I'm a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, interested in metaphysics, free will, and moral responsibility.  The above picture was taken in January 2011, just outside Huaraz, Peru.  

In January 2012, I'll be taking up a very exciting post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Innsbruck and the Munich School of Philosophy.  

Education:

B.A., philosophy, Baylor University, 2001 - 2005

M.A., philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005 - 2007

Publications:

'Defending (A Modified Version Of) The Zygote Argument', forthcoming, Philosophical Studies.  

'Manipulation and Moral Standing: An Argument for Incompatibilism', forthcoming, Philosophers' Imprint.  Preliminary draft available here.

'The Truth About Freedom: A Reply to Merricks', (with John Martin Fischer), The Philosophical Review, Vol. 120, No. 1 (January 2011): 97 - 115.   

'Manipulation', forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics.  

'A New Approach to Manipulation Arguments', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 152, No. 1 (January 2011): 127-133. 

'Geachianism', Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion (Volume III), ed. Jonathan Kvanvig.  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): Ch. 11, pp. 222 - 251. The paper develops Geach's (neglected) views on the mutability of the future.  

'Re-reading Nelson Pike's 'Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action'' (with John Martin Fischer and Neal Tognazzini), Philosophical Papers, Vol. 38, No. 2 (July 2009): 247-270.

'A Problem for Guidance Control', (with Neal Tognazzini),The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 233 (October 2008): 685-692.  

Presentations:

'Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence', given at the Central APA, Minneapolis, MN, March/April 2011.   

'Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence',  given at the 2010 Joint Meeting of the Illinois and the Indiana Philosophical Associations, Charleston, IL, November 2010.  

'Defending 'A New Approach to Manipulation Arguments': Reply to Deery', invited comments, given at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Calgary, October 2010. 

'Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence', given at the Alabama Philosophical Society, Pensacola, FL, September 2010.  

'Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence', given at the Eastern meeting of the SCP at Wake Forest University, March 2010.  

'Geachianism: A Short Introduction', given at the Western/Pacific meeting of the SCP in Durango, CO, October 2009. 

'Freedom, Presentism, and Truth Supervenes on Being', Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2008

Some philosophy summer things I've been to:

'Aspects of Responsibility', Central European University, Budapest, July 2010

The St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion, St. Paul, MN, June 2010 

Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University, May 2010

'Aspects of Responsibility', Central European University, Budapest, July 2009

Etc:

For the 2010/2011 academic year, I was on fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.          

If you like to travel, and you aren't familiar with couchsurfing, you should be.  

This website used to say that I'm an avid cyclist and a drummer of modest talent.  Alas, I'm at best now a formerly avid cyclist, having recently taken up boxing.  And while I did play the drums for a long time, I don't know if I still count as a drummer.  I mean, I can still play, but I don't actually play.  So I guess it would be better to say that I'm a former drummer of modest talent.  And that, unfortunately, doesn't sound very cool at all.  

Feel free to email me:

pat dot c dot todd at gmail dot com