Meg J. Wallace University of Kentucky Philosophy Department | 1417 Patterson Office Tower Lexington KY 40506 meg.wallace@uky.edu |
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 2016-Present
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 2010-2016
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, 2009-2010
AOS - Metaphysics: composition, persistence, ontology, metaontology
AOC - Mind, Language, Epistemology, Aesthetics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. Philosophy - 2009
M.A. Philosophy - 2005
Syracuse University
Department: Philosophy 2000 - 2003 [Ph.D. program - transferred]
University of Arkansas
Department: Philosophy 1998 - 2000 [Ph.D. program - transferred]
University of Oklahoma
B.A. History - 1998
Monographs - Books
2023 Parts and Wholes. Elements in Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press)
Articles - Journal & Volume Entries
2022 “Mental fictionalism” in T. Demeter, T. Parent and A. Toon (eds.) Mental Fictionalism:
Philosophical Explorations. New York and London: Routledge: 27-51
2022 “Mental Fictionalism: a foothold amid deflationary collapse” in T. Demeter, T. Parent
and A. Toon (eds.) Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations. New York and London:
Routledge: 275-300
2021 “The Polysemy of ‘part’” Synthese 198, 4331–4354 (2021). Online: 2019;
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02088-x
2020 “Counterexamples and Common Sense: When (Not) to Tollens a Ponens” Analysis
80(3) 544-558 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz056
2019 “The Lump Sum: a Theory of Modal Parts” Philosophical Papers 48(3): 403-445 (2019);
https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2018.1562310
2018 “The Haecceitic Euthyphro Problem” co-authored with Jason Bowers Analysis 78(1): 13-22
(2018); https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx117
2016 “Saving Mental Fictionalism from Cognitive Collapse” Res Philosophica 93(2):
405-424 (2016); https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2016.93.2.5
2015 “Rearming the Slingshot?” Acta Analytica 30 (3): 283-292 (2015);
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-014-0246-4
2014 “The Argument from Vagueness for Modal Parts” dialectica 68 (3): 355-373 (2014);
https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12073
2014 “Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Modal Parts” in
Composition as Identity, eds. Donald Baxter and Aaron Cotnoir, OUP (2014)
2013 “Counterparts and Compositional Nihilism: A Reply to A.J. Cotnoir” Thought: a Journal in
Philosophy vol. 2(3): 242-247 (2013); https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.92
2011 “Composition as Identity: Part 2” Philosophy Compass vol. 6(11): 817-827
(2011); https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00430.x
2011 “Composition as Identity: Part 1” Philosophy Compass vol. 6(11): 804-816
(2011); https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00431.x
https://circustalk.com/news/circus-and-philosophy-teaching-aristotle-through-jugging
“The Possibilities Aren’t Endless if You Have a Life” (co-presented with Jason Bowers)
Pacific APA (San Francisco, CA) April 2023
“Philosophy through Spectacle” New Resources for Teaching Philosophy Session
by Association for Philosophy of Education, Pacific APA (San Francisco, CA) April 2023
“Transworld Persons”
Metaphysics on the Mountain IV (Sun Valley, ID) March 2023
“In Defense of the Spectacle”
Mind the Body: Creativity, Improvisation, and Play in Philosophy and Dance Conference (Salt Lake City, UT) February 2023
“The Odd Universe”
East Tennessee State University - Guest Speaker (Johnson City, TN) March 2023
WKU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference - Keynote Speaker (Bowling Green, KY) February 2023
Meet a Philosopher Series by the Philosophy Department at UK (Lexington, KY) September 2022
“Modal Parts and Material Plentitude”
Material Plentitude Conference (UT Austin, TX) March 2020 (canceled - COVID)
“Deflating Mental Fictionalism”
Mental Fictionalism Conference (Budapest, Hungary) October 2019
“Physicalism and Compositional Pluralism”
Conference on Physicalism at University of Louisville (Louisville KY) May 2019
“Mereology for Abstracta: the Polysemy of ‘part’”
Conference on Mereology and Identity (Pisa, Italy) July 2017
“Modal Parts and Ontological Disagreement”
Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (Milwaukee, WI) October 2015
Mid-Atlantic Philosophy of Language Workshop (Morgan Town, WV) August 2015
Central APA (St. Louis, MO) February 2015
“Saving Mental Fictionalism from Cognitive Collapse”
Conference on Mental Fictionalism, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) July 2014 University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) February 2015
“The Lump Sum: A Defense of Modal Parts”
University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) October 2014
Pacific APA (San Diego, CA) April 2014
University of Vermont (VT) March 2014
“Rearming the Slingshot”
Pacific APA (San Francisco, CA) March 2013
“Mereological Essentialism and Modal Parts”
University of California, Davis (Davis, CA) March 2013
“Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Modal Parts”
Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (St. Louis, MO) October 2012
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA) April 2012
University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) March 2012
“Composition and Counting”
Joint Meeting of the Illinois and Indiana Philosophical Association (Charleston, IL) November 2010
“Argument from Vagueness for Modal Parts”
Mountains-Plains Philosophy Conference (Washington, PA) October 2010
Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Conference (Washington, PA) September 2010
“Composition is Identity”
University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) March 2010
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) April 14 2009
University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) January 23 2009
John Keller’s “A Theory of Ontological Commitment” Central APA (Chicago, IL) Feb 2022
Dan Korman’s Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary; author-meets-critics Pacific APA (San Diego, CA) March 2018 [Comments not given in-person due to having a baby April 2018 - written comments submitted.]
Elanor Taylor’s “Three Problems for Grounding”; Central States Philosophical Association (Chicago, Il) October 2014
Tim Button’s “There is No Theory of Truth”; Metaphysics Back at the Ranch (Tucson, AZ) February 2014
Andrew Graham’s “A Defense of Five-Dimensionalism”; Central APA (Chicago, IL) March 2014
Kristin Seemuth’s “An Eliminativist Response to the Argument from Charity”; Illinois Philosophical Association (Urbana-Champaign, IL) October 2012
L.A. Paul’s “Categorical Parsimony”; INCP 14 (Boise, ID) April 2011
James Shaw’s “Semantic Defect in Context”; Pacific APA (San Diego, CA) April 2011
Charlie Tanksley’s “The Distributivity of Masses”; Central APA (Minneapolis, MN) March/April 2011
David Kovak’s “Semanticism versus the Schmenglish Argument”; Joint Meeting of the Illinois
and Indiana Philosophical Association (Charleston, IL) November, 2010
Joseph Baltimore’s “Lewis’s Special Problem of Profligate Causation”; Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Conference (Washington. PA) September 2010
Dan Korman’s “Universalism, Vagueness, and the Argument from Borderline Hammers”; Pacific APA (San Francisco) April 2010
David Ian Spencer’s “Why Do We Need Tense?”; Pacific APA (Vancouver) April 2009.
Joe Salerno’s “Must and Can”; Eastern APA (Philadelphia, PA) December 2008.
Brad Skow's “Are Shapes Intrinsic?”; Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, (Bellingham, WA) August, 2005.
Department Chair - July 2023-present
Director of Undergraduate Studies - 2017-2021
Graduate Student Admissions Committee - 2015-2016, 2018
Executive Committee - 2014-2015
Speakers Committee - 2014-2016, 2021-2022
Search Committee - 2014-2015
Trunzo Committee - 2019-present
Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (MAWM) Committee - 2017-present
Referee:
Acta Analytica, Analysis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ergo, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Inquiry, Journal of Philosophy, MIND, Mind and Language, Nous, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, Synthese, TOPOI; Oxford University Press
Referee: Central States Philosophical Association - 2014
Referee: Kentucky Philosophical Association - 2011
Referee: Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Conference - 2011
Research Assistant to William G. Lycan - 2005-2009
TEK Faculty Fellow: Track 2 - 2023-2024 (3.5K)
Research and Scholarship in Arts & Sciences - Sabbatical Research Funds - Spring 2023 (5K)
OVPR Research and Creative Activities Program Support (Circus Lab) - 2022-2023 (4.2K)
Let’s Make a Difference Initiative (Philosophy Department Renovations) - 2021-2022 (15K)
OVPR Research and Creative Activities Program Support (Circus Lab) - 2020-2021 (4K)
UK Facilities Management Funds (Circus Lab) - 2019-2020 (10K)
A&S Award for Innovative Teaching, 2019
Oberlin College Teaching Award, 2010
Horace Williams Fellowship UNC, 2009
Horace Williams Fellowship UNC, 2007
Head Teaching Associate UNC, 2006-2007
Horace Williams Fellowship UNC, 2003-2004
Syracuse University Teaching Award, 2003
Circus and Philosophy
Philosophy and Science Fiction (honors and non-honors)
Metaphysics
Metaphysics and Epistemology (mid- and upper-level)
History of Analytic Philosophy
Symbolic Logic I
Symbolic Logic II
Introduction to Philosophy - Experience and Reality
Philosophy of Religion
Graduate Seminar: Unity (2021)
Graduate Seminar: Fictionalism
Graduate Seminar: Space, Time, and Possible Worlds
Graduate Seminar: Paradoxes
Graduate Pro-seminar: M&E - Contemporary
Graduate Pro-seminar: Teaching Practicum
Independent Study: Properties and Universals, 2011
Independent Study: Modal Logic, 2013
Independent Study: Time, spring 2017
Independent Study: Causation, spring 2018
Independent Study: Counterfactuals, fall 2019
Gaines Center for Humanities Senior Thesis - K. Cox - Committee Member: 2019-2020
Gaines Center for Humanities Senior Thesis - L. Nolletti - Committee Chair: 2022-2023
Faculty Mentor for Philosophy Teaching Post-Doc - Kayla Bohannon - 2022-2023
Circus Cats (circus club) - faculty advisor: 2021-present
Nominated for 3 Lead Blue Awards in 2023:
Big Blue Big Top: Circus Workshop (Gaines Center for Humanities): February 2023