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blattiI am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis and the Editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

My primary area of research is metaphysics – specifically, personal identity – but this work extends both to other topics in metaphysics (material constitution, death), as well as to topics in philosophical psychology (self-consciousness, animal cognition) and the philosophy of biology (dynamic systems, life).
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University of Memphis
Department of Philosophy
327 Clement Hall
Memphis, TN 38152 USA

blatti@memphis.edu

901-678-4289 (office)
901-678-4365 (fax)

Office Hours
Wednesday 10:15am-noon (Fall 2012)

  • news

    OCTOBER 2012: "A New Argument for Animalism" appears in the current issue of Analysis >>>

    SEPTEMBER 2012: "Death's Distinctive Harm" appears in the current issue of American Philosophical Quarterly >>>

    JULY 2012: The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. R. Barnard and N. Manson has now appeared, and with it my paper on "Material Constitution" >>>

    APRIL 2012: Received Faculty Research Grant for development of monograph proposal (Being of Life: An Ontology of Human Animals) >>>

    recent / upcoming

    NOVEMBER 2012: "Thinking Animals: Differences that Make a Difference and the Difference They Make," Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science Seminar, University
    of Memphis >>>

    JULY 2012: "Thinkers, Brains, and Animals," Persons and their Brains, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford >>>

    JULY 2012: "Mortal Harm Across the Human/ Nonhuman Divide," Minding Animals, Utrecht University, The
    Netherlands >>>     

     

    links

    Univ. of Memphis Philosophy >>>

    Institute for Intelligent Systems >>>

    Southern Journal of Philosophy >>>

    PhilPapers profile >>>

    Academia.edu profile >>>