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Diekemper

Dr Joseph Diekemper

Lecturer in Philosophy
(PhD University of St. Andrews)

Contact Details
Room 023.03.002
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3421
email:  j.diekemper@qub.ac.uk

Teaching Areas
For the academic year 2012-13 I will be teaching Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy and the Good Life, and Philosophical Theology.  I also regularly teach Metaphysics, and I have taught History of Philosophy (Kant section) in the past.

Research Interests
Metaphysics, especially time, properties, events, and the metaphysical implications of theism; Philosophy of Religion/Philosophical Theology, especially divine eternity, divine foreknowledge and human freedom, and theological anthropology.  For the academic year 2011-12 I held an Oxford Templeton Research Fellowship at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

Research Supervision
I am happy to supervise research students in any area of traditional Metaphysics, to include such topics as causation, material substances, events, persons, universals, time, and modality.  I am also available to supervise research students in the Philosophy of Religion/Philosophical Theology, particularly in such topics as the divine attributes, the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom, the problem of evil, and philosophical issues attending theological anthropology.  I am currently supervising two Ph.D. students, one working on the applicability of Kant’s thing in itself to contemporary metaphysics, and the other working on the metaphysics of mind required by McDowell’s conception of the relation between mind and world.

Recent/Selected Publications