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Contact

E-mail: brettler@nd.edu

Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Education

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

  • PhD, Philosophy (expected 2013)

Biola University, La Mirada, CA

  • MA, Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, High Honors(June 2008)

Crown College, St. Bonifacius, MN

  • BS, Youth Ministry (May 2004)

Research Interests

Metaphysics

  • persistence, time, mereology, meta-ontology, material constitution, and free will

Philosophy of Language

  • meaning, reference, and vagueness

epistemology

  • warranted assertion, closure, and internalism/externalism

Professional Presentations

  1. No Epistemic Norm of Assertion, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2010.
  2. Presentism and Fatalism Revisited, Northwest Philosophy Conference, October 2009.
  3. No Epistemic Norm of Assertion, Central States Philosophical Association, October 2009.
  4. Simple Persistence, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009.
  5. `Ought Implies Can' Implies Not-Determinism, Northwest Conference for Philosophy, September 2007.
  6. Comments on Callcut: `Mill, Sentimentalism, and the Problem of Moral Authority', Northwest Conference for Philosophy, September 2007.
  7. Divine Timelessness and the A-Theory, Midwest Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, March 2007.
  8. The Possibility of an Omniscient and Timeless God Given the A-Theory of Time, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, February 2007.

Graduate Presentations

  1. Simple Persistence, USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference, February 2009.
  2. Simple Persistence, Western Michigan Graduate Student Conference, December 2008.
  3. Truth Simpliciter and the Mind, Talbot Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, May 2007.

Memberships

  • American Philosophical Association, 2005 -- present
  • Philosophy of Time Society, 2006 -- present

Service

  • Class Representative to the Notre Dame philosophy faculty, January 2009-present.
  • Chair: Torin Alter's Ignorance Is Not Enough: Why the Ignorance Hypothesis Fails to Undermine the Conceivability and Knowledge Arguments,Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2008.
  • President -- Talbot Philosophical Society, January-May 2008.
  • Vice President -- Talbot Philosophical Society, May-December 2007.
  • Teaching Assistant -- Symbolic Logic (for Thomas M Crisp), June 2007.
  • Chair: Josh Bright's In Defense of Doxastic Voluntarism, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, February 2007.