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 power of "anti-arbitrariness" considerations in metaphysics and on the limits of radically permissive ontologies. 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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I was a co-founder and international organizer for MAP (Minorities and Philosophy), which is a network of graduate students dedicated to facilitating increased participation of underrepresented groups in academic philosophy. I am now on the MAP Board of Trustees, and am excited to continue to support all of the great work the new organizers are doing. Check out my Teaching and Outreach page for more on MAP and other outreach efforts I've been involved in. 

mmfair at umich dot edu