Thanks to Greg Restall for the photo.
Contact Details
Daniel.Nolan [at] nottingham.ac.uk
Office: C20, Trent Building
Work Phone: +44 (0) 115 951 5849
Work Fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5840
Daniel Nolan is Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nottingham.
In Autumn 2008 he is a visiting Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His office is 2255 Angell Hall, and his phone number is 734-763-6030.
CV
Daniel Nolan's CV is online in A4 PDF format, or in Letter PDF format.
History
Before Nottingham, Daniel was the Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in the Departments of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He was at St Andrews for three years, the first two as a lecturer. Before that, Daniel was a member of the Syracuse University , in Syracuse, USA. He was there for two years, the first year as the "Allen and Anita Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow", and the second as a tenure-track assistant professor. Before that he spent a semester as a temporary lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Before that he was in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. For three years there he was a postdoc on a "Macquarie University Research Fellowship" (or MURF, as they are charmingly called). The year before that he was a temporary lecturer at Macquarie. Before that, he was a PhD student in the Philosophy Programof the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). He did his undergraduate work at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. As his early history suggests, he is Australian.
Teaching
In Fall 2008, Daniel will be teaching two courses at the University of Michigan.
PHIL297.004 Honors Introduction to Philosophy
Tuesday and Thursday 10.00-11.30am
Here is my webpage for the course.
PHIL607.001 Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics
Wednesday 4.30-6.30pm
The topic will be Possible Worlds. Here is my webpage for the course.
Research
For details, please consult one or more of the following pages:
Research Interests and Full Publications List
Professional Resources
Here is yet another copy of the Canberra Planners' Credo. At one stage, this was the most famous thing that I had written (and maybe still is.) It dates from 1996. It was mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement a few years ago, which is some sort of achievement for a piece of postgraduate student work-avoidance.
Here is a resource listing some funding opportunities for students from Australia or New Zealand who wish to do postgraduate study at Nottingham.
Here is a partial list of online resources that may be of use to philosophy students, particularly postgraduate students.
Main Philosophy Publications
For a full list of publications, see my CV or Research Interests and Full Publications List.
Monographs
2005 David Lewis, Acumen Publishing, Chesham and McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston.
2002 Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds. Routledge Press, New York.
Articles
forthcoming "Maximising, Satisficing and Context" (with C.S. Jenkins). Noûs.
forthcoming "Modality" in Shand, J. (ed). Central Issues in Philosophy. Blackwell, Oxford.
forthcoming "Fearing Spouses in Aristotle's Ta Oikonomika". British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
forthcoming "Infinity and Metaphysics" in Le Poidevin, R., Simons, P., McGonigal, A. and Cameron, R (eds.). Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. Routledge, London.
forthcoming "Contemporary Metaphysicians and Their Traditions". Philosophical Topics.
forthcoming "Comments on John Diver's 'On The Significance of the Question of the Function of Modal Judgement'". To appear Cameron, R., Hale, R. and Hoffman, A. (eds). The Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
forthcoming "Consequentialism and Side Constraints". Journal of Moral Philosophy.
forthcoming "Platitudes and Metaphysics" in Braddon-Mitchell, D, and Nola, R. (eds) Naturalism and Analysis. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
2008 "Non-Factivity About Knowledge: A Defensive Move". The Reasoner 2.11: 6-7
2008 "Truthmakers and Predication". Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 4: 171-191
2008 "Backwards Explanation" (with C.S. Jenkins) Philosophical Studies 140.1: 103-115
2008 "Liar-Like Paradox and Object-Language Features". (with C.S. Jenkins) American Philosophical Quarterly 45.1: 67-73
2008 "Finite Quantities". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108.1: 23-42
2008 "Properties and Paradox in Graham Priest's Towards Non-Being". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76.1: 191-198
2007 "A Consistent Reading of Sylvan's Box" Philosophical Quarterly. 67.229: 667-673
2006 "Selfless Desires" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 73.3: 665-669
2006 "Vagueness, Multiplicity and Parts" Noûs. 40.4: 716-737
2006 "Stoic Gunk" Phronesis. 51.2: 162-183.
2006 "What Would Teleological Causation Be?" (with John Hawthorne). In Hawthorne, John. Metaphysical Essays. OUP, Oxford, pp 265-283.
2005 "Moral Fictionalism versus The Rest" (with Greg Restall and Caroline West) Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 83.3: 307-329
2005 "Fictionalist Attitudes About Fictional Matters" in Kalderon, Mark (ed) Fictionalist Approaches to Metaphysics. OUP, Oxford, pp 204-233.
2004 "Liberalism and Mental Mediation" (with Caroline West) Journal of Value Inquiry 38.2: 186-202
2004 "Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk" The Monist 87.3: 3-21
2003 "Defending a Possible-Worlds Account of Indicative Conditionals" Philosophical Studies 116.3: 215-69
2001 "What's Wrong With Infinite Regresses?" Metaphilosophy 32.5: 523-538
1999 "Is Fertility Virtuous in its Own Right?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50: 265-282
1997 "Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach" Notre Dame Journal for Formal Logic 38.4: 535-572
1997 "Three Problems for 'Strong' Modal Fictionalism" Philosophical Studies 87.3: 259-275
1997 "Quantitative Parsimony" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48.3: 329-343
1996 "Recombination Unbound" Philosophical Studies 84.2-3: 239-262
1996 "Reflexive Fictionalisms" (with John O'Leary-Hawthorne) Analysis 56.1: 26-32
Large Encyclopedia Entry
2002 "Modal Fictionalism", an entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Main Entry plus three sub-entries. Revised 2007.