Cei Maslen

Lecturer
BA(Hons) Otago
PhD Princeton

Profile

Cei joined the Philosophy Programme here in 2005. She has a BA(Hons) from Otago and a PhD from Princeton, and she taught at the University of Utah and Florida State University before returning to New Zealand .

Research Areas

Metaphysics.  In particular, causation, mental causation, and counterfactuals.

Current Teaching

Philosophy 225/325 (Metaphysics)

Philosophy 234/334 (Logic and Computation)

Selected Publications

"Mental Causation", chater in Oxford Handbook of Causation (with Terry Horgan and Helen Habermannn), Oxford Univeristy Press, forthcoming.

"Counterfactuals as Short Stories" (written with Seahwa Kim ), Philosophical Studies 129, 2006, pp.81-117.

"A New Cure for Epiphobia: A Context-sensitive Account of Causal Relevance", Southern Journal of Philosophy 43(1), 2005, pp. 131-146.

"Degrees of Influence and the Problem of Preemption", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82(4), 2004, pp. 577-594.

 "Causes, Contrasts and the Nontransitivity of Causation", in Causation and Counterfactuals, Collins, Hall & Paul (editors), M.I.T. Press, 2004.