Kelly Trogdon

• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Mind

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009: PhD in Philosophy
• University of Florida, 2002: MA in Philosophy
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1999: BA in Philosophy
  

Research Journal Articles

• “Should Explanation Be a Guide to Ground?” with A. Skiles, Philosophical Studies 178/12 (2021): 4083–4098.
  
• “Full and Partial Grounding,” with D. G. Witmer, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 7/2 (2021): 252–271.
• “Prioritizing Platonism,” with S. Cowling, Philosophical Studies 176/8 (2019): 2029–2042.
• “Grounding-Mechanical Explanation,” Philosophical Studies 175/6 (2018): 1289–1309.
• “Revelation and Physicalism,” Synthese 194/7 (2017): 2345–2366.
• “The Complete Work,” with P. Livingston, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72/3 (2014): 225–233.
• “Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94/4 (2013): 465–485.
• “The Modal Status of Materialism,” with J. Levine, Philosophical Studies 145/3 (2009): 351–362.
• “Physicalism and Sparse Ontology,” Philosophical Studies 143/2 (2009): 147–165.
• “Monism and Intrinsicality,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87/1 (2009): 127–148.
• “Intrinsicality without Naturalness,” with D. G. Witmer and B. Butchard, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70/2 (2005): 326–350.

Research Book Chapters

•  “Transparency and the Explanatory Gap.” Commissioned for G. Rabin (ed.), Grounding and Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
  
• “Inheritance Arguments for Fundamentality.” In R. Bliss and G. Priest (eds.), Reality and its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality. Oxford University Press (2018): 182–198.
• “Placement, Grounding, and Mental Content.” In C. Daly (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook on Philosophical Methods. Palgrave (2015): 481–496.

Reference Articles, Chapters, and Entries

• “Grounding,” with A. Skiles. In R. Bliss & J. Miller (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (2020): 199–210.
  
• “Truthmaking.” In M. Raven (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding (2020): 396–407.
• “Priority Monism,” Philosophy Compass 12 (2017): 1–10.
• “Grounding.” In R. Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd edition (2015).
• “Metaphysical Grounding,” with R. Bliss. In E. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2014; revised 2021).
• “An Introduction to Grounding.” In M. Hoeltje et al (eds.), Varieties of Dependence. Philosophia Verlag (2013): 97–122.

Short Responses

• “Maurin on Grounding and Explanation,” with A. Skiles. In T. Wahlberg & R. Stenwall (eds.), Mauriniam Truths. Lund University (2019): 159–172.
• “Artwork Completion: A Response to Gover,” with P. Livingston, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73/4 (2015): 460–462.
• “Intrinsicality for Monists (and Pluralists),” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88/3 (2010): 555–558.

Reviews

• K. McDaniel, The Fragmentation of Being (Oxford University Press, 2017), Philosophical Review 129/1 (2020): 149–153.
• G. Coggins, Could There Have Been Nothing? Against Metaphysical Nihilism (Palgrave, 2010), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2011).
• D. Stoljar, Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2006), Philosophical Review 118/2 (2009): 269–272.