ProfessorKristie Miller

Challis Chair in Philosophy

Faculty 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 SUPERVISION
    A Functional Approach to Ontology
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A New Direction for Time
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Superior Panprotopsychism: Solutions to Combination Problems
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Arguing over words: a conceptual engineering approach to the problem of verbal disagreement
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Conventions, Desires, and Behaviors in Personal Identity
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Disentangling Coincidence: Location Parthood and the Risks of Conflation
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Explanation, Relations, and Monistic Idealism
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating Mental Time Travel in Chimpanzees
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    On Temporal Experiences: Passage Illusionism and Deflationism
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Presentism and Truthmaking
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Retentionalism Reconceived: A Principled Explanation of the Features of Time in Experience
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Temporal Doxa: Language Practice and the Symbolic Power of Temporal Norms in Comparative Perspective.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tenselessness of Time: A tenseless account of the linguistic and psychological commitments to transitory time
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Case for Factualism
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Forgetful World: A defence of presentism in light of modern physics
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Time Biases and Rationality
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Truthmakers for Vagueness