Mark Heller

Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984

Born and raised in the slums of New York City, I was first introduced to philosophy at age six when my mother tried to convince me that I could not cross the room because I would have to complete an infinite number of tasks–first I would have to cross half the room, then half of the remaining portion, then half of the remaining portion, and so on. It was all down hill from there. I was a philosophy major at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington. Then it was on to a Ph.D. at Syracuse, where I worked with William Alston on knowledge, Jonathan Bennett on counterfactuals, and Peter van Inwagen on free will and on ontology, eventually writing my dissertation arguing that objects are just four-dimensional hunks of matter. The dissertation turned into The Ontology of Physical Objects (Cambridge University Press, 1990). After teaching in Vermont, Illinois, Philadelphia, and Dallas, I returned to Syracuse University in 2004.  I still work on ontology and epistemology with special interests in modality, conventionalism, and contextualism.

Professor Heller's CV
Professor Heller's office is located in 541b Hall of Languages.
His office number is: 315-443-5822
Office Hours for Fall 2009 are by appointment.
To schedule an appointment, contact him by email.

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