Adam Russell Murray

Bio

Thanks for visiting.

I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba.

Before starting at Manitoba I was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where I also did my PhD. I work on topics at the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. I wrote my dissertation on the theoretical significance of context relativity for modal metaphysics, under the supervision of Jessica Wilson and Benj Hellie.

If you are a student looking for information about our undergraduate or graduate programs, feel free to drop me a line.

CV

Research

Edited book

The Routledge Handbook of Propositions (with Chris Tillman)

Introduction ↓
ToC ↓

Articles

2022. Propositional Dependence and Perspectival Shift ↓

2020. Relativized Metaphysical Modality: Index and Context (with Benj Hellie and Jessica Wilson) ↓

2014. Not the Optimistic Type (with Ben Caplan, Chris Tillman, and Brian McLean) ↓

2013. Spinoza on Essence and Ideal Individuation ↓

2012. Relativized Metaphysical Modality (with Jessica Wilson) ↓

In preparation/unpublished

Overlap, Overdetermination, and the Necessity of Origin. Forthcoming in Asian Journal of Philosophy (symposium issue on origin essentialism)

Plenitude and Modal Paradox (email for draft)

Propositional Harmony (with Chris Tillman)

Perspectives on Modal Metaphysics (PhD dissertation; 2017) ↓

Teaching

Current

PHIL 1300: Introduction to logic ↓ PHIL 2140: History of analytic philosophy ↓

Recent

[22-23] Introduction to Philosophy; Graduate seminar (topic: puzzles of modal variation); Intermediate Logic [21-22] Introduction to logic; Theory of knowledge [20-21] Graduate seminar (topic: modal metaphysics after Naming and Necessity); Introduction to logic; Theory of knowledge; History of analytic philosophy; MA independent study (topic: transformative experience)

Recent talks

Propositional Harmony (with Chris Tillman): European Congress of Analytic Philosophy; Vienna (August 2023) ↓

Plenitude and Modal Paradox: University of Toronto (March 2023)

Selection and Propositional Structure (with Chris Tillman): Italian Conference in Analytic Metaphysics and Ontology; L'Aquila (June 2022) ↓

Barcan Formulas and the Limits of Possibility: University of Lisbon (March 2022) ↓

Modality and Higher-order Dependence: Yonsei Analytic Philosophy Workshop; Seoul (August 2019) ↓

Context, Modality, and Propositional Dependence: Birmingham Higher-Order Metaphysics Workshop (June 2019)

Symposium talk on Chisholm's Paradox: Pacific APA; Vancouver (April 2019) ↓

Resources

propositions.bib (.bib for Routledge Handbook) ↓

linux

.config files: i3wm ↓ terminal ↓ mail ↓ bash ↓

vim + tex

vimrc (tex plugin for vim) ↓ sensible.bst (adapted from phil_review.bst) ↓

for students

Contact

457 University College; The University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3T 2M8
tel. 204.272.1657
mail: adam.murray@umanitoba.ca