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Professor, Department of Philosophy.
CV.
Papers
- The puzzle of the
unmarked clock and the new rational reflection principle.
Philosophical Studies 164(1): 127-139, 2013.
- Subjective
Probabilities Should be Sharp. Philosophers'
Imprint, 10(5), 2010. Also in The Philosopher's
Annual 30, Patrick Grim, Billy Dunaway, J. Dmitri Gallow,
Alex Silk, eds, 2011. Errata.
- How to
disagree about how to disagree Disagreement. Richard Feldman and Ted
Warfield, eds. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Reflection
and Disagreement. Noûs, 41(3):
478-502, 2007. Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual 27,
Patrick Grim, Ian Flora and Alex Plakias, eds, 2007, and Social Epistemology: An
Anthology, Dennis Whitcomb
and Alvin Goldman, eds, Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Isolation
and folk physics. Causation, Physics, and the
Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited. Huw
Price and Richard Corry, eds. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- I Can't Believe I'm Stupid. Philosophical Perspectives 19(1): 77-93, 2005. With Andy Egan.
- On overrating
oneself... and knowing it. Philosophical Studies,
123: 115-124, 2005.
- Bayesianism,
Infinite Decisions, and Binding. Mind 113: 251-283, 2004. With Frank
Arntzenius and John Hawthorne.
- Infinitesimal chances and
the laws of nature. Australasian Journal of
Philosophy 82(1):67-76, 2004. Reprinted in Lewisian
Themes, Frank Jackson and Graham Priest, eds. Oxford University
Press, 2008.
- Defeating Dr. Evil with self-locating belief. Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 69(2), 2004.
- Statistical Mechanics and the Asymmetry of Counterfactual
Dependence. Philosophy of Science (suppl. vol. 68, PSA
2000): S313-S324, 2001.
- "Self-locating
belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem." Analysis
60(2), 2000. Reprinted in Arguing About Knowledge, Duncan
Pritchard, Ram Neta, eds. Routledge, 2010, and Philosophy of
Probability: Contemporary Readings, Antony Eagle, ed.
Routledge, 2011.
- A coupled attractor model of the rodent head direction
system (with A. David
Redish and David S. Touretzky)
Network 7, 1996.
- Lucky to be rational.
Unpublished paper presented at the Bellingham Summer
Philosophy Conference on June 6, 2008.
Teaching
Fall 2013:
Past courses at Princeton:
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- Philosophy of physics
(PHI 327, Fall 2012). Taught jointly
with Hans Halvorson.
- Theory
of Knowledge
(PHI 313, Spring 2012).
- Philosophy
of Randomness and Extreme Risk (PHI 374,
Fall 2011) Taught jointly
with Daniel
Cloud
- Philosophy
of Mind: Representation and Fragmentation
(PHI 535, Fall 2011) Taught in parallel with
with Agustín Rayo
- Dissertation
Seminar
(PHI 599, Fall 2010)
- First-year
graduate Seminar (PHI 599, Fall 2010) Taught jointly
with Boris Kment
- Dissertation
Seminar
(PHI 599, Spring 2010)
- Philosophy
of Randomness and Extreme Risk (PHI 374
Spring 2010) Taught jointly
with Daniel
Cloud
- The
neural basis of free will and consciousness (FRS 104, Spring
2009) Taught jointly with Michael Berry
- Philosophy
of Science: time, entropy, and the manifest image (PHI 531,
Fall 2008)
- Decision
theory: Bayesian perspectives on expressivism, fragmentation, and disagreement
(PHI 533, Spring 2008)
- Introductory Logic (PHI 201, Spring 2008)
- Perfecting Life:
Designing Children, Designing Memories, Designing Death (CHV 308 /
PHI 308, Fall 2007) Taught jointly with Elizabeth
Harman.
- Metaphysics
for Ethics (First-year graduate seminar, Fall 2007)
- Philosophy of Science (PHI 321, Spring 2007)
- Metaphysics
for Ethics (First-year graduate seminar, Fall 2006)
- Philosophy
of Religion (PHI 325, Fall 2006)
- Computation and Mind (PHI513: Topics in Recent and Contemporary Philosophy)
- Philosophy
of Science: Space, Evolution, Games, and Reduction (PHI321, Spring 2005)
- Religious
conviction, religious disagreement (FRS101; sponsored by the Center for the study of religion)
- Problems of Philosophy: Folk Psychology, Decision Theory and Moral
Philosophy (PHI523/POL587; jointly taught with Philip Pettit)
- Philosophy
of Religion: God, Bioethics, and Theological Deadlocks (PHI 325,
Fall 2003)
- Problems of Philosophy: Laws, Chance, and Constitution (PHI 523)
- Philosophy
of the Cognitive Sciences: Foundations of classical, quantum, and biological computation (PHI 322)
- Decision
Theory (PHI 533; jointly taught with Bas van Fraassen)
- Time, temporal parts, and relativity (Junior Seminar)
- Physics
for Metaphysics (PHI 514; jointly taught with Hans Halvorson)
- Philosophy of Science (PHI 321)
- Should you believe what will make you happy? (Junior Seminar)
Past informal mini-courses from MIT's IAP:
Advising
Recommendation
letter guide (students: please read this if you think you will ever
ask me for a letter of recommendation or if you are about to ask me
for one)
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with you on a unit
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work guide (undergraduates: please read this before asking me to
work with you on a JP or senior thesis)
Adam Elga | adame@princeton.edu
| Princeton University
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