Joshua Rasmussen
Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

Contact Information

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

Phone: (602) 350-5893
E-Mail: jrasmus1@nd.edu

Office: 213 Malloy
Office hours: MW 2:00-4:00

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. expected in April, 2010
Biola University, M.A., 2004
Arizona State University, B.S. (Computer Science), 2002

Areas of Interest:

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics

Publications:

1. “From States of Affairs to a Necessary Being,” Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
2. “Cosmological Arguments from Contingency,” Philosophy Compass (forthcoming).
3. “From a Necessary Being to God,” International Journal of Philosophy of Religion (2009), 66.1: 1-13.
4. “On Creating Worlds without Evil – Given Divine Counterfactual Knowledge,” Religious Studies (2004), 40.4: 457-470.
5. “Hume and the Kalam Cosmological Argument,” with Garrett De weese, in In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Reassessment (2004), ed. Douglas Groothuis and James Sennett.

Other Papers:

Metaphysics:
• Dissertation: “What Propositions Correspond To and How They Do It”
   o Dissertation Abstract
   o Chapter 1: “Truth and Correspondence”
   o Chapter 2: “The Objects of Correspondence”
   o Chapter 3: “A Theory of Correspondence”
   o Chapter 4: “The Correspondence Theory of Truth: A Defense” (available upon request)
• “Propositions Are Not in Your Head, on Paper, or Anywhere Else,” accepted for American Philosophical Association (Central Division), February, 2010.
• “On Non-Self-Exemplification,” idea in progress.
• “Against Finitism,” idea in progress.

Epistemology:
• “What We See in Dreams,” 61st Northwest Philosophy Conference, October, 2009.
• “From Epistemic Internalism to Facts,” work in progress, originally for Alvin Plantinga’s Epistemology seminar (available upon request).
• “Modal Continuity as a Guide to Possibility,” work in progress, originally for Peter van Inwagen’s Metaphysics seminar.

Philosophy of Mind:
• “A Cardinality Consideration against Physicalism”
   o American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), December, 2007.
   o 58th Northwest Philosophy Conference, November, 2006.
   o Words, Objects, and Metaphysics Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, March, 2006.
• “No Pairing Problem,” co-authored with Andrew Baily and Luke van Horn, work in progress.
• “How Not to Build a Person,” for Alvin Plantinga’s seminar in Philosophy of Mind (available upon request).

Philosophy of Religion:
• “A New Argument for a Necessary Being,” Yale & UConn Graduate Conference, February, 2009.
• “What’s so Good about Moral Freedom—a Reply to Wes Morriston,” Society of Christian Philosophers Conference (Pacific Division), October, 2008.
• “William Rowe’s Objection to PSR,” idea in progress.

Ethics:
• “An Ontological Vagueness Problem for Moral Realism,” work in progress.


A Theory of Everything