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Honorary Professor Daniel Nolan

Honorary Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Honorary Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
d.nolan1@uq.edu.au

Overview

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Logic
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Meta-Ethics

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Journal Article: Counterpossibles, consequence and context

    Nolan, Daniel (2024). Counterpossibles, consequence and context. Inquiry, 1-30. doi: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2326184

  • Journal Article: Zurvanist Supersubstantivalism

    Nolan, Daniel (2023). Zurvanist Supersubstantivalism. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 38. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00090-2

  • Journal Article: Charitable matching and moral credit

    Nolan, Daniel (2023). Charitable matching and moral credit. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 108 (3), 687-696. doi: 10.1111/phpr.13005

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Publications

Book

  • David Lewis

    Nolan, Daniel (2010). David Lewis. Acumen Publishing Limited. doi: 10.1017/UPO9781844653072

Book Chapter

  • What would Lewis do?

    Nolan, Daniel (2022). What would Lewis do?. Perspectives on the philosophy of David K. Lewis. (pp. 220-240) edited by Helen Beebee and A. R. J. Fisher. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192845443.003.0012

  • Impossibility and impossible worlds

    Nolan, Daniel (2020). Impossibility and impossible worlds. The Routledge Handbook of Modality. (pp. 40-48) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315742144-6

  • Intensionality and hyperintensionality

    Nolan, Daniel (2019). Intensionality and hyperintensionality. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (pp. 1-11) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-dd3603-1

  • Cosmic loops

    Nolan, Daniel (2018). Cosmic loops. Reality and its structure: essays in fundamentality. (pp. 91-106) edited by Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198755630.003.0005

  • Methodological naturalism in metaethics

    Nolan, Daniel (2018). Methodological naturalism in metaethics. The Routledge handbook of metaethics. (pp. 659-673) edited by Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315213217

  • Casual counterfactuals and impossible worlds

    Nolan, Daniel (2017). Casual counterfactuals and impossible worlds. Making a difference: essays on the philosophy of causation. (pp. 14-32) edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock and Huw Price. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198746911.003.0002

  • Does the world contain states of affairs? Yes

    Nolan, Daniel (2017). Does the world contain states of affairs? Yes. Current controversies in metaphysics. (pp. 81-91) edited by Elizabeth Barnes. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203735602-5

  • Naturalised modal epistemology

    Nolan, Daniel (2017). Naturalised modal epistemology. Modal epistemology after rationalism. (pp. 7-27) edited by Bob Fischer and Felipe Leon. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-44309-6_2

  • Method in analytic metaphysics

    Nolan, Daniel (2016). Method in analytic metaphysics. The Oxford handbook of philosophical methodology. (pp. 159-178) edited by Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

  • Modal fictionalism

    Nolan, Daniel (2016). Modal fictionalism. Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA, United States: Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-l150-1

  • Stoic Trichotomies

    Nolan, Daniel (2016). Stoic Trichotomies. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (pp. 207-230) edited by Victor Caston. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795797.003.0006

  • Temporary marriage

    Nolan, Daniel (2016). Temporary marriage. After marriage: rethinking marital relationships. (pp. 180-203) edited by Elizabeth Brake. New York, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190205072.003.0009

  • Lewis's philosophical method

    Nolan, Daniel (2015). Lewis's philosophical method. A companion to David Lewis. (pp. 25-39) edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118398593.ch4

  • The unreasonable effectiveness of abstract metaphysics

    Nolan, Daniel (2015). The unreasonable effectiveness of abstract metaphysics. Oxford studies in metaphysics. (pp. 61-88) edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729242.003.0005

  • Balls and all

    Nolan, Daniel (2014). Balls and all. Mereology and Location. (pp. 91-116) edited by Shieva Kleinschmidt. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593828.003.0006

  • Possible worlds semantics

    Nolan, Daniel (2012). Possible worlds semantics. The Routledge companion to philosophy of language. (pp. 242-252) edited by Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara. London: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203206966-29

  • Canberra Plan

    Nolan, Daniel P. (2010). Canberra Plan. Companion to philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 98-100) edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.

  • Response to John Divers

    Nolan, Daniel (2010). Response to John Divers. Modality: Metaphysics, logic, and epistemology. (pp. 220-226) edited by Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

  • Infinity and metaphysics

    Nolan, Daniel (2009). Infinity and metaphysics. The Routledge companion to metaphysics. (pp. 430-439) edited by R. Le Poidevin, P. Simons, A. McGonigal and R. Cameron. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203879306-46

  • Lewis, David Kellogg (1941-2001)

    Nolan, Daniel (2009). Lewis, David Kellogg (1941-2001). A companion to metaphysics. (pp. 370-372) edited by Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa and Gary S. Rosenkrantz. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/b.9781405152983.2009.x

  • Modality

    Nolan, Daniel (2009). Modality. Central issues in philosophy. (pp. 95-106) edited by John Shand. Chichester, U. K.: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444315837.ch7

  • Platitudes and metaphysics

    Nolan, Daniel (2009). Platitudes and metaphysics. Conceptual analysis and philosophical naturalism. (pp. 267-300) edited by David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press.

  • Truthmakers and predication

    Nolan, Daniel (2008). Truthmakers and predication. Oxford studies in metaphysics. (pp. 171-192) edited by Dean Zimmerman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

  • What would teleological causation be?

    Nolan, Daniel P. (2006). What would teleological causation be?. Metaphysical essays. (pp. 265-283) edited by John Hawthorne. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  • Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters

    Nolan, Daniel P. (2005). Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters. Fictionalism in metaphysics. (pp. 204-233) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.

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