Joshua Tepley

Metaphysics (esp. free will and personal identity), Phenomenology (esp. Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger), Science Fiction and Philosophy, Pop Culture and Philosophy

Contemporary Philosophy, Science Fiction and Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology

• PH 105 (Human Nature Seminar)
• PH 107 (Ethics Seminar)
• PH 214 (Contemporary Philosophy)
• PH 320 (Critical Thinking)
• PH 324 (Philosophy of Mind)
• PH 339 (Science Fiction and Philosophy)

• “What’s the Use of Free Will?” The Good Place and Philosophy, Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell (2021): 249-259.
• “How the Fork Did I Get Here?” The Good Place and Philosophy: Get an Afterlife, Steven A. Benko and Andrew Pavelich (eds.), Open Court (2020): 107-114.
• “Jaspers on the Question of Free Will,” Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts, 14/2 (2019): 39-48.
• “Sartre’s Non-Egological Theory of Consciousness,” Pre-Reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Sophia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, and Clara Bravo Morando (eds.), Routledge (2015): 298-316.
• “Properties of Being in Heidegger’s Being and Time,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 22/3 (2014): 461-481.

“Three Sartrean Motivations for Environmentalism” (w/ Kiki Berk), Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene, Matthew Ally and Damon Boria (eds.), Lexington Books.

“Avatar as Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Switching Bodies,” The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, David Kyle Johnson (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan.

“Blood Bags and Artificial Arms: The Boundaries of Human Bodies in Mad Max: Fury Road,” Mad Max and Philosophy, David Koepsell and Matt Meyer (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell.

• "Could Sartre Have Been a Compatibilist?" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle (April 2017)
• "Sartre's Incompatibilism," North American Sartre Society, Annual Meeting, University of North Carolina Wilmington (November 2016)
• "Sartre's Incompatibilism," Northern New England Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Keene State College (October 2016)
• "Could Sartre Have Been a Compatibilist?" North American Sartre Society, Annual Meeting, East Stroudsburg University (November 2015)
• "Ontological Difference and Ontological Commitment," Northern New England Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Bates College (September 2015)
• "The Meaning of Being in Heidegger's Being and Time," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver (April 2015)
• "The Meaning of Being in Heidegger's Being and Time," Northern New England Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (October 2014)
• "Understanding Sartre's Claim that 'Existence Precedes Essence'," North American Sartre Society, Annual Meeting, University of Windsor (October 2013)
• "Heidegger's Thesis of Ontological Difference," Northern New England Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Dartmouth College (August 2013)
• "On the Manifold Senses of 'Substance' in Heidegger," American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, New Orleans (February 2013)
• "Understanding Sartre's Claim that 'Existence Precedes Essence'," Sartre Circle, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta (December 2012)
• "Using Sartre to Understand Heidegger," North American Sartre Society, Annual Meeting, Texas A&M University (November 2012)
• "Heidegger and the Properties of Being," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle (April 2012)
• "Heidegger and the Properties of Being," A Dangerous Liaison? The Analytic Engagement with Continental Philosophy, University of York (December 2011)
• "Heidegger and the Properties of Being," Northwest Philosophy Conference, Annual Meeting, Lewis & Clark College (November 2011)
• "Sartre on Consciousness and the Ego," North American Sartre Society, Annual Meeting, TÉLUQ, Montreal (April 2011)
• "Heidegger's Name for Dasein's Being: 'Existence' or 'Care'?" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego (April 2011)

• "Don't Fear Philosophy," Keynote Comments, Hosting Young Philosophy Enthusiasts (HYPE), University of New Hampshire (March 2015)
• "Heidegger's Thesis of Ontological Difference," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Saint Anselm College (November 2012)

Leading "Open Questions" and "Perspectives Book Groups" discussions for New Hampshire Humanities.

Reading science fiction!