David Ingram
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. Before coming to York, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of Time, based at the University of Milan (2016-17). Before that, I taught philosophy at the University of Nottingham (2014-16). I completed my PhD in Nottingham in 2014.

Departmental roles

• Convenor, Taught Postgraduate Programmes
• Chair, Philosophy Exceptional Circumstances Committee
• Programme Leader for MA Philosophy & Graduate Diploma
• Member, Department Teaching Committee

Research

Overview

My research mostly concerns metaphysics and the philosophy of time. Recently, I've been thinking about the relationship between my preferred theory of time, presentism, and theories about what truth is and what propositions are. I'm sympathetic to the view that what's true substantively depends upon the world, and I think that propositions are a certain kind of structured entity. But that gets me into all sorts of trouble when defending presentism. In general, I'm interested in the metaphysics of x for all values of x.

Projects

Time and Change: I'm working on defending presentism from a variety of metaphysical objections. I recently published a monograph on this topic: Thisness Presentism (2019, Routledge).

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Early Modern Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Physics
• Philosophy of Science
• Spinoza & Leibniz
• The Nature of Time

Postgraduate

• Reading Philosophy
• Time, Tense, & Existence

External activities

Memberships

• Vice President, Philosophy of Time Society
• Advisory Board, International Association for Philosophy of Time
• Senior Member, Centre for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan