Visiting Lecturer
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Fields of Interest
Biography
Anthony Fisher was formerly a lecturer at the University of Washington, 2019-2022. He is now at Gonzaga University.
His main research and teaching interests are Metaphysics and the History of Analytic Philosophy. His current work focuses primarily on the metaphysics of properties, metaphysics of time, and metaphysics of modality. In the History of Analytic Philosophy he is writing on the history of metaphysics in the twentieth century, with a focus on Donald C. Williams and David Lewis. He is also interested in Philosophy of Mind, especially metaphysics of mind, and Early Modern Philosophy.
Research
Selected Research
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Musical Works as Structural Universals." Erkenntnis doi: 10.1007/s10670-021-00400-1 (2021).
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Abstracta and Abstraction in Trope Theory." Philosophical Papers 49, no. 1 (2020): 41-67.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Instantiation in Trope Theory." American Philosophical Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2018): 153-64.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "On Lewis Against Magic: A Study of Method in Metaphysics." Synthese 195, no. 5 (2018): 2335-53.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Structural Universals." Philosophy Compass 13, no. 10 (2018): e12518.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Donald C. Williams’s Defence of Real Metaphysics." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2017): 332-55.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Samuel Alexander’s Early Reactions to British Idealism." Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 23, no. 2 (2017): 169-96.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Truthmaking and Fundamentality." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 97, no. 4 (2016): 448-73.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Priority Monism, Partiality, and Minimal Truthmakers." Philosophical Studies 172, no. 2 (2015): 477-91.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "David Lewis, Donald C. Williams, and the History of Metaphysics in the Twentieth Century." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1, no. 1 (2015): 3-22.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Samuel Alexander’s Theory of Categories." The Monist 98, no. 3 (2015): 246-67.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Examination of Merricks’ Primitivism about Truth." Metaphysica 15, no. 2 (2014): 281-98.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Bennett on Parts Twice Over." Philosophia 41, no. 3 (2013): 757-61.
- Fisher, A.R.J. "Causal and Logical Necessity in Malebranche’s Occasionalism." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41, no. 4 (2011): 523-48.
Courses Taught
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Affiliations
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