About

Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., 2004 University of Notre Dame)
Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion

Contact

Office: 304 Starke House
Phone: 828-1225
Email: dpsmith@vcu.edu

Publications

"Chisholm's Phenomenal Argument Revisited: A Dilemma for Perdurantism", American Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.

"The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom", with E.J. Coffman, Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Volume 7: Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, MIT Press, forthcoming.

"Mereology without Weak Supplementation", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

"Lottery Puzzles and Jesus' Return", Religious Studies, 2009, 45: 37-49.

"How to Endure an Alleged Paradox", Journal of Philosophical Research, 2008, 33: 285-292.

"Vague Singulars, Semantic Indecision, and the Metaphysics of Persons", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007, 74: 569-585.

"The Vagueness Argument for Mereological Universalism", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2006, 87: 357-368.

"'Wholly Present' Defined", with Thomas Crisp, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005, 71: 318-344.

"Critical Notice of Hawthorne's Knowledge and Lotteries", Philosophical Books, 2005, 46: 123-31.

"Kant on the Dependency of the Cosmological Argument on the Ontological Argument", European Journal of Philosophy, 2003, 11: 206-218.