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Metaphysics, Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy of Law
University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor of Philosophy, July 2025-
Department Chair, July 2025-
University of Notre Dame
Professor of Philosophy, 2022-
R.L. Canala College Professor of Philosophy, 2022-
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2016-2022
Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2018-2021
Duke University
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2010-2016
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2013-2014
Ph.D, Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2010
Dissertation: Essays on Overdetermination
Advisors: L.A. Paul, Terence Horgan
M.A., Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2008
A.B. (Honors), Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2004
(2021) Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence
Oxford University Press (UK),with Ty Goldschmidt
(forthcoming) Ethical Puzzles of Time Travel
Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time, ed. Nina Emery
(forthcoming) Creeped Out (with Daniel Nolan)
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, Volume 5, ed. Uriah Kriegel
(2024) Biased Evaluative Descriptions
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 10:2, pp. 295-312
(2024) Resisting Social Categories
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 8
eds. David Shoemaker, Santiago Amaya, and Manuel Vargas, pp. 81-102
(2023) Metaphysics (with Peter van Inwagen and Meghan Sullivan)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Summer 2023 Edition), eds. Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman
(2022) Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future
Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis
eds. Helen Beebee and A.R.J. Fisher, Oxford University Press, pp. 241-259
(2021) Deviant Causation and the Law
Collective Action, Philosophy, and the Law
eds. Chiara Valentini and Teresa Marques, Routledge Press, pp. 193-209
(2021) Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being
Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence
eds. Sara Bernstein and Ty Goldschmidt, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16
(2021) Could a Middle Level be the Most Fundamental?
Philosophical Studies 178: 1065-1078
(2020) Can Unmodified Food be Culinary Art?
Argumenta (Special Issue: Metaphysics at the Table) 5:2 185-198
(2020) The Metaphysics of Intersectionality
Philosophical Studies 177:2 321-335
(2019) Lewis's Theories of Causation and their Influence
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1945-2015
eds. Kelly Becker and Iain Thomson, Cambridge University Press, pp. 160-170
(2019) Moral Luck and Deviant Causation
Midwest Studies in Philosophy 43:1 151-161
(2018) Causal Idealism
Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics
eds. Tyron Goldschmidt and Kenny Pearce, Oxford University Press, pp. 217-230
(2017) Causal Proportions and Moral Responsibility
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 4
ed. David Shoemaker, Oxford University Press, pp. 165-182
(2017) Intuitions and the Metaphysics of Causation
Experimental Metaphysics, ed. David Rose, Bloomsbury, pp. 75-93
(2017) Time Travel and the Movable Present
Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen
ed. John Keller, Oxford University Press, pp. 80-94
(2016) Grounding is not Causation
Philosophical Perspectives 30:1 21-38
(2016) Causal and Moral Indeterminacy
Ratio 29:4 434-447
(2016) Omission Impossible
Philosophical Studies 173:10 2575-2589
(2016) Free Will and Mental Quausation (with Jessica Wilson)
Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2:310-331
(2016) Overdetermination Underdetermined
Erkenntnis 81:1 17-40
(2015) Nowhere Man: Time Travel and Spatial Location
Midwest Studies in Philosophy 39:1 158-168
(2015) The Metaphysics of Omissions
Philosophy Compass 10:3 208-218
(2015) A Closer Look at Trumping
Acta Analytica 30:1 41-57
(2014) What Causally Insensitive Events Tell Us About Overdetermination
Philosophia 42:4 935-948
(2014) Two Problems for Proportionality about Omissions
Dialectica 68:3 429-441
(2014) Omissions as Possibilities
Philosophical Studies 167 1-23
(2018) Review of Carolina Sartorio's Causation and Free Will, Philosophical Review 127:4 550-554
(2013) Review of S.C. Gibb, E.J. Lowe, and R.D. Ingthorsson's Mental Causation and Ontology, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Countersocial Counterfactuals"
"Fundamental Social Causes"
"Intersectional Oppression as Proportionate Causation"
"Interaction and Intersectionality"
"Hypertemporal Location" (in preparation for Space, Time, and Location, eds. Antony Eagle, Cody Gilmore, and Shieva Kleinschmidt)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023 academic year.
Project: The Metaphysics of Intersectionality
Philip L. Quinn National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2015-2016 academic year.
Project: What Might Have Been: Causation and Possibility
Duke Humanities Writ Large Grant, Mellon Foundation (with Andrew Janiak), 2014.
Project: Philosophy's Gender in Historical Perspective
Teaching Evaluations in Top 5% of all Undergraduate Instructors at Duke: Fall 2010, Spring 2011, and Spring 2012
Arizona Department of Philosophy Feinberg Dissertation Fellowship, 2008
California Metaphysics Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, January 2025.
The Limits of Fiction, Collège de France, Paris, France, November 2024.
"Fundamentality Across Domains of Inquiry"
Metaphysics Collaborative, Zoom, October 2024.
Society for the Metaphysics of Science (keynote address), Zoom, August 2024.
"Fundamentality and the Social World"
Facets of Reality, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 2024.
"Social Dependence"
Henry and Augusta Sievert Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2024.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, November 2023. (colloquium talk)
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia, July 2023.
Social Metaphysics Workshop (keynote), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, May 2023.
Central APA (Invited Symposium on the Metaphysics of Intersectionality), Denver, Colorado, February 2023.
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, November 2022. (colloquium talk)
LOGOS at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Catalonia, October 2022.
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2022. (colloquium talk)
Davis Philosophy Conference (DEX), University of California at Davis, Davis, California, April 2022.
UT-Austin MAP, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas, November 2021. (via Zoom)
"What is Hypertime?"
Pacific APA (Invited Symposium on Time and Explanation), Portland, Oregon, March 2024.
Space, Time, and Location, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, July 2023.
"Fundamental Social Categories"
Pacific APA (Invited Symposium on Social Metaphysics), San Francisco, California, April 2023.
Fundamentality and the Fringes of Explanation, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, October 2022.
"Resisting Social Categories"
New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2022.
"Intersectional Oppression as Proportionate Causation"
MANCept Workshop: What Is Gender and What Do We Want it To Be? (keynote), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, September 2021. (via Zoom)
"Responsibility without Actual Causation"
Causation and Responsibility, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, July 2021. (via Zoom)
"Countersocial Counterfactuals"
Hyperintensional Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, June 2021. (via Zoom)
Social Metaphysics Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill/ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 2021. (via Zoom)
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, January 2021. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, April 2019.
"Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future"
AperiCPTivo, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, June 2021. (via Zoom)
Union College, Schenectady, New York, April 2021. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy, Manchester, UK, June 2019.
"Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being"
Trinity College Dublin/ University College Cork talk series, Dublin, Ireland, December 2020. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
Arché at University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, October 2020. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
Syracuse Philosophy Graduate Conference (keynote), Syracuse, New York, August 2020. (via Zoom)
"Biased Evaluative Terms"
Words Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2022. (via Zoom)
Pacific APA, Portland, Oregon, April 2021. (via Zoom)
Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, March 2021. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 2021. (colloquium talk, via Zoom)
Social Metaphysics Series, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, October 2020. (via Zoom)
Rutgers Feminist Philosophy Group, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 2020.
Notre Dame Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, September 2019.
Evaluative Language, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, May 2019.
"The Metaphysics of Intersectionality"
Reading Group on Gender and Race, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, December 2022. (via Zoom)
Davidson College Philosophy Retreat, Chetola, North Carolina, November 2022.
Pacific APA (Symposium Session), Vancouver, Canada, April 2019.
Minds of Our Own, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2018.
Social Ontology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, August 2018.
Social Metaphysics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 2018.
GRSelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 2018.
"Deviant Causation as a Challenge for Artificial Moral Reasoners"
Artificial Morality and Causation, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, March 2020.
"Could a Middle Level be the Most Fundamental?"
SWIP-Analytic, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York, February 2020.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, November 2019. (colloquium talk)
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, March 2019. (colloquium talk)
Ranch Metaphysics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, January 2019.
Arché at University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, June 2018. (colloquium talk)
Principle of Sufficient Reason Workshop, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, April 2018.
"Deviant Causal Chains and the Law"
Legal Philosophy Workshop, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 2018.
Columbia University, New York, New York, February 2018. (colloquium talk)
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 2017. (colloquium talk)
Metaphysics in the Law, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2017.
"Causation and Grounding"
Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 2018.
"Temporal Passage and Time Travel"
University of Milan, Milan, Italy, June 2017.
"Causal and Moral Indeterminacy"
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2016. (colloquium talk)
YabloFest, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 2016.
Ratio Workshop on Indeterminacy and Vagueness in Ethics, University of Reading, Reading, UK, April 2015.
"Causal Proportions and Moral Responsibility"
Collective Action and the Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, September 2016.
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France, May 2016. (colloquium talk)
Collège de France, Paris, France, May 2016. (colloquium talk)
New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility, New Orleans, Louisana, November 2015.
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, Washington, August 2015.
University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, June 2015. (colloquium talk)
Pacific APA (invited symposium on moral overdetermination), Vancouver, BC, April 2015.
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 2014.
"Ethical Puzzles of Time Travel"
Australasian Association for Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia, July 2016.
University of Barcelona LOGOS Group, Barcelona, Spain, May 2016.
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 2015.
"Omission Impossible"
Arché at University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, May 2015. (colloquium talk)
Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2015.
Real Possibilities, Real Absences, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, December 2014.
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, Australia, July 2014.
"Possible Causation"
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, December 2014.
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, November 2014. (colloquium talk)
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June 2014.
PERSP Metaphysics Seminar at University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2014.
Science and Metaphysics (keynote), Ghent, Belgium, May 2014.
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, April 2014. (colloquium talk)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, April 2014. (colloquium talk)
Rice University (Rising Star Colloquium Series), Houston, Texas, February 2014.
Causation: New Prospects, Collège de France, Paris, France, December 2013.
"Time Travel and the Movable Present"
Birmingham Workshop on Time Travel and Probability, Birmingham, UK, May 2015.
Gargnano Philosophy of Time Conference, Gargnano, Italy, May 2014.
Pacific APA, Philosophy of Time Society, San Diego, CA, April 2014.
"Overdetermination Undeterred"
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, November 2013. (colloquium talk)
"Actual and Counterfactual Redundancy"
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Brisbane, Australia, July 2013.
Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, March 2013.
"Possible Causation and Moral Responsibility"
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2013.
"Omissions as Possibilities"
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA, August 2013.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 2013. (colloquium talk)
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 2013. (colloquium talk)
St. Louis University (keynote for St. Louis University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference), St. Louis, MO, April 2013.
Boise State University, Boise, ID, April 2013. (colloquium talk)
California State University-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 2013. (colloquium talk)
Values and Virtues, Beijing, China, November 2012.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, October 2012. (colloquium talk)
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2012.
Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 2012.
"Mental Causation and Free Will"
The Metaphysics of Free Will, Norweigan University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, April 2013.
"A Metaphysical Puzzle about Moral Difference"
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2011.
"Overdetermination Underdetermined"
Eastern APA, New York City, New York, December 2009.
PhilMilCog, Ontario, Canada, May 2009.
Eminees Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
Updating the Agenda for the Metaphysics of Mind, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, March 2009.
Philsoc Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 2008.
"Overdetermination and Counterfactual Sensitivity"
Pacific APA, San Diego, CA, April 2011.
Powers, Dispositions, and Singular Causation, Buffalo, New York, April 2008.
UCLA/ USC Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 2008.
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR, October 2007.
"The Social Composition Question"
SoCal Philosophy Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 2009.
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 2009.
"Moral Overdetermination"
WiP Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February 2009.
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (poster), Boulder, CO, August 2008.
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia, July 2008.
On Saba Bazargan's Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability, Bazargan Book Symposium, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, March 2024. (Via Zoom)
On Dee Payton's "Systemic Marginalization: Falling Through the Gaps", Michigan Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy Working Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2022.
On Paul Noordhof's A Variety of Causes (Author Meets Critics) at Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC, April 2022.
On Robin Dembroff's Real Men on Top: The Process of Patriarchy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2021. (via Zoom)
On Isaiah Lin's "Absence Causation and Supervenience" at Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 2017.
Panelist, Causation and Time, International Association for the Philosophy of Time, Winston-Salem, NC, June 2016.
On Boris Kment's Modality and Explanatory Reasoning at Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, March 2016.
On David Ripley's "Conditionals with Impossible Antecedents" at Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, March 2016.
On Alex Kaiserman's "Partial Liability" at Edinburgh Legal Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2015.
On Trenton Merricks' Propositions at Ghent Workshop on Merricks' Propositions, Ghent, Belgium, June 2015.
On Tobias Wilsch's "The Nomological Account of Ground" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA, August 2014.
On Karen Bennett, Terry Horgan, and Mark Balaguer (invited symposium on metametaphysics), at Pacific APA, San Diego, CA, April 2014.
On Kris McDaniel's "Propositions, Tuples, and Hyperintensionality" at Metaphysics on the Mountain, Sun Valley, ID, March 2014.
In Causal Overdetermination Roundtable on United States vs. Burrage, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, November 2013.
On Carolina Sartorio's "The Right Kind of Cause" at Back at the Ranch, Tucson, AZ, January 2013.
On Jonathan Schaffer's "Apt Causal Models for the Law" at Pacific APA, Committee on Law and Philosophy, Seattle, WA, April 2012.
On Daniel Korman's "The Language of the Ontology Room" at Central APA, Chicago, IL, Februrary 2012.
On Randolph Clarke's "Absence of Action" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA, August 2011.
On Alexander Pruss' "Aristotelian Forms and Laws of Nature" at Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Aristotelian Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics, Boise, Idaho, April 2011.
On Karen Bennett's "Construction Area (No Hard Hat Required)" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, Washington, August 2010.
On Michael Hartsock's "Explaining Absences" at Pacific APA, San Francisco, California, April 2010.
On Justin Tiehen's "Explaining Causal Closure" at Northwest Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 2009.
On Kris McDaniel's "The Metaphysics of Axiology and the Welfare of Animals" at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 2009.
On Kevin Sharpe's "Standard Compatibilism and the Problem of Causal Exclusion", Pacific APA, Vancouver, Canada, April 2009.
On Cathleen Muller's "Reply to Everett's 'Against Fictional Realism" at UMass Amherst Graduate Conference in Metaphysics, Amherst, MA, March 2009.
On David Shoemaker's "What's Identity Got to Do With It?" at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2008.
On Achille Varzi's "Boundaries, Conventions, and Reality" at Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Carving Nature at its Joints, Pullman, Washington, March 2008.
On Alexander Skiles' "Ordinary Objects and Overdetermination" at Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR, October 2007.
On Jason Turner's "Ontological Pluralism" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA, August 2007.
"Social Ontology" and "Time Travel"
as Guest Philosopher-in-Residence, Hillbrook School, Brisbane, Australia, July 2023.
"Much Ado About Nothing"
The Honest Ulsterman, June 2021.
"Time Travel: A Practical Guide"
General Relativity and Time Travel (with Nicholas Teh and Dominic Dold), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, October 2017.
Notre Dame Science Fiction Society, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, February 2017.
Boise State University, Boise, ID, April 2013. (public lecture)
Interviewed for the Times of London article on the metaphysics of time, October 2022.
Interviewed for the Colin McEnroe Show (NPR) on time travel, September 2022.
Interviewed for Slate Watch Smarter video "Back to the Future Gets Time Travel Wrong. The Terminator Gets It Right.", Shon Arieh-Lehrer, Slate, April 2018.
Interviewed for article "We Have Reached the Future-- Will We Ever Return to the Past?", Javier Yanes, Open Mind, October 2015.
Instructor, Master Class in Causation and Responsibility, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, July 2021.
Instructor, Master Class in the Structure of Time, Divisibility, and Causation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, June 2017.
Instructor, Summer Seminar in Neuroscience and Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 2016.
Core Faculty, Central European University Summer Course on Ontology and Metaontology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 2015.
Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan, June 2017.
Arché at University of St. Andrews, April-July 2015.
Australian National University, June-July 2016, June-July 2014, June-July 2013, June-July 2008.
UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009-2010.
MIT, 2008-2009.
At Notre Dame, graduate-level:
Cutting-Edge Social Metaphysics
Feminist Philosophy and Philosophy of Gender
Research and Placement Seminar
Dissertation Seminar
At Notre Dame, undergraduate-level: Metaphysics of the Social World
Philosophy, Gender, and Feminism (with Michael Rea)
Glynn Family Honors Introduction to Philosophy
At Duke, graduate-level: David Lewis (with Peter van Inwagen) The Metaphysics of Time and Time Travel (with Peter van Inwagen) The Metaphysics of Causation and M
Responsibility Meta-metaphysics (with Peter van Inwagen) At Duke, undergraduate-level: At Arizona, undergraduate-level: Twentieth Century Philosophy Nineteenth Century Philosophy Philosophy in Literature Minds, Brains, and Computers As Primary Dissertation Advisor Primary Supervisor (with Kris McDaniel), Pixie Shen, Dissertation: The Fragmentation of the Self (in progress)
Primary Supervisor (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong), Paul Henne, Dissertation: Omissions, Causation, and Modality (2019) (placement: assistant professor (TT), Lake Forest College, Fall 2019-)
As Internal Dissertation Committee Member at Notre Dame: Isabel Canfield (in progress)
Sara Chan (in progress)
Faeze Faezeli (in progress)
Mack Sullivan, Dissertation: The Foundations of Modal Metaphysics (2024)
Qiong Wu, Dissertation: Anti-Realist Approaches to Modality (2024)
Mark Puestohl, Dissertation: Essays on the Explanatory Foundation of Vagueness (2023)
Sam Murray, Dissertation: Vigilance: Self-Control for Planners (2019)
Dustin Crummett, Dissertation: Committing to Equality: Essays on Distributive Justice (2017)
Benjamin Rossi, Dissertation: Internalism about Practical Reasons (2017)
As External Dissertation Committee Member: Committee Member, Ding Li (University of Arizona), Committee Member, Huzeyfe Demirtas (Syracuse University), Committee Member, Naomi Dershowitz (Syracuse University), As External Ph.D Examiner: University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow
As External MA Examiner: McMaster University, University of Adelaide
As External Postdoctoral Fellowship Supervisor: The Open Future and The Causally Open Objective Present Project, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 2023-2026
As Oral Exam Committee Member: Oral exam committees: Mark Puestohl, Sam Murray, Celina Durgin, Chloe Uffenheimer, John Peck, Ross Jensen, Char Brecevic, Bokai Yao, Qiong Wu,
Sara Chan, Mack Sullivan, Justin Brittain, Johnny Waldrop
Undergraduate Supervision: Honors Thesis Advisor, D. Gleisman, Causal Parallelism (2011-2012)
Advisor for independent study, S. Zimmerman, Kripke's Naming and Necessity (2011-2012)
Thesis Examination Committee, J. Metz, Moral Luck, the Failure of Control, and the Ability and Contribution Theory (2012)
Thesis Examination Committee, S. Zimmerman, A Defense of Kripke's Meter (2012)
Thesis Examination Committee, M. Kelsey, Objections to the Ordinary: A Critical Response to Amie Thomasson's Ordinary Objects (2010)
GeneralSupervision
Dissertation: On Our Own Terms: Equality and the Social Meaning of Bodies (in progress)
Dissertation: Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI (2022)
Dissertation: All the Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism (2018)
Service
To the profession:
Editorial Panel, Thought, 2016-
Associate Editor, Analysis, 2016-2019
Member, External Review Committee, University of Arizona/ Arizona Board of Regents review of Department of Philosophy, 2015 Service to Diversity and Mentoring Workshops Mentor, speaker, and referee, Athena in Action, University of Notre Dame, June 2024
Mentor and speaker, Summer Program for Women in Philosophy, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA, July 2021
Mentor (metaphysics), Mentoring Project For Pre-tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2019
Steering Committee Member and Mentor, Mentoring Program for Junior Women on the Philosophy Job Market, 2014-2019 (remote)
Service to the American Philosophical Association: Member, Nominating Committee of the Central Division (elected), 2020-2021 Member, Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research, 2016-2019 Chair, Edinburgh Prize Committee, 2018 and 2019 Member, Sanders Lecture Committee, 2018 At-large member (elected), Board of Officers, 2014-2016 Member, Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation, 2014-2016 Conference Organization
Assistant Organizer, Ranch Metaphysics and Arizona Ontology Conference, 2005-2012
Conference organizer (with Peter van Inwagen, Michael Loux, L.A. Paul, and Dana Goswick), Relational versus Constituent Ontologies, 2009-2010
Journal and Monograph Referee:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Ethics, Hypatia, Journal of Philosophy, Legal Theory, Mind, Noûs, Oxford University Press, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophia, Philosophies, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy Compass, Philosophy of Science, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Routledge Press, Synthese, Thought
Conference Referee:
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference
New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility
Grant/ Fellowship Referee:
National Humanities Center (referee and final selection committee)
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Swiss National Science Foundation
Award Referee:
Sanders Prize in Metaphysics
Placement Director, 2018-2021, 2023-
Search Committee, ethics teaching professor search, 2021-22
Strategic Hiring Committee, 2020-2022
Committee on Appointments and Promotions, 2017-2018
Search Committee, ethics search, 2017-2018
Placement Advisor, 2017-2018
Climate Committee, 2017-2019
Founder and Convenor, Shut Up and Write, 2017-
Committee on the Graduate Program, 2016-2018
Selection Committee, Teaching Beyond the Classroom grants, 2018
Selection Committee, Joyce Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2018
Colloquium Series Director, 2014-2015
Committee on Gender and Climate in the Department, 2014-2015
Search Committee for metaphysics or epistemology position (junior rank), 2012-2013
Search Committee for philosophy of mind/ psychology/ neuroscience position (open rank), 2011-2012
Cofounder and co-organizer (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong), Annual Triangle-Area Philosophy Symposium, 2012-2015
Planning Committee, Chapel Hill Colloquium, 2012-2014
Conference organizer (with L.A. Paul), 2008 Arizona Ontology Conference, 2007-2009
Graduate representative to the faculty, 2006-2007
Committee on Graduate Placement, 2006-2007