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I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul/Incheon*, South Korea.
I've been a postdoc in Cambridge (as part of Sarah Coakley's TWCF project ‘Theology, philosophy of religion, and the sciences’), at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame, and at eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics in Geneva. My PhD thesis, directed by Oliver Pooley in Oxford, was entitled 'Time, experience, and the A versus B debate'. I originally studied physics at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, where I’ve also been a postdoctoral Bye-Fellow. I'm currently secretary of the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS), one of the member societies of the International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT). Here's my CV. Email me: nmdeng[at]gmail[dot]com. |
Research
I work (mostly) in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics, I'm interested in the B-theory and its relation to temporal experience. In the philosophy of religion, one thing I've thought about is to what extent naturalists can engage in religious practice.
I also have interests in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of death, and in aesthetics.
I work (mostly) in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics, I'm interested in the B-theory and its relation to temporal experience. In the philosophy of religion, one thing I've thought about is to what extent naturalists can engage in religious practice.
I also have interests in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of death, and in aesthetics.
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Book
God and Time Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Religion Papers Time, Metaphysics of Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (published version here) Eternity in Christian Thought Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Making sense of the growing block view Philosophia (published version here) What is temporal ontology? Philosophical Studies (published version here) Acknowledgement and the Paradox of Tragedy, with Daan Evers Philosophical Studies 173/2: 337-350 On whether B-theoretic Atheists should Fear Death Philosophia 43/4: 1011-1021 (published version here) How A-theoretic Deprivationists should respond to Lucretius Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1/3: 417-432 (published version here) Religion for Naturalists International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78/2: 195-214 (published version here) On Explaining Why Time Seems to Pass Southern Journal of Philosophy 51/3: 367-382 (published version here) Our Experience of Passage on the B-theory Erkenntnis 78/4: 713-726 (published version here) Fine’s McTaggart, Temporal Passage, and the A versus B debate Ratio 26/1: 19-34 (published version here) Questions about ‘Internal and External Questions about God’ Religious Studies 48/2: 257-268 (published version here) 'Beyond A- and B-time’ Reconsidered Philosophia 38/4: 741-753 (published version here) Replies, reviews, and invited chapters One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time is Not an Illusion forthcoming in The Illusions of Time: Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception, ed. by Adrian Bardon, Valtteri Arstila, Sean Power & Argiro Vatakis, Palgrave Macmillan What Quine (and Carnap) might say about contemporary metaphysics of time forthcoming in Quine, Structure, and Ontology (OUP), ed. by Frederique Janssen-Lauret Religion for Naturalists and the Meaning of Belief European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (for a special issue on 'Philosophy, Religion, and Hope', forthcoming) Review of D. Ingram's 'Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews On 'Experiencing time': a response to Simon Prosser Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61(3): 281-301 (published version here) Does Physics make us Free? Review of J. T. Ismael ‘How physics makes us free’ (OUP), with Klaas Landsman Metascience 26(1): 127-130 (published version here) Metaphysics, Science, and Religion: a Response to Hud Hudson Journal of Analytic Theology Vol.5 (published version here) Temporal Experience and the A versus B debate Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (2017), ed. by Ian Phillips Response to 'Fear of Death and the Symmetry Argument' Manuscrito 39/4: 297-304 Response to Jeffrey Bishop Studies in Christian Ethics 29/3 (published version here) Review of 'Debates in the Metaphysics of Time', ed. by N. Oaklander International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29/3 (published version here) |
Recent and upcoming talks On moving past the ABCs International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) 6th Annual Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 23-26 2019 Joint Session, University of Durham, July 19-21 2019 On mystery, timelessness, and being apersonal The nature of God: personal and a-personal concepts of the divine, University of Innsbruck, Aug 5-8 2018 God and Time III, University of Lugano, Aug 23-24 2019 A normative approach to temporal ontology Joint Session, University of Oxford, July 6-8 2018 What is temporal ontology? First International Workshop on Time, Osaka City University, Nov 3-5 2018 19th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Utrecht University, July 10-13 2018 University of Innsbruck, June 27 2018 Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Jan 30 2018 Eidos 10th year anniversary celebration, University of Geneva, Nov 23-24 2017 What kind of a fine-tuner? Fine-tuning workshop, University of Oxford, Oct 6 2017 Eternity Workshop on God and Time, University of Bonn, Aug 12 2017 Making sense of the growing block view 13th Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN): Metaphysics, Syracuse University, June 26-28 2017 Temporal experience and the A versus B debate International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) 4th Annual Meeting, Gargnano del Garda, June 12-14 2017 Conference on Temporal Experience, Memory, and the Imagination: Insights from Philosophy and Psychology, University of Warwick, March 24-25 2017 Does temporal ontology exist? European Congress of Analytic Philosophy 9, LMU Munich, Aug 21-26 2017 Pacific APA, Seattle, April 12-15 2017 MetaMetaphysical Club, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dec 2 2016 Serious Metaphysics Group, University of Cambridge, Oct 13 2016 Workshop on Presentism, University of Milan, Sept 12 2016 Religion for naturalists Centre for Philosophy of Religion Seminar, University of Leeds, Nov 24 2016 Workshop on Religion without Belief, University of Manchester, April 7-8 2016 Butler Society, University of Oxford, Feb 15 2016 Does time seem to pass? Conference for Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, Aug 19-20 2016 Joint Session, University of Cardiff, July 8-10 2016 Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar, University of Nottingham, Feb 17 2016 Cambridge Philosophy of Science (CamPoS), Jan 20 2016 In defense of veridicalism New Directions in the Study of the Mind, University of Cambridge, May 3 2016 Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 3 2016 General audience talks and public outreach Can cosmological fine-tuning constitute an argument for God's existence? (video ad; slides) TWCF Big questions about science and religion, Ely, Oct 15 2016 Philosophical questions about the arrow of time (video) St. Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford, Nature of Time Conference, June 11 2016 What happened to the logical argument from evil? Hills Road Sixth Form College Philosophy Society, Cambridge, Nov 13 2015 Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science A video on the TWCF project |
Teaching
I'm currently teaching Critical Reasoning and World Philosophy.
I’ve supervised General Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology (1st to 4th yr undergrads in Oxford and Cambridge) and given classes in Logic (1st yr undergrads in Oxford).
I’ve lectured on Philosophy of Religion (1st yr undergrads in Cambridge), Philosophy of Physics (2nd and 3rd yr undergrads in Cambridge), and Philosophy of Time (3rd yr undergrads in Geneva).
In Geneva I also co-convened MA Seminars on Metaphysics and Ontology.
I'm currently teaching Critical Reasoning and World Philosophy.
I’ve supervised General Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology (1st to 4th yr undergrads in Oxford and Cambridge) and given classes in Logic (1st yr undergrads in Oxford).
I’ve lectured on Philosophy of Religion (1st yr undergrads in Cambridge), Philosophy of Physics (2nd and 3rd yr undergrads in Cambridge), and Philosophy of Time (3rd yr undergrads in Geneva).
In Geneva I also co-convened MA Seminars on Metaphysics and Ontology.
Other stuff
As part of the TWCF postdoc, I held an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Time and Religion’ in Cambridge (December 2016), and I organized the IAPT's fifth annual conference in Seoul (June 2018).
Here's my academia page and my faculty page.
Here are some of my philosophy colleagues: Nikolaj Pedersen, Mandel Cabrera, Bennett Holman, Jeremy Wyatt, and Michael Michael.
*Yonsei has three campuses, one in Seoul, one in Incheon (Songdo), and one in Wonju; UIC runs classes in both Seoul and Incheon. I'm currently teaching in Incheon:
Natalja Deng, Veritas Hall B Room 418, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 85 Songdogwahak-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21983, South Korea
Other stuff
As part of the TWCF postdoc, I held an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Time and Religion’ in Cambridge (December 2016), and I organized the IAPT's fifth annual conference in Seoul (June 2018).
Here's my academia page and my faculty page.
Here are some of my philosophy colleagues: Nikolaj Pedersen, Mandel Cabrera, Bennett Holman, Jeremy Wyatt, and Michael Michael.
*Yonsei has three campuses, one in Seoul, one in Incheon (Songdo), and one in Wonju; UIC runs classes in both Seoul and Incheon. I'm currently teaching in Incheon:
Natalja Deng, Veritas Hall B Room 418, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 85 Songdogwahak-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21983, South Korea
