姓名： 汤志恒
最高学位： 哲学博士
研究方向： 分析哲学框架下的形而上学
电子邮箱：bilking@live.com
承担课程： 批判性思维，科学哲学，分析哲学读写等
教育背景： 经济学学士(中国农业大学)， 哲学硕士(北京大学)， 哲学博士(英国雷丁大学)

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主要论著：
1、“Absence Causation and a Liberal Theory of Causal Explanation”，Australasian Journal of Philosophy，Volume 93，Issue 4，pp. 688–705，2015.（DOI：10.1080/**.2014.**）
2、Causal Asymmetry and the Explanatory Constraint, Reading: Cranmore，2012.
主要会议论文：
1、“Being Caused and Nothingness”，Joint Meeting of the North/South Carolina Philosophical Societies，Elon University，02/2012.
2、“The Contrastive Question and the Bottom-Up Principle of CausalExplanations”，Indiana Philosophical Association Fall Meeting，Indiana University，12/2009.

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承担项目：
1、中国博士后科学基金（一等资助）：“流动时间观研究”.
2、国家社科基金（一般项目，在研）：“大卫·刘易斯反事实条件因果理论研究”.

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个人简述：
Before coming to HUST I was a postdoc at Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University. Before that I did my Ph.D. at the University of Reading, under the supervision of, my fellow fan of the Reading Football Club, David Oderberg. Before that I learned from Chen Jiaying, who taught me that philosophy is a way of life; and from Thomas Hurka, who taught me that philosophy is a discipline. (Their teachings really confuse me as it follows that philosophical life is disciplined!) And before that, as it usually happens when a lover of philosophy is unfortunately majored in counting money, I had to learn by myself.
While I am interested in a wide range of topics in metaphysics (broadly construed in the tradition of analytic philosophy), my recent research has focused on properties, time, and causation. I am glad to work with students who find these areas fun, or boring but, nonetheless, worth examining.
My favorite definition of philosophy is by Anthony Quinton: “Philosophy is thinking about thinking.”
And I am sympathetic with Quentin Smith’s verdict on doing philosophy: “I’d rather fail in doing philosophy than succeed in doing anything else.”