Department of Philosophy
University of Warwick
Social Sciences Building
Coventry, CV4 7AL,
U.K.

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 Alison Fernandes

Hi. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on an interdisciplinary AHRC project: 'Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology', led by Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack. In August 2018 I'll join Trinity College Dublin as an Assistant Professor.

My current work explores how asymmetries in how we value future and past events can be explained in causal terms, and how these and other asymmetries contribute to our sense of a fixed past and an open future. My work more generally explores how features of agents can be used to pick out objective scientific relations, explain their temporal features, and reconcile them with the picture of the world presented by fundamental physics. I've recently worked on chance, causation, and counterfactual and evidential relations in the context of time travel.

I completed a Philosophy PhD at Columbia University with a dissertation entitled A Deliberative Account of Causation. Here I argued we should make sense of causation by thinking about its relevance for decision-making. In 2016-2017 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

You can find abstracts of my work (research), details of courses I've been involved with (teaching) and my CV. You can also find a guide to applying to graduate programs (revised 2016). I'm also an editor and contributor to Science Visions, the Philosophy of Science Association's Women's Caucus blog.