Ulrich Meyer

Welcome to my page! I teach philosophy at Colgate University, a liberal arts college in central New York State. I got my PhD in Philosophy from the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I also have a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and I was an undergraduate at the University of Heidelberg. Curriculum vitae (pdf)

Most of my recent work is on the philosophy of time, and especially on tense logic:

• Time and Modality. In C. Callender, ed., Oxford Handbook on Time, forthcoming.
• Times in Tense Logic. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 50 (2009): 201–19.
• 'Now' and 'Then' in Tense Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (2009): 229–47.
• Review of Yuval Dolev, Time and Realism. Iyyun 58 (2009): 91–100.
• Worlds and Times. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 47 (2006): 25–37.
• The Presentist's Dilemma. Philosophical Studies 122 (2005): 213–25.
• Dummett on the Time-Continuum. Philosophy 80 (2005): 135–40.
• How to Apply Mathematics. Erkenntnis 61.1 (2004): 17–28.
• The Metaphysics of Velocity. Philosophical Studies 112 (2003): 93–102.
• Is Science First-Order? Analysis 62 (2002): 305–8.
• Prior and the Platonist. Analysis 62 (2002): 211–16.

Book Project. I am currently completing a manuscript entitled The Nature of Time. This book defends a 'modal' view of time on which times are more similar to the possible worlds in modal logic than they are to places. Email me if you are interested.

Courses I teach on a regular basis include:

• Phil 201: Philosophical Problems
• Phil 225: Logic I
• Phil 228: Philosophy of Science
• Phil 325: Logic II
• Phil 330: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Phil 335: Epistemology
• Phil 340: Metaphysics
• Phil 417: Seminar on the Philosophy of Time

Click here to find out about current course offerings.

The best way to reach me is via email: umeyer@colgate.edu. You can also leave me voice mail messages at (315) 228-7687,  which get automatically forwarded to my email. Regular mail should be sent to: Professor Ulrich Meyer, Philosophy Department, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA.