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Dr Joseph Diekemper
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsMy research to date has focused on two main areas: the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of persons. In particular, I am interested in the overlap between philosophy and theology with respect to these areas. So I am wrapping up a project on God’s relationship to time and the metaphysics of events. The purpose of the project is to develop a theory of events which provides the foundation for a plausible and coherent account of God’s relation to time. And I have begun a project on the metaphysics of theological anthropology. The goal of the project is to provide a theologically informed metaphysics of the human person.
Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Space and time
- Properties
- Events
- Persons
- Divine attributes
- Divine foreknowledge and human freedom
- Theological anthropology
Public outreach & key achievements
- http://iai.tv/video/the-dance-of-time
- http://iainews.iai.tv/articles/diekemper-vs-barbour-the-dance-of-time-auid-629
Research students
| PhD Title | Freedom of the will in Leibniz and Jonathan Edwards |
| Country | Italy |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | ‘The Metaphysics of St Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Thomistic Realism’ |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD Title | ‘Thing in Itself in Kantian Philosophy’ |
| Country | Poland |
| PhD Title | ‘Causality in a McDowellian World’ |
| Country | United Kingdom |