Neil E. Williams
PhD
Professor and Department Chair
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.