Professor Nikk Effingham PhD (Leeds)

Professor Nikk Effingham

Department of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy
Head of Department

Contact details

Telephone
0121 41 47246
Email
n.effingham@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
ERI Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I research metaphysics, philosophy of time (mainly time travel), philosophy of religion, and philosophy of epidemiology.

Qualifications

  • PhD. Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2007.
  • Taught M.A., Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2001.
  • Joint Honours B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2000.

Biography

I studied at the University of Leeds, as well as worked there as a teaching assistant and as the administrator for the CMM (Centre of Metaphysics and Mind.) I moved to Glasgow to take up a one-year temporary teaching post before then taking another temporary post at the University 麻豆精选. I was made permanent the year after.

Teaching

I teach both metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. 

Postgraduate supervision

I currently supervise doctoral candidates researching areas including metaontology, ontology, the philosophy of time, and the philosophy of mind. I can supervise theses in a wide variety of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics and many areas of philosophy of religion, science and mind.

Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

I鈥檓 currently completing the final draft of a book on the philosophy of time travel.聽

Other activities

Personal website: 

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Effingham, N & Miller, K 2023, . Little Debates about Big Questions, 1st edn, Routledge, New York.

Article

Effingham, N 2024, '', Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia.

Effingham, N 2024, '', Sophia.

Effingham, N 2023, '', Religious Studies Archive.

Effingham, N 2023, '', Philosophies, vol. 8, no. 6, 118.

Effingham, N 2022, '', Think, vol. 21, no. 61, pp. 57-72.

Effingham, N 2022, '', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 15-30.

Effingham, N 2022, '', Philosophia, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1707-1719.

Effingham, N 2022, '', Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

Effingham, N 2021, '', Philosophies, vol. 6, no. 4, 85.

Chapter

Effingham, N 2024, . in Back to the Future and Philosophy: This is Heavy!. McFarland.

Effingham, N 2024, . in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. Routledge.

Effingham, N 2023, . in ARJ Fisher & A-S Maurin (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Properties. 1st edn, Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy, Routledge, pp. 148-158.

Effingham, N 2021, . in A Declos & C Tiercelin (eds), La m茅taphysique du temps: Perspectives contemporaines. Philosophie de la connaissance, College de France, Paris.

Digital or Visual Products

Ichino, A, Bortolotti, L, Effingham, N, Zambra, F, Ceravolo, P & Tarantola, D, , 2024, Digital or Visual Products, The Philosophy Garden, Online. <>