Dr. Brian Kierland has a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of Idaho, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 2003. He joined the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at Boise State University in 2008 after five years at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Kierland's research interests include Ethics, Meta-ethics, Probabilistic Epistemology, Metaphysics of Time, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Religion. He serves as a referee for a number of professional publications including Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (from MIT Press) and Journal of Ethics, and also serves as the faculty co-advisor of the Philosophy Club at Boise State.
Articles
Ability-Based Objections to No-Best-World Arguments (with Philip Swenson), Philosophical Studies (2012)
In the space of possible worlds, there might be a best possible world (a uniquely...
Necessity and Color Incompatibility, Disputatio (2011)
A traditional view is that all necessary truths are analytic. A frequent objection is that...
Avoiding Certain Frustration, Reflection, and the Cable Guy Paradox (with Bradley Monton and Samuel Ruhmkorff), Philosophical Studies (2008)
We discuss the cable guy paradox, both as an object of interest in its own...
Presentism and the Objection from Being-Supervenience (with Bradley Monton), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2007)
In this paper, we show that presentism—the view that the way things are is the...
Cooperation, ‘Ought Morally’, and Principles of Moral Harmony, Philosophical Studies (2006)
There is a theory that one ought morally to do the best one can, when...