ANDREW LAW

ABOUT ME

I am a Ph.D. student in the philosophy department at the University of California, Riverside. I work primarily on freedom and responsibility, although I also have interests in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. Here is my CV, if you are interested. Thanks for visiting my site!

RESEARCH

"Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Dependence: A Dialectical Intervention" (with Taylor W. Cyr), forthcoming in American Philosophical Quarterly.

"Free Will and Two Local Determinisms" (with Neal A. Tognazzini), Erkenntnis (84), 2019: 1011-1023. 

"The Puzzle of Hyper-Change," Ratio 33 (1), 2019: 1-11.

"Review of Carolina Sartorio's Causation and Free Will " (with Peter J. Graham and Jonah Nagashima), Analysis (78), 2018: 371-373. 

TEACHING

Below are courses I have taught as the primary instructor. If you would like to see my syllabi, please feel free to contact me.

PHIL133: METAPHYSICS

Fall, 2019 (UC, Riverside)

An upper-division course focused on traditional metaphysical issues such as the nature of time, freedom, and causation, along with their application to less traditional issues, such as time travel.

PHIL112: MORTAL QUESTIONS

Summer, 2019 (UC, Riverside)

An upper-division course focused on philosophical questions surrounding death, such as: What, if anything, makes death bad? What, if anything, makes for a meaningful life? Would an immortal life be better than a mortal one? Is there any reason to think there is an afterlife?

PHIL113: GOD

Spring, 2019 (UC, Riverside)

An upper-division course focused on issues such as the nature of God, arguments for and against God's existence, faith and reason, as well as freedom and foreknowledge.

PHIL008: INTRODUCTION TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Summer, 2018 (UC, Riverside)

An introductory course focused on propositional logic and its applications.

PHIL007: INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THINKING

Summer, 2017 (UC, Riverside)

An introductory course focused on different types of reasoning, such as deductive, abductive, and analogical.