Nathan Wildman

Publications

Journal Articles 

2023 (w/G. Forbes) ‘Enduring senses’, Synthese (Accepted, DOI forthcoming)

2023 (w/E. Croes, M. Antheunis, & M. B. Goudbeek) ‘“I am in your computer while we talk to each other”: A content analysis of the use of language-based strategies by humans and a social chatbot in initial human-chatbot interactions’, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (Accepted, DOI forthcoming)

2022 (w/J. Brown) ‘The necessity of naturalism’, Erkenntnis DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00567-1

2022 (w/U. Baysan) ‘Physicalism or Anti-Physicalism: a disjunctive account’, Erkenntnis, DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00530-0

2021 ‘A note on Lange on Contingent Necessity-makers’, Erkenntnis 86: 763-771 

2021 ‘Against the reduction of modality to essence’, Synthese 198: 1455-1471

2020 (w/N. McDonnell) ‘The puzzle of virtual theft’, Analysis 80 (3): 493-499

2020 (w/C. Folde) ‘Defending explosive universal fictions’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 78: 238-242

2020 Potential problems? Some issues with Vetter’s potentiality account of modality, Philosophical Inquiries. 8 (1): 167-184

2019 ‘Don’t stop make-believing’, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 45 (2): 261-275

2019 (w/N. McDonnell) ‘Virtual reality: digital or fictional?’, Disputatio 11/55: 371-397

2019 (w/A. Archer) ‘Playing with art in Suits’ utopia’, Sports, Ethics, & Philosophy Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (3-4): 456-470

2019 ‘The possibility of empty fictions’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77: 35-42

2018 (w/M. Clark) ‘Grounding, mental causation, and overdetermination’, Synthese 195: 3723-3733

2018 (w/C. Folde) ‘No trouble with poetic license: a reply to Xhignesse, British Journal of Aesthetics 58: 319-326

2017 ‘A note on Morato on modality and explanation’, Erkenntnis, 82: 967-74

2017 (w/C. Folde) ‘Fiction unlimited’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75: 73-80

2015 ‘Load bare-ing particulars’, Philosophical Studies 172: 1419-1434

2013 ‘Modality, sparsity, and essence’, The Philosophical Quarterly 63: 760-782

Peer Reviewed Chapters

2023 ‘What’s wrong with weak necessity?’, Meaning, Modality, and Mind: Essays Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Naming & Necessity, A. Hattiangadi, C. Besson, & R. Padro (eds), Oxford University Press

2023 ‘Modal accounts of essence’, in The Routledge Handbook of Essence, K. Koslicki & M. Raven (eds), Routledge

2023 (w/A. Cawston) ‘A moral argument for videogames’, in Educating Character Through the Arts, A. Thompson, L. D’Olimpio, & P. Paris (eds), Routledge.

2023 (w/N. Rietdijk & A. Archer), ‘Online Affective Manipulation’, in The Philosophy of Online Manipulation, F. Jongepier & M. Klenk (eds), Routledge.

2021 (w/N. van de Mosselear) ‘Glitches as fictional (mis)communication’, in T. Barker & M. Korolkova (eds.), Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, and the Media, London: Bloomsbury

2021 (w/C. Folde) ‘A puzzle about fictional ‘I’s’, in Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity, E. Fulop (ed.), De Gruyter

2020 (w/A. Archer) ‘Internet access as an essential social good’, in The New Common, E. Aarts, H. Fleuren, M. Sitskoorn, & T. Wilthagen (eds), Open Press TiU

2020 ‘From modal to post-modal metaphysics’ in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, J. Miller & R. Bliss (eds.), London: Routledge Press

2018 (w/R. Woodward) ‘Interactivity, Fictionality, and Incompleteness’, in The Aesthetics of Video Games, G. Tavinor & J. Robson (eds.), Routledge

2018 ‘On shaky ground’, in Reality and its Structure, R. Bliss & G. Priest (eds.), Oxford University Press

2016 ‘How (not) to be a modalist about essence’, in Reality Making, M. Jago (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 177-195

Edited Collections

2020 (w/A. Archer) Emotions in Sport and Games, Routledge

Positions Held

2018-present | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy | Tilburg University

2016-17 | University Lecturer – Logic and Metaphysics | Department of Philosophy | University of Glasgow

2014-15 | Post-Doctoral Researcher | SNF Project Grounding – Metaphysics, Science, Logic | University of Hamburg

2011-16 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Department of Philosophy | University of Hamburg (Intermitted August 2014 - August 2015)

Selected Recent Talks

2022 ‘Formal fictional truths, glitches, & MISSINGONO.’, European Society of Aesthetics Conference, Tallinn

2022 ‘Malfunctioning as intended: making glitch art’, The Philosophy of Digital Images, Liverpool

2022 ‘When is a work immersive?’, Aesthetics & Phenomenology Seminar, Antwerp

2021 ‘But you’re only watching?!? The anti-voyeur gaming objection’, American Society of Aesthetics, Montreal

2021 ‘Against the epistemology of essence’, Connaissance philosophique et connaissance des essences, College de France

2020 ‘For voyeur gaming’, Aesthetics for Distant Birds II

Refereeing

Acumen*, American Philosophical Quarterly*, Analysis*, Acta Analytica*, Analytic Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Logic, Australasian Journal of Philosophy*, British Journal of Aesthetics*, Canadian Journal of Philosophy*, dialectica*, Ergo, Erkenntnis*, Ethics and Information Technology*, Inquiry, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism*, Journal of Philosophical Research, Metaphysics*, Mind*, Philosophical Imprint, Philosophical Papers*, Philosophical Quarterly*, Philosophical Review*, Philosophical Studies*, The Review of Symbolic Logic*, Routledge*, Synthese*, Theoria, Thought* (* = multiple times)

Editor (w/A. Archer) Special Issue of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport on Emotion in Sport and Games; PhilPapers Section Editor on Essentialism, Mereological Essentialism, Origin Essent