Department of Philosophy

College of Humanities and Sciences

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catherine sutton

Catherine Sutton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

(804) 827-2185

915 W. Franklin St., Room 302

Office hours: Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. during the fall and spring semesters, and by appointment

Curriculum vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2008
  • M.A. Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2002
  • B.A. Philosophy, Asbury University, 1998

Research Interests 

Metaphysics, especially ontology and personhood

Select Publications 

  • Sutton, C. S. “Reducing Constitution to Composition,” Metaphysica 23, no. 1 (2022): 81–94.
  • Sutton, C. S. “Almost One, Overlap, and Function,” Analysis 75, no. 1 (2015): 45–52.
  • Sutton, C. S. “Against the Maximality Principle,” Metaphysica 15, no. 2 (2014): 381–390.
  • Sutton, C. S. “The Supervenience Solution to the Too-Many-Thinkers Problem,” Philosophical Quarterly 64, no. 257 (October 2014): 619–639. 
  • Sutton, C. S. “Colocation, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem,” Mind 121, no. 483 (July 2012): 703–730. 

Affiliations

  • American Philosophical Association
  • Virginia Philosophical Association

Courses

  • Logic (PHIL 222)
  • Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 304)
  • Metaphysics (PHIL 301)
  • Ancient Greek & Medieval Western Philosophy (PHIL 103)
  • Epistemology (PHIL 302)

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