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Philosophy

Dr. Michael Jubien

Michael Jubien

Areas of Specialization

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Math & Logic
  • Philosophy of Language

Contact Information

Email: mjubien

Books

  • Possibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Contemporary Metaphysics: An Introduction. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1997.
  • Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Selected Essays

  • "Dualizing Materialism", in The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, ed. R. Koons and G. Bealer, Oxford University Press: 2010.
  • "Analyzing Modality", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 3 (2007): 99-139.
  • "On Quine's Rejection of Intensional Entities", Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (2004): 209-225.
  • "Thinking About Things". Philosophical Perspectives 15 (2001): 1-15.
  • "Propositions and the Objects of Thought", Philosophical Studies 104 (2001): 47-62.
  • "Actualism and Iterated Modalities", Philosophical Studies 84 (1996): 109-125.
  • "The Myth of Identity Conditions", Philosophical Perspectives 10 (1996): 243-356.
  • "Proper Names", Philosophical Perspectives 7 (1993) pp. 487-504.
  • "Could This Be Magic?" Philosophical Review 100 (1991): 247-267.
  • "Straight Talk About Sets." Philosophical Topics 89 (1989): 91-107.
  • "Problems with Possible Worlds" in Philosophical Analysis. Ed. David F. Austin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1988. pp. 299-322.
  • "On Properties and Property Theory" in Properties, Types and Meaning, Vol. I: Foundational Issues. Ed. Gennaro Chierchia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. pp. 159-175.
  • "Formal Semantics and the Existence of Sets", Nous 15 (1981): 165-176.
  • "Intensional Foundations of Mathematics", Nous 15 (1981): 513-528.
  • "Ontology And Mathematical Truth", Nous 11 (1977): 133-150.
  • "Ontological Commitment To Kinds", Synthese 31 (1975): 85-106.
  • "Ontological Commitment to Particulars", Synthese 28 (1974): 513-531.
  • "Intensionality of Ontological Commitment", Nous 6 (1972): 378-387.
  • "Essential Properties And Reduction", Journal of Philosophy 67 (1970): 1024-1026.
  • "Two Kinds of Reduction", Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969): 533-541.

Selected Invited Lectures

  • University of Chicago
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Dartmouth College
  • Brown University
  • Amherst College
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Georgetown University
  • Arizona State University
  • Syracuse University