Associate Professor
Email: briankierland@boisestate.edu
Office: Education Building Room 636B
Phone: (208) 426-1474
Areas of Interest:
Ethics, Meta-ethics, Probabilistic Epistemology, Metaphysics of Time, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 101), Knowledge and Reality (PHIL 101), Philosophy of Language (PHIL 308), Moral Philosophy (PHIL 311), Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 410), Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 413)
Biography:
Brian got his B.A. in Philosophy from the College of Idaho in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton in 2003. He has authored and coauthored articles on a variety of topics that have appeared in journals such as Synthèse, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He likes to play tennis, ping-pong and basketball.