Curriculum Vitae

Education

• University of Notre Dame PhD, May 1994

  • Dissertation: Enduring Objects

  • Director: Alvin Plantinga

• Brown University Visiting Scholar, Fall 1993

• University of Notre Dame MA, January 1992

• Ohio State University BA, June 1989

Academic Employment

• Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2016—present
• Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2001—present
• Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2008—2010
• Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998—2001
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1994—1998

Area of Specialization

• Metaphysics

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Religion
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language

Books

• Objects and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press]).

  —Hardcover, 2001.

  —Paperback, 2003.

  • Subject of a book symposium in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

  • Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, Philosophical Review, Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, Philosophical Books, Philosophia Christi.

  • Chapter Three—“Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism”—reprinted in Jaegwon Kim, Daniel Korman, and Ernest Sosa (eds.) Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

• Truth and Ontology (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press]).

  —Hardcover, 2007.

  —Paperback, 2009.

  • Subject of book symposia in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Philosophical Books.

  • Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, Philosophical Review, Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Disputatio, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie.

  • Chapter Eight—section on “Truth as a Primitive”—reprinted in Douglas Edwards (ed.) Truth: A Contemporary Reader (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

• Propositions (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press])

  —Hardcover, 2015.

  —Paperback, 2018.

  • Subject of three book symposia, one held at Universiteit Gent (Belgium) in June 2015, and the other two in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Analysis.

  • Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Philosophical Forum, International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

  • Featured on the general interest blogs Campaign for the American Reader and The Page 99 Test.

• Self and Identity (Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press])

  —Hardcover, 2022.

  • Subject of an Author Meets Critics session at the 2024 Eastern APA.

  • Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and (in Turkish) Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University).

  • Featured on the general interest blogs Campaign for the American Reader and The Page 99 Test.

Articles

• “Endurance and Indiscernibility,” Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994): 165–184.

  • Reprinted in Michael J. Loux (ed.) Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings (London: Routledge, 2002).

• “A New Objection to A Priori Arguments for Dualism,” American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1994): 81–85.

• “Warrant Entails Truth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995): 841–855.

• “On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities,” Mind 104 (1995): 523–531.

  • Translated into Japanese and Reprinted in Tatsuya Kashiwabata, Takuo Aoyama, and Taku Tanikawa (eds.) Readings in Contemporary Metaphysics (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2006).

  • Reprinted in Ernani Magalhaes and L. Nathan Oaklander (eds.)Presentism: Essential Readings (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).

• “On Behalf of the Coherentist,” Analysis 55 (1995): 306–309.

• “Discussion of Jaegwon Kim’s Supervenience and Mind,” Philosophical Books 36 (1995): 156–161. Published with a response by Kim, 161–164.

• “A Dilemma for Any Theory of Knowledge,” American Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1995): 279–284.

• “Fission and Personal Identity Over Time,” Philosophical Studies 88 (1997): 163–186.

• “More on Warrant’s Entailing Truth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997): 627–631.

• “Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience,” Mind 107 (1998): 59–71.

  • Reprinted in Jaegwon Kim (ed.) Supervenience (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002).

• “There Are No Criteria of Identity Over Time,” Noûs 32 (1998): 106–124.

• “On Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic,” Mind 107 (1998): 845–846.

• “Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Counterpart Theory,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1999): 192–195.

• “Persistence, Parts, and Presentism,” Noûs 33 (1999): 421–438.

• “Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1999): 983–997.

• “‘No Statues’,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (2000): 47–52.

• “Perdurance and Psychological Continuity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000): 195–198.

• “Varieties of Vagueness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (2001): 145–157.

• “How to Live Forever without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality” in Kevin Corcoran (ed.) Soul, Body, and Survival(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).

• “Realism About Personal Identity Over Time,” Noûs supplemental volume (Philosophical Perspectives, 15, Metaphysics (ed.) James E. Tomberlin) (2001).

• “Conditional Probability and Defeat” in James Beilby (ed.) Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002). Published with a response by Plantinga.

• “Maximality and Consciousness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (2003): 150–158.

• “Précis” and “Replies to Lowe, Dorr, and Sider” for a symposium on Objects and Persons, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2003): 700–703 and 727–744.

• “The End of Counterpart Theory,” Journal of Philosophy 100 (2003): 521–549.

• “Composition and Vagueness,” Mind 114 (2005): 615–637.

• “Split Brains and the Godhead,” in Thomas Crisp, Matthew Davidson, and David Vander Laan (eds.) Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga on His Seventieth Birthday(Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006).

• “Good-Bye Growing Block” in Dean Zimmerman (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 2(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

• “The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation” in Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds.) Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

  • Reprinted in Jonathan J. Loose, Angus J. L. Menuge, and J. P. Moreland (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

• “Remarks on Vagueness and Arbitrariness,” Mind 116 (2007): 115–119.

• “Summary” and “Replies to Cameron, Schaffer, and Soames” for a symposium on Truth and Ontology, Philosophical Books 49 (2008): 289–291 and 328–343.

• “The Resurrection of the Body” in Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

• “Truth and Freedom,” Philosophical Review 118 (2009): 29–57.

  • Reprinted in John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd (eds.) Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

• “Truthmaker” in Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary Rosenkrantz (eds.) A Companion to Metaphysics, 2^nd edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2009).

  • Translated into Portuguese and Reprinted in the July 5, 2010 issue of the online journal Crítica: revista de filosofia (criticanarede.com/html/veridador.html).

• “Propositional Attitudes?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (2009): 207–232.

• “Truth and Molinism” in Kenneth J. Perszyk (ed.) Molinism: the Contemporary Debate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

• “Replies to Hasker and Zimmerman” in Kenneth J. Perszyk (ed.) Molinism: the Contemporary Debate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

• “Précis” and “Replies to Bennett, Hawley, and McDaniel” for a symposium on Truth and Ontology, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (2011): 184–186 and 212–233.

• “Foreknowledge and Freedom,” Philosophical Review 120 (2011): 567–586.

• “Singular Propositions” and “Postscript” in Kelly James Clark and Michael C. Rea (eds.) Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

• “Three Comments on Writing the Book of the World,” Analysis 73 (2013): 722–736.

• “Do Ordinary Objects Exist? No” in Elizabeth Barnes (ed.) Current Controversies in Metaphysics (New York: Routledge, 2016).

• “Précis” and “Replies to Wang, Speaks, and Pautz” for a symposium on Propositions, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (2016): 460–461 and 487–05.

• “Summary” and “Replies to Glick, Hanks, and Magidor” for a symposium on Propositions, Analysis 77 (2017): 357–359 and 393–411.

• “Locating Vagueness,” Journal of Philosophy 114 (2017): 221–250.

• “The Only Way to Be,” Noûs (2019): 593–612.

• “Progress and Pluralism in Philosophy,” Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift (Munich Journal of Theology) 4 (2022): 362–375.

Reviews

• Review of Arda Denkel, Object and Property in Mind 105 (1996): 694–696.

• Review of Paul Helm, Belief Policies in Faith and Philosophy 13 (1996): 449–454.

• Review of Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Substance Among Other Categories in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997): 480–482.

• Review of Jonathan Dancy (ed.) Reading Parfit in Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 422–425.

• Review of Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) Questions of Time and Tense in Ethics 110 (2000): 885.

• Review of Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist in Mind 112 (2003): 146–148.

• Review of Peter van Inwagen, The Problem of Evil in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5444 (August 3, 2007): 26.

• Review of Eric Olson, What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5521 (January 23, 2009): 24.

• Review of Kathrin Koslicki, The Structure of Objects in Journal of Philosophy 106 (2009): 301–307.

Semi–Popular Articles

• “The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting” in Michael Murray (ed.) Reason for the Hope Within (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).

  • Reprinted in Michael C. Rea (ed.) Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, vol. 2: Providence, Scripture, and Resurrection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

• “U2 and the Problem of Evil” in Mark Wrathall (ed.) U2 and Philosophy (Peru, IL: Open Court, 2006).

  • This volume has been translated into Portuguese as U2 e a Filosfia (Madras Editora, 2008) and German as Die Philosophie bei U2 (Wiley-VCH, 2009).

Academic Honors and Fellowships

• UVA Student Council Teaching Award, 2021—Students, and only students, nominate and select the recipients of this award.

• Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship for 2008–2010—This is UVA’s highest award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and is awarded each year to one faculty member.

• Two NEH Fellowships:

  —academic year 2004–2005 (resulting in Truth and Ontology)

  —academic year 1990–2000 (resulting in Objects and Persons)

• UVA Faculty Fellowship for Summer Research 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014

• UVA Sesquicentennial Fellowship—Fall 2010, Spring 2016

• VCU Faculty Development Award 1997

• ACLS International Travel Grant for participation in Third Bariloche Colloquium of Philosophy in Bariloche, Argentina 1996

• Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship—academic year 1995–1996 (resulting in a series of papers on identity)

• VCU Faculty Grant-in-Aid (1995) for work on Criteria of Identity

Paper Presentations

• “Arguments and Closure”—University of California Santa Barbara: March 2022; University of Virginia: March 2022; University of Notre Dame: April 2022; Rutgers University (Sanders Lecture): October 2022; Zhongnan University of Economics and Law: December 2022; Georgetown University: April 2023.

• “The Resurrection of the Body”—Thomistic Institute Conference on the Soul, Dominican House of Studies: February 2023.

• “Progress and Pluralism in Philosophy”—SCP Group Meeting at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA: January 2022; Theology and Metaphysics Conference, Munich, Germany: February 2022; Westmont College (Erasmus Lecture): March 2022.

• “The Hope of Glory”—Baylor University: April 2021.

• “Discussion of Self and Identity”—Yale University: March 2021.

• “Is Identity Necessary for Survival?”—Virginia Commonwealth University: September 2019.

• “Identity and What Matters”—Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, Tucson, AZ: January 2018; Keynote Lecture at Syracuse University Philosophy Graduate Conference: April 2018; Virginia Commonwealth University: November 2018; Keynote Lecture at New England Workshop on Metaphysics, Rhode Island College: November 2018; Simon Fraser University: March 2020.

• “Self, Transformation, and the Hope of Glory”—Fourth Theistic Ethics Workshop, Wake Forest University: October 2018.

• “Identity, Self, and Transformation”—Keynote Lecture at Themes in Transformative Experience Conference, Seattle, WA: April 2017; University of Virginia: March 2017.

• “The Only Way to Be”—Georgetown University: January 2017; Workshop on Eliminativism in Ovronnaz (Switzerland): July 2016; SCP Group Meeting at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA: January 2016.

• “Locating Vagueness”—University of Oklahoma: February 2016; Liberty University: February 2016; Georgetown University: November 2015; Baylor University: October 2015; University of Richmond: September 2015; Institut Jean Nicod (Paris): June 2015; Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam): June 2015; University of Virginia: April 2015; Virginia Commonwealth University: February 2015.

• “Aseity and Simplicity”—University of St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology; June 2015.

• “Replies to Laura Georgescu, Berit Brogaard, and Sara Bernstein” for a symposium on Propositions held at Universiteit Gent (Belgium): June 2015.

• “Modal Validity and Logical Validity”—James Madison University: February 2016; Georgetown University: April 2014; California Metaphysics Conference at the University of Southern California: January 2014; Keynote Lecture at Eastern Regional SCP Conference, University of South Florida: October 2013; College of William and Mary: September 2013; University of Virginia: February 2012.

• “Foreknowledge and Freedom”—BGND Philosophy of Religion Conference at Georgetown University: October 2011.

• “Singular Propositions”—Virginia Commonwealth University: September 2010; Alvin Plantinga Retirement Celebration at the University of Notre Dame: May 2010.

• “The Solution to Kripke’s Puzzle, and Frege’s Too”—University of Vermont: October 2009; Colgate University: November 2010; Georgetown University: November 2010.

• “Propositional Attitudes?”—Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge University: May 2009; Aristotelian Society, London: April 2009; University of Durham: April 2009; University of Virginia: February 2009; Arizona Ontology Conference: January 2009; Georgetown University: November 2008; University of Illinois: October 2008.

• “Resurrection of the Body”—Royal Institute of Philosophy (Durham): April 2009.

• “Truth and Freedom”—Second International UVA Philosophy Colloquium in Tarma, Peru: August 2008; Australian National University: June 2008; University of Auckland: June 2008; University of Notre Dame: March 2008; University of Michigan: February 2008; University of St. Andrews: December 2007; Wake Forest University: November 2007; Georgetown University: November 2007.

• “How to Make a Counterfactual of Freedom True”—Victoria University (Wellington, NZ): June 2008; el Primer Coloquio Peruano de Filosofía Analítica, Lima, Peru: August 2008.

• “Presentism and Truth”—West Virginia University: April 2007.

• “Truth Supervenes on Being”—University of Maryland: December 2006; Central APA Symposium on Truthmakers: April 2006; Conference on the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe, University at Buffalo: April 2006; University of Texas: February 2006; University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat: October 2005.

• “Grounding and Subjunctive Conditionals: A Defense of God’s Middle-Knowledge, Among other Things”—Invited Plenary Session of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Washington, D.C.: November 2006.

• “Truthmaker, Negative Existentials, and Dispositional Conditionals”—Virginia Commonwealth University: November 2006.

• “Why Tables and Chairs Don’t Exist But You Do”—Morehead State University: November 2005.

• “Composition and Vagueness”—Ohio State University: December 2004; University of Georgia: October 2004; Georgetown University: September 2004; University of Virginia: April 2004; Oxford Philosophical Society, Oxford University: March 2004; University College London: March 2004; Virginia Philosophical Association, Mary Baldwin College: September 2003.

• “The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation”—Butler Society for Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University: March 2004; Pew Workshop on the Metaphysics of the Human Person, Princeton, NJ: February 2004.

• “Split Brains and the Godhead”—West Virginia University: April 2007; 2004 Sino-American Conference in Philosophy and Religion: The Nature of Persons, Sichuan University (China): June 2004; Liberty University: January 2004; Purdue University: November 2002; University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat: September 2002; Pew Workshop on the Metaphysics of the Human Person, Princeton, NJ: September 2002; Davidson College: March 2003.

• “The End of Counterpart Theory”—Metaphysical Mayhem VII, Syracuse University: August 2002; University of Virginia: April 2002; Western Washington University: February 2002; Virginia Commonwealth University: November 2001.

• “How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality”—Messiah College: January 2001; Invited Plenary Session of the Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific Division Regional Meeting: March 2000.

• “Realism About Personal Identity Over Time”—University of Virginia: January 2001; Central Division Meeting of the APA: May 1999; College of William and Mary: September 1998; Metaphysical Mayhem III, University of Notre Dame: July 1998.

• “Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism”—Eastern APA Symposium on Ontology: December 1999; Metaphysical Mayhem IV, University of Notre Dame: August 1999; University of Virginia (summer colloquium series): June 1999.

• “Persistence, Parts, and Presentism”—Central Division Meeting of the APA: May 1998.

• “The Varieties of Vagueness (Fewer Than You Think)”—Symposium in Metaphysics, Franklin and Marshall College: April 1998; Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March 1998; Metaphysical Mayhem II, University of Notre Dame: August 1997.

• “Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity”—University of Delaware: November 1997; Eastern Division Meeting of the APA: December 1995.

• “Personal Identity, ‘Personal Identity’, and Thoughts About Personal Identity”—Third Bariloche Colloquium of Philosophy, Bariloche, Argentina: August 1996; Western Washington University: April 1996.

• “Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: April 1996; Syracuse University: January 1996.

• “Personal Identity Matters in Survival”—University of Virginia: November 1995.

• “On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities”—Central Division Meeting of the APA: April 1995; Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology: April 1995.

• “A Dilemma for Any Theory of Knowledge”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March 1995.

• “Warrant Entails Truth”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: April 1994.

• “Endurance and Indiscernibility”—Virginia Commonwealth University: February 1994; University of Notre Dame: April 1993.

• “Prolegomena to any Investigation into Persistence”—Pacific Division Meeting of the APA: March 1993.

• “Persons and Kinds”—Valparaiso University and Society of Christian Philosophers Conference: October 1991; Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Meeting: June 1991.

• “Properly Basic Beliefs: A Response to Audi”—The Colgate Undergraduate Philosophy and Religion Conference: April 1989.

Conference Participation Other Than Paper Presentations

Comments given on the following papers

• Li Kang, “The Relative Identity of All Objects: Tiantai Buddhism Meets Analytic Metaphysics,” Persistence of Goodness: A Celebration of Katherine Hawley: June 2021.

• Kris McDaniel, “Being and Essence,” BGND Philosophy of Religion Conference at Georgetown University: October 2014.

• Peter van Inwagen, “Inside and Outside the Ontology Room,” California Metaphysics Conference at the University of Southern California: January 2014.

• Dean Zimmerman, “Presentism, the Moving Spotlight, and Timeless Truth,” God, Time, and Eternity Workshop at Queens University Belfast: December 2012.

• Patrick Todd, “Prepunishment and Explanatory Dependence: A New Argument for Incompatibilism About Foreknowledge and Freedom,” God, Time, and Eternity Workshop at Queens University Belfast: December 2012.

• Peter Martens, “Embodiment in Origen and Plato: Pre-Existent Souls and their Fall,” Logos Workshop at the University of Notre Dame: May 2012.

• Caspar Hare, “Determinism, Sloth, and the Opacity of the Future,” Carolina Metaphysics Workshop: June 2011.

• Michael Pelczar, “Relativity and Experience,” Third UVA Philosophy Department International Colloquium (in Charlottesville): April 2011.

• Iris Einheuser, “Worldmaking Revisited,” Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN): July 2010.

• Carrie Jenkins and Daniel Nolan, “Backwards Explanation and the ‘Real’ Explanation,” 2007 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference: August 2007.

• Chen Xia, “Human Nature in Early Daoism,” 2004 Sino-American Conference in Philosophy and Religion: The Nature of Persons, Sichuan University (China): June 2004.

• Patrick Toner, “Contingently Existing Propositions,” University of Virginia Philosophy Retreat, September 2003.

• Amie Thomasson, “Metaphysical Arguments Against Ordinary Objects,” Syracuse Workshop in Metaphysics, Syracuse University: August 2003.

• Michael C. Rea, “Why Naturalists Must Be Dualists (and Maybe Solipsists Too),” 48^th Annual Wheaton College Philosophy Conference—Immortality and the Philosophy of Mind: October 2001.

• Alan Sidelle, “Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?” Metaphysical Mayhem V, Syracuse University: August 2000.

• Ernest Sosa, “Reliability and the A Priori,” Symposium on “Current Issues in Ontology” at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2000.

• Chase B. Wrenn, “Pragmatism, Truth, and Inquiry,” Eastern APA: December 1999.

• Dean Zimmerman, “Epiphenomenalism and ‘The Given’,” Symposium in Metaphysics, Franklin and Marshall College: April 1998.

• Dean Zimmerman, “Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism,” Metaphysical Mayhem II, University of Notre Dame: August 1997.

• E. J. Lowe, “Ontological Categories and Natural Kinds,” Symposium on “Kinds and Categories” at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 1996.

• Dean Zimmerman, “A Theory of Masses,” Colloquium at University of Notre Dame: February 1994.

Chaired the following sessions

• Ranch Metaphysics Workshop (speaker: Ram Neta), Tucson, Arizona: January 2022.

• Ranch Metaphysics Workshop (speaker: Ted Sider), Tucson, Arizona: February 2020.

• Ranch Metaphysics Workshop (speaker: Sara Bernstein), Tucson, Arizona: January 2019.

• Symposium on Scott Soames’s Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning (speakers: Stephen Schiffer, Ben Caplan, Scott Soames), Eastern Division Meeting of the APA: January 2016.

• Carolina Metaphysics Workshop (speaker: Jessica Wilson), Tucson, Arizona: January 2013.

• The Future of the Philosophy of Time Conference (speaker: Barry Dainton), Wake Forest University: April 2010.

• Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting (speaker: Michael C. Rea), Asbury Seminary: December 2003.

• Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (speaker: Sarah McGrath; commentators: Mark Heller, Timothy O’Connor), Western Washington University: August 2003.

• Philosophy of Time Society (speaker: Ted Sider; commentator: John Hawthorne), Central Division Meeting of the APA: May 1999.