Professor Blatti (DPhil, Oxford University) joined the department in 2008. His primary area of research is metaphysics -- specifically, personal identity -- but this work extends both to other topics in metaphysics (material constitution, death), as well as to topics in philosophical psychology (self-consciousness, animal cognition), aesthetics (ontology of art), and the philosophy of biology (dynamic systems, life).

He serves as Editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy and is an affiliate faculty member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Curriculum vitae

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Essays on Animalism: Persons, Animals, and Identity, edited with Paul Snowdon (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Ontology After Carnap, edited with Sandra Lapointe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

"A New Argument for Animalism," Analysis 72 (2012): 685-90.

"Death's Distinctive Harm," American Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2012): 317-30.

"Material Constitution," in Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Bob Barnard and Neil Manson (Continuum, 2012), 149-69.

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"Thinking Animals: Differences that Make a Difference and the Difference they Make," University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science Seminar (November 2012)

"Thinkers, Brains, and Animals," Persons and their Brains, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford (July 2012)

"Death's Distinctive Harm," Death: Its Meaning, Metaphysics, and Morality, Newcastle University (July 2011)

"A New Argument for Animalism," Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Sussex (July 2011)

"The Dying Animal," Animals Society Institute, Wesleyan University (June 2011)