Dr Nikk Effingham PhD (Leeds)

Dr Nikk Effingham

Department of Philosophy
Reader in Philosophy
Head of Research

Contact details

Telephone
0121 41 47246
Email
n.effingham@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@NikkEffingham
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Address
ERI Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I research metaphysics, philosophy of time (mainly time travel), philosophy of religion, and philosophy of epidemiology.

Qualifications

  • PhD. Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2007.
  • Taught M.A., Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2001.
  • Joint Honours B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2000.

Biography

I studied at the University of Leeds, as well as worked there as a teaching assistant and as the administrator for the CMM (Centre of Metaphysics and Mind.) I moved to Glasgow to take up a one-year temporary teaching post before then taking another temporary post at the University of Birmingham. I was made permanent the year after.

Teaching

I teach both metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. 

Postgraduate supervision

I currently supervise doctoral candidates researching areas including metaontology, ontology, the philosophy of time, and the philosophy of mind. I can supervise theses in a wide variety of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics and many areas of philosophy of religion, science and mind.

Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

I’m currently completing the final draft of a book on the philosophy of time travel. 

Other activities

Personal website: https://nikkeffingham.weebly.com/

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Effingham, N 2020, Time travel: probability and impossibility. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842507.001.0001

Article

Effingham, N 2021, 'The metaphysical possibility of time travel fictions', Erkenntnis.

Effingham, N 2021, 'Vacillating Time: A Metaphysics for Time Travel and Geachianism', Synthese. <https://nikkeffingham.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/9/2/109294947/vacillating_time.pdf>

Effingham, N 2020, 'Slot Theory and Slotite Theory', Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00197-3

Effingham, N 2020, 'The CaML model of pantheism', Religious Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412519000672

Effingham, N 2020, 'Using Wormholes to Solve the Problem of Evil', TheoLogica. https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v4i3.54993

Effingham, N 2018, 'Mereological Nominalism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12522

Effingham, N 2018, 'The philosophy of filioque', Religious Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412518000264

Effingham, N & Price, M 2017, 'Multiple studies and weak evidential defeat', Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 353–366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-017-9409-9

Effingham, N 2015, 'Multiple Location and Christian Philosophical Theology', Faith and Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 25-44. https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20153427

Effingham, N 2015, 'The location of properties', Noûs, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 846–866. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12093

Chapter

Effingham, N 2021, ​Tense, Special Relativity, and Flow: A Wave Theoretic View. in La métaphysique du temps: Perspectives contemporaines.

Effingham, N 2015, Contemporary Philosophy. in Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games. McFarland, pp. 20-34.

Effingham, N 2015, Properties are Potatoes?: An essay on ontological parsimony. in C Daly (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods., Chapter 11, Palgrave Macmillan.

Other contribution

Effingham, N 2020, The metaphysics of time travel..

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