ProfessorKristie Miller
Challis Chair in Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Challis Chair in PhilosophyFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Metaphysics of time
Summary of opportunity:
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.
Opportunity 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
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA Functional Approach to Ontology
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA New Direction for Time
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA Superior Panprotopsychism: Solutions to Combination Problems
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONArguing over words: a conceptual engineering approach to the problem of verbal disagreement
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONConventions, Desires, and Behaviors in Personal Identity
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDisentangling Coincidence: Location Parthood and the Risks of Conflation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExplanation, Relations, and Monistic Idealism
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInvestigating Mental Time Travel in Chimpanzees
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONOn Temporal Experiences: Passage Illusionism and Deflationism
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPresentism and Truthmaking
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRetentionalism Reconceived: A Principled Explanation of the Features of Time in Experience
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTemporal Doxa: Language Practice and the Symbolic Power of Temporal Norms in Comparative Perspective.
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTenselessness of Time: A tenseless account of the linguistic and psychological commitments to transitory time
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Case for Factualism
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Forgetful World: A defence of presentism in light of modern physics
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTime Biases and Rationality
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTruthmakers for Vagueness