My name is Daniel Deasy. In August 2014 I completed a DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. I’m currently working as full-time Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, where I teach Introductory Logic, General Philosophy, Knowledge and Reality, and Logic and Language.
My main area of research is in the philosophy of time. In my thesis and my paper ‘The Moving Spotlight Theory’ (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies) I defend a new ‘reductive’ version of a deeply unpopular theory of time called (you guessed it) the moving spotlight theory, according to which all past and future moments exist and there is an objective present moment.
As well as the philosophy of time, I have research interests in other parts of metaphysics (especially modality), philosophy of science (especially emergentism, causation, and explanation), and philosophy of mind (especially functionalism, the extended mind hypothesis, and mental causation).
I spend most of my spare time with my two lovely daughters (below), but when they are both asleep I enjoy reading science fiction and history and listening to ’90s rock music.