Kristopher McDaniel Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Kris McDaniel has a B.A. in philosophy from Western Washington University and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After graduating in 2004, he took a position at Syracuse University, and stayed there until the summer of 2019. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University. His publications include the books the Fragmentation of Being (2017) and This Is Metaphysics (forthcoming), and various academic articles on topics in metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy. Participant In: Mathematics and Other Realities Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With the growing success of physics and other sciences, the idea of one fundamental ontology, that of particles and fields, became dominant as a… read more »
Mathematics and Other Realities Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With the growing success of physics and other sciences, the idea of one fundamental ontology, that of particles and fields, became dominant as a… read more »