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Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy.
Papers
- How to disagree about how to disagree To appear in Richard Feldman and Ted Warfield (eds.) Disagreement, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
- Reflection
and Disagreement. Noûs, 41(3):
478-502, 2007. Also in The Philosopher's Annual 27,
Patrick Grim, Ian Flora and Alex Plakias, eds, 2007.
- 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.
- Defeating Dr. Evil with self-locating belief. Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 69(2), 2004.
- Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem. Analysis,
60(2): 143-147, 2000.
- Statistical Mechanics and the Asymmetry of Counterfactual
Dependence. Philosophy of Science (suppl. vol. 68, PSA
2000): S313-S324.
- A coupled attractor model of the rodent head direction
system (with A. David
Redish and David S. Touretzky)
Network 7, 1996.
Teaching
Fall 2010: On sabbatical
Past courses at Princeton:
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- 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 (PHI321)
- 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
Grad student unit
guide (grad students: please read this before working with me on a unit
paper)
Undergraduate independent
work guide (undergraduates: please read this before working with me
on a JP or senior thesis)
Adam Elga | adame@princeton.edu
| Princeton University
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