LAURIE PAUL Associate Professor

Laurie Paul will be joining the faculty in Fall 2008, coming to Chapel Hill from the University of Arizona. She specializes in metaphysics with a focus on mereology, causation, identity, constitution and essence. She also has interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. She is the co-editor of Causation and Counterfactuals, (2004), ed. with Collins and Hall. Other selected publications include: "The Worm at the Root of the Passions," Utilitas (1998), "Aspect Causation," Journal of Philosophy (2000), "Logical Parts," Noûs (2002), "The Context of Essence," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2004), "Coincidence as Overlap," Noûs, (2006), "In Defense of Essentialism," Philosophical Perpectives (2006),"Constitutive Overdetermination," Topics in Contemporary Philosophy IV (2007). [Complete CV]

email: lapaul@arizona.edu
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