Photo by Jasmine Fitzwilliam

I am a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Previously, I completed a BA in Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill.  In Fall 2018, I'll join the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan, first for two years as a Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, and then as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

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 explore 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