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.

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.

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

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

Alternative: [my surname] [dot] [my first initial] [dot] [my middle initial] [at sign] gmail [dot] com

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Papers

Higher-Order Metaphysics: An Introduction
Co-authored with Peter Fritz
Forthcoming as chapter 1 of Higher-Order Metaphysics, edited by Peter Fritz and Nicholas K Jones
archived version

Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality
Co-authored with Salvatore Florio
Philosophical Studies (online 2023)
archived/published (open access)

Quantification and Ontological Commitment
Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook on Properties edited by Anthony Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maureen
archived version

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


Unrestricted Quantification and the Structure of Type Theory
Co-authored with Salvatore Florio
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2021) 102: 1: 44-64 (online 2019)
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
Lee Walters and John Hawthorne (2021) 
(eds.), Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington, OUP. 
draft/published

Multiple Constitution
Bennett & Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9 (2015), ch9
Winner of the Sanders Prize in Metaphysics 2012

draft/published

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


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

Reviews

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


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


Review of John Heil's 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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