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                                              L. A. PAUL
                                             Curriculum Vitae
Philosophy Department                                                                  Phone: () -
Social Sciences 
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ .                                                                       email: lapaul@arizona.edu




Education
      Ph.D, , Philosophy, Princeton University.

      M.A., , Philosophy, Princeton University.

      M.A., , Philosophy, Antioch University.

      B.A., , dual degree in Biology and Chemistry, Antioch College.

      Area of Specialization: Metaphysics.
      Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science.

Employment
      ­. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona.

      ­. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona.

      ­. Institute for Advanced Studies Research Fellow, Philosophy, Research School of Social
      Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

      ­. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale University.

Articles and Book Chapters
      Forthcoming. "e Counterfactual Analysis of Causation." In e Oxford Handbook on Causation, edited
      by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock and Peter Menzies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

      Forthcoming. "Mereological Bundle eory." In e Handbook of Mereology, edited by Hans Burkhardt,
      Johanna Seibt and Guido Imaguire. Munich: Philosophia Verlag.

      . "Constitutive Overdetermination." In Topics in Contemporary Philosophy vol. : Causation and
      Explanation, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell and Michael O'Rourke. Cambridge: MIT Press.

      . "In Defense of Essentialism." Philosophical Perspectives (Metaphysics), -, edited by John
      Hawthorne.

      . "Coincidence as Overlap." Noûs : ­.

      . "e Context of Essence." Australasian Journal of Philosophy  (), -. Reprinted in Lewisian
      emes, edited by Frank Jackson and Graham Priest, Oxford University Press.
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     . "Causation and Preemption." (With Ned Hall.) In Philosophy of Science Today, -, edited by
     Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

     . "Logical Parts." Noûs  (), -.

     . "Limited Realism: Cartwright on Natures and Laws." (Review Essay.) Philosophical Books ,
     -.

     . "Comments on Mellor's Real Time II," Essays on Time and Related Topics, edited by L. Nathan
     Oaklander, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

     . "Aspect Causation." Journal of Philosophy XCVII (), -. Reprinted in Collins et al., Causation
     and Counterfactuals, MIT Press .

     . "Keeping Track of the Time: an emended counterfactual analysis of causation." Analysis  (),
     -.

     . "Problems with Late Preemption." Analysis  (), ­.

     . "e Worm at the Root of the Passions: poetry and sympathy in Mill's utilitarianism." Utilitas ,
     ­.

     . "Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentence Types." Synthese , ­. Reprinted in L. Nathan
     Oaklander (ed.), Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Routledge .

     . (with S. C. Bernstein, S.K. Abrams and K. Leckrone) "TP-E Chloroisothiocynatoquinolines as
     Fluorogenic HPLC Derivatizing Agents for Primary and Secondary Amines." Journal of Pharmaceutical and
     Biomedical Analysis : () -.

Edited Volumes
     . e Monist  (), Advisory Editor, issue on Ordinary Objects.

     . Causation and Counterfactuals. Co-edited with Ned Hall and John Collins, with a coauthored
     Introduction. MIT Press.

     . Philosophy for the st Century: A Comprehensive Reader. Associate Editor, New York: Oxford
     University Press.

Work in Progress
     (With Ned Hall.) Causation: A User's Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

     e Ontology of Objects. (Book-length ms.)

     Nonreductionism. (Book-length ms.)

     "Material Constitution." In Brian Weatherson (ed) Philosophy Compass. New York: Blackwell.

     "Phenomenology and Subjective Knowledge."

     "e Handmaiden's Tale."

     "Change is Multiple Realization."
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Invited Talks
     April . University of Toronto. "e Handmaiden's Tale."

     November . University of Notre Dame. "Nonreductionism without Overdetermination."

     September . University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Nonreductive Materialism."

     February . Stanford University. "Material Coincidence."

     November . New York University. "Material Coincidence."

     May . Universities of Fribourg and Geneva, Switzerland. "Change is Multiple Realization."

     April . "e Metaphysics of Multiple Realization." UC San Diego and University of Arizona.

     May . "Identity and Multiple Realization." University of St Andrews.

     May . "Change is Multiple Realization." Cambridge University and Sheffield University.

     April . "Change is Multiple Realization." Jowett Philosophical Society, Oxford University.

     October . "Coincidence as Overlap." University of Melbourne.

     September . "Change is Multiple Realization." University of Otago, University of Auckland,
     University of Wellington and the University of Cantebury (New Zealand).

     April . "Constitutive Coincidence is Mereological Difference." Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

     January . "Constitutive Coincidence is Mereological Difference." Rutgers University.

     December . "Essentialism." University of Washington.

     October . "Coincidence is Mereological Difference." University Massachusetts at Amherst.

     March . "Contingent Identity is Mereological Difference." University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
     and Davidson College.

     June . "Logical Parts." Melbourne University, Logic Discussion Group, and Sydney University.

     May . "Constitution and Logical Parts." La Trobe University (Melbourne).

     May . "Essentialism and Individual Kinds." Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).

     February-March . "Constitution and Logical Parts." ANU/RSSS, e University of Tasmania at
     Hobart, and Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).

     April . "Identity and Logical Parts." Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Cambridge.

     February . "Identity and Logical Parts." University of Delaware.

     November . "Aspect Causation." Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

     July . "Causal and Moral Responsibility." University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

     July . "Causal and Moral Responsibility." e Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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     July . "e Failure of the Transitivity of Causation." e Australian National University, Canberra,
     Australia.

     July . "e Failure of the Transitivity of Causation." Wellington University, Wellington, New Zealand.

     February . "Realism about Reference." London School of Economics (Popper Lecture Series), London,
     England.

Conference Presentations
     September . Keynote Speaker, Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, University of California,
     Davis.

     July . Invited speaker. Eidos Metaphysics Conference, Geneva.

     March . "Understanding Trumping." Meetings of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical
     Association, Pasadena CA.

     March . Invited speaker. "e Handmaiden's Tale." Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC),
     University of Idaho and Washington State University.

     November . Invited speaker. "Nonreductionism without Overdetermination." Syracuse University,
     Mellon Mental Causation Workshop.

     November . Invited speaker. "e Ontology of Phenomenology." Online Philosophy Workshop.

     October . Invited speaker. "Trumping and Overdetermination." Synthese Annual Conference,
     Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen.

     April . Invited speaker. "Subjective Knowledge." International Conference on Emergence, Queen's
     University, Belfast.

     January . Invited speaker. "Trumping and Overdetermination." Conference on Causation, University
     of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

     December . Invited Symposium Talk. "Subjective Knowledge." Meetings of the Eastern Division of the
     American Philosophical Association, Washington DC.

     June . Commentator on Karen Bennett, New York University Conference on Causation, La Pietra,
     Florence.

     April . Invited Symposium Talk. "Material Coincidence." Meetings of the Central Division of the
     American Philosophical Association, Chicago.

     July . "In Defense of Essentialism." Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association for Philosophy,
     Sydney.

     May . Invited speaker, "Change is Multiple Realization." Conference on Metaphysics & Epistemology,
     Dubrovnik, Croatia.

     July . "Change is Multiple Realization." Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association of Philosophy,
     South Molle Island, Queensland, Australia.

     March . Invited speaker, "Change is Multiple Realization." Philosophy of Time Society, Pacific
     Division of the American Philosophical Association.
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July . "Reductive Essentialism: Rejecting a layered world." Annual Meeting of the Australasian
Association for Philosophy, Adelaide, Australia.

May . Invited speaker, "Reductive Essentialism: Rejecting a layered world." Sixth annual Inland
Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC), University of Idaho and Washington State University.

March . Commentator on Peter ielke, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

August . Commentator on Philip Bricker, "e Relation of the General and the Particular: Entailment
vs. Supervenience." Metaphysical Mayhem VII, Syracuse University.

April . Commentator on Nathan Wight, "Truth, Sentence-types and the Tenseless eory of Time."
Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

January . Commentator on Barry Loewer and David Albert, "Counterfactuals, Causation, and
Control." Conference on Causation and Free Will, Florida State University.

August . "Essentialism and Individual Kinds." Second annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy
Conference.

June . "Essentialism." Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Hobart,
Tasmania.

August , "Identity and Logical Parts." Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham,
Washington.

August . Commentator on Robert Koons, "Modal Facts as Causes." Metaphysical Mayhem IV,
University of Notre Dame.

March . "Comments on Mellor's Real Time II." Book symposium (Philosophy of Time Society), Pacific
Division of the American Philosophical Association.

December . "Aspect Causation." New York Methods Conference.

July . "Problems with Transitivity." Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association of Philosophy,
Sydney, Australia.

July . "Keeping Track of the Time: an emended counterfactual analysis of causation." Annual Meeting
of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Auckland, New Zealand.

March . "Poetry and Sympathy in J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism." International Society for Utilitarian
Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

July . "Putnam's Paradox and Lewis's World." Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association of
Philosophy, Brisbane, Australia.

December . "Tensed Sentences and Tenseless Truth Conditions." Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Other Professional Activity
     Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (­).

     Referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Noûs, Mind, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
     Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological
     Research, Utilitas, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, e Monist, Oxford
     University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Blackwell Publishers.

     External examiner: Departments of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Monash University, and the
     University of Sydney.

Honors and Grants
     . SBS Professorship, University of Arizona.

     . SBS Professorship, University of Arizona.

     ­. Institute for Advanced Study Research Fellowship, RSSS, Australian National University.

     ­. Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University. (Competitive, University­wide,
     dissertation research award. Ten fellowships awarded annually.)

     . Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Dissertation Research Award.

     . Dean's Research Grant, Princeton University.

     ­. Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University.