Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Professor Timmerman's main research interests are in ethics, death, and epistemology. He primarily focuses on the actualism/possibilism debate in normative ethics, deprivationism and axiological questions in the death literature, and global poverty and animal welfare in applied ethics. In epistemology, he has worked on the lottery paradox and peer disagreement. Recent publications on death include Avoiding the Asymmetry Problem in Ratio (2018) and A Dilemma for Epicureanism, which is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Recent publications on global poverty include Save (some of) the Children, which is forthcoming in Philosophia and Sometimes There is Nothing Wrong with Letting a Child Drown in Analysis (2015). The latter has already been reprinted in five Oxford University Press textbooks. Recent publications on the actualism/possibilism debate include Does Scrupulous Securitism Stand-Up to Scrutiny? in Philosophical Studies (2015) and Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist or Hybridist? in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2016), which is co-authored with Yishai Cohen. His How to be an Actualist and Blame People, co-authored with Philip Swenson, is provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. With Yishai Cohen, he is currently working on an entry on the actualism/possibilism debate for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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About Travis Timmerman
Professor Timmerman's main research interests are in ethics, death, and epistemology. He primarily focuses on the actualism/possibilism debate in normative ethics, deprivationism and axiological questions in the death literature, and global poverty and animal welfare in applied ethics. In epistemology, he has worked on the lottery paradox and peer disagreement. Recent publications on death include Avoiding the Asymmetry Problem in Ratio (2018) and A Dilemma for Epicureanism, which is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Recent publications on global poverty include Save (some of) the Children, which is forthcoming in Philosophia and Sometimes There is Nothing Wrong with Letting a Child Drown in Analysis (2015). The latter has already been reprinted in five Oxford University Press textbooks. Recent publications on the actualism/possibilism debate include Does Scrupulous Securitism Stand-Up to Scrutiny? in Philosophical Studies (2015) and Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist or Hybridist? in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2016), which is co-authored with Yishai Cohen. His How to be an Actualist and Blame People, co-authored with Philip Swenson, is provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. With Yishai Cohen, he is currently working on an entry on the actualism/possibilism debate for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.