Associate Professor
Philosophy
445 Catt Hall
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-8569
Email:geirsson@iastate.edu
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Education
Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Academic Employment
Iowa State University, Associate Professor, 2004-present
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language and Mind
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Representative Publications
Papers
"What God Could Have Made." Forthcoming in The Southern
Journal of Philosophy. (Written with Michael Losonsky)
"Moral Twin-Earth and Semantic Moral Realism." Forthcoming
in Erkenntnis
"Conceivability and Defeasible Modal Justification."
Philosophical Studies (2005: 279-304)
"Frege and Object Dependent Propositions," Dialectica,
Vol. 56 (2002) 299-314
"Justification and Relative Apriority," Ratio XII
(1999): 148-161
Books
Ethical Theory: A Concise Introduction eds. H. Geirsson and
M. Holmgren. Introductions to the nine sections of the book written
by the editors. Broadview Press, 2000
Beginning Metaphysics: A Text with Readings, H. Geirsson
and M. Losonsky. Blackwell, 1998
Readings in Language and Mind, eds. H. Geirsson and M. Losonsky.
Introduction to the book and introductions to the nine sections of
the book written by the editors. Blackwell, 1996
