Michael Jubien, Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization

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

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