Underwood International College

• Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Connecticut
• M.A. in Philosophy, University of Connecticut
• B.A. in Philosophy, Texas Christian University

Profile

Professor Wyatt was born in Fort Worth, Texas.  He earned his B.A. in 2008 from Texas Christian University, working under the supervision of Professor Blake Hestir.  Directly after his undergraduate studies, he began working on his M.A. at the University of Connecticut, which he earned in 2011.  He completed his Ph.D. at UCONN in 2014, producing a dissertation on the nature of truth supervised by Professor Michael P. Lynch.  During the summer of 2013, Professor Wyatt also served as a Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen's Northern Institute of Philosophy.  He also visited UIC several times while working on his dissertation in order to participate in conferences and discuss issues pertaining to truth with Professor Nikolaj Pedersen.  After earning his Ph.D., Professor Wyatt served from 2014-2016 as a postdoctoral researcher within Professor Pedersen's NRF-funded project Pluralisms.  He is honored to be a part of the UIC faculty and is excited to play an active role in continuing to build a first-class, international college within Yonsei.

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Connecticut, 2014
Dissertation title: Pluralism and the absence of truth (Committee members: Michael P. Lynch, Jc Beall, Marcus Rossberg)
M.A. in Philosophy, University of Connecticut, 2011
B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Classical Studies, and Political Science, Texas Christian University, 2008

Courses and Current Research Areas

Areas of Research Specialization
Truth, philosophy of language, metaphysics

Areas of Research Competence
Philosophy of logic, epistemology

Additional Areas of Teaching Competence
Ethics (especially metaethics and normative ethics), Asian philosophy

Selected Publications

Lead editor, Truth: Concept Meets Property, special issue of Synthese (co-edited with Nikolaj Pedersen). Forthcoming in 2016.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology (co-edited with with Miranda Fricker, Peter Graham, David Henderson, and Nikolaj Pedersen). Forthcoming with Routledge.

Recent work on truth (with Michael P. Lynch). American Philosophical Quarterly 53: 4. 323-40, 2016.

The many (yet few) faces of deflationism. The Philosophical Quarterly 66: 263. 362-82, 2016.

Domains, plural truth, & mixed atomic propositions. Philosophical Studies 166: 255-36, 2013.

More Information

Professor Wyatt's personal website: www.jeremywyatt.net