Associate Professor Antony Eagle

Associate Prof/Reader

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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

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 teach in all these areas, and their early modern history (especially Descartes, Cavendish, and Hume).

Before coming to Adelaide in 2013, I had been since 2004 Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and William Kneale Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Exeter College. Before that, I completed my PhD at Princeton, and even earlier I was an undergraduate at Melbourne.

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Career
Publications
Grants and Funding
Supervision
Professional Activities
Contact

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2021 - ongoing	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

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2004	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	MA (by resolution)
2002 - 2004	Princeton University	United States	PhD
1999 - 2002	Princeton University	United States	MA
1995 - 1998	University of Melbourne	Australia	BA (Hons)

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

Journals

Year	Citation
2022	Mortensen, C., & Eagle, A. (2022). Graham Charles Nerlich (23 November 1929–31 March 2022). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101(1), 249-250. DOI
2019	Eagle, A. (2019). Chance, determinism, and unsettledness. Philosophical Studies, 176(3), 781-802. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2019	Eagle, A. (2019). Weak Location. Dialectica, 73(1-2), 149-181. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2016	Eagle, A. (2016). Composition as Identity. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 94(1), 190-193. DOI
2016	Eagle, A. (2016). Persistence, vagueness, and location. Journal of Philosophy, 113(10), 507-532. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2016	Eagle, A. (2016). Multiple location defended. Philosophical Studies, 173(8), 2215-2231. DOI Scopus23 WoS19
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. DOI
2011	Eagle, A. (2011). Deterministic chance. Noûs, 45(2), 269-299. DOI Scopus18 WoS17
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 Scopus1 WoS1
2007	Eagle, A. (2007). Telling tales. Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, 107(1 PART 2), 125-147. DOI Scopus14
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 Scopus61 WoS49
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 WoS44

Books

Year	Citation
2011	Eagle, A. (Ed.) (2011). Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings. United Kingdom: Routledge.
2011	Eagle, A. (Ed.) (2011). Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings. United Kingdom: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
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
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
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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.
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, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the AHRC, and the Whiting Foundation.

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2023	Principal Supervisor	An Investigation into Logical Pluralism	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Aaron John Baseley
2021	Principal Supervisor	The Limits of Scientific Knowledge	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Anthony Ian Bishop

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
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	Vindicating Vague Objects	Master 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

Other Supervision Activities

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

Board Memberships

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

Memberships

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

Editorial Boards

Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
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	-	-

Offices Held

Date Office Name Institution Country

2018 - ongoing Head of Department of Philosophy University of Adelaide Australia

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

Position: Associate Prof/Reader
Phone: 83134885
Email: antony.eagle@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134341
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Napier, floor 7
Org Unit: School of Humanities