Jennifer McKitrick has been a member of the philosophy faculty at UAB since 1999. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 with her dissertation The Metaphysics of Dispositions. In 2000, she won the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology's Griffith Award for her paper "Extrinsic Dispositions." She has served in the Alabama Philosophical Society as Vice-President (2000), President (2001), and Minister of Propaganda (2002).

Publications

"Reid's Foundation for the Primary Quality / Secondary Quality Distinction," Philosophical Quarterly, October 2002. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays, John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds., Blackwell, 2003.

"The Bare Metaphysical Possibility of Bare Dispositions," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 2003.

"A Case for Extrinsic Dispositions," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2003.

"Are Dispositions Causally Relevant?" forthcoming in Synthese.

Dispositions and Laws of Nature, Synthese Special Issue, editor, forthcoming.

Papers in Circulation

Analyzing Causally Relevant Properties

A Defense of the Causal Efficacy of Dispositions

Defending Your Character: A Reply to Harman

The Nature of Social Knowledge

Moral Desert and the Principles of Justice

Russell on Genuine Property Names

Making Room for Freedom:Kant's Natural Causation as Epiphenomenal Causation

 

Telephone Numbers

Dr. McKitrick's Office: 205-934-8919
Philosophy Department Office: 205-934-4805


Email

Dr. McKitrick's email: mckitric@uab.edu


Information for Students

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