CURRICULUM VITAE
E. J. LOWE
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Education
St Edmund Hall,
Degrees
BA (Cantab) in
History, First Class, 1971 (MA 1975)
BPhil (Oxon) in
Philosophy, 1974
DPhil (Oxon) in
Philosophy, 1975
Research undertaken for higher degrees
BPhil thesis,
DPhil thesis,
Employment
Lecturer in
Philosophy (Temporary), University of Reading, 1978-79
Lecturer in
Philosophy, University of Durham, 1980-90
Senior Lecturer
in Philosophy, University of Durham, 1990-92
Reader in
Philosophy, University of Durham, 1992-5
Professor of
Philosophy,
British
Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, 2003-04
General Editor
(with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
monograph series
Member of RAE
sub-panel 60 (Philosophy), from 2005
Member of
Membership of professional organisations
Member of: the Aristotelian Society,
the Mind Association, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the
British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Royal Institute of
Philosophy, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association,
the Philosophy of Science Association, the British Philosophy Association
External examining appointments
A. Undergraduate
degree programmes
External Examiner in Philosophy for the BA in Combined Studies at Sunderland University, 1985-1989 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, 1991-1995 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, 1992-3
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of London, 1995-7 inclusive and 2000
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, 1996-98 inclusive
External Examiner in PPP, Philosophy & Modern Languages, and Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, 2002-04 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, 2004-06 inclusive
External Examiner
in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, 2005-07 inclusive
B. Postgraduate
taught degree programmes
External Examiner
for the MA in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, 2004-06 inclusive
External Examiner
for the MLitt in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, 2005-07 inclusive
C. Postgraduate
research theses
1992:
TEACHING AND SUPERVISION
A. Undergraduate
teaching
Areas of specialism: metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy
of mind, Locke
Areas of competence: history of modern philosophy from Descartes
to Kant, philosophy of language, political philosophy, philosophy of science
Current undergraduate teaching responsibilities
Metaphysics: third year module, sole
responsibility
Logic: second year module, sole responsibility
B. Postgraduate
research supervision
Sharon Ney: PhD student, topic: the
logical possibility of time travel, degree awarded 1993
Susan Southgate: PhD student, topic:
personal identity, degree awarded 1994
Paul S. McDonald: PhD student [AHRB funded],
supervised jointly with Prof. D. E. Cooper, topic: Cartesian doubt and
Husserlian phenomenology, degree awarded 1996
Man Cheung Chung: PhD student, supervised
jointly with Dr A. J. Hamilton, topic: philosophical issues in psychology and
psychiatry (registration temporarily suspended)
Martin Connor: PhD student, supervised
jointly with Dr P. J. FitzPatrick, topic: the Stoics on nature and truth, degree
awarded 2001
Nicholas Southgate: PhD student, topic: the
philosophy of personal identity, degree awarded 1999
Sophie Gibb: PhD student, topic: the
metaphysics of mental causation, degree awarded 2003
William J. Pollard: PhD student [AHRB funded],
topic: norms and rationality, degree awarded 2002
Geraldine Coggins: PhD student, topic:
metaphysical problems of existence, degree awarded 2003
Yasushi Ihara: PhD student, topic:
metaphysics and Zen philosophy
George Rea: PhD student, topic:
induction and scientific method
Daisuke Kaida: PhD student, topic:
metaphysics of mind
Phillip Meadows: PhD student, topic:
geometry of visual space
Paul Winstanley: PhD student, topic: modal
metaphysics and the mind-body problem
Matthew Conduct: PhD student [AHRB funded],
topic: perception and action
Richard Clarkson: PhD student, topic:
ontology and mental representation
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Current departmental responsibilities:
Chairman of the
Board of Examiners in Philosophy,
Current college responsibilities:
College tutor for
University College Durham (jointly with Mrs S. L. Lowe)
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Main research interests: problems of identity and
substance; the logic of sortal terms; the logic of conditionals; problems of
causation and natural law; induction and scientific method; problems of space
and time; the philosophy of perception; the philosophy of action; the problem
of free will; the mind-body problem; philosophical and psychological problems
of human rationality; the philosophical thought of John Locke
A1. Published
books
1. Kinds
of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms
(Aristotelian Monograph Series, No. 10), Oxford & New York: Basil
Blackwell, 1989, pp. vi + 210. Reviews: P. F. Snowdon, Philosophical
Books 32, 1991, 37-9; H. W. Noonan, Philosophy
66, 1991, 248-9; G. Engelbretsen, Iyyun
40, 1991, 100-105; P. Simons, Mind
101, 1992, 581-2; M. Baur, Review of
Metaphysics 46, 1992, 166-8
2. Locke on Human Understanding, London
& New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. x + 203. Reviews: A. Miller, Locke
Newsletter 26, 1995, 141-55; P. Snowdon, Mind 105, 1996, 348-51; B. Maund, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 1996, 528-30; N. Unwin, Philosophical Books 38, 1997, 97-8; E.
Barbanell, Canadian Philosophical Reviews
15, 1995, 410-12; D. W. Hamlyn, Philosophical Investigations 20, 1997,
155-9; D. Doering, Jahrbuch zur
Liberalismus-Forschung 8, 1996, 251-2; A. Nelson & L. Nolan, Philosophia 27, 1999, 665-8
3. Subjects of Experience, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. x + 209. Reviews: K. Sutherland, Times
Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 11, 1996, 21; J. Heil, Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 10,
1997, 27; G. Madell, Philosophy 72,
1997, 147-50; J. Brown, Philosophical
Books 39, 1998, 56-8; K. Paprzycka, Canadian
Philosophical Reviews 17, 1997, 45-7; J. L. Bermudez, Philosophical Quarterly 49, 1999, 272-5; U. Uus, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6,
1999, 90-1; C. Macdonald, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 60, 2000, 224-8; C. J. L. Talmage, Dialogue 37, 1998, 631-3
4. The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance,
Identity and Time, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. viii + 275. Reviews: F.Jackson, Times Literary Supplement, Apr. 9, 1999, 33; K. Hawley, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 50, 1999, 478-82; S. McLeod, History
and Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999, 141-3; E. Olson, Mind 109, 967-9; J. Heil, Philosophical
Review 110, 91-4; G. Rosenkrantz, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research 64, 2002, 728-36
5. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiii + 318. Reviews: M. di Francesco, Il Sole 24 Ore, 292, Oct. 29 2000, 34;
St.E. Cuypers, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
3, 2001; S. Crawford, Times Literary
Supplement, 5167, Apr. 12 2002, 29] Spanish language version: Filosofia
de la Mente, trans. O. Fernandez Prat, Idea Books, 2000, pp. 281
6. A Survey of Metaphysics, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2002, pp. xiii + 402. Reviews:
T. Crane, Times Higher Education
Supplement, May 31, 2002; G. Keil, Zeitschrift
fur Philosophische Forschung 57, 2003, 320-4
7. Locke,
London & New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. xiii + 220.
8. The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical
Foundation for Natural Science, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
A2. Edited
volumes
1. Analytic
Philosophy Without Naturalism, ed. A. Corradini, S. Galvan & E. J.
Lowe, London & New York: Routledge, 2005.
B. Published articles
1. Neither intentional nor unintentional, Analysis 38, 1978, 117-18
2. Indicative and counterfactual conditionals, Analysis 39, 1979, 139-41
3. For want of a nail, Analysis 40, 1980, 50-2
4. Peacocke and Kraemer on
5. Active and passive euthanasia: an objection, Philosophy 55, 1980, 550-1
6. Reply to
7. Sortal terms and natural laws, American Philosophical Quarterly 17,
1980, 253-60 [Prize Essay]
8. An analysis of intentionality, Philosophical Quarterly 30, 1980,
294-304
9. Against an argument
for token identity, Mind 90, 1981,
120-1
10. “All actions
occur inside the body”, Analysis 41,
1981, 126-9
11. Indirect
perception and sense data, Philosophical
Quarterly 31, 1981, 330-42
12. Laws,
dispositions and sortal logic, American
Philosophical Quarterly 19, 1982,
41-50
13. The paradox
of the 1,001 cats, Analysis 42, 1982,
27-30
14. Reply to
Geach, Analysis 42, 1982, 31
15.
Intentionality and intuition: a reply to
Davies, Analysis 42, 1982, 85
16. On being a
cat, Analysis 42, 1982, 174-7
17.
Intentionality: a reply to Stiffler, Philosophical
Quarterly 32, 1982, 354-7
18. On the alleged necessity of true identity statements, Mind 91, 1982, 579-84
19.
Instantiation, identity and constitution, Philosophical
Studies 44, 1983, 45-59
20. A
simplification of the logic of conditionals, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24, 1983, 357-66
21. On the identity of artifacts, Journal of Philosophy 80, 1983, 220-32
22. Reply to
Hornsby on actions, Analysis 43,
1983, 140-1
23. A note on a
response of Hornsby’s, Analysis 44,
1984, 196-7
24. Wright versus
Lewis on the transitivity of counterfactuals, Analysis 44, 1984, 180-3
25. Reply to
26. “If A and B,
then A”, Analysis 45, 1985, 93-8
27. Sortal terms
and absolute identity, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 64, 1986,
64-71
28. Necessity and
the will in Locke’s theory of action, History
of Philosophy Quarterly 3, 1986, 149-63 [reprinted in U. Thiel (ed.), Locke: Metaphysics,
29. Reply to
Wright on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis
45, 1985, 200-2
30. What do we
see directly?, American
Philosophical Quarterly 23, 1986, 277-85
31. The topology
of visual appearance, Erkenntnis 25,
1986, 271-4
32. Miracles and
laws of nature, Religious Studies 23,
1987, 263-78
33. Reply to
Dale, Analysis 46, 1986, 83-5
34. Substance, An Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. G. H.
R. Parkinson,
35. Noonan on
naming and predicating, Analysis 46,
1986, 159
36. The indexical
fallacy in McTaggart’s proof of the unreality of time, Mind 96, 1987, 62-70
37. Not a
counterexample to modus ponens, Analysis
47, 1987, 44-7
38. On a supposed temporal/modal parallel, Analysis 46, 1986, 195-7
39. Reply to
Over, Analysis 46, 1986, 200
40. What is the “problem of induction”?, Philosophy 62, 1987,
325-40
41. Lewis on
perdurance versus endurance, Analysis
47, 1987, 152-4 [reprinted in H. Noonan (ed.), Identity,
42. Reply to
Noonan, Analysis 47, 1987, 201-3
43. Reply to Le
Poidevin and Mellor, Mind 96, 1987,
539-42
44. Substance,
identity and time, Aristotelian Society
Supplementary Volume 62, 1988, 61-78
45. What is a
criterion of identity?, Philosophical Quarterly 39, 1989, 1-21 [reprinted in H. Noonan
(ed.), Identity,
46. The problems
of intrinsic change: rejoinder to Lewis, Analysis
48, 1988, 72-7
47. David Lewis, Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology,
ed. H. Burkhardt & B. Smith,
48. Impredicative
identity criteria and Davidson’s criterion of event identity, Analysis 49, 1989, 178-81
49. Conditionals,
context and transitivity, Analysis
50, 1990, 80-7
50. Real selves:
persons as a substantial kind, Human
Beings, ed. D. Cockburn,
51. Objects and
criteria of identity, A Companion to the
Philosophy of Language, ed. R. Hale & C. Wright, Oxford & Cambridge
MA: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 613-33
52. Experience
and its objects, The Contents of
Experience, ed. T. Crane,
53. Contributions
to Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher et al.,
Oxford & Aberdeen: Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 1993: a
priori; abstract ideas; epistemology;
natural kinds; sortal terms [reprinted in Concise
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language, ed. P. V. Lamarque, Oxford:
Elsevier Science, 1997]
54.
55. Substance and
selfhood, Philosophy 66, 1991, 81-99
56. One-level
versus two-level identity criteria, Analysis
51, 1991, 192-4
57. Noun phrases,
quantifiers, and generic names, Philosophical
Quarterly 41, 1991, 287-300
58. Rationality,
deduction and mental models, Rationality,
ed. K. Manktelow & D. Over,
59. Primitive
substances, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 54, 1994, 531-52
60. The problem
of psychophysical causation, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 70, 1992, 263-76 [reprinted in T. O’Connor & D.
Robb (eds), Philosophy
of Mind: Contemporary Readings,
61. McTaggart’s
paradox revisited, Mind 101, 1992,
323-6
62. Reply to
Ramachandran on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis 52, 1992, 77-80
63. Perception: a
causal representative theory, New
Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception, ed. E.
Wright,
64. Comment on Le
Poidevin, Mind 102, 1993, 171-3
65. Contributions
to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy,
ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995: a priori and a
posteriori; A-series and B-series; affirmative and negative propositions;
analytic and synthetic statements; axiom; being; Bennett; capacity; Carnap;
cat, Schroedinger’s; class; contingent and necessary statements; Dummett;
existence; existential proposition; fact; generalization; identity, criterion
of; Jackson; kind, natural; Kripke; Mellor; mereology; mode; monism and
pluralism; names; necessary and sufficient conditions; necessity, epistemic;
necessity, logical; necessity, metaphysical; nominalism; ontology; particulars
and non-particulars; philosophical logic; potentiality; propensity; Ramsey; realization;
recursion, definition by; redundancy theory of truth; reflective equilibrium;
rigid designator; self; semantic theory of truth; specious present; Stalnaker;
Strawson; things; thought experiments; time; time preference; time travel;
truth; universals; Wiggins
66. Self,
reference and self-reference, Philosophy
68, 1993, 15-33
67. Are the
natural numbers individuals or sorts?, Analysis 53,1993, 142-6
68. Vague
identity and quantum indeterminacy, Analysis
54, 1994, 110-14
69. The causal
autonomy of the mental, Mind 102,
1993, 629-44
70. Ontological
dependency, Philosophical Papers 23,
1994, 31-48
71. Die
Metaphysik und ihre Möglichkeit, Metaphysik—Neue
Zugänge zu alten Fragen, ed. J. Brandl, A. Hieke & P. Simons, St.
Augustin: Academia Verlag, 1995, 11-32
72. The truth
about counterfactuals, Philosophical
Quarterly 45,1995, 41-59
73. The problem
of the many and the vagueness of constitution, Analysis 55, 1995, 179-82
74. Coinciding
objects: in defence of the “standard account”, Analysis 55, 1995, 171-8
75. Tense and
persistence, Questions of Time and Tense,
ed. R. Le Poidevin,
76. The
metaphysics of abstract objects, Journal
of Philosophy 92, 1995, 509-24
77. There are no
easy problems of consciousness, Journal
of Consciousness Studies 2, 1995, 266-71 [reprinted in Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem,
ed. J. Shear,
78. Why is there
anything at all?, Aristotelian
Society Supplementary Volume 70, 1996, 111-20
79. John Locke;
Identity, Encyclopedia of Empiricism,
ed. D.Garrett &
80. Reply to
Noonan on vague identity, Analysis
57, 1997, 88-91
81. John Locke, Companion to the Philosophers, ed. R. L.
Arrington,
82. Ontological
categories and natural kinds, Philosophical
Papers 26, 1997, 29-46
83. Philosophical
logic, Contemporary British and American
Philosophy and Philosophers, ed. O. Kang, forthcoming
84. Conditional
probability and conditional beliefs, Mind
105, 1996, 603-15
85. Why there are
no easy problems of consciousness [abstract], History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter 22, Spring 1996, 17-18
86. Concreta:
substance—introduction, Metaphysics:
Contemporary Readings, ed. S. D. Hales,
87. Personal
experience and belief: the significance of external symbolic storage for the
emergence of modern human cognition, Cognition
and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage, ed. C. Scarre
& C. Renfrew, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
1998, 89-96
88. Whose
rationality? Logical theory and the problem of deductive competence, Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current
Psychology of Cognition 16, 1997, 140-6
89. Entity,
Identity and Unity, Erkenntnis 48,
1998, 191-208
90. Form without
Matter, Ratio 11, 1998, 214-34
[reprinted in Form and Matter: Themes in
Contemporary Metaphysics, ed. D. S. Oderberg,
91. Contributions
to The Fontana/Norton Dictionary of
Modern Thought, ed. A. Bullock and S. Trombley, 3rd edn, London:
Harper Collins, 1999: behaviourism; conventionalism; meaning; nominalism; realism; relativism
92. Self, agency
and mental causation, Journal of
Consciousness Studies 6, 1999, 225-39 [reprinted in The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will, ed. B.
Libet, A. Freeman & K. Sutherland, Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 1999]
93. Contributions
to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,
ed. R. Audi, 2nd edn,
94. Abstraction,
properties and immanent realism, Proceedings
of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics, ed.
T. Rockmore,
95. Commentary on
A. J. Hamilton’s ‘False Memory Syndrome and the Authority of Personal Memory
Claims’, Philosophy, Psychiatry and
Psychology 5, 1998, 309-10
96. Vague
identity and quantum indeterminacy: further reflections, Analysis 59, 1999, 328-30
97. In defence of the simplicity argument, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78, 2000, 105-12
98.
Individuation,
99. Causal
closure principles and emergentism, Philosophy
75, 2000, 571-85
100. Identity,
composition, and the simplicity of the self, Soul, Body and Survival, ed. K. J. Corcoran,
101. Locke,
Martin and substance, Philosophical
Quarterly 50, 2000, 499-514
102. Event
causation and agent causation, Grazer
Philosophische Studien 61, 2001, 1-20
103. Properties,
modes and universals, The Modern
Schoolman 74, 2002, 137-50
104. Ontic
indeterminacy of identity unscathed, Analysis
61, 2001, 241-5
105. Dispositions
and laws, Metaphysica 2, 2001, 5-23
106. Metaphysical
nihilism and the subtraction argument, Analysis
62, 2002, 62-73
107. Kinds,
essence and natural necessity, Individuals,
Essence and Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics, ed. A. Bottani, M.
Carrara & P. Giaretta,
108. A defence of
the four-category ontology, Argument und
Analyse, ed. C. U. Moulines & K. G. Niebergall, Paderborn: Mentis,
2002, 225-40
109.
Is knowing a state of mind? Critical notice of T. Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits, International Journal of Philosophical
Studies 10, 2002, 483-9
110. Substantial
change and spatiotemporal coincidence, Ratio
16, 2003, 140-60
111. The rational
and the real: some doubts about the programme of ‘rational analysis’, Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of
Rationality, ed. J. L. Bermudez & A. Millar,
112. Recent
advances in metaphysics [abstract], Formal
Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International
Conference,
113. Material
coincidence and the cinematographic fallacy: a response to Olson, Philosophical Quarterly 52, 2002, 369-72
114. Locke:
compatibilist event-causalist or libertarian substance-causalist? Critical
study of G. Yaffe’s Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68,
2004, 688-701
115. La
connaissance metaphysique, Revue de
metaphysique et morale, 2002, 453-71
116. A serious
look at serious naturalism: review essay on W. L. Craig & J. P. Moreland (eds), Naturalism: A
Critical Analysis, Philosophia
Christi 4, 2002, 197-2002
117. In defense of medium-sized specimens of dry goods, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
68, 2003, 704-10
118. Personal
agency, Minds and Persons, ed. A.
O’Hear,
119. [With Storrs
McCall] 3D/4D equivalence, the twins paradox, and absolute time, Analysis 63, 2003, 114-23
120. Substance causation, persons, and free will, Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. C. Kanzian, J. Quitterer & E. Runggaldier, Vienna, 2003, 76-88
121. Metaphysical realism and the unity of truth, Monism, ed. A. Bachli & K. Petrus,
122. Recent advances in metaphysics, Facta Philosophica 5, 2003, 3-24
123. Some formal ontological relations, Dialectica 58 (2004), 297-316
124. Physical causal closure and the invisibility of mental
causation, Physicalism and Mental
Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, ed.
S. Walter & H.-D. Heckmann,
125. Identity, Individuality and Unity, Philosophy 78, 2003, 321-36
126. Entries in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn, ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005: animalism in personal identity; causal asymmetry or direction; counterpart theory; disquotation; emergence; essentialism; f