Nicholas K Jones

About

​I'm a philosopher from North Derbyshire, currently Official Fellow and Tutor at St John's College and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

My philosophical interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics with philosophy of logic and philosophy of language.

Before joining Oxford, I was a Birmingham Fellow and then Reader at the University of Birmingham (2013-2020), a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2011-2013), and a Jacobsen Fellow at King's College London and the Institute of Philosophy (2010-2011). I studied for a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, under the supervision of Dorothy Edgington and Fraser MacBride. I also took a BA and MA in philosophy at the University of Leeds.

I previously held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for a project called "Higher-Order Metaphysics" (2017-2019), investigating the metaphysics of higher-order logic and applications of higher-order resources within mainstream metaphysics. I've also been a Managing Editor for Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2019-2023), a Visiting Fellow at ConceptLab, a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and served on the Executive Committee of The Aristotelian Society.

Contact

Email: [my first name] [dot] [my surname] [at sign] philosophy [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

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Edited Volume
Higher-Order Metaphysics
Co-edited with Peter Fritz
OUP, 2024
publisher page/PhilPapers/published

Papers

Opacity in the Book of the World?
Philosophical Studies (forthcoming)
archived

Higher-Order Metaphysics: An Introduction
With Peter Fritz
Higher-Order Metaphysics (2024), edited by Peter Fritz and Nicholas K Jones, OUP. Chapter 1.
archived/published

Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality
With Salvatore Florio
Philosophical Studies (2023) 180: 1601-1621
archived/published (open access)

Quantification and Ontological Commitment
The Routledge Handbook of Properties (2024) edited by A. R. J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin, Routledge. Chapter 1.
archived/published

Against Representational Levels
Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics (2022), 36: 140-157.
archived/published (open access)

Unrestricted Quantification and the Structure of Type Theory
With Salvatore Florio
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2021) 102: 1: 44-64
published (open access)

The Proper Treatment of Identity in Dialetheic Metaphysics
The Philosophical Quarterly (2020) 70: 278: 65-92 (online 2019)
draft/published

Propositions and Cognitive Relations
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2019), 2: 119: 157-178
draft/published (free access)
podcast: download/iTunes

How to Unify
Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2018), 5: 31: 816-842
published (open access)

Nominalist Realism
Noûs (2018), 52: 4: 808-835

draft/published

A Higher-Order Solution to the Problem of the Concept Horse
Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2016), 3: 6: 132-166
published (open access)


Object as a Determinable
Mark Jago (2016) (ed.), Reality Making, OUP
draft/published

The Representational Limits of Possible Worlds Semantics
Philosophical Studies (2016), 173: 2: 479-50.
draft/published
reply: Stalnaker (2016), "Models and reality" in Canadian Journal of Philosophy.


Verities and Truth-Values
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington (2021) edited by Lee Walters and John Hawthorne, OUP. Chapter 15. 
draft/published

Multiple Constitution
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9 (2015), edited by Karen Bennett & Dean Zimmerman, OUP. Chapter 9.
Winner of the Sanders Prize in Metaphysics 2012
draft/published

Solitude Without Souls: Why Peter Unger Hasn't Established Substance Dualism
With Will Bynoe
Philosophia (2013) 41: 1: 109-125
draft/published.


Williams on Supervaluationism and Logical Revisionism
Journal of Philosophy (2011) 108: 11: 633-641
draft/published.

Reviews

Review of Robert Trueman, Properties and Propositions: The Metaphysics of Higher-Order Logic
MIND (2023)
archived/
published

Review of Imogen Dickie, Fixing Reference
Philosophy (2017) 92: 1: 148-155
draft/published


Realism Behind the Veil
(This is a critical notice of Tim Button, The Limits of Realism.)
Analysis (2014) 74: 4: 721-730
draft/published


Review of John Heil, The Universe as We Find It
T
he Philosophical Quarterly (2013) 63: 253: 839-841
draft/published

PhD Thesis

Too Many Cats: The Problem of the Many and the Metaphysics of Vagueness
Version submitted 24-9-2010 available here


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