Maya Eddon
Associate Professor
Location
South College E415
OFFICE HOURS
Fall 2024
W 2:30PM - 3:30PM
OFFICE HOURS
Fall 2024
W 2:30PM - 3:30PM
PUBLICATIONS
- “No Work for a Theory of Universals,” co-authored with C. J. G. Meacham, eds. B. Loewer & J. Schaffer, Blackwell Companion to David Lewis (Blackwell, 2014)
- “Intrinsic Explanations and Numerical Representations,” ed. R. Francescotti, Companion to Intrinsic Properties (de Gruyter, 2014): 271-290
- “Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties,” eds. K. Bennett & D. Zimmerman, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 8(Oxford, 2013): 78-104
- “Quantitative Properties,” Philosophy Compass (2013) 8: 633-645
- “Intrinsicality and Hyperintensionality,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2011) 82: 314-336
- Review of Real Essentialism by David Oderberg, Mind (2010) 119: 1210-1212
- “Why Four-Dimensionalism Explains Coincidence,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2010) 88: 721-728
- “Three Arguments from Temporary Intrinsics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2010) 81: 605-619
- “Armstrong on Quantities and Resemblance,” Philosophical Studies (2007) 136: 385-404
Maya Eddon received her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, and her PhD from Rutgers University. She has been at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst since 2007.
Professor Eddon’s main area of research is analytic metaphysics. She is particularly interested in issues of quantity, naturalness, properties, laws of nature, and mereology.
A complete overview of her work can be found here