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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 President 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 philosophy of religion. In metaphysics, I'm interested in the B-theory and its relation to temporal experience. In philosophy of religion, one thing I've thought about is to what extent naturalists can engage in religious practice.
I also have interests in philosophy of physics, philosophy of death, and aesthetics.
I work (mostly) in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. In metaphysics, I'm interested in the B-theory and its relation to temporal experience. In philosophy of religion, one thing I've thought about is to what extent naturalists can engage in religious practice.
I also have interests in philosophy of physics, philosophy of death, and aesthetics.
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Book
God and Time Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Religion Papers Plenty to come: making sense of Correia's and Rosenkranz's growing block forthcoming in Disputatio Time, Metaphysics of Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (published version here) Eternity in Christian Thought Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy On 'Experiencing time': a response to Simon Prosser Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61(3): 281-301 (published version here) 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) 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) 'Beyond A- and B-time’ Reconsidered Philosophia 38/4: 741-753 (published version here) Religion for Naturalists International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78/2: 195-214 (published version here) Agnosticism and fictionalism: reply to Le Poidevin European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 12/3: 183 Religion for Naturalists and the Meaning of Belief European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11/3: 157-174 Metaphysics, Science, and Religion: a Response to Hud Hudson Journal of Analytic Theology Vol.5 (published version here) Questions about ‘Internal and External Questions about God’ Religious Studies 48/2: 257-268 (published version here) 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) Reviews and invited chapters One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time is Not an Illusion The Illusions of Time: Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception (2019), ed. by Adrian Bardon, Valtteri Arstila, Sean Power & Argiro Vatakis, Palgrave Macmillan On timelessness and mystery forthcoming in The Divine Nature: Personal and A-personal Perspectives, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Simon Kittle & Georg Gasser What Quine (and Carnap) might say about contemporary metaphysics of time forthcoming in Quine, Structure, and Ontology (OUP), ed. by Frederique Janssen-Lauret Temporal Experience and the A versus B debate Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (2017), ed. by Ian Phillips Religion für Naturalisten Handbuch Analytische Religionsphilosophie (2019), Metzler, ed. by K. Viertbauer and G. Gasser Review of D. Ingram's 'Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 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) 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 Weekend seminar Philosophie der Physik (Schwerpunkt Zeitphilosophie), Köln/online, 'Die Probleme der Zeitphilosophie', 11 Dec 2021 Keynote speech IAPT 7, TBA, Barcelona, July 5-7, 2022 The contours of religious fictionalism Workshop on Fictionalism, Victoria University of Wellington/online, Sept/Oct 2021 Temporal experience, metaphysics, and metametaphysics, or: on philosophising about temporal experience MindGrad Warwick 2021, Warwick/Zoom, 26 June 2021 Plenty to come: making sense of Correia's and Rosenkranz's growing block Joint Session 2021, Hertfordshire/online, '16-18 July 2021 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 Religion for naturalists Zoom workshop 'Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Asia', National Taiwan University, Nov 16-18 2020 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 General audience talks and public outreach Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science A video on the TWCF project How is the experience of time related to death? Video interview, The Nature of God: Personal and a-personal concepts of the divine, Innsbruck Aug 6-8 2018 Eternity (podcast) God and Time, Bonn 2017 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 |
Teaching
My courses at Yonsei include Topics in the Philosophy of Science (UIC seminar), Metaphysics; Self, Identity, and Free Will (UIC seminar), Critical Reasoning, World Philosophy: Philosophy in the East and West, and World Philosophy: Science, Religion and Metaphysics.
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.
My courses at Yonsei include Topics in the Philosophy of Science (UIC seminar), Metaphysics; Self, Identity, and Free Will (UIC seminar), Critical Reasoning, World Philosophy: Philosophy in the East and West, and World Philosophy: Science, Religion and Metaphysics.
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
What is it like to work as a philosopher in South Korea? (Philosophers' Cocoon)
Here's my academia page and my faculty page, and some of my philosophy colleagues: Nikolaj Pedersen, Mandel Cabrera, Bennett Holman, Michael Michael, Casey McCoy, and Frank Saunders.
Together with our literature and history colleagues at UIC, we have been running a reading group on Eastern Classics since the start of the pandemic.
In June 2018, I organized the IAPT's fifth annual conference in Seoul, which was a lot of fun.
*Yonsei has three campuses, one in Seoul, one in Incheon (Songdo), and one in Wonju; UIC runs classes in both Seoul and Incheon. My office is in Incheon:
Natalja Deng, Veritas Hall B Room 418, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 85 Songdogwahak-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21983, South Korea
What is it like to work as a philosopher in South Korea? (Philosophers' Cocoon)
Here's my academia page and my faculty page, and some of my philosophy colleagues: Nikolaj Pedersen, Mandel Cabrera, Bennett Holman, Michael Michael, Casey McCoy, and Frank Saunders.
Together with our literature and history colleagues at UIC, we have been running a reading group on Eastern Classics since the start of the pandemic.
In June 2018, I organized the IAPT's fifth annual conference in Seoul, which was a lot of fun.
*Yonsei has three campuses, one in Seoul, one in Incheon (Songdo), and one in Wonju; UIC runs classes in both Seoul and Incheon. My office is in Incheon:
Natalja Deng, Veritas Hall B Room 418, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 85 Songdogwahak-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21983, South Korea
