Biography Professor Loets’s research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the metaphysics of ordinary objects, persons, action and ability, and the social world, as well as questions about identity, modality, reference, and vagueness raised in the relevant debates. Recent publications include `Choice Points for a Theory …
Biography Professor Mackay works in the philosophy of language and associated areas of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical logic. His current research is focused on modality and conditionals. “Recent and forthcoming publications include “Explaining the Actuality Operator Away” (Philosophical Quarterly, 2017), “Subjunctive Conditionals’ Local Contexts” (forthcoming in Linguistics and Philosophy), and “Modal Interpretation of Tense in …
Biography Jeremy works in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, with a focus on the ethical implications of Buddhist metaphysical and epistemological arguments. He takes a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to philosophical questions, using the textual analysis of premodern Sanskrit and Tibetan sources to shed light on contemporary questions. His present research explores the ethical, political, …
Biography Farid specializes in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, and Kant’s theoretical philosophy. His current research focuses on understanding the metaphysical nature of perceptual experience and its relation to cognition, the best way to characterize perceptual content and perceptual phenomenology, the role of perceptual experience in justifying beliefs, sensory integration, and the …
Biography Professor Meehan’s research focuses on topics in philosophy of physics, philosophy of probability, formal epistemology, and philosophy of science. Some of his ongoing research threads include (i) the foundations of probability, especially the axiomatization of conditional probability, (ii) the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially epistemological issues raised by the statistical and information-theoretic tools of …
Biography Professor Messina’s current research deals with various issues in Kant’s philosophy (such as his views on space, laws of nature, substance, philosophical methodology, modality, and the role of the understanding in perception). He is currently working on a book on Kant’s theory of the nature of space. Some recently published, or soon-to-be-published, articles include: …
Biography Professor Nadler’s research focuses on philosophy in the seventeenth century. He has written extensively on Descartes and Cartesianism, Spinoza, and Leibniz. He also works on medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy. His publications include Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, …
Biography Professor Roberts’s research focuses on metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of language. He has written on various issues in the metaphysics and logic of modality, identity, and existence. Recent publications include ‘Is Identity Non-Contingent?’ (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023), ‘From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity’ (Mind, 2022), and ‘Anti-Haecceitism and Indiscernibility’ (Analysis, forthcoming). Website.
Biography I work primarily in logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics. I’m especially interested in questions about infinity, possibility, and ontology—particularly the nature of pluralities, properties, sets, and classes. Much of my current research lies at the intersection of these topics. Beyond my core research areas, I have a growing interest in philosophical methodology. …
Biography Professor Shafer-Landau’s primary interest is in ethics. He is the author of Moral Realism: A Defence (Oxford 2003), Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford 2004), The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford 2010), Living Ethics (Oxford 2018), and, with John Bengson (Texas) and Terence Cuneo (Vermont), Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory (Oxford 2022). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and is the …