156-161. Published with a response by Kim, 161-164.

9. “A Dilemma for Any Theory of Knowledge,” American Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1995): 279-284.

10. “Fission and Personal Identity Over Time,” Philosophical Studies 88 (1997): 163-186.

11. “More on Warrant’s Entailing Truth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997): 627-631.

12. “Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience,” Mind 107 (1998): 59-71.

Reprinted in Jaegwon Kim (ed.) Supervenience (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002.)

13. “There Are No Criteria of Identity Over Time,” Noûs 32 (1998): 106-124.

14. “On Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic,” Mind 107 (1998): 845-846.

15. “Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Counterpart Theory,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1999): 192-195.

16. “Persistence, Parts, and Presentism,” Noûs 33 (1999): 421-438.

17. “Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1999): 983-997.

18. “‘No Statues’,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (2000): 47-52.

19. “Perdurance and Psychological Continuity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000): 195-198.

20. “Varieties of Vagueness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (2001): 145-157.

21. “How to Live Forever without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality” in Kevin Corcoran (ed.) Soul, Body, and Survival (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).

22. “Realism About Personal Identity Over Time,” Noûs supplemental volume (Philosophical Perspectives, 15, Metaphysics (ed.) James E. Tomberlin) (2001).

23. “Conditional Probability and Defeat” in James Beilby (ed.) Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002). Published with a response by Plantinga.

24. “Maximality and Consciousness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (2003): 150-158.

25. “Précis” and “Replies” for a symposium on Objects and Persons, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2003): 700-703 and 727-744.

26. “The End of Counterpart Theory,” Journal of Philosophy 100 (2003): 521-549.

27. “Composition and Vagueness,” Mind 114 (2005): 615-637

http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/114/455/615?ijkey=kzoSvWFm9sFWHU3&keytype=ref

28. “Split Brains and the Godhead,” in Thomas Crisp, Matthew Davidson, and David Vander Laan (eds.) Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga on His Seventieth Birthday (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006).

29. “Good-Bye Growing Block” in Dean Zimmerman (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

30. “The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation” in Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds.) Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

31. “Remarks on Vagueness and Arbitrariness,” Mind 116 (2007): 115-119.

32. “The Resurrection of the Body” in Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

33. “Truthmaker” in Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary Rosenkrantz (eds.) A Companion to Metaphysics, 2^nd edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).

34. “Summary” and “Replies to Cameron, Schaffer, and Soames” for a symposium on Truth and Ontology, Philosophical Books (forthcoming).

35. “Truth and Freedom,” Philosophical Review (forthcoming).

Reviews

36. Review of Arda Denkel, Object and Property in Mind 105 (1996): 694-696.

37. Review of Paul Helm, Belief Policies in Faith and Philosophy 13 (1996): 449-454.

38. Review of Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Substance Among Other Categories in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997): 480-482.

39. Review of Jonathan Dancy (ed.) Reading Parfit in Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 422-425.

40. Review of Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) Questions of Time and Tense in Ethics 110 (2000): 885.

41. Review of Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist in Mind 112 (2003): 146-148.

42. Review of Peter van Inwagen, The Problem of Evil in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5444 (August 3, 2007): 26.

43. Review of Eric Olson, What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology in Times Literary Supplement (forthcoming).

Semi-Popular Articles

44. “The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting” in Michael Murray (ed.) Reason for the Hope Within (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).

45. “U2 and the Problem of Evil” in Mark Wrathall (ed.) U2 and Philosophy (Peru, IL: Open Court, 2006). This volume has been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil as U2 e a Filosfia (Madras Editora, 2008).

Academic Honors and Fellowships

Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship for 2008-2010—This is UVA’s highest award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and is awarded each year to one faculty member.

NEH Fellowship—academic year 2004-2005

Faculty Guest at the Seven Society’s Twelfth Annual Monticello Dinner (2002)

UVA Faculty Fellowship for Summer Research 2002, 2003, and 2005

NEH Fellowship—academic year 1999-2000

VCU Faculty Development Award 1997

ACLS International Travel Grant for participation in Third Bariloche Colloquium of Philosophy in Bariloche, Argentina 1996

Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship: Pew Evangelical Scholars Program—academic year 1995-1996

VCU Faculty Grant-in-Aid (1995) for work on Criteria of Identity

University of Notre Dame Dissertation Year Fellowship, Fall 1994

Pacific Division APA 1994: Graduate Student Award and Travel Grant for “Warrant Entails Truth”

Pacific Division APA 1993: Graduate Student Award and Travel Grant for “Prolegomena to any Investigation into Persistence”

John A. O’Brien Fellowship for first year of graduate study at Notre Dame

BA degree awarded cum laude with Distinction in Philosophy and Honors in the Liberal Arts

Research Grant for Undergraduate Honors Thesis in epistemology

Director: George Pappas

Phi Beta Kappa, Ohio State University

Paper Presentations

TBD—Moral Sciences Club (Cambridge University): May, 2009; Aristotelian Society, London: April, 2009; Royal Institute of Philosophy (Durham): April, 2009; University of Durham: April, 2009; Arizona Ontology Conference: January, 2009; University of Illinois: October, 2008.

“Truth and Freedom”—Australian National University: June, 2008; University of Auckland: June, 2008; University of Notre Dame: March, 2008; University of Michigan: February, 2008; Wake Forest University: November, 2007; Georgetown University: November, 2007; University of St. Andrews: December, 2007.

“How to Make a Counterfactual of Freedom True”—Victoria University (Wellington, NZ): June, 2008.

“Presentism and Truth”—West Virginia University: April, 2007.

“Truth Supervenes on Being”—University of Maryland: December, 2006; Central APA Symposium on Truthmakers: April, 2006; Conference on the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe, University at Buffalo: April 2006; University of Texas: February, 2006; University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat: October, 2005.

“Grounding and Subjunctive Conditionals: A Defense of God’s Middle-Knowledge, Among other Things”—Invited Plenary Session of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Washington, D.C.: November, 2006.

“Truthmaker, Negative Existentials, and Dispositional Conditionals”—Virginia Commonwealth University: November, 2006.

“Why Tables and Chairs Don’t Exist But You Do”—Morehead State University: November, 2005.

“Composition and Vagueness”—Ohio State University: December, 2004; University of Georgia: October, 2004; Georgetown University: September, 2004; University of Virginia: April, 2004; Oxford Philosophical Society, Oxford University: March, 2004; University College London: March, 2004; Virginia Philosophical Association, Mary Baldwin College: September, 2003.

“The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation”—Butler Society for Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University: March, 2004; Pew Workshop on the Metaphysics of the Human Person, Princeton, NJ: February, 2004.

“Split Brains and the Godhead”—West Virginia University: April, 2007; 2004 Sino-American Conference in Philosophy and Religion: The Nature of Persons, Sichuan University (China): June 2004; Liberty University: January, 2004; Purdue University: November, 2002; University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat: September, 2002; Pew Workshop on the Metaphysics of the Human Person, Princeton, NJ: September, 2002; Davidson College: March, 2003.

“The End of Counterpart Theory”—Metaphysical Mayhem VII, Syracuse University: August, 2002; University of Virginia: April, 2002; Western Washington University: February, 2002; Virginia Commonwealth University: November, 2001

“How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality”—Messiah College: January 2001; Invited Plenary Session of the Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific Division Regional Meeting: March, 2000

“Realism About Personal Identity Over Time”—University of Virginia: January, 2001; Central Division Meeting of the APA: May, 1999; College of William and Mary: September, 1998; Metaphysical Mayhem III, University of Notre Dame: July, 1998

“Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism”—Eastern APA Symposium on Ontology: December, 1999; Metaphysical Mayhem IV, University of Notre Dame: August, 1999; University of Virginia (summer colloquium series): June, 1999

“Persistence, Parts, and Presentism”—Central Division Meeting of the APA: May, 1998

“The Varieties of Vagueness (Fewer Than You Think)”—Symposium in Metaphysics, Franklin and Marshall College: April, 1998; Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March, 1998; Metaphysical Mayhem II, University of Notre Dame: August, 1997

“Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity”—University of Delaware: November, 1997; Eastern Division Meeting of the APA: December, 1995

“Personal Identity, ‘Personal Identity’, and Thoughts About Personal Identity”—Third Bariloche Colloquium of Philosophy, Bariloche, Argentina: August, 1996; Western Washington University: April, 1996

“Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: April, 1996; Syracuse University: January, 1996

“Personal Identity Matters in Survival”—University of Virginia: November, 1995

“On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities”—Central Division Meeting of the APA: April, 1995; Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology: April, 1995

“A Dilemma for Any Theory of Knowledge”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March, 1995

“Warrant Entails Truth”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: April, 1994

“Endurance and Indiscernibility”—Virginia Commonwealth University: February, 1994; University of Notre Dame: April, 1993

“Prolegomena to any Investigation into Persistence”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March, 1993

“Persons and Kinds”—Valparaiso University and Society of Christian Philosophers Conference: October, 1991; Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Meeting: June, 1991

“Properly Basic Beliefs: A Response to Audi”—The Colgate Undergraduate Philosophy and Religion Conference: April, 1989

Conference Participation Other Than Paper Presentations

Comments given on the following papers:

Carrie Jenkins and Daniel Nolan, “Backwards Explanation and the ‘Real’ Explanation,” 2008 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference: August, 2008.

Chen Xia, “Human Nature in Early Daoism,” 2004 Sino-American Conference in Philosophy and Religion: The Nature of Persons, Sichuan University (China): June, 2004

Patrick Toner, “Contingently Existing Propositions,” University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat, September, 2003

Amie Thomasson, “Metaphysical Arguments Against Ordinary Objects” Syracuse Workshop in Metaphysics, Syracuse University: August, 2003

Michael C. Rea, “Why Naturalists Must Be Dualists (and Maybe Solipsists Too),” 48^th Annual Wheaton College Philosophy Conference—Immortality and the Philosophy of Mind: October, 2001

Alan Sidelle, “Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?” Metaphysical Mayhem V, Syracuse University: August, 2000

Ernest Sosa, “Reliability and the A Priori,” Symposium on “Current Issues in Ontology” at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April, 2000

Chase B. Wrenn, “Pragmatism, Truth, and Inquiry,” Eastern APA: December,1999

Dean Zimmerman, “Epiphenomenalism and ‘The Given’,” Symposium in Metaphysics, Franklin and Marshall College: April, 1998

Dean Zimmerman, “Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism,” Metaphysical Mayhem II, University of Notre Dame: August, 1997

E.J. Lowe, “Ontological Categories and Natural Kinds,” Symposium on “Kinds and Categories” at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April, 1996

Dean Zimmerman, “A Theory of Masses,” Colloquium at University of Notre Dame: February, 1994

Chaired the following sessions

Philosophy of Time Society (speaker: Ted Sider; commentator: John Hawthorne), Central Division Meeting of the APA: May, 1999

Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (speaker: Sarah McGrath; commentators: Mark Heller, Timothy O’Connor), Western Washington University: August, 2003.

Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting (speaker: Michael C. Rea), Asbury Seminary: December, 2003.