Dr. Christina Conroy - Associate Professor of Philosophy (
Curriculum Vitae)
Degrees, Licensures and Certifications: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2010; M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2007; B.A., City University of New York, Hunter College, Philosophy Major, Math Minor, 2004
Research Interests: Metaphysics, in particular: metaphysical issues in Everettian quantum mechanics and fundamentality; The ethics of rock climbing
Courses
- First Year Seminar: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Games (FYS 101)
- First Year Seminar: Winnie the Pooh and Buddha Too (FYS 101)
- Beginning Philosophy: (PHIL 100)
- Beginning Logic: (PHIL 106)
- Social Ethics: (PHIL 203)
- Philosophy of the Arts: (PHIL 308)
- Special Topics: Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (PHIL 399)
- Special Topics: Philosophy and Science Fiction (PHIL 399)
- Special Topics: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Games (PHIL 399)
- Philosophy of Science: (PHIL 400)
- Symbolic Logic (PHIL 412)
- Metaphysics: (PHIL 420)
- Epistemology (PHIL 430)
- Special Problems: Advanced Topics in Logic (PHIL 476)
- Special Problems: Aesthetics (PHIL 476)
- Senior Seminar (PHIL 499c)
Organizations
- American Philosophical Association
- Southwest Philosophical Association
- Philosophy of Science Association
- Kentucky Philosophical Association
- Southwestern Philosophical Association
- American Association of Philosophy Teachers
- American Association of University Women
Publications
- Forthcoming. “Everettian Actualism”. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.09.010.
- Forthcoming. “Off-Belay: The Morality of Free-soloing” (with Dr. Gina Blunt Gonzalez,
Associate Professor of Exercise Science, Morehead State University). Sports, Ethics & Philosophy: Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2017.1375001.
- 2016. “Branch-Relative Identity”. In Individuals Across the Sciences. Edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu. Oxford University Press: New York. Chapter 13.
- 2016. “Everettian Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- 2012. “The Relative Facts Interpretation and Everett’s note added in proof”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics” 43: 112-120.
- 2011. “On Lim On Kim”. Southwest Philosophy Review 27, 2: 19-22. Comments on 2011. Lim, Daniel. “Exclusion, Overdetermination, and Vacuity”. Southwest Philosophy Review 27, 1: 57-64.
- 2008. “No Lacuna and No Vicious Regress: A Reply to LePoidevin”. Acta Analytica 23, 4: 367-72.
Contact
354 Rader Hall
606-783-2219
c.conroy@moreheadstate.edu