Professor Blatti (D.Phil, Oxford University) joined the department in 2008. His primary area of research is metaphysics (personal identity, material constitution), but his work extends to topics in philosophical psychology (self-consciousness, animal cognition), aesthetics (ontology of art), and the philosophy of biology (life/death, autopoietic systems).

He serves as Editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy and is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Curriculum vitae

Review of Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy, ed. Sara Heinämaa, Vili Lähteenmäki, Paulina Remes, Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2009): 463-64.

Review of The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self, by Raymond Martin and John Barresi, Mind 117 (2008): 191-95.

"Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases," Philosophical Psychology 20 (2007): 595-608.

"No Impediment to Solidity as Impediment," Metaphysica 7 (2006): 35-41.

"TBA," University of Mississippi (March 2010)

"Death, Priorism, and Deprivation Harm," American Philosophical Association, Central Division (February 2010)

"Death's Harm," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA (April 2009)