Who is this guy?
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Jason Turner is a philosopher. (Does that clear it up?) He received his PhD from Rutgers University in 2008 before going to work at the University of Leeds, St. Louis University, and now the University of Arizona. He thinks a lot about metaphysics and philosophical logic, but is secretly interested in everything.
Much of his work is at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. He has also published work on modality, free will, the philosophy of religion, and the structure of mental content. Currently he's very interested in the metaphysics of physics. He will probably continue to dabble like this until someone makes him stop.
Publications
Book
Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the faacts. But how is this abstraction supposed to go? The Facts in Logical Space develops a novel answer to this question: The facts are arranged in a quasi-geomrtric 'logical space', and objects and properties arise from different quasi-geometric structures in this space.
Articles and Chapters
In K. Bennett and Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2025): 385--406.
Penultimate Draft Final VersionForthcoming in James Miller and Rikki Bliss (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysics (Routledge, 2020): 184-195.
Penultimate Draftin David Rose (ed.), Experimental Metaphysics (Bloomsbury, 2017): 47-74.
Penultimate DraftIn Elizabeth Barnes (ed.), Current Contoversies in Metaphysics (Routledge, 2017): 24-42.
Penultimate Draftforthcoming in Robert Garcia (ed.) Substance, Springer Verlag.
Penultimate Draftin Allesandro Torza (ed.), Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language, volume 373 of the Synthese Library (Springer, 2015): 463-487.
Penultimate Draft Final Versionin Donald M. Baxter and Aaron J. Cotnoir (eds.), Composition as Identity Oxford University Press (2014): 225-243.
Penultimate DraftThought 2.3 (2013): 274-280. A reply to Skiles and Frischhut's Time, Modality, and the Unbearable Lightness of Being."
Penultimate Draft Final Versionin Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 6, Oxford University Press (2011): 1-50.
Penultimate DraftWorks in Progress
Metric Tense Operators and Laws of Motion
Contextualism about Agential Abilities
What Is a Volume, Anyway?
Intrinsic Physics: Everything You Wanted to Know About Science Without Numbers but were Afraid to Ask
Book Reviews
Robert Stalnaker, Propositions. Oxford University Press, 2023
Graham Priest, One. Oxford University Press, 2014
Steven Yablo, Things: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2. Oxford University Press, 2010.