Professor Nikk Effingham PhD (Leeds)

Professor Nikk Effingham

Department of Philosophy
Professor of 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 2022, 'Celebrities discuss philosophy episode 4: a transcript', Think, vol. 21, no. 61, pp. 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175621000476

Effingham, N 2022, 'Fission theories of Original Guilt', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-021-09823-w

Effingham, N 2022, 'In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and Declos', Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00532-w

Effingham, N 2022, 'The wave theory of time: a comparison to competing tensed theories', Journal of the American Philosophical Association. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.49

Effingham, N 2021, 'Exterminous hypertime', Philosophies, vol. 6, no. 4, 85. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6040085

Effingham, N 2021, 'The metaphysical possibility of time travel fictions', Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00403-y

Effingham, N 2021, 'Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and Geachianism', Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03108-5

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

Chapter

Effingham, N 2021, Tense, special relativity, and flow: a wave theoretic view. in A Declos & C Tiercelin (eds), La métaphysique du temps: Perspectives contemporaines. Philosophie de la connaissance, College de France, Paris. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cdf.10534

Other contribution

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

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