Joshua M. Mozersky

Canada Research Chair in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science

Department of Philosophy

Queen’s University

Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

(613) 533-6000 ext. 77044

Web: http://post.queensu.ca/~mozersky

E-mail: joshua.mozersky@queensu.ca

 

 

I. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 

Education

Ph.D. (philosophy), University of Toronto, 1999    

M.A. (philosophy), New York University, 1995

B.Sc. (astronomy & physics), University of Toronto, 1992 

 

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor (tenure track) and Canada Research Chair, Queen’s University, 2002–

Co-investigator, Time and Universe (Canadian Research Enterprise for the Study of Time), 2004–

Visiting Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, 2004–2005

Assistant Professor (tenure track), Colgate University, 2001-2002

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 2000-2001

Lecturer, University of Toronto, 1999-2000

 

Awards and honours

ARC Research Award, Queen’s University, 2007

ARC Research Award, Queen’s University, 2006

Travel Award, Queen’s University, 2006

International Travel Grant, Ryerson University, 2005

Canada Research Chair (Tier II), Queen’s University, 2002-2007

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2002 (declined)

CDR Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1999-2000

Areas of Specialization

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Science                                                        

 

Areas of Competence

Epistemology

Formal Logic

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Probability

 

 

II. philosophical research

 

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

  1. Bourne-Again Presentism, in L. N. Oaklander (ed.) Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Routledge (forthcoming)
  2. Presentism, in Craig Callender (ed.) The Oxford Handbook on Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  3. A Tenseless Account of the Presence of Experience, Philosophical Studies 129 (2006): 441-476.
  4. The Future of Presentism, Chronos: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society 8 (2005-6).
  5. Comments on Myer, Chronos: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society 8 (2005-6)
  6. Comments on Beer, Chronos: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society 7 (2004-5)
  7. Smith on Times and Tokens, Synthese 129 (2001): 405-411.
  8. Tense and Temporal Semantics, Synthese 124 (2000): 247-269.
  9. Time, Tense and Special Relativity, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (2000): 221-236.

 

Reviews

  1. Bombs Away, The Literary Review of Canada 9 (2001): 25-28.
  2. Review of Perspectives on Time, edited by Jan Faye, et al.  International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (2000): 201-204
  3. Review of Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, by Huw Price.  International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12 (1998): 91-94
  4. Review of Realism and Truth, 2nd ed., by Michael Devitt. Philosophy in Review 17 (1997): 400-401

 

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed conferences

  1. The Future of Presentism, American Philosophical Association, Central Meeting, April 2006
  2. Comments on Myer’s ‘Presentism and Actualism’, American Philosophical Association, Central Meeting, April 2006
  3. Comments on Beer’s ‘Prior’s “Thank Goodness that’s Over” Objection to the B-Theory’, American Philosophical Association Central Meeting, Chicago, April 2005
  4. The Only Truth is Realist Truth, 45th Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Laval, May 2001
  5. A-series or B-series: What is the Question? 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Alberta, May 2000
  6. Time and the Experience of Passage, Ontario Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, October 1999
  7. The Cognitive Significance of Tense, 43rd Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Sherbrooke, June 1999
  8. Tense and Temporal Semantics, 42nd Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Ottawa, May 1998
  9. Truth, Realism and Bivalence, Ontario Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, November 1997
  10. Tense and Temporal Semantics, Western Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, University of Winnipeg, October 1997
  11. Facts and Events, 41st Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Memorial University, June 1997

 

Colloquia and other presentations

  1. The Future of Presentism, Queen’s University, November 2005
  2. Comments on Laycock’s ‘What is the Difference between Cats and Gold’, Queen’s University, September 2005
  3. Some Thoughts on Epistemic Conceptions of Truth, Ryerson University, May 2005.
  4. The Future of Presentism, Ryerson University, November 2004
  5. Knowledge, Probability and Truth, Queen’s University, March 2003
  6. Comments on William Seager’s ‘Skepticism and Uncertain Knowledge’, Queen’s University, November 2002
  7. Tense and Temporal Semantics, University of Toronto, October 1997

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. ‘Wholly Present’ Denied (But Three-Dimensionalism Affirmed) (submitted)
  2. Future Contingents and Three-Valued Logic (in preparation)
  3. Presentism and Proper Names (in preparation)
  4. Time, Language and Ontology (submitted)

 

 

III. Teaching and service

 

Graduate courses taught

Metaphysics II

Current Issues in Metaphysics

The Philosophy and Physics of Time

 

Advanced Undergraduate courses taught

Topics in Philosophy of Science     

Metaphysics

Special Topics in the Philosophy of Science

Minds and Machines

Philosophy of Natural Science

 

Beginning Undergraduate courses taught

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology and Metaphysics

Introduction to Philosophy

Symbolic Logic

Probability and Inductive Logic

Science and Social Context

Religion, Science and Philosophy

Critical Thinking

Philosophy of Mathematics

 

TRAINING

Ph.D. thesis

Rachael Sheffrin, Queen’s University, 2007: Thinking Beyond the Bounds of Sense: Reflections on the Possibility of Transcendental Reflection (reader)

 

M.A. theses

Matthew Lawson, Queen’s University, 2006: That Which Depends on Us: Understanding Stoic Determinism (reader).

Aaron Landry, Queen’s University, 2005: Shards of Mirror Still Reflect: An Analysis of Metaphor in Light of Contenxtualism (reader).

Ryan Doran, Queen’s University, 2002: Davidson and Mental Causation (reader)

 

Senior undergraduate research paper supervision

Tim Kusalik, Queen’s University, 2006: ‘A Possible Worlds Theory of Probability’.

Mark Fedyk, Queen’s University, 2003: ‘The Empty Future’.

Jim Grant, Queen’s University, 2002: ‘On Reference and Definite Descriptions’.

 

SERVICE

Academic Service

Referee, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2001                      
Co-Organizer, Symposium on the Metaphysics of Time, University of Alberta, 2000
Referee, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1997-1999

Session Chair, Canadian Graduate Students’ Conference in Philosophy, 1996              

Associate Editor, Conference: A Journal of Philosophy and Theory, 1994-1995

 

Departmental Service

Board of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2006–

Computer Representative, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2006–

Library Representative, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2006–

Organizer, Metaphysics and Epistemology Reading Group, Queen’s University, 2006–

Acting Head, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, June 22nd-30th, 2006

Placement Advisor, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2003–4

Appointments Committee, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2003–4, 2005-6

Board of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2002–4

 

Other Service – Consulting

Consultant and expert witness (in logic) for Export Links Inc., October 25th, 2005 (testified as part of a hearing before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal in Ottawa). 

 

 

IV. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

 

Reading knowledge of French

Extensive knowledge of PC based computers including word processing, data base management and web programming.

 

V. References

 

Professor James R. Brown

Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A1

Tel.: (416) 978-1727                            E-mail: jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca

 

Professor Ian Hacking

Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A1

Tel.: (416) 978-4951                            E-mail: ihack@chass.utoronto.ca

 

Professor Andrew Hunter

Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3

Tel.: (416) 979-5000 x16160               E-mail: ahunter@ryerson.ca

 

Professor Bernard D. Katz

Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A1

Tel.: (416) 926-1300                            E-mail: bkatz@chass.utoronto.ca

 

Professor Peter Loptson

Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

Tel: (519) 824-4120 x56389                E-mail: ploptson@uoguelph.ca 

 

Professor Calvin G. Normore

Department of Philosophy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 90095-1452

Tel.: (310) 825-2291                            E-mail: normore@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Professor L. Nathan Oaklander

Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan – Flint, Flint, MI, U.S.A., 48502

Tel.: (810) 762-3380                            E-mail: lno@umflint.edu

 

Professor V. Alan White

Department of Philosophy, Nazarene College, University of Wisconsin – Manitowoc, Manitowoc, WI, U.S.A., 54220-6699

Tel.: (920) 683-4695                            E-mail: alan.white@uwc.edu