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Derek Ball

Nationality

USA

Position

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Home Institution

Arche

Sponsor

AHRC

Email

Personal webpage

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~db71

Degrees

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin; BA, Philosophy, Whitman College

Main Research Topic

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language

Other Research Interests

Metaphysics, epistemology

Recent Teaching

2008: Knowledge and Reality
2009: Metaphysics: Time and Modality

Recent Publications

"There Are No Phenomenal Concepts." Mind, forthcoming.
"Twin-Earth Externalism and Concept Possession." Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 85.3 (2007), pp. 457 - 472.

Recent Talks

“Property Identities and Modal Arguments,” Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology 1, SADAF, Buenos Aires
“Against Two-Dimensionalism,” Meaning, Understanding, Knowledge (Riga, Latvia)
“Fictional Reference as Quotation,” Reference and Non-Existence (BW6), Logos, Barcelona