Seminar Visitors

Phil Dowe

Phil Dowe, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland, has published four books and numerous articles on causation and related topics in the philosophy of science. His Physical Causation appeared as a paperback in 2007. Dowe’s work on causation places him among the most distinguished philosophers of his generation writing on causation, a topic central to the seminar. He will visit the seminar during the fifth week.

Jaegwon Kim

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Past President of the American Philosophical Association. Kim is author of four books, most recently Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (Princeton University Press, 2005), editor of five collections, and he has published dozens of articles on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. His work on supervenience changed the face of the philosophy of mind, and his more recent writings on the prospects for mind–brain reduction have sparked new debates among philosophers and non-philosophers alike. Kim will visit the Seminar during the seminar’s third week.

E. J. Lowe

E. J. Lowe is professor of philosophy at the University of Durham. Lowe has published over 150 articles on metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. His books include: Kinds of Being (1989), Subjects of Experience (1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), A Survey of Metaphysics (2002), Locke (2005), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), and, most recently, Personal Agency (2009). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a British Academy Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He will visit the seminar during the fourth week.