Photo by Jasmine Fitzwilliam

I am a Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Previously, I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Southern California, and my BA in Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill.  In Fall 2020, I'll begin as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.

I work primarily on issues in metaphysics and philosophical logic. My current research focuses on the limits of radically permissive ontologies and on the power of "anti-arbitrariness" considerations in metaphysics. In my dissertation, Unlimited Ontology and Its Limits, I explored material plenitude; the view that there is a multitude of coincident objects wherever there is any material object.
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Check out my Teaching and Outreach page for courses and outreach projects I've been involved in, and my UM Student Resources page, where I've tried to pull together information about student support resources available at the University of Michigan.

mmfair at umich dot edu