Neil E. Williams
PhD
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Contact Information
136-C Park Hall
UB North Campus
Buffalo NY, 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 645-0161
Fax: (716) 645-6139
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Education
PhD, Columbia
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Current Research
Causal Powers; Persistence; Properties; Natural Kinds.
Courses
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Color
- Introduction to Logic
Selected Publications
- 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.