Maya Eddon

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Associate Professor

Faculty
Maya Eddon
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Location
South College E415

Office Hours (Fall 2026)

M 12:15PM-1:30PM
Also available by appointment

About Me

I received my undergraduate degree at Princeton University, and my PhD from Rutgers University.  I have been at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2007.

My main area of research is analytic metaphysics.  I am particularly interested in issues of quantity, naturalness, properties, laws of nature, and mereology.

Selected Publications

  • Review of The Metaphysics of Quantity, by J. Wolff. Mind, 2024. DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzae028.
  • “Parthood and Naturalness.” Philosophical Studies 174 (2017): 3163–80. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-016-0852-7.
  • “No Work for a Theory of Universals.” In A Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, 116–37. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. https://philpapers.org/rec/EDDNWF. [With Christopher J. G. Meacham]
  • “Intrinsic Explanations and Numerical Representations.” In Companion to Intrinsic Properties, edited by Robert M. Francescotti, 271–90. Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. https://philpapers.org/rec/EDDIEA.
  • “Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties.” In Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman, vol. 8, 8:78–104. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. https://philpapers.org/rec/EDDFPO.
  • “Quantitative Properties.” Philosophy Compass 8 (2013): 633–45. DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12049.
  • “Intrinsicality and Hyperintensionality.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (2010): 314–36. DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00414.x.
  • “Three Arguments from Temporary Intrinsics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81 (2010): 605–19. DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00371.x.
  • “Why Four-Dimensionalism Explains Coincidence.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 721–28. DOI: 10.1080/00048401003636887.
  • “Armstrong on Quantities and Resemblance.” Philosophical Studies 136 (2007): 385–404. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-005-5384-5.

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