Dean Zimmerman Professor I Contact Information Office: Davison Hall 125 Email: Phone: (732) 932-9861 x156 Homepage: http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/zimmerman/index1.htm

Education

M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., Brown University

Speciality

Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion

Research

My main areas of research are in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. I am writing a book on the persistence of material objects and persons, and papers on temporal passage and the idea that God is "outside of time". I worry a lot about causation and laws of nature, and wonder whether nomic necessity might be necessity in the strongest sense (as Sydney Shoemaker contends). I am co-organizer (with Tamar Gendler of Syracuse University) of an annual summer workshop, "Metaphysical Mayhem", which I started at the University of Notre Dame in 1996.

Selected Publications

Articles "Two Cartesian Arguments for the Simplicity of the Soul", American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3 (July, 1991), pp. 217-226 "Ist ein Korper-Austausch moglich? Kommentar zu Peter van Inwagen", in Metaphysik Neue Zugange zu alten Fragen, ed. by Johannes Brandl, Alexander Hieke, and Peter Simons (St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 1995), pp. 265-268 "Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 104, No. 1 (January, 1995), pp. 53-110 "Persistence and Presentism", Philosophical Paper, Vol. 25, No. 2 (August, 1996), pp. 115-126 "Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 1-29 "Indivisible Parts and Extended Objects: Some Philosophical Episodes from Topologys Prehistor", The Monist, Vol. 79, No. 1 (January 1996), pp. 148-180 "Immanent Causation", in Nous, supplementary volume, 1997 (Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 11: Mind, Causation, and World), pp. 433-71 "Coincident Objects: Could a Stuf Ontology Hel", Analysis, Vol. 57, No. 1 (January, 1997), pp. 19-27. "Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory", Mind, Vol. 106, No. 422 (April, 1997), pp. 305-309 -Reprinted, with additional material, in Metaphysics: The Big Questions, ed. by van Inwagen and Zimmerman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998), pp. 58-66 "Theology and Tense (with Roderick M. Chisholm", Nous, Vol. 31, No. 2 (June, 1997), pp. 262-265 "On the Logic of Intentional Help: Some Metaphysical Questions" (with Roderick M. Chisholm), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 1996), pp. 402-404 "Chisholm and the Essences of Events, in the Library of Living Philosophers volum", The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, ed. by Lewis Hahn (Peru, Illinois: Open Court, 1997), pp. 73-100 "Criteria of Identity and the Identity Mystic", Erkenntnis, Vol. 48, Nos. 2 & 3 (1998), pp. 281-301 "Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines", Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 76, No. 2 (June, 1998), pp. 265-288 -Reprinted in Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, Vol. 4 ("Particulars, Actuality, and Identity Over Time), ed. by Michael Tooley (New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1999) "Materialism and Survival", in Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions,ed. by Eleonore Stump and Michael Murray (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998), pp. 379-86 "Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism", in Metaphysics: The Big Questions, ed. by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998), pp. 206-219 "The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The Jumping Elevator Mod", Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April, 1999), pp. 194- "One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to David Lewis", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, No. 2 (June, 1999), pp. 213-215 "Shoemakers Argument for his Theory of Properties, Facta Philosophica, Vol. 2 (2000), pp. 271-290 "Roderick M. Chisholm (with Richard Foley), in Companion to Analytic Philosophy, ed. by David Sosa and Al Martinich (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2001), pp. 281-295 "God Inside Time and Before Creation, in God and Time, ed. by Greg Ganssle and David Woodruff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) "Material People, in Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) "Contemporary Metaphysics: An Introduction (with Michael Loux), in Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) "Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology?, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2002), pp. 599-606 "Should the Christian Be a Mind-Body Dualist?, in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Michael Peterson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming) "Rejoinder to Lynne Rudder Baker, in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Michael Peterson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming) "Scala and the Spinning Spheres, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 64, No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 398-405 "Shoemakers Metaphysics of Minds, Bodies, and Properties, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming) The Constitution of Persons by Bodies: A Critique of Lynne Rudder Bakers Theory of Material Constitution, Philosophical Topics (forthcoming) Book Reviews Mark Heller, The Ontology of Physical Objects, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 53, No. 1 (March, 1993), pp. 220-224 Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Substance: Its Nature and Existence, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 108, No. 1 (January, 1999), pp. 118-122 "Reasons to Believe in Baseballs (review of Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons), The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5174 (May 31, 2002), p. 28 Edited Books The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (with Michael Loux), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) Metaphysics: The Big Questions (with Peter van Inwagen), (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998)