Wolfgang Schwarz
Lecturer

- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 5512
- Email: wolfgang.schwarz@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://www.wolfgangschwarz.net
Address
- Street
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Room 8.06
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Office hours (term time): Friday 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Background
Wolfgang Schwarz joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2015, after many years as a post-doc at the Australian National University.
Undergraduate teaching
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Ewa Jończyk
Research summary
I work on a variety of topics mostly in decision theory, formal epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
You can find recent papers, drafts, and blog posts on my personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschwarz.net.
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The problem of metaphysical omniscience
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
David Lewis's Metaphics
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Published) -
Objects of choice
(33 pages)
In:
Mind, vol. 130, pp. 165-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzaa032
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Discourse, diversity, and free choice
In:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 99, pp. 48-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1736108
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Ability and possibility
(21 pages)
In:
Philosophers' Imprint, vol. 20, pp. 1-21
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
From sensor variables to phenomenal facts
In:
Journal of consciousness studies, vol. 26, pp. 217-227
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
No interpretation of probability
In:
Erkenntnis, vol. 83, pp. 1195–1212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9936-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Imaginary foundations
In:
Ergo, vol. 5, pp. 764-789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Semantic possibility
DOI: https://doi.org/20.500.11820/454eb5b6-e7b3-4a07-8843-9aceb09bd532
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Subjunctive conditional probability
In:
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 47, pp. 47-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-016-9416-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Diachronic norms for self-locating credences
In:
Ergo, vol. 4, pp. 709-738
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0004.025
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Granularity problems
In:
The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 67, pp. 22-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqw028
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Best System Approaches to Chance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607617.013.19
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Lost memories and useless coins: revisiting the absentminded driver
(26 pages)
In:
Synthese, vol. 192, pp. 3011-3036
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0699-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Review of Tychomancy
In:
Philosophy of Science, vol. 82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/680490
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Belief update across fission
(24 pages)
In:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axu001
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Counterpart theory and the paradox of occasional identity
In:
Mind, vol. 123, pp. 1057-1094
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzu143
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Against magnetism
In:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 92, pp. 17-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2013.765900
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Variations on a Montagovian theme
In:
Synthese, vol. 190, pp. 3377-3395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0173-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Contingent Identity
In:
Philosophy Compass, vol. 8, pp. 486-495
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12028
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)