Antony Eagle

Research Interests

Decision Theory Epistemology Feminist Theory History and Philosophy of Science History and Philosophy of Specific Fields History of Philosophy Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning Logic Mathematical Logic Metaphysics Microeconomic Theory Philosophy Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Religion Probability Theory Statistics & Probability

Teaching Strengths

Metaphysics
Philosophy of logic and language
Early Modern philosophy
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of religion

APrf Antony Eagle

Associate Professor

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

I am a philosopher based in Tarndanya/Adelaide. More information can be found here and also at antonyeagle.org. 🐜🦅

My research is mainly in ‘theoretical’ philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology/philosophy of science, philosophy of logic and language, philosophy of probability, and philosophy of physics. I research and supervise in all these areas, and their early modern history (especially Descartes, Cavendish, and Hume). I also have research interests in philosophy of religion, philosophy of economics, and decision theory.

I am Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2022–27) and founding editor of the Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy.

Date Position Institution name
2026 - ongoing Associate Professor Adelaide University
2024 - 2024 Visiting Scholar University of California Davis
2021 - 2025 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2016 - 2017 Humboldt Research Fellow Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2013 - 2020 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2010 - 2010 Visiting Researcher Monash University
2004 - 2013 Lecturer University of Oxford
2004 - 2013 William Kneale Fellow and Tutor Exeter College

Date Institution name Country Title
2004 Princeton University United States PhD
2004 University of Oxford United Kingdom MA (by resolution)
2002 Princeton University United States MA
1998 University of Melbourne Australia BA (Hons)

Year Citation
2019 Eagle, A. (2019). Chance, determinism, and unsettledness. Philosophical Studies, 176(3), 781-802.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2019 Eagle, A. (2019). Weak Location. Dialectica, 73(1-2), 149-181.
DOI Scopus16 WoS14
2016 Eagle, A. (2016). Composition as Identity. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 94(1), 190-193.
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2016 Eagle, A. (2016). Persistence, vagueness, and location. Journal of Philosophy, 113(10), 507-532.
DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2016 Eagle, A. (2016). Multiple location defended. Philosophical Studies, 173(8), 2215-2231.
DOI Scopus31 WoS25
2014 Eagle, A. (2014). Chance versus randomness. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014, 1-143.
2013 Eagle, A. (2013). Steward, Helen, A Metaphysics For Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. xii + 267, £36.00 (hardback). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(4), 833-834.
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2011 Eagle, A. (2011). Deterministic chance. Noûs, 45(2), 269-299.
DOI Scopus20 WoS18
2011 Eagle, A. (2011). Persistence and Spacetime. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Online only.
2008 Eagle, A. (2008). Mathematics and conceptual analysis. Synthese, March 2008(161), 67-88.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2007 Eagle, A. (2007). Reply to Stone on counterpart theory and four-dimensionalism. Analysis, 67(294), 159-162.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2007 Eagle, A. (2007). Telling tales. Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, 107(1 PART 2), 125-147.
DOI Scopus17
2006 Eagle, A. (2006). Probability: A philosophical introduction. MIND, 115(459), 773-777.
DOI WoS1
2006 Eagle, A. (2006). Truth and paradox.. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 56(224), 455-457.
2005 Eagle, A. (2005). 'Knowledge and lotteries'. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 83(3), 451-452.
2005 Eagle, A. (2005). Randomness is unpredictability. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56(4), 749-790.
DOI Scopus68 WoS58
2005 Eagle, A. (2005). A note on Dolby and Gull on radar time and the twin "paradox". American Journal of Physics, 73(10), 976-979.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2004 Eagle, A. (2004). A causal theory of chance?. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 35A(4), 883-890.
DOI WoS1
2004 Eagle, A. (2004). Twenty-one arguments against propensity analyses of probability. ERKENNTNIS, 60(3), 371-416.
DOI WoS45
- Baron, S., Beebee, H., Braddon-Mitchell, D., Eagle, A., & Miller, K. (2025). How much did each of the authors of this paper causally contribute to its writing?. Philosophers' Imprint, 25(0).
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Year Citation
2025 Eagle, A. (2025). Persistence. In N. Emery (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time (pp. 154-164). New York: Routledge.
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2024 Eagle, A. (2024). Causal Fictionalism. In Y. Shan (Ed.), Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism (pp. 201-240). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI Scopus1
2021 Eagle, A. (2021). Relativity and the a-theory. In E. Knox, & A. Wilson (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics (pp. 86-98). USA: Routledge.
DOI Scopus1
2016 Eagle, A. (2016). Probability and randomness. In A. Hájek, & C. Hitchcock (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy (pp. 440-459). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2016 Eagle, A. (2016). Probability. In P. Humphreys (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science (pp. 417-439). United States of America: Oxford University Press.
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2014 Eagle, A. (2014). Is the past a matter of chance?. In A. Wilson (Ed.), Chance and Temporal Asymmetry (1 ed., pp. 126-158). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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2010 Eagle, A. (2010). Duration in Relativistic Spacetime. In Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume 5 (pp. 113-117). USA: Oxford University Press.
2010 Eagle, A. (2010). Location and perdurance. In D. Zimmerman (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 5 (pp. 53-94). USA: Oxford University Press.
2009 Eagle, A. (2009). Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals. In Toby Handfield (Ed.), Dispositions and causes (pp. 65-99). USA: Oxford University Press.
DOI Scopus23
2007 Eagle, A. (2007). Pragmatic Causation. In H. Price, & R. Corry (Eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (pp. 156-190). Oxford University Press on Demand.

My research has been supported by grants from the ARC (AUS), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (DE), the AHRC (UK), and the Whiting Foundation (USA).

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor Individuals, Identity and Structure: Do structuralist metaphysical accounts of individuals and identity make sense? Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Brodie Manticos
2025 Principal Supervisor Individuals, Identity and Structure: Do structuralist metaphysical accounts of individuals and identity make sense? - Master Full Time Mr Brodie Manticos
2021 Principal Supervisor The Limits of Scientific Knowledge Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Anthony Ian Bishop
2021 Principal Supervisor The Limits of Scientific Knowledge Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Anthony Ian Bishop

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Logical Pluralism and the Challenge of Normativity Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Aaron John Baseley
2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Renewing a Modal Account of Existential Dependence: Upcycling Mackie’s INUS Condition for Causation Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Jessica May Pohlmann
2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to the Problem of Change Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr James Lambros Vlachoulis
2019 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Danny George Wardle
2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Normative Uncertainty and Information Value Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Riley Kent Worland Harris
2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Brigitte Claire Everett
2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Rebecca Aroha Randell
2018 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Referential/Attributive Distinction: Its Status and Scope Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Atheer Al-Khalfa
2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor AI and Accountability: Transparency, Explainability, and Accounting for Responsibility
Gaps		 Doctor of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Michael Lazarou
2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Realist and Anti-Realist Approaches in Philosophy of Science: Perspective and Representational Pluralism in Scientific Discovery Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Mark Coleman

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2010 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Restricted Material Composition University of Oxford BPhil Master - Seungil Lee
2008 - 2012 Co-Supervisor Rationality: An Expansive Bayesian Theory University of Oxford - Doctorate - Katherine Dormandy
2008 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Laws and Modelling in Economics University of Oxford BPhil Master - Harjit Bhogal
2007 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Potentiality and Possibility University of Oxford - Doctorate - Barbara Vetter
2006 - 2009 Principal Supervisor A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation University of Oxford - Doctorate - Luke Fenton-Glynn
2004 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Causation and Causal Explanation University of Oxford BPhil Master - Luke Fenton-Glynn
2004 - 2006 Principal Supervisor Dispositions and Laws of Nature University of Oxford BPhil Master - John Poland

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2020 - ongoing Board Member Board Australasian Association of Philosophy Australia
2014 - 2020 Treasurer Board Australasian Association of Philosophy Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2021 - ongoing Member Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender Australia
2020 - ongoing Member Philosophy of Science Association United States
2019 - ongoing Member Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Australia
2015 - ongoing Member Society for the Metaphysics of Science United States
2010 - ongoing Member Aristotelian Society -
1999 - ongoing Member Australasian Association of Philosophy Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2024 - ongoing Board Member Philosophical Exchange Australasian Association of Philosophy Australia
2023 - ongoing Editor-In-chief Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy University of Adelaide Australia
2022 - ongoing Editor-In-chief Australasian Journal of Philosophy Australasian Association of Philosophy Australia
2011 - 2013 Board Member Oxford Philosophical Monographs Oxford University Press -
2010 - ongoing Board Member Australasian Journal of Philosophy - -

Date Office Name Institution Country
2018 - ongoing Head of Department of Philosophy University of Adelaide Australia

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