Cornell University, Sage School of Philosophy, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY -, USA

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Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
B.S., Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Gordon College,
Employment
University of Rochester, Assistant Professor, ; Associate
Professor,
Syracuse University, Associate Professor,
Rutgers University, Associate Professor, ; Professor,
University of Leeds, Visiting Research Professor, Fall
Australian National University, Visiting Fellow, Summer
New York University, Professor,
Cornell University, Frederick J. Whiton Professor,
Interests
Research: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Teaching: Logic
Awards and Honors
University of Rochester Professor of the Year (awarded by the
Student Association)
Ruth Evelyn Parcells Memorial Lecturer, University of
Connecticut
APA Book Prize for Four-Dimensionalism
University of Vermont Dewey Lecturer
Oxford University John Locke Lecturer

Books
Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford,
; Japanese: Shunjusha, ). Section on argument from
vagueness reprinted in Jaegwon Kim, Daniel Z. Korman, and
Ernest Sosa, eds., Metaphysics: An Anthology,
nd
edition (Wiley
Blackwell ),
Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics, with Earl Conee
(Oxford, ; Japanese: Shunjusha, ; Portugese: Bizncio,
; Spanish: Alianza, ). Chapter on Time reprinted in
Tamar Szab Gendler, Susanna Siegel, and Steven M. Cahn, eds.,
The Elements of Philosophy (Oxford, ); chapter on Personal
Identity reprinted in Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, eds.,
Reason and Responsibility,
th
edition (Wadsworth, ). 2
nd
edition forthcoming.
Logic for Philosophy (textbook) (Oxford, )
Writing the Book of the World (Oxford, )
Edited Book
Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics (Basil Blackwell, ).
Co-editors: John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman
Articles
Might Theory X Be a Theory of Diminishing Marginal Value?,
Analysis ():
Tooleys Solution to the Inference Problem, Philosophical Studies
():
In Defense of Global Supervenience, with R. Cranston Paull,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ():
Asymmetry and Self-Sacrifce, Philosophical Studies ():

Van Inwagen and the Possibility of Gunk, Analysis ():

Sorensen on Unknowable Obligations, Utilitas ():

Three Problems for Richards Theory of Belief Ascription,
Canadian Journal of Philosophy ():
Sparseness, Immanence, and Naturalness, Nos ():

Naturalness and Arbitrariness, Philosophical Studies ():

Intrinsic Properties, Philosophical Studies ():

All the Worlds a Stage, Australasian Journal of Philosophy ():
. Reprinted in Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz,
eds., Persistence: Contemporary Readings (Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, ), , and in Kim, Korman, and Sosa, .
A New Grandfather Paradox?, Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research ():
On the Paradox of the Question, Analysis ():
Four-Dimensionalism, Philosophical Review (): .
Reprinted in Haslanger and Kurtz,
Critical Study of Michael Jubiens Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of
Reference, Nos ():
Presentism and Ontological Commitment, Journal of Philosophy
(): . Reprinted in Haslanger and Kurtz,
Global Supervenience and Identity across Times and Worlds,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ():
The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics, Analysis ():
. Reprinted in Haslanger and Kurtz,
Simply Possible, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ():

Recent Work on Identity Over Time, Philosophical Books ():

Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual

Analysis, Philosophical Perspectives , Metaphysics (Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell, ), pp.
Maximality and Intrinsic Properties, Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research ():
The Ersatz Pluriverse, Journal of Philosophy ():
Hell and Vagueness, Faith and Philosophy ():
Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals, Philosophical
Studies ():
Locations, with John Hawthorne, Philosophical Topics ():
. Reprinted in John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, ),
Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience, Philosophy and

Phenomenological Research ():

Against Vague Existence, Philosophical Studies ():
Reductive Theories of Modality, in Michael J. Loux and Dean W.
Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, ), pp.
Whats So Bad about Overdetermination?, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research ():
Precis of Four-Dimensionalism and Replies to Critics, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research (): ,
Another Look at Armstrongs Combinatorialism, Nos ():

Traveling in A- and B- Time, The Monist (): .

Reprinted in L. Nathan Oaklander, ed., The Philosophy of Time, Vol.
: Time and Physics (Routledge: )
Kripkes Revenge, with David Braun, Philosophical Studies
():
Quantifers and Temporal Ontology, Mind ():
Bare Particulars , Philosophical Perspectives ():
Against Monism, Analysis ():
Vague, so Untrue (with David Braun), Nos ():
Parthood, Philosophical Review ():
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifer Variance, Aristotelian Society,
Supplementary Volume ():
Temporal Parts, in Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean
W. Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics,
Blackwell
Yet another Paper on the Supervenience Argument against
Coincident Entities, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
():
Monism and Statespace Structure, in Robin Le Poidevin, ed.,
Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, ): pp.
Williamsons Many Necessary Existents, Analysis ():
Ontological Realism, in David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan
Wasserman, eds., Metametaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, ): pp.

Against Vague and Unnatural Existence: Reply to Liebesman and

Eklund, Nos ():
The Evil of Death: What Can Metaphysics Contribute?, in Ben
Bradley, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson, eds., The Oxford
Handbook of Philosophy and Death (Oxford: )
Against Parthood, in Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman,
eds., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, ):
Prcis and replies to critics, symposium on Writing the Book of the
World, Analysis (): ,
Prcis and replies to critics, symposium on Writing the Book of the
World, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (): ,

Consequences of Collapse, in Donald Baxter and Aaron Cotnoir,

eds., Composition as Identity (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Hirschs Attack on Ontologese, forthcoming in Nos
Outscoping and Discourse Threat, forthcoming in Inquiry
Nothing Over and Above, forthcoming in an edited collection.
Reviews
Andr Gallois, Occasions of Identity, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science ():
Charles Chihara, The Worlds of Possibility, Philosophical Review
():
Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies, Journal of Philosophy
():
Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, Mind ():
Presentations
Naturalness and Arbitrariness, : Virginia, Rochester; :
Pacifc APA
All the Worlds a Stage, : Rochester
Four-Dimensionalism, : UMass reunion conference; :
Pacifc APA; : Arizona, Michigan; : Rutgers
Sparseness, Immanence, and Naturalness, : Rochester
Sorensen on Unknowable Obligations, : UNC Greensboro
Ethics conference

Global Supervenience and Coincident Entities, : Pacifc APA

The Ersatz Pluriverse, : Rochester; : Pacifc APA,
Metaphysical Mayhem conference, Syracuse, Princeton; :
Yale; : Massachusetts
Can there Exist Two Things at the Same Place at the Same Time?,
: SUNY Geneseo
Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual
Analysis, : Pacifc APA; : Pew conference on persons
Presentism and Ontological Commitment, : Metaphysical
Mayhem conference; : Philosophy of Time Society, Central
APA
Time and Temporal Parts, : Metaphysical Mayhem
conference, UMass reunion conference; : Rochester, Pacifc
APA, Connecticut (Ruth Evelyn Parcells Memorial Lecture)
Against Presentism, : Cornell; : Texas, Eastern APA
Reducing Modality, : Bellingham Summer Philosophy
Conference; : Brown; : St. Andrews, Colorado, Leeds;
: Manitoba; : Cornell, Texas, Australasian Association of
Philosophy conference, Arizona State
Vague, so Untrue, : Western Washington, Calvin, UMass
reunion conference, Virginia; : UC Davis, MIT, Alabama;
: Oxford, Boise State, New Jersey Regional Philosophical
Association, Princeton-Rutgers graduate student conference,
Richmond, Leeds, Stockholm; : Southern Illinois, Kentucky;
: Australian National University, Massey (NZ); :
Alberta, Miami
Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals, : Inland
Northwest Philosophy Conference
Hell and Vagueness, : Union College, Alabama
Time Travel, : SUNY New Paltz; : Boise State, Rutgers
undergraduate philosophy club
APA Author meets critics sessions on Four-Dimensionalism, San
Francisco, Spring ; Washington, DC, December
Parthood, : Leeds, Central European University (Budapest);
: Queens (Ontario), Virginia, St. Louis, USC, Toronto,
Criteria of Identity conference in Leuven Belgium; :
Arkansas, Missouri, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference,
Australian National University, Canterbury (NZ), Wisconsin;

: Calgary, Nassau CC, West Virginia

Quantifers and Temporal Ontology, : Leeds; : Eastern
APA; : Cornell
Kripkes Revenge, : Leeds
Another Look at Armstrongs Combinatorialism, : Leeds
Ontological Realism, : Australian National University
conference on Metametaphysics, Otago (NZ), Victoria (NZ),
Princeton, Oxford graduate student conference; : Miami,
Northern Illinois, Leeds conference on being, Brown graduate
student conference, Brandeis; : Utah, CUNY, Stanford,
Chapel Hill Colloquium; : Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
UCSB, Minnesota
Philosophy of Time, : Metaphysical Mayhem conference;
: Arizona Ontology Conference
Monism and Statespace Structure, : Yale graduate student
conference; : UMass reunion conference; : Arizona
Ontology Conference
NeoFregeanism and Quantifer Variance, : Bellingham
Summer Philosophy Conference; : Aristotelian Society Joint
Session
Which Disputes are Substantive?, : Inland Northwest
Philosophy Conference
Logical Structure, : Connecticut
The State of Metaphysics, Alabama Philosophy Today
speaker series
Meta-metaphysics, : Alabama; : Union College
The Metaphysics of Fundamentality, : Oxford,
Mountain-Plains conference, Virginia Commonwealth; : NC
State, Wayne State, Colorado Dependence Conference, UC
Davis, CUNY Umass reunion conference; : U of Vermont,
Syracuse graduate student conference, Colorado, Ohio State;
: SUNY Albany graduate student conference, Berkeley,
Nebraska, Indiana
Time, : Guggenheim Museum theanyspacewhatever exhibition,
Boswell Distinguished Lecture at Hobart and William Smith
College
Joint-carving and Meta-ethics, : Leeds workshop on
Naturalism

Metaphysics and the Real World, : NYU Philosophy Society,

U of VT Dewey Lecture, Cal State Chico
Passage: : Philosophy of Time Society; : Future of
Philosophy of Time workshop.
Against Parthood, : Pacifc APA (as Nihilism and Ideology);
: Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Oxford
graduate student conference; : MIT, U of Texas graduate
conference, Calvin College undergraduate conference, Buffalo,
Notre Dame
Structuralism, : Metaphysical Mayhem Conference
Parts, : Metaphysical Mayhem Conference
Modality, : NYU Mind and Language seminar
Scientifc Properties, and How Tools in Metaphysics Matter, :
Mellon Metaphysics Workshop at Cornell, Leeds; : Harvard,
Buffalo
The Value of Joint-carving Belief, : keynote address,
conference on The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition at the
University of Edinburgh
Writing the book of the world: responses to critics (Central APA
author-meets-critics session, )
Comments on Saul Kripkes Philosophical Troubles, Eastern APA
Referee Work
For Kluwer Academic Publishers, Cambridge University Press,
University of Toronto Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton
University Press, Routledge Press, Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Ethics, International Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, Linguistics and Philosophy, Mind, Nos, Pacifc
Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers Imprint, Philosophical Quarterly,
Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, and Synthese
Courses taught
Undergraduate: philosophy of language; metaphysics; logic
(introductory, intermediate, modal, mathematical, set theory);
intro; applied ethics; science and pseudoscience; history of
twentieth century philosophy; seminars on paradoxes, persistence

Graduate: survey courses in logic (modal, mathematical, set theory,

logic for philosophy), metaphysics, philosophy of language;
proseminar; research seminars on modality, parthood, identity,
causation and laws, persistence, abstract entities, convention and
modality, propositional attitudes, metaontology, fundamentality,
intentionality, properties, ground
University Service
University of Rochester Administrative Committee, Fall
-Spring
University of Rochester Faculty Council, Fall -Spring
University of Rochester Freshman Advising, Fall -Spring
University of Rochester Program Reviewer, Summer , ,
, ,
University of Rochester Mock Interviews for Rhodes Scholarship
candidates, Fall , ,
Syracuse University Summer advising, Freshman advising, and
Freshman Forum,
Syracuse University Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Syracuse University, Sophomore advising,
Rutgers University Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Professional Service
Editorial board, Philosophical Studies, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Board of associate editors, Nos
American Philosophical Association Executive Committee,
Nominating editor, Philosophers Annual, present