Dr Nikk Effingham PhD (Leeds)

Department of Philosophy
Reader in Philosophy
Head of Research

Contact details

Telephone: 0121 41 47246
Email: n.effingham@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @NikkEffingham

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 assisstant 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

The Metaphysics of Time Travel, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (invited submission; due 2018).
Mereological Nominalism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
The Philosophy of Filioque, Religious Studies 54 (2018): 297-312
Multiple Studies and Weak Evidential Defeat, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38, 353-66 (co-authored with Malcolm James Price).
The Location of Properties, Noûs 49 (2015): 643-66.
Properties are Potatoes: An essay on ontological parsimony, in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods ed. Chris Daly (2015): 282-305.
Multiple Location and Christian Philosophical Theology, Faith and Philosophy 32 (2015): 25-44.
Contemporary Philosophy, in Time Travel in the Media: Philosophy and Theory ed. Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod (2015): 20-34.
Harmoniously Investigating Concrete Structures, Thought 2 (2013): 190-95.
Impure Sets May Be Located: A reply to Cook, Thought 1 (2013): 330-36.
An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis, Synthese 184 (2012): 375-86.
Talking about something (but really talking about nothing), Analysis 72 (2012): 329-40.
Endurantism and Perdurantism, in Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson and Barnard (2012): 179-97.
Undermining Motivations for Universalism, Noûs 45 (2011): 696-713.
Sider, Hawley, Sider and the Vagueness Argument, Philosophical Studies 154 (2011): 241-50.
Temporal Parts and Time Travel, Erkenntnis 74 (2011): 225-40.
Universalism and Classes, dialectica 65 (2011): 451-72.
The Metaphysics of Groups, Philosophical Studies 149 (2010): 251-67.
Mereological Explanation and Time Travel, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 333-45.
Universalism, Vagueness and Supersubstantivalism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009): 35-42.
Composition, Persistence and Identity, in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. Le Poidevin, Simons, McGonigal and Cameron (2009): 296-309.
A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 633-40 (co-authored with Jon Robson).
Endurantism and Timeless Worlds, Analysis 67 (2007): 140-7 (co-authored with Joseph Melia).