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Kevin Morris
Kevin Morris
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
Major Advisor
kmorris4@tulane.edu
Newcomb 105D
Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 2011
B.A., The College of New Jersey, 2003
Biography
Philpapers page
Personal website
Research and Teaching Interests
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
History of Analytic Philosophy
Logic
Recent Seminar Topics
Consciousness and fundamentality
Realization and multiple realization
Phenomenalism, neutral monism, panpsychism
Language and ontology
Levels of reality
Relations and monism
Books
Early Analytic Philosophy: An Inclusive Reader With Commentary
(Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
Elementary Symbolic Logic: Concepts, Techniques, and Context
(Kendall Hunt, 2021)
Physicalism Deconstructed: Levels of Reality and the Mind-Body Problem
(Cambridge, 2018; View the
Table of Contents
)
Selected Articles
What's Wrong With Nonreductive Physicalism? The Exclusion Problem Reconsidered
,
ProtoSociology
(special issue on the philosophy of Jaegwon Kim) (2023)
The Super Justification Argument for Phenomenal Transparency
,
Inquiry
(2022)
Multiple Realization and Compositional Variation
,
Synthese
(2020)
What's Wrong With Brute Supervenience? A Defense of Horgan on Physicalism and Superdupervenience
,
Analytic Philosophy
59 (June 2018)
Truthmaking and the Mysteries of Emergence
, in Vintiadis and Mekios,
Brute Facts
(Oxford, 2018)
Physicalism, Truthmaking, and Levels of Reality: Prospects and Problems
,
Topoi
37 (special issue on physicalism) (September 2018)
How to Read Moore's 'Proof of an External World'
(with Conseulo Preti),
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
(2015)
Against Disanalogy-Style Responses to the Exclusion Problem
,
Philosophia
43 (June 2015)
Supervenience Physicalism, Emergentism, and the Polluted Supervenience Base
,
Erkenntnis
79 (April 2014)
On Two Arguments for Subset Inheritance
,
Philosophical Studies
163 (March 2013)
Subset Realization, Parthood, and Causal Overdetermination
,
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
92 (September 2011)
Guidelines for Theorizing About Realization
,
The Southern Journal of Philosophy
48 (December 2010)
Does Functional Reduction Need Bridge Laws? A Response to Marras
,
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
60 (September 2009)
CV
MORRIS CV JUNE 2022.pdf