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Name: Kathrin Koslicki
Departmental Affiliation: Philosophy Department
Degrees: Ph.D. MIT, B.A. SUNY Stony Brook
Expertise: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ancient Philosophy
Major Awards: Visiting Research Fellow, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Andrew Mellon Research Semester Fellowship, Tufts University, Spring 2004, Junior Faculty Research Leave, Tufts University, Fall 2003
E-mail: kathrin.koslicki@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/koslicki.shtml
Scholarship & Research: REFEREED ARTICLES:

“On the Substantive Nature of Disagreements in Ontology”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.71, No.1 (July 2005), pp.85-105

“Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy”, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 102, No.2 (February 2005), pp.55-77

“Constitution and Similarity”, Philosophical Studies, Vol.117 (2004), pp.327-364

“The Crooked Path from Vagueness to Four-Dimensionalism”, Philosophical Studies, Vol.114, No.1-2 (May 2003), pp.107-134

“Genericity and Logical Form”, Mind and Language, Vol.14, No.4 (December 1999), pp.441-467

“The Semantics of Mass-Predicates”, Nous, Vol.33, No.1 (March 1999), pp.46-91; reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual, Vol.XXII

“Isolation and Non-Arbitrary Division: Frege’s Two Criteria for Counting”, Synthese, Vol.112, No.3 (September 1997), pp.403-30

“Four Eighths Hephaistos: Artifacts and Living Things in Aristotle”, History of PhilosophyQuarterly, Vol.14, No.1 (January 1997), pp.77-98

INVITED PUBLICATIONS:

Review of Henry Laycock, Words Without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity, Oxford University Press, 2006, forthcoming in: Australasian Journal of Philosophy; estimated publication date: 2006

“The Status of Form in Aristotle’s Mereology”, forthcoming in: a special issue of The Journal of Philosophy on ancient mereology, edited by Wolfgang Mann and Achille Varzi

“Towards a Neo-Aristotelian Mereology”, forthcoming in: Dialectica (a special volume of the journal devoted to the philosophy of Kit Fine, with replies by Fine; edited by Kevin Mulligan); estimated publication date: 2006

“Nouns, Mass and Count”, in: Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert, MacMillan Reference, USA, 2006

Review of Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford University Press, 2002, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol.101, No.9 (September 2004), pp.492-496

Review of Theodore Sider, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time,in: The Philosophical Review, Vol.112, No.1 (January 2003), pp.112-115

IN PROGRESS:

The Structure of Objects (tentative title); book-manuscript (completed; currently under review)

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