Alexander Roberts

           alexander.roberts@wisc.edu    

                                     


I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford whilst also a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College.

My main research interests are in metaphysics and philosophical logic, but I am also interested in the philosophy of language and the history of philosophy.

I completed my DPhil (PhD) in 2020 at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Timothy Williamson and James Studd. Afterwards, I spent a year as a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Publications (listed in order of acceptance)

Necessity in the Highest Degree, forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Anti-Haecceitism and Indiscernibility, in Analysis 84: 94-105. (2024)

A New Challenge for Contingentists, in Philosophical Studies 180: 2457-2484. (2023)

Is Identity Non-Contingent?, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 106: 3-34 (2023).

From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity, in Mind 131: 1216-1246 (2022).

Two Morals about a Modal Paradox, in Synthese 198: 9873-9896 (2021).

Relative Necessity and Propositional Quantification, in Journal of Philosophical Logic 49: 703–726 (2020).

Imprecise Quantification, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 119 (3): 357-367 (2019).

Modal Expansionism, in Journal of Philosophical Logic 48 (6): 1145-1170 (2019).

Other Work

Distinctions with a Difference, R&R at Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. (Runner-up for the 2024 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics)


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