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Metaphysics

Summary

In January of 2006 Prof Miller took up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland. In July of 2006 Kristie and the grant moved to the University of Sydney and in January of 2009 she was awarded a University of Sydney DVC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Since 2011, she has been a Senior ARC Research Fellow. Prof Miller is currently joint Director of the Centre for Time.

Prof Miller's research interests lie primarily in metaphysics, though she has been known to dabble in related areas. In particular she's interested in mereology, space-time, composition and persistence. She mostly tends to think about chunks of matter and randomly arranged configurations of particulars.

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