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)
• Critical Thinking (PHIL 221)
• Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 304)
• Epistemology (PHIL 302)

Links 

• An introductory lecture on colocationism (video, 30 min., part of the Young Philosophers Lecture Series): "Can Two Things Exist in the Same Place at the Same Time?"
• Composition as Identity resource page