Justin Clarke-Doane

Justin Clarke-Doane
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Department of Philosophy
Columbia University
708 Philosophy Hall
MC: 4971
1150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae | Research Statement

Books

Under Contract (with Michael Harris) Mathematics and Philosophy. Princeton University Press.

2024 (Revised Paperback) / 2020 (Hardcover) Morality and Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Workshop Photo]

2023 " Précis " & " Reply to Critics " for an author-meets-critics symposium, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (with commentary by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Brian Leiter, & Gideon Rosen). [Penultimate Draft] [Penultimate Draft]

2025 " Précis " & " Reply to Critics " for an author-meets-critics symposium, Analysis (with commentary by Sean Carroll, Paul Horwich, & Sarah McGrath). [Penultimate Draft] [Penultimate Draft]

January 2026 Debate with David Enoch for Bilosophy.
Octber 2024 Interview with Timothy Nguyen at The Cartesian Cafe.
June 2024 "Reality and Objective Truth Diverge," Iai News, Institute of Art and Ideas.
April 2024 Interview with Shalaj Lawania for Know Time.
August 2022 Interview #1, Interview #2 (with David Albert), & Interview #3 with Robinson Erhardt.
March 2021 Interview with Sean Carroll for Mindscape [YouTube] [Subreddit]
December 2020 Author-meets-critics panel with Michael Harris, Michele Moody-Adams, David Papineau, and Katja Vogt at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, New York, NY. [YouTube]
September 2020 Question and Answer feature about the book for Columbia News.
January 2020 Author-meets-critics panel with Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Sinan Dogramaci at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern). [Response to commentators]
June 2019 Author-meets-critics panel with Matthew Bedke, Colin Marshall, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Raven at the Canadian Philosophical Association Congress.
Reviews in Philosophical Quarterly, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Mind, Philosophia Mathematica, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, CHOICE, Zeitschrift fur Theologie und Philosophie, and Ideas. Chapter summaries and evaluation by Manuel del Rio.

2022 Mathematics and Metaphilosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements, Philosophy of Mathematics).

October 2023 Author meets critics panel with David Albert, Jenann Ismael, Chris Peacocke, and Jeannette Wing at the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Email sofheyman@columbia for video (available to Columbia affiliates) | Introductory Remarks

January 2023 Author-meets-critics panel with Daniel Giberman and Teresa Kouri Kissel at the Annual Meeting of the APA (Eastern).

Forthcoming "What is Mathematical Pluralism?", Alexander Paseau (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics. Oxford: Wiley-blackwell.
2025 "What is Logical Monism?," Paul Boghossian & Chris Peacocke (eds.), Normative Realism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
2022 "Platonism, Nominalism, and Semantic Appearances," Logique et Analyse. [Penultimate Draft]
2025 (with Avner Ash) "Intuition and Observation," Carolin Antos, Neil Barton, & Giorgio Venturi (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to the Philosophy of Set Theory. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Forward" to Quantum Reality: Theory and Philosophy (Second Edition), by Jonathan Allday. Routledge.
2022 (with William McCarthy) "Modal Pluralism and Higher-Order Logic," Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics (annual supplement to Nos). [Penultimate Draft]
2022 (with Kathryn Tabb) "Addiction and Agency," Matt King & Josh May (eds.), Agency in Mental Disorders: Philosophical Dimensions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft] [Review in Ethics.]
2021 (with Dan Baras) "Modal Security," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Vol. 102. 162-183. [Penultimate Draft]
2021 "Metaphysical and Absolute Possibility," Synthese (special issue on modal epistemology). Vol. 198. 1861-1872. [Penultimate Draft]
2021 "From Non-Usability to Non-Factualism," for an author-meets-critics symposium on Holly M. Smith's Making Morality Work, with replies from Smith, Analysis. Vol. 81. 747-758. [Penultimate Draft]
2020 "Epistemic Non-Factualism and Methodology," Michael Klenk (ed.), Higher-Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology. Routledge. [Penultimate Draft]
2020 "The Ethics-Mathematics Analogy," Philosophy Compass. Vol. 15. [Penultimate Draft]
2020 "Realism, Objectivity and Evaluation," David Kaspar (ed.), Explorations in Ethics. Palgrave. [Penultimate Draft]
2020 "Objectivity and Evaluation," with a reply from Ramon Das, Christopher Cowie & Richard Rowland (eds.), Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics. Routledge. [Penultimate Draft]
2020 "Set-Theoretic Pluralism and the Benacerraf Problem," Philosophical Studies. Vol. 177. 2013-2030. [Penultimate Draft]
2019 "Undermining Belief in Consciousness," for an author-meets-critics symposium on David Chalmers' "The Meta-Problem of Consciousness," with replies from Chalmers, Journal of Consciousness Studies. Vol. 26. 34-47. [Penultimate Draft]
2019 "Modal Objectivity," Nos. Vol. 53. 266-295. [Penultimate Draft]
2017 "Objectivity and Reliability," for an author-meets-critics symposium on Thomas Scanlon's Being Realistic About Reasons, with replies from Scanlon, Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 47. 841-855. [Penultimate Draft]
2017 "Debunking Arguments: Mathematics, Logic, and Modal Security," Robert Richards & Michael Ruse (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
2016 "What is the Benacerraf Problem?," Fabrice Pataut (ed.), New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf: Truth, Objects, Infinity. Dordrecht: Springer. [Penultimate Draft] [Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews] [IEP entry on The Benacerraf Problem of Mathematical Truth and Knowledge .]
2016 "Debunking and Dispensability," Neil Sinclair and Uri Leibowitz (eds.), Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft] [Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews]
2015 "Objectivity in Ethics and Mathematics," Ben Colburn (ed.), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Virtual Issue, No. 3 (Methods in Ethics). [Penultimate Draft]
2015 "Justification and Explanation in Mathematics and Morality," Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 10. New York: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
2014 "Moral Epistemology: The Mathematics Analogy," Nos. Vol. 48. 238-255. [Updated Version] [Summary from Mathematical Reviews] [Reprinted in Sarah Aronowitz, Patrick Grim, Zoe Johnson King, and Nicholas Serafin (eds.), Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 34.]
2013 "What is Absolute Undecidability?," Nos. Vol. 47. 467-481. [Corrigendum | Corrected Version]
2012 "Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge," Ethics. Vol. 122. 313-340. [Penultimate Draft] [Discussion at PEA Soup] [Reprinted in Chloe Armstrong, Patrick Grim, Nils-Hennes Stear, & Patrick Shirreff (eds.), Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 32.]
2008 "Multiple Reductions Revisited," Philosophia Mathematica. Vol. 16. 244-255. [A self-contained version of Chapter 2 of my undergraduate thesis.]

2026 “V = L or Large Cardinals? The Metatheoretic Dependence of Physical Determinism, with Application to the Kerr Cauchy Horizon,” Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University [Slides]
2026 “Fact and Value Revisited,” APA Author-meets-critics Symposium on Timothy Williamson’s Good as Usual

2025 “ Proof and Agreement in Mathematics,” Natural Philosophy Symposium, comments on talk by Emily Riehl [Handout]

2022 “ What is Logical Monism?,” Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

2020 “ Russell’s Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy,” PhilMath EXPRESS [Video] / Victoria [Video]

2020 “Undermining Belief in Consciousness,” NYU Mind and Language Seminar

2019 “ Realism, Objectivity, and Evaluation,” Rutgers University

2016 “ ‘Metaphysical’ Possibility Revisited,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2015 “Justification, Explanation, and Undermining,” Critical Reflection and Belief Workshop

2014 “ Debunking and Indispensability,” The Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge

2013 “Platonic Semantics,” Melbourne Logic Seminar

2012 “ What is the Benacerraf Problem?,” Fourth French PhilMath Workshop

2008 “ Flawless Disagreement in Mathematics,” Uppsala University [ Discussion with Brian Leiter]

Teaching Handouts

January 2026 Debate for Bilosophy with David Enoch about Normative Realism and Objectivity.
October 2024 Interview with Timothy Nguyen at The Cartesian Cafe .
May 2024 Livestream with Physics for Students.
April 2024 Interview with Shalaj Lawania for Know Time.
November 2022 Interview with Robinson Erhardt on mathematics, logic, physics, & philosophy.
October 2022 Discussion with David Albert about his academic trajectory, physicalism, and ethics.
August 2022 Interview with Robinson Erhardt about metaethics, mathematics, physics and icecream.
2020 Interview with Sean Carroll for Mindscape
2020 Author-meets-critic symposium on Morality and Mathematics with Michael Harris, Michele Moody-Adams, David Papineau, Katja Vogt at the Heyman Center for the Humanities
2016 Interview about my paper, "Modal Objectivity", at The Faculti

Current PhD Advisees

Graduate Teaching

Personal Identity through Time, Spring 2026
Undecidability in Physics, Fall 2026
Mathematical Logic II: Independence, Fall 2025
Mathematics & Philosophy (with Michael Harris), Spring 2025
Interdisciplinary Introduction to Metaphysics, Spring 2025
Practical Reason, Fall 2024
PhD Proseminar, Fall 2023 - Spring 2025
What is Mathematics? (with Haim Gaifman), Fall 2022
Foundations of Metalogic, Spring 2022 [Silicon Reckoner Substack]
Metaphysics of Physics, Spring 2021, Fall 2025 [Zeno I & II, McTaggart, SR, GR, QM, Bell, Math, Logic, QFT]
Noncognitivism, Fall 2021
Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Mind (with Chris Peacocke), Spring 2020
Philosophy of Mathematics, Fall 2019 [Constructibility & Forcing]
Metaethics: Realism, Objectivity & Evaluation, Spring 2019
Philosophy of Logic, Fall 2018
Addiction and Agency (with Kathryn Tabb), Fall 2016
Lectures on Modality (RUC, Beijing), Summer 2015
Metaphysics: Modal Objectivity, Spring 2015
Mathematical Logic, Spring 2014 [Incompleteness, Undecidability & Undefinability]
Metaphysics: Meta-Modality, Fall 2012
Thesis Preparation Seminar, Summer 2012
Epistemology: The Reliability Challenge, Winter 2011
Set Theory (Independent Study), Winter 2011, Summer 2023
Graduate Logic, Spring 2010 - 2011

Undergraduate Teaching

Symbolic Logic, Spring 2024 [Slides]
Methods and Problems, Spring 2017, 2020, 2022 [Handout on Mind-Body Problem]
Metaphysics, Summer 2012, Winter 2013, Fall 2019, 2020, 2023 [Outline of QM & SR]
Epistemology, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
Identity and Value, Fall 2018
Foundations of Modal Metaphysics, Fall 2015
Contemporary Civilization in the West II (Hume to Foucault), Spring 2015 - 2017
Contemporary Civilization in the West I (Plato to Locke), Fall 2014 - 2016
David's Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds, Fall 2013
Life, Death, and Morality (with Toby Handfield), Winter 2013, Summer 2012
Time, Self, and Mind (with Josh May), Fall 2012, Winter 2011
Introducing Logic (with Monima Chadha), Fall 2012, Winter 2011
Logic, Summer 2007, 2010
Introduction to Philosophy, Summer 2008
Philosophical Ethics, Spring 2008
Comparative Ancient Philosophy (with Jennifer Logan), Summer 2007
Life and Death (with Melis Erdur), Summer 2006