Ulrich Meyer

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Ulrich Meyer

Professor of Philosophy

Department/Office Information

Philosophy

Contact

(315) 228-7681
Education

PhD in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge

Specialties

Metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of time

Publications

Books

Reviews of this book:

Articles

  1. Temporal Logic. In Nina Emery, ed., Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time (2026)
  2. Best Systems in Lawless Worlds (Análisis Filosófico, 2025)
  3. Mathematical Impossibilities (Inquiry, 2024)
  4. The Future of the Present (Erkenntnis, 2024)
  5. The Banach–Tarski Paradox (Logique et Analyse, 2023)
  6. Fatalism as a Metaphysical Thesis (Manuscrito, 2016)
  7. Tense, Propositions, and Facts (Synthese, 2015)
  8. Consciousness and the Present. In Y. Dolev and M. Roubach, eds.,  Cosmological and Psychological Time (Springer, 2016)
  9. Tense Logic (Philosophy Compass, 2015)
  10. Time as a Logical Space (CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy and Ethics, 2014)
  11. Counterpart Theory and the Actuality Operator (Mind, 2013)
  12. The Triviality of Presentism. In R. Ciuni, K. Miller, and G. Torrengo, eds., New Papers on the Present, (Philosophia, 2013)
  13. Modal Property Comprehension (Synthese, 2013)
  14. Explaining Causal Loops (Analysis, 2012)
  15. Times as Abstractions. In A. Bardon, ed., The Future of the Philosophy of Time (Routledge, 2011)
  16. Time and Modality. In C. Callender, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Time (2011)
  17. Times in Tense Logic (Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 2009)
  18. 'Now' and 'Then' in Tense Logic (Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2009)
  19. Worlds and Times (Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 2006)
  20. The Presentist's Dilemma (Philosophical Studies, 2005)
  21. Dummett on the Time-Continuum (Philosophy, 2005)
  22. How to Apply Mathematics (Erkenntnis, 2004)
  23. The Metaphysics of Velocity (Philosophical Studies, 2003)
  24. Is Science First-Order? (Analysis, 2002)
  25. Prior and the Platonist (Analysis, 2002)

Reviews

  1. M. Oreste Fiocco, Time and the World: Every Thing and Then Some (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2026)
  2. Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz, Nothing to Come: A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019)
  3. Nathan Oaklander, ed., Debates in the Metaphysics of Time (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015).
  4. Carlos Montemayor, Minding Time (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014).
  5. Berit Broogard, Transient Truths (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2012)
  6. Joseph Campbell, et al., eds., Time and Identity (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2011)
  7. Yuval Dolev, Time and Realism (Iyyun, 2009)

Other

  1. Wave Equations on q-Minkowski space (Communications in Mathematical Physics, 1996)
  2. New interactions in q-scalar electrodynamics? In J. Lukierski, et al., eds., Quantum Groups (Polish Scientific Publishers, 1995)
  3. Projective Quantum Spaces (Letters in Mathematical Physics, 1995)
  4. q-Lorentz Group and Braided Coaddition on q-Minkowski space (Communications in Mathematical Physics, 1995)
  5. (with Shahn Majid). Braided Matrix Structure of q-Minkowski Space and q-Poincaré group. (Zeitschrift für Physik C, 1994)
University Service
  • Director, Venice Study Group, Fall 2017
  • Director, Freiburg Study Group, Spring 2017
  • Director, St. Andrews Study Group, Spring 2008, 2013, 2023
  • Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2016–2020
  • Chair, Committee on Information Technology, 2008–2011