Dr Matthew Tugby

 

Teaching Fellow

Department of Philosophy

Contact details

Email m.w.tugby@bham.ac.uk

ERI Building
University of Birmingham
Egdbaston
Birmingham
B12 8QP

About

My main interests lie in metaphysics and philosophy of science. My current research concerns the metaphysical foundations of natural science. This means I am working on topics such as causation, laws, modality, natural kinds, probability and properties. I take causal powers to be fundamental features of the world and I hope that one day I will be able to account for all of the above notions in terms of powers.

Biography

I obtained my doctoral degree at Nottingham under the AHRC’s Metaphysics of Science Research Project (2006-2009). I have taught at Birmingham since 2010.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • First year modules: Logic A (Semester 1), Knowledge and Reality B (Semester 2)
  • Second year: Philosophical Texts seminar (Semester 1) 
  • Third year: Epistemology (Semester 1), Chance and Existence (Semester 2)

 

Postgraduate

  • MA Metaphysics (Semester 1)

Publications

Articles

  • ‘Platonic Dispositionalism’ in Mind (Forthcoming 2013).
  • ‘Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem’ in Analysis (Forthcoming 2013)
  • ‘Graph-theoretic Models of Dispositional Structures’ in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming).
  • ‘What Is the Metaphysics of Science?', co-authored with Stephen Mumford, in S. Mumford and M. Tugby (eds.), Metaphysics and Science, Oxford: OUP (Forthcoming 2013).
  • ‘Rescuing Dispositionalism from the Ultimate Problem: Response to Barker and Smart’ in Analysis, 72, 723-731 (2012).
  • ‘The Metaphysics of Pan-dispositionalism’ in Bird, A., Ellis. B., and Sankey, H. (eds.), Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge Studies in Metaphysics (Forthcoming 2012).
  • ‘Simultaneity in Dispositional Interaction?’ in Ratio, 23, 322-338 (2010).

Books

  • Metaphysics and Science, co-edited with Stephen Mumford, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Mind Occasional Series (Forthcoming 2013).

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