Douglas Edwards
BA (Kent), MLitt, PhD (St Andrews)
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Office : D507
Phone : +353 1 716 8269
Email: douglas.edwards@ucd.ie
Website: http://ucd-ie.academia.edu/DouglasEdwards
About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at University College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. I am also an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. I am also a member of Aporo, the Irish Philosophical Research Network. I finished my PhD in 2008 at the University of St Andrews, and in the academic year 2008/9 I was a fixed-term Lecturer in Philosophy at UCD. You can find my CV on my academia.edu page (link above).
My main research interests lie in the areas of Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Metaethics and Epistemology. A central aspect of my research to date has been pluralism, especially the metaphysics and semantics of pluralist theories of truth. I have also been investigating and developing the prospects for pluralism beyond truth in the related fields of properties, reference, belief, knowledge and value. I am also interested in more general issues in the study of truth, particularly 'deflationary' theories of truth and the value of truth.
Publications
"Naturalness, Representation, and the Metaphysics of Truth", European Journal of Philosophy. Forthcoming.
"Truth, Winning, and Simple Determination Pluralism", Invited submission for N. J. L. L. Pederson and C. D. Wright (eds.): Truth Pluralism: Current Debates. New York: Oxford University Press.
“Simplifying Alethic Pluralism”, The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Forthcoming.
“Truth-conditions and the nature of truth”, Analysis, Vol. 69 No. 3, October 2009
"How to solve the problem of mixed conjunctions", Analysis, Vol. 68 No. 2, April 2008
Selected Research Presentations
"Pluralism about Knowledge", NIP Pluralism Seminar, University of Aberdeen, December 2010
"Deflationary Functionalism", NIP Pluralism Seminar, University of Aberdeen, December 2010
"The Collapse of New Wave Deflationism", NIP Pluralism Seminar, University of Aberdeen, November 2010
"Metaphysical and Moral Pluralism", NIP Pluralism Seminar, University of Aberdeen, November 2010
"Truth as a 'Substantive' Property", Aporo/NIP Truth: Concept and Property Workshop, University College Dublin, October 2010
“Realization, Manifestation, and Alethic vs Deflationary Functionalism”, Aporo Symposium on Michael P. Lynch’s Truth as One and Many, University College Dublin, October 2010
“Representation and the Naturalness of Truth”, SIFA Truth, Knowledge and Science Conference, University of Padua, September 2010
“An Eligibility Theory of Reference for Moral Terms”, Open Sessions, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, UCD, July 2010
“An Eligibility Theory of Reference for Moral Terms”, Aporo Workshop, Trinity College Dublin, July 2010
“Equivalence, Explanatory Demands, and Analysis: Thoughts on Deflationary Theories of Truth”, Northern Institute of Philosophy Reading Party, Loch Ness, June 2010
“Moral Twin Earth vs Eligible Ethical Naturalism”, UCD Postdoctoral Fellows Workshop, University College Dublin, May 2010
“Naturalness, Eligibility and Truth”, Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, December 2009
“Minimalism, Truth, and the Externalist Challenge”, Philosophy of Language Workshop, University College Dublin, May 2009
“Domains of Discourse and the Easy Truth Problem”, Alethic Pluralism Workshop, Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews, January 2009
"Simplifying Truth Pluralism",
European Congress of Analytic Philosophy,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, August 2008
"Problems for a Functionalist Theory of Truth",
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference,
La Trobe University, Melbourne, July 2008
"How (and why) we should be pluralists about truth",
RSSS Philsoc , Australian National University, March 2008
"Another Way to be a Pluralist about Truth", UConn Philosophy Graduate Seminar, University of Connecticut, October 2007
"How to be a Pluralist about Truth"
SIFA Graduate Philosophy Conference
University of Padua, September 2007
"Alethic Pluralism and the Problem of Mixed Conjunctions"
Open Minds Graduate Philosophy Conference
University of Manchester, June 2007
"A Minimalist Theory of Goodness",
Postgraduate Sessions, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association,
University of Bristol, July 2007
“Concepts, Conceptions and Shared Content”,
UConn Philosophy Graduate Seminar
University of Connecticut, October 2006
“The Minimalist Theory of Goodness and Moral Twin Earth”,
Yale/UConn Philosophy Graduate Conference
Yale University, October 2006
