University of Toronto, 1959-64.   B.A., 1964.

Princeton University, 1964-67.  Ph.D., 1968.

Distinguished College Professor, Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006-

Faculty Fellowship. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006-2007

Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award, 1998-99.

JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan.  Awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999.

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

President, Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1983-84.

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1966-67.

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1964-65.

University of Colorado, Philosophy Department: Professor, 1992-present.  Distinguished College Professor, Arts and Sciences, 2006-

Bowling Green State University, Adjunct Professor, 2004-09.

The Australian National University, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences:  Senior Research Fellow, 1988-92; Senior Fellow, 1992.

University of Western Australia, Philosophy Department:  Professor, 1983-88; Head of Department, 1985-88.

University of Miami, Philosophy Department:  Associate Professor, 1981-82;  Professor, 1982-83.

Wichita State University, Philosophy Department:  Visiting Associate Professor, 1980-81.

University of Utah, Philosophy Department:  Visiting Associate Professor, 1977.

The Australian National University, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences:  Research Fellow, 1974-79; Senior Research Fellow, 1979-80.

Stanford University, Philosophy Department, Assistant Professor, 1967-74.

American Philosophical Association

Australasian Association of Philosophy  (President, 1983-84)

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Editorial Board: Philo.

Referee:  American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, Ethics, Mind, Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, and Synthese.

Referee:  Oxford University Press.
 
 

TEACHING

        The main courses that I have recently been teaching are as follows:

Philosophy 1100:  Introduction to Ethics

Philosophy 3340:  Epistemology

Philosophy 3480:  Critical Thinking and Writing for Philosophy Majors

Philosophy 4830:  Senior Seminar in Philosophy of Perception

Philosophy 5340:  Epistemology

Philosophy 6340:  Seminar in Epistemology

Philosophy 6380:  Seminar in Causation and Laws of Nature

Philosophy 6380:  Seminar in Philosophy of Time

        An external link to my Philosophy 1100 course can be found on Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) – a website for education and research created by a number of universities in the United Kingdom.

Books - Published

La natura del tempo, (Milano: McGraw-Hill, 1999).    (This is an Italian translation of Time, Tense, and Causation, with a new preface and some revisions.)

Metaphysics, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999)  Edited, five volumes:
Volume 1 - Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience;  Volume 2 - The Nature of Time;  Volume 3 - Properties;  Volume 4 - Particulars, Actuality, and Identity;  Volume 5 - Necessity and Possibility.

Time, Tense, and Causation, (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1997).

Causation, (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, Readings in Philosophy Series, 1993).  Co-edited with Professor Ernest Sosa.

Books - Completed and to Be Published

Knowledge of God

        This book, which I have co-authored with Alvin Plantinga, deals with the epistemology of religious belief, and is to be published in Blackwell's Great Debates in Philosophy series.  It is now complete, and will be published in April 2008.

Abortion: Three Perspectives

        This three-way debate volume, which I have co-authored with Alison Jaggar, and with Philip Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine, is now complete, and will be published in 2008 by Oxford University Press in a series on contemporary moral issues edited by James Sterba. 

Books - Currently in Progess

Causation

         This book is being written for a series of texts that John Martin Fischer and John Perry are editing for Oxford University Press.  I am now revising a draft of this book, which I shall be submitting to the editors in 2008.

Metaphysics

        This introductory text is also being written for the series that John Martin Fischer and John Perry are editing for Oxford University Press.   I expect to complete a draft sometime in the summer of 2008

Indirect Realism and the Philosophy of Perception

        I have developed much of the material for this book in graduate seminars that I have recently taught on perception, and then in my recent sabbatical leave.  I shall begin writing a draft as soon as the causation and the metaphysics books are complete.

 Articles

"Causation," forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin LePoidevin, New York, Routledge

"Personhood," forthcoming in A Companion to Bioethics – Second Edition edited by Peter Singer and Helge Kuhse, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.  (This is a revised and expanded version of my essay in the first edition in 1998.)

"Causes, Laws, and Ontology," forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Chris Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, Oxford

"Two Arguments for Absolute Simultaneity," in Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity, edited by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, London and New York, Routledge, 2008, 229-43.

"Evil, Problem of," in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited by Tom Flynn, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007, 301-10.

"The Problem of Evil," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/, Revised and expanded version, July, 2007.

"Metaphysics, Nature of (Addendum)," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald Borchert, Volume 6, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Macmillan Reference, 2006, 208-12.

"Causal Approaches to the Direction of Time," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald Borchert, Volume 2, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Macmillan Reference, 2006, 85-88.

"Causation: Metaphysical Issues," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald Borchert, Volume 2, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Macmillan Reference, 2006, 95-103.

"Grünbaum on Space and Time,” in Philosophy of Religion, Physics, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by Aleksandar Jokic, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.

"Aborto e Infanticidio," a Portuguese translation of "Abortion and Infanticide," in A Etica do Aborto, edited by, and translations done by, Pedro Galvao, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005, 69-104.

"Presentism," in Chronos (The Annual Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society), VII, 2004-2005, 98-131.

"In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide," in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, edited by Andrew Cohen, and Christopher Wellman, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2005, 161-78.

 “Probability and Causation,” in Causation and Chance, edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof, Routledge, London, 2004, 77-119.

"Basic Tensed Sentences and their Analysis," in Time, Tense, and Reference, edited by Aleksandar Jokic and Quentin Smith, MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2003, 409-47.

"Causation and Supervenience," in the Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, 386-434.

"Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide," in A Companion to Applied Ethics, edited by R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2003, 326-41.

"The Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," Journal of Philosophy, 100/7, 2003, 321-27.

"Backward Causation and the Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," Analysis, 62, 2002, 191-97.

"The Problem of Evil," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/, September, 2002.

"Response to Robin Le Poidevin’s 'Is Precedence a Secondary Quality?’," in The Importance of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander, Kluver, Dordrecht, 2001, 267-84.

"Response to Comments on Time, Tense, and Causation," in The Importance of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander, Kluver, Dordrecht, 2001, 31-58.

"Functional Concepts, Referentially Opaque Contexts, Causal Relations, and the Definition of Theoretical Terms," Philosophical Studies, 105/3, 2001, 251-279.

"Freedom and Foreknowledge," Faith and Philosophy 17, 2000, 212-24.

"Is Backward Causation Logically Possible?" in Philosophical Studies (Department of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo), 18, 1999, 1-32.   (This paper consists of a combination of material from sections 3.2, 4.5, and 4.6 from the 1997 edition of Time, Tense, and Causation, together with material added to correct an error in that earlier discussion.  The added material was then used in the revised, paperback edition of Time, Tense, and Causation (2000), partly in section 4.6.2, but mainly in the Appendix.)  

"The Metaphysics of Time," in The Arguments of Time (The British Academy Centenary volume on Time), edited by Jeremy Butterfield, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, 21-42.

A Japanese translation of "The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans," in Studien zur Praktischen Philosophie (Jissentetsugaku-Kenkyu), 22, 1999, 53-97.

Causation," in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, edited by Robert Wilson and Frank Keil, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999, 108-110.

"Speciesism and Basic Moral Principles," in Etica & Animali, (Special Issue Devoted to Nonhuman Personhood) 9, 1998, 5-36.

"Personhood," in A Companion to Bioethics, edited by Peter Singer and Helge Kuhse, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1998, 117-26.

"The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans," in Biomedical Ethics Reviews: Human Cloning, edited by James Humber and Robert Almeder, Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1998, 65-101.  Reprinted in the Monash Bioethics Review, 18/1, 1999, 27-49.  Partially reprinted in Applying Ethics, 7th Edition, edited by Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry, Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 2002, 287-98.  Also translated into Japanese.

"Values, Obligation, and the Asymmetry Question," in Bioethics, 12/2, 1998, 111-24.

"Causation," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement, edited by Donald M. Borchert, New York, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996, 72-5.