Chris Tillman

• PHIL 2580 - Metaphysics
• PHIL 2730 - Philosophy of Religion  
• PHIL 7120 - Mereology: Logic of Parts and Wholes

I like metaphysics.

• PhD (Philosophy) University of Rochester

Research interests

• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of art / social ontology
• Philosophy of language / philosophical logic
• Philosophy of mind / psychology / cognitive science
• Philosophy of mathematics

Research summary

I am interested in what there is, how it is, how it must or could be, and how we can know about it. Naturally, my dissertation was on proper names.

• "Creature Features: Character Production and Failed Explanations in Fiction, Folklore, and Theorizing" (2024, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, with Joshua Spencer)
• The Routledge Handbook of Propositions (2023, with Adam R. Murray)
• "Advanced D&D (Dan Korman and Debunking)" (2020, Analysis, with Joshua Spencer)
• "Necessity of Origins and Multi-Origin Art" (2019, Inquiry, with Joshua Spencer)
• "Constitutive Essence and Partial Grounding" (2018, Inquiry, with Eileen S. Nutting and Ben Caplan)
• "Essence Facts and Explanation" (2016, Thought)
• "Benacerraf's Revenge" (2013, Philosophical Studies, with Ben Caplan)
• "Propositions and Parthood: The Universe and Anti-Symmetry" (2012, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, with Greg Fowler)
• "Musical Materialism" (2011, The British Journal of Aesthetics)
• "Parts of Singletons" (2010, The Journal of Philosophy, with Ben Caplan and Pat Reeder)