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
"On Zimmerman's 'The Providential Use of "Simple Foreknowledge"'", Science, Religion, and Metaphysics: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga, eds. Kelly Clark and Michael Rea, Oxford University Press, 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, 2010: 127-148.
"Chisholm's Phenomenal Argument Revisited: A Dilemma for Perdurantism", American Philosophical Quarterly, 2010, 47: 31-42.
"Mereology without Weak Supplementation", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2009, 87: 505-511.
"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.