Philosophy Department

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, Princeton University, 2004
• A.B., Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996

About

Cody Gilmore joined the UC Davis Philosophy Department in 2006. From 2003 to 2006, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He specializes in analytic metaphysics.

Research Focus

Professor Gilmore works on formal theories of the part-whole and location relations; the nature of properties, relations, and propositions; questions about essence and grounding; and the metaphysics of time, persistence, personal identity, and death.

Publications

• Gilmore, C. and Brian Kierland (forthcoming) 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, Philosophies (Special Issue, Time Travel 2nd Edition, edited by Alasdair Richmond)
• Gilmore, C. (2023) Why 0-adic relations have truth conditions: essence, ground, and non-hylomorphic Russellian propositions, in C. Tillman and A. Murray, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Propositions (New York: Routledge), pp. 304-319.
• Gilmore, C. and Matt Leonard (2020) Composition and the logic of location: an argument for regionalism, Mind 129: 159-178.
• Dixon, T. S., and Cody Gilmore (2017) Speaks's reduction of propositions to properties: a Benacerraf problem, Thought 5: 275-284.
• Gilmore, C., Damiano Costa, and Claudio Calosi (2016) Relativity and three four-dimensionalisms, Philosophy Compass 11: 102-120.
• Gilmore, C. (2016) The metaphysics of mortals: death, immortality, and personal time, Philosophical Studies 173: 3271-3299.
• Gilmore, C. (2014) Parts of propositions, in S. Kleinschmidt (ed.), Mereology and Location (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 156-208.
• Gilmore, C. (2013) Slots in universals, in K. Bennett and D. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 8 (2013), pp. 187-233
• Gilmore, C. (2003) In defence of spatially related universals, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81: 420-428.

Teaching

001 – Introduction to Philosophy; 012 – Introduction to Symbolic Logic; 101 – Metaphysics; 105 – Philosophy of Religion; 111 – Philosophy of Space and Time; 201 – Metaphysics Graduate Seminar; 200B – Proseminar II

Awards

• "Everything in its Place: Location, Persistence, and Change," Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2020-2023, Partner Investigator (with Chief Investigator Antony Eagle and Partner Investigator Shieva Kleinschmidt)
• UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2014–2019
• "Personal Time and Personal Ontology," Immortality Project (Templeton Foundation) Grant, 2014-2015
• Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar’s Prize (a.k.a., Marc Sanders Prize in Metaphysics), 2005