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| Dr.Matthew Roberts |
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Associate Professor
Phone: (630) 752-5617
Fax: (630) 752-7777
Email: Matthew(dot)Roberts(at)wheaton(dot)edu
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Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2006. Dissertation title: "A Historical Survey and Conceptual Account of States of Affairs".
M.A., Philosophy, Biola University, La Mirada, CA 1999, with High Honors.
B.A., Religious and Philosophical Studies, Sterling College, Sterling, KS 1996, summa cum laude.
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Professor Roberts specializes in contemporary metaphysics with related interests in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He is trained as an analytic philosopher. His focus in graduate school was on the ontology of substance and universals, particularly propositions and states of affairs. His dissertation surveys the history of ontologies of states of affairs beginning in the late 19th century and tracing it up to the present day. In the second half of his dissertation, he provides a new theory of states of affairs based on the logical forms of concepts.This theory is compatible with a correspondence theory of truth. Professor Roberts studied under professors George Bealer (now at Yale) and Michael Tooley. Dr. Roberts continues to pursue research in these areas and is also interested in their application to philosophical theology, particularly divine foreknowledge. Dr. Roberts enjoys spending time with his wife, Jessica, and their new daughter Karis. He has many interests and enjoys playing basketball and golf.
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- Issues & World Views
- Philosophy and the Sciences
- Substance and Person
- Introduction to Logic
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- American Philosophical Association
- Society of Christian Philosophers
- Evangelical Philosophical Society
- American Association of Philosophy Teachers
- Evangelical Theological Society
- Emerging Scholars Network
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Contemporary metaphysics and ontology
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Presentations:
- “Identity Properties vs. Bare Particulars Qua Individuators," Graduate Colloquium, University of Colorado—Boulder, Fall 2000.
- "States of Affairs in Plantinga's Modal Realism," Kent State Philosophy Graduate Conference, Kent State University, March 2001.
- “A Critique of Michael Loux’s Substance Theory of Substance,” University of Oregon Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Oregon, May 2001.
- “Plantingian States of Affairs: An Expanded Theory,” Evangelical Philosophical Society, Colorado Springs, CO, November 2002.
- “States of Affairs,” Jenztsch Prize for Outstanding Departmental Graduate Paper, University of Colorado—Boulder, December 2002.
- Comments on “Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties,” by Andy Egan, 5th Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2003.
Works in Progress:
- “States of Affairs, Propositions, and Logical Form”.
- “Propositions, States of Affairs, and Facts: Are They Isomorphic?”.
- “Are Propositions and States of Affairs Fine-Grained?”.
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