Education

University of Notre Dame PhD May 1994

Dissertation: Enduring Objects 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.

—Paperback, 2009.

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). Reprinted in Ernani Magalhaes and L. Nathan Oaklander (eds.) Presentism: Essential Readings (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).

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 to Lowe, Dorr, and Sider” 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.

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, vol. 2 (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. “Summary” and “Replies to Cameron, Schaffer, and Soames” for a symposium on Truth and Ontology, Philosophical Books 49 (2008): 289-291 and 328-343.

33. “The Resurrection of the Body” in Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

34. “Truth and Freedom,” Philosophical Review 118 (2009): 29-57.

35. “Truthmaker” in Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary Rosenkrantz (eds.) A Companion to Metaphysics, 2^nd edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2009).

36. “Propositional Attitudes?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (forthcoming).

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

44. Review of Eric Olson, What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5521 (January 23, 2009): 24.

45. Review of Kathrin Koslicki, The Structure of Objects in Journal of Philosophy 106 (2009): 301-307.

Semi-Popular Articles

46. “The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting” in Michael Murray (ed.) Reason for the Hope Within (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999). Reprinted in Michael C. Rea (ed.) Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, vol. 2: Providence, Scripture, and Resurrection (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

47. “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

“Propositional Attitudes?”—Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge University: May 2009; Aristotelian Society, London: April 2009; University of Durham: April 2009; University of Virginia: February 2009; Arizona Ontology Conference: January 2009; Georgetown University: November 2008; University of Illinois: October 2008.

“Resurrection of the Body”—Royal Institute of Philosophy (Durham): April 2009.

“Truth and Freedom”—Second International UVA Philosophy Colloquium in Tarma, Peru: August 2008; Australian National University: June 2008; University of Auckland: June 2008; University of Notre Dame: March 2008; University of Michigan: February 2008; University of St. Andrews: December 2007; Wake Forest University: November 2007; Georgetown University: November 2007.

“How to Make a Counterfactual of Freedom True”—Victoria University (Wellington, NZ): June 2008; el Primer Coloquio Peruano de Filosofía Analítica, Lima, Peru: August 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,” 2007 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference: August 2007.

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.