William Jaworski. Associate Professor of Philosophy.

Ph.D. University of Notre Dame

M.A. University of Notre Dame

B.A. University of Dallas

Office:

Philosophy Department

Fordham University
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Email:

jaworski@fordham.edu

Phone:

(212) 636-6588

Fax:

(212) 636-7153

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Aristotle

Website:

www.hylomorphism.org

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Recent Publications:

Books:

• Jaworski, William. Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Chapter 12 Persons

Chapter 13 Free Will

Journal articles and other contributions:

• Jaworski, William. “Hylomorphism and Resurrection.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (2013): 351-378.
• _____. “Powers, Structures, and Minds.” In Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, Ruth Groff and John Greco, eds. (Routledge 2012).
• _____. “The Logic of How-Questions.” Synthese 166 (2009): 133-55.
• _____. “Mind and Multiple Realizability.” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• _____. “Introduction to Rescher’s Metaphysics.” In Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher, Dale Jacquette, ed. (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2009), 355-64.
• _____. “Mental Causation from the Top Down.” Erkenntnis 65 (2006): 277-99.
• _____. “Multiple-Realizability, Explanation, and the Disjunctive Move.” Philosophical Studies 108 (2002): 298-308.

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Recent Presentations:

• Jaworski, William. “Hylomorphism: Naturalism without Physicalism,” Naturalistic Dualism Conference: Alternatives to Physicalism, Fordham University, October 2012
• _____. “Hylomorphism, Emergentism, and Mental Causation.” Minds: Human and Divine, August 2012.
• _____. “Spirit in a Physical World: Hylomorphism and Christian Eschatology.” Hochschule für Philosophie München, Templeton Foundation Summer School, July 2012.
• _____. “Mechanisms, Patterns, and Minds,” University of Mississippi Department of Philosophy Invited Lecture, April 2012.
• _____. “Hylomorphism: What It Is and What It Isn’t.” The American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2011.
•  “Hylomorphism and the Problems of Mind,” Minds, Brains, and Souls: Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Conference, March 2011.
• _____. “Animalism and Personhood.” The American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2010.
• _____. “Aristotle and the Philosophy of Mind: Hylomorphism, Physicalism, Emergentism, and Modern Biology.” Annual Aristotle and Aristotelianism Conference: Thought and Action in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, June 2009.