Tyler Hildebrand
Associate Professor
Email: hildebrand@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-8493
Mailing Address:
Room 1131, Marion McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
Research Topics:Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
Education
- PhD in Philosophy (2011) University of Colorado at Boulder; Dissertation: Empiricism, Natural Regularity, and Necessity
- BA in Philosophy and Economics (2006) Pacific Lutheran University
Monographs
- Laws of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Selected Publications
- “Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds” (with Barrett Emerick). Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2023.
- "The Nomological Argument for the Existence of God” (with Thomas Metcalf). Noûs, 2022.
- "Non-Humean Theories of Natural Necessity.” Philosophy Compass, 2020.
- "Individuation and Explanation: A Problem for Dispositionalism”. Philosophical Studies, 2020.
- “Platonic Laws of Nature.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2020.
- “Natural Properties, Necessary Connections, and the Problem of Induction.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2018
- “Two Types of Quidditism.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2016.
- “Can Primitive Laws Explain?” Philosophers’ Imprint, 2013.