Faculty of Philosophy

University of Oxford

Area of Specialisation > Metaphysics

Academics

Sophie Allen

Supernumerary Fellow

Brian Ball

Associate Faculty Member

Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Rafal Banka

Research Fellow

Umut Baysan

Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy

Alexander Bird

Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy and Honorary Fellow

St John's College

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Vincent Conitzer

Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy, Head of Technical AI Engagement at the Institute for Ethics in AI

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Gabriel De Marco

Research Fellow

Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Dorothy Edgington

Dorothy Edgington

Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy Emeritus

Janine Gühler

Stipendiary Lecturer

Worcester College

Nicholas K Jones

Associate Professor

Official Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St John's College

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Alex Kaiserman

Associate Professor

Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College

Brian Leftow

Alston Chair of Religion, Rutgers

Ofra Magidor

Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy

Professorial Fellow, Magdalen College

Anna Marmodoro

Professor of Philosophy, Durham University

Associate Faculty Member

Adrian Moore

Professor of Philosophy

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Hugh's College

Alex Moran

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Ben Page

Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy

Pembroke College & Oriel College

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Alexander Paseau

Professor of Mathematical Philosophy

Stuart Hampshire Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Wadham College

Michail Peramatzis

Michail Peramatzis

Associate Professor

Hinton Clarendon Fellow, Worcester College

Oliver Pooley

Associate Professor

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College

Stephen Priest

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy

Blackfriars Hall

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst

Junior Research Fellow

Pembroke College

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Alexander Roberts

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Junior Research Fellow, Oriel College

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Howard Robinson

Research Fellow in Philosophy

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Professor of Metaphysics

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College

James Studd

Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Mathematics

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lady Margaret Hall

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Christian Tarsney

Research Fellow

Global Priorities Institute

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Roger Teichmann

Lecturer in Philosophy

St Hilda's College

Cecilia Trifogli

Cecilia Trifogli

Professor of Medieval Philosophy

Fellow, All Souls College

Ralph Walker

Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College

Jan Westerhoff

Associate Professor (Professor of Buddhist Philosophy)

Faculty of Theology and Religion

James Wilk

Associate Lecturer in Philosophy

Stephen Williams

Emeritus Fellow, Worcester College

Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson

Wykeham Professor of Logic

Professorial Fellow, New College

Graduate students

Farbod Akhlaghi

DPhil in Philosophy

St Anne's College

Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette

DPhil in Philosophy

University College

Kacper Kowalczyk

DPhil student in Philosophy

St Anne's College

Michelle Liu

DPhil in Philosophy

Annina Loets

DPhil in Philosophy

Trinity College

George Webster

DPhil in Philosophy

Conferences

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The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation

MBI Auditorium, Corpus Christi College

Events

Metaphysics of Entanglement

Metaphysics of Entanglement Week 7 TT17

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Metaphysics of Entanglement

Metaphysics of Entanglement Week 8 TT17

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Seminars

metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 1, HT21)

Philip Goff | Durham | Panpsychism and Robust Value Realism

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 1, TT21)

David Papineau | King's College | Why Sensory Consciousness Can’t be Essentially Representational

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 2, HT21)

Jonathan Schaffer | Rutgers University | Naturalistic Dualism and the Problem of the Physical Correlate

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 2, TT21)

Jessica Wilson | Toronto

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 3, HT21)

Angela Mendelovici | Western Ontario | Radical Internalism

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 3, TT21)

Benj Hellie | Toronto

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, HT21)

Ralf Bader | Fribourg | Grounding, Reduction, and Consciousness

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, TT21)

Katalin Farkas | Central European University

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, HT21)

Barbara Montero | New York | Goodbye Supervenience

metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, TT21)

Michelle Montague | Texas | Rethinking the attitudes

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 6, HT21)

Tim Crane | Vienna | The Zombie Hypothesis as a Sceptical Hypothesis

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 6, TT21)

Alex Moran | Oxford | On why grounding physicalists need contingent grounding laws

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 7, HT21)

Amy Kind | Claremont McKenna College | The Significance of Non-Empirical Questions

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 7, TT21)

Brian Cutter | Notre Dame | The Value of Consciousness: An Axiological Argument against Reductive Materialism

metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 8, HT21)

Adam Pautz | Brown | The Significance Argument for the Irreducibility of Consciousness

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 8, TT21)

Ned Block | New York | How science can show that perception is non-conceptual and non-propositional

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Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 9, HT21)

Mark Johnston | Princeton | Are Qualia Mental Properties?

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, HT21)

Barbara Vetter | Berlin | Dispositionalism and the problem of necessary masks

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT20)

Mahrad Almotahari | Edinburgh | The Reformation of Realism

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT21)

Elselijn Kingma | Oh no, Tibbles is Pregnant! Nesting and a Modal Account of Maximality

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, TT21)

Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt | MIT | Thing Causation | 3-5pm

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, HT21)

Oliver Pooley | Oxford | B-Theoretic Accounts of Passage

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, MT20)

Mike Hicks and Al Wilson | Chance and Explanation

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, MT21)

Alex Kaiserman | Oxford | Daniel Kodsi | Oxford | Causal Contextualism and the Proportionality Puzzle

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, TT21)

Alex Moran | Oxford | Some Thoughts on (Not Surviving) Fission

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, HT21)

Annina Loets | Berlin | Aspects and the Indiscernibility of Identicals

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, MT20)

Fatema Amijee | UBC | Why Inquiry Commits Us to the Principle of Sufficient Reason

metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, MT21)

Nadine Elzein | Warwick | Time Travel and Failed Assassinations: From Baby Suzy to Fidel Castro

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, TT21)

Verónica Gómez Sánchez | ACU | Naturalness by Law

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, HT21)

Alex Roberts | Oxford

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, MT20)

Paul Audi | Rochester | Persistence and Experience: A Plea for Temporally Extended Endurers

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, MT21)

Jessica Leech | KCL | Persistence and Relative Criterialism

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, TT21)

Salvatore Florio | Birmingham | Nicholas K Jones | Oxford | Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality

Tate Jowett Beerbohm

The Jowett Society Week 5 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Publications

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Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics

Williamson on Modality

Timothy Williamson