Christopher. J. Masterman

Postdoc. Metaphysics & Logic, mainly modality & ontology.

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

A new paper of mine, now forthcoming in Noûs! The first fruits of the postdoc! Check it out if you're interested in ontological nihilism (or just want to know some reasons for thinking that at least something exists)!

https://t.co/URlkUbyDDi

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Here's a new paper of mine for those who might be interested. "Modality, truth and mere picture thinking". Excitingly enough, it's my first published piece on truth in vs. truth at a possible world, which is what I did my doctoral thesis on.

https://t.co/PdBLK6rFVF

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Life update: I'm happy to be (re-)joining the Philosophy Department at St Andrews as a Postdoctoral Researcher on @ajcotnoir's Instruments of Unity project! It feels great to be back in the place that had such an enormous impact on me as a wee PhD student.

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

A new paper of mine ("Contingentism and Fragile Worlds") is out in Inquiry! I argue that a common form of higher-order contingentism is inconsistent with necessity as truth at all possible worlds. Link below if you're interested:

https://t.co/UfrLhmDw8E

[Petronella Randell @PetronellaRR]

I'm officially going to be joining the @StAndrewsPhil department as a Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy of Language this September!! Absolutely over the moon and so proud to be joining a department which has shaped me so significantly as a person and a philosopher

[Cambridge Philosophy @CambridgePhilos]

📢 Philosophy job alert -

The Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge wishes to appoint a temporary Assistant Professor in Philosophy for 12 months from 1st September 2024.
Details here:

https://t.co/slxrpwVWsm

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Glad to see my "What does nihilism tell us about modal logic?" published in Philosophical Studies. (The short answer: I don't think nihilsm, or at least the possibility of nihilism, does tell us much about modal logic!)

Linked below if you're interested!

https://t.co/LLS4Ho9FQL

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Forget "Mastermind", I've been promoted

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

oooooh I'm trendy now! 😎

[OOIR @ObserveIR]

Trending in #Philosophy:
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1) Cybernetics, May ’68 & the Situationist International (@histmat)

2) Fictions that don’t tell the truth

3) Some Ways the Ways the World Could Have Been Can’t Be

4) Bergsonism & the History of Analytic Philosophy

5) All too real metacapitalism: towards a non-dualist political ontology of metaverse

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

@jan_plate Ha! I wish ... (the best I can do is this tweet)

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Happy to see my paper out in the Journal of Philosophical Logic! If you ever wondered about which ways the ways the world could have been could be or, indeed, can’t be, then check it out! (1/5)

https://t.co/sH3zpAGamK

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

The key difference: the results in the earlier paper involve flagrant (perhaps even implausible) violations of serious actualism which aren't everyone's cup of tea. This new paper also establishes some more general results. (5/5)

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

This paper pairs very nicely with another paper of mine, “Propositional Contingentism and Possible Worlds”. So, check that out as well, if you're interested! (4/5)

https://t.co/yA8r6Jm4Ll

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Getting increasingly frustrated that you can't attach comments to footnotes in Microsoft Word. What a terrible terrible and terribly glaring design flaw? Why not?

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Glad to see "Serious Actualism and Nonexistence" is now published in AJP!

It's strange to finally see this in print—wrote it back in 2020/21. There's stuff I would do differently now; but here it is nonetheless!

https://t.co/5yGR8TEe7s

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

Forget "On Denoting", Russell wrote short stories and they're weird. Incredible second-hand find!

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

@LedermanHarvey Bizarrely enough, my landlady told me that Bertrand Russell is her cousin! Must be distant cousins, but she is definitely old enough to have met him. I'll have to ask her if she has.

[Christopher. J. Masterman @PhilosophyJim]

@PetronellaRR Woohoo! Massive 'gratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉