Alyssa Ney

Contact

Office:	523 Lattimore Hall	Phone:	585-275-8109
Email:	alyssa.ney@rochester.edu	Fax:	585-273-2964
Office Hours:	Tuesdays, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Areas of Specialization

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Physics

Education

PhD 2005 Brown University (Philosophy)
BS 1999 Tulane University (Physics & Philosophy)

CV

A current Curriculum Vitae is available here.

Selected Publications

The Status of Our Ordinary Three Dimensions in a Quantum Universe, Noûs, forthcoming.

Convergence on the Problem of Mental Causation, Philosophical Issues, forthcoming.

Physical Causation and Difference-making, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60, December 2009.

Defining Physicalism, Philosophy Compass, Vol. 3, July 2008.

Physicalism as an Attitude, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 138, March 2008, pp. 1-15.

Can an Appeal to Constitution Solve the Exclusion Problem? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 88, December 2007, pp. 486-506.

Physicalism and Our Knowledge of Intrinsic Properties, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 85, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 41-60

Professor Ney directs the University of Rochester Philosophy Colloquium Series and an interdisciplinary series of lectures and brown bag discussions on the philosophy of physics. Please email her if you would like to be contacted with updates about either series.