Kevin Morris

Education

Biography

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Academic Interests

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
History of Analytic Philosophy

Recent seminar topics

• Consciousness and fundamentality
• Realization and multiple realization
• Phenomenalism, neutral monism, panpsychism
• Language and ontology

Selected Publications

• Physicalism Deconstructed (Cambridge, 2018; Table of Contents here)
• Multiple Realization and Compositional Variation, Synthese (forthcoming)
• 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)