• Alex Skiles
  • Alex Skiles
  • Assistant Undergraduate Director
  • Degree, Univ: Ph.D., M.A., Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
  • Specialties: Metaphysics, philosophy of science
  • Office: 106 Somerset St - 546

 

  

 

 

Biography

I received my Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Notre Dame. Since then, I have held research positions at the University of Geneva, the University of Neuchâtel, New York University, the University of Gothenburg, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My current research mostly focuses on the following three topics: (i) non-causal explanation in metaphysics and the sciences; (ii) the metaphysics, epistemology, and logic of identity, essence, and individuation; and (iii) the nature of existence. I am also interested in various logical and metaphysical issues that arise in classical Hindu and Buddhist thought.