Bradford Skow MIT - Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy email: bskow [at] mit.edu office: 32-D938 phone: (617) 253-4147   Office Hours (spring 2009): Mondays, 2-3, and by appointment. Curriculum Vitae
Where is the pot of gold?

"I said the last time that we were together that light...comes to our eyes from a luminous body in an instant, and I added also that this was so certain to me that if one could prove its falsity to me, I would be ready to confess that I knew nothing at all about philosophy." ---Rene Descartes.

Current Courses

• 24.112: Space, Time, and Relativity (Spring 2009).

• Philosophy of Physics Reading Group (ongoing).

• Links to past courses.

Research

• A Solution to the Problem of Indeterminate Desert.

• On the Meaning of the Question, "How Fast Does Time Pass?"

• Preferentism and the Paradox of Desire.

• Why Does Time Pass? Forthcoming in Noûs.

• Relativity and the Moving Spotlight. Forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy.

• Extrinsic Temporal Metrics. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume 5, 2009.

• Local and Global Relativity Principles. The Philosophers' Imprint, 2008.

• Haecceitism, Anti-Haecceitism, and Possible Worlds  [preprint]. The Philosophical Quarterly, 2008.

• Sklar's Maneuver  [preprint]. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2007.

• Earman and Roberts on Empiricism about Laws  [preprint]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007.

• What Makes Time Different From Space?  [preprint]. Noûs, 2007.

• Are Shapes Intrinsic?  [preprint] Philosophical Studies, 2007.

• Review of Physical Relativity by Harvey Brown. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.

Other Links

• You know about Oberlin College's importance to the history of jazz, its leadership in environmental studies, and of course its role in opening higher education to women and African-Americans and in starting the civil war. But did you know that it has also produced a lot of philosophers?