Neil E. Williams

PhD

Neil E. Williams.

Neil E. Williams

PhD

Neil E. Williams

PhD

Professor and Department Chair
Department of Philosophy

Areas of Specialization

Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science

Education

PhD, Columbia

Current Research

Causal Powers; Persistence; Properties; Natural Kinds.

Courses

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Color
  • Introduction to Logic

Selected Publications

  • The Powers Metaphysic (2019) Oxford.
  • Dispositions and the Argument from Science  (2011) Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
  • Putnam’s Traditional Neo-Essentialism  (2011) Philosophical Quarterly.
  • Puzzling Powers: The Problem of Fit   (2010) The Metaphysics of Dispositions: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations Marmodoro, A (ed.). New York: Routledge.
  • A Dispositional Theory of Possibility (2008) Dialectica. (with A. Borghini).
  • The Factory Model of Disease (2007) The Monist.
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Oxford publishes The Powers Metaphysic by Neil Williams

Professor Neil Williams' new book is an engaging and unique case study in systematic metaphysics. He argues that we can solve a host of basic metaphysical problems by appealing to the nature of objects. See Oxford UP.