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Metaphysics of time

Summary

Kristie Miller is the Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and co-director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Time. She is the author of seven books, most recently The Normative Status of Time Bias: An Empirically Led Investigation, and Out of Time (with Sam Baron and Jonathan Tallant). She publishes widely in the philosophy of time as well as in metaphysics quite generally, and has previously held an ARC DECRA, an ARC Senior Research Fellowship and an ARC Future Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Supervisor

Professor Kristie Miller.

Research location

Philosophy, School of Humanities (SOH)

Synopsis

Research interests

  • Philosophy of time including the metaphysics of time, temporal phenomenology and temporal attitudes
  • Composition and mereology
  • Persistence
  • Personal identity
  • Meta-ontology and grounding
  • Disagreement, (verbal vs substantial)
  • Concepts, conceptual revision and error theory
  • Experimental philosophy

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3179