Erica Houts Shumener
Erica Houts Shumener
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Director
CONTACT
Philosophy
530 Hall of Languages
Email: eshumene@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.1606
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Philosophy, New York University (2016)
- B.A. in Philosophy, New York University (2008)
Erica Shumener works primarily in metaphysics, and she has interests in philosophy of science and epistemology. Shumener’s current research is on the metaphysics of laws of nature.
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
Papers
fthc. “The Power to Govern”, Philosophical Perspectives
fthc. “Intrinsicality and Determinacy”, Philosophical Studies
2021 “Humeans are out of this World”, Synthese
2021 “Do Identity and Distinctness Facts Threaten the PSR?”, Philosophical Studies
2020 “Identity” for the Routledge Handbook on Ground
2020 “Explaining Identity and Distinctness” Philosophical Studies
2019 “Building and Surveying: Relative Fundamentality in Bennett’s Making Things Up,” Analysis
2017 “Laws of Nature, Explanation, and Semantic Circularity,” The British Journal for Philosophy of Science (Editor’s Choice)
2017 “The Metaphysics of Identity,” Philosophy Compass
(Short) Book
fthc. Identity a volume for the Cambridge Elements Series, Cambridge University Press