David Sanson
I am an assistant professor of philosophy at the Ohio State University. I’m primarily a metaphysician, but I also have research projects in the history of philosophy. A chunk of my current research focuses on the unreal: the past and future, the merely possible, and the fictional. A related chunk focuses on temporal instability (change) and modal instability (contingency). Another related chunk focuses on the indices we use to navigate the contingent, the temporary, the local, and the fictional: worlds, times, and places (the indices for fiction are controversial: perhaps they are contexts or interpretations or fictional realms). Also, I work on the history of the Liar Paradox in the Medieval Arabic tradition, and I am working on a paper on Boethius and divine foreknowledge.
I have broad philosophical interests, extending well beyond my active areas of research. These include interests in philosophy of action, philosophy of religion, and the intersection of metaphysics (especially the metaphysics of social reality) and value theory.
When not working, I am probably playing with my daughter, working in the garden, watching TV, or messing around on a computer. If I were the person I’d like to be, I’d instead be playing with my daughter, collecting wild mushrooms and messing around in boats: specifically, guerilla camping from my East German folding kayak along the Olentangy River.
You can stalk find me on PhilPapers and Picasaweb and Twitter and Github. and Google+. I still have accounts on Flickr and Facebook and Academia.edu, but I don’t use them much any more. You are also welcome to dig through my recipe box if you’d like.
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