Webinar | Newman Centre Annual Lecture 2023/24: Dean W. Zimmerman (Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University): ‘Causing the Cosmos’
Thursday 7th March 2024. 4:30 pm | via Room D520, School of Philosophy, Newman (Arts) Building, UCD
Dean W. Zimmerman received his bachelor's degree from Mankato State University in 1987 in French, philosophy, and English. He went on to receive a Master of Arts degree from Brown University in 1990, and then a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the same institution in 1992, where he worked with Jaegwon Kim and Roderick Chisholm. He taught at the University of Notre Dame and Syracuse University prior to joining Rutgers University, where he is also now Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion.
Zimmerman is an influential figure in contemporary metaphysics, and has worked on issues in the philosophy of time, personhood and material constitution, and the metaphysics of mind. In philosophy of religion, Zimmerman has worked on divine foreknowledge and human free will, and God and time. He is also a keyboardist for the band Jigs and the Pigs. For a full list of his publications, see(opens in a new window)here.
This lecture is part of the Religion and Science project hosted by the UCD Newman Centre.
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