Sam Cowling
Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Denison University.
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Books
Philosophy of Comics with Wesley D. Cray (2022)
Abstract Entities (2017)
Articles
Are Properties Abstract Entities? (forthcoming) Routledge Handbook of Properties
On Humeanism and Other Theoretical Virtues (forthcoming)
Self-Defense for Superheroes in The Hawk and the Dove (forthcoming)
BOOM! Splat: Comics and Violence
Naturalism and Non-Qualitative Properties (2021) Common Sense Metaphysics
Recombining Non-Qualitative Reality (2021) Synthese
Rethinking Racial Ontology through McDuffie's Deathlok (2020)
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
Ideology and Ontology (2020) Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics
Prioritizing Platonism (w/ Kelly Trogdon) (2019) Philosophical Studies
Universals (2019) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Conceivability Arguments for Haecceitism (2017) Synthese
Intrinsic Properties of Properties (2017) Philosophical Quarterly
How to be Omnipresent (w/ Wesley D. Cray) (2017) American Philosophical Quarterly
Resemblance (2017) Philosophy Compass
Haecceitism (2015) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Advice for Eleatics (2015) Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods
Non-Qualitative Properties (2015) Erkenntnis
No Simples, No Gunk, No Nothing (2014) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
The Way of Actuality (2014) Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Instantiation as Location (2014) Philosophical Studies
The Modal View of Essence (2013) Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Ideological Parsimony (2013) Synthese
Haecceitism for Modal Realists (2012) Erkenntnis
The Limits of Modality (2011) Philosophical Quarterly
Kantian Humility and Ontological Categories (2010) Analysis
Reviews
Essence and Existence by Bob Hale, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Comics and the Origin of Manga by Eike Exner,
International Journal of Comic Art
Ontology without Borders by Jody Azzouni, Mind
Superhero Thought Experiments: Comic Book Philosophy by Gavaler & Goldberg,
Teaching Philosophy
Graphic Novels as Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin,
International Journal of Comic Art
Ontology & the Ambitions of Metaphysics by Thomas Hofweber, Philosophical Quarterly
God and Necessity by Brian Leftow, Australasian Journal of Philosophy