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Dr. Brian Kierland has a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of Idaho, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 2003. He joined the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at Boise State University in 2008 after five years at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Kierland's research interests include ethics, meta-ethics, probabilistic epistemology, metaphysics of time, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He serves as a referee for a number of professional publications including Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (from MIT Press) and Journal of Ethics, and also serves as the faculty co-advisor of the Philosophy Club at Boise State.
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Doing for Circular Time What Shoemaker Did for Time without Change: How One Could Have Evidence That Time Is Circular Rather than Linear and Infinitely Repeating
Gilmore, C. & Kierland, B., Aug 2024, In: Philosophies. 9, 4, 92.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ability-Based Objections to No-Best-World Arguments
Kierland, B. & Swenson, P., 1 Jul 2013, In: Philosophical Studies. 164, 3, p. 669-683 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Grounding Past Truths: Overcoming the Challenge
Kierland, B., 1 Jan 2013, New Papers on the Present: Focus on Presentism.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Necessity and Color Incompatibility
Kierland, B., Nov 2011, In: Disputatio. 4, 31, p. 235-237 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Abortion and Body-Sharing
Kierland, B., 25 Mar 2010.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
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1999 & 2000: Summer Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University
Kierland, B. (Recipient), 1999
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