Associate Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1250 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-5528
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: latham@ucalgary.ca

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
M.Phil., Philosophy, Bedford College, London University
Hochschule für Musik, Düsseldorf
B.A., Mathematics, Christ's College, Cambridge University

Areas of Specialisation

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Action
Ethics

Selected Publications

"Determinism, Randomness, and Value" forthcoming in Philosophical Topics

"Can psychophysical identity save mental causation?", Proceedings of Mind and Action III: The Explanation of Human Interpretation, ed. Joao Saagua (Lisbon: Colibri, 2004)

"Are there any nonmotivating reasons for action?" Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.) (Imprint Academic Publishers, 2003)

"What is Token Physicalism?", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2003) 270-290.

"Spatial and spatiotemporal particulars", Croatian Journal of Philosophy 2, No. 4 (2002) 17-36.

"Substance physicalism" Loewer and Gillett (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

"Chalmers on the addition of consciousness to the physical world", Philosophical Studies 98 (2000), 71-97

"The relevance of Libertarian freedom", Manuscrito 22 (1999), 173-195

"Davidson and Kim on psychophysical laws", Synthese 118 (1999), 121-143

"Causally irrelevant reasons and acting solely from the motive of duty", Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994), 599-618

Recent Teaching

Ethics (PHIL 249)

Problems of Philosophy (PHIL 201)
Philosophy of Religion (PHIL 331)
Causation and Explanation (PHIL 421.02/621.07)

Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 381)

Action, Emotion, and Rationality (PHIL 481)

The Mind-Body Problem (PHIL 481)

Selected Issues in Philosophy: Consciousness (PHIL 589.51/601.54)