Marcello Oreste Fiocco
Associate Professor, Philosophy
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Philosophy
M.A., Tufts University, Philosophy
A.B., Princeton University, Philosophy
M.A., Tufts University, Philosophy
A.B., Princeton University, Philosophy
University of California, Irvine
92 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
92 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Meta-Ethics
Academic Distinctions
Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching (the highest teaching award for junior faculty at the University of California, Irvine; given annually to one faculty member, recipient 2012-13)
Publications
Time and the World: Every Thing and Then Some (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming 2024
"Existence is No Thing: Existents, Fixity and Transience", Eternity & Contradiction 5 (special issue) (2023): 43-68
"A Quandary of Wokeness", Journal of Controversial Ideas 2(1) (2022): 1-5
"There Is Nothing to Identity", Synthese 199 (2021): 7321-7337
"The Epistemic Idleness of Conceivability", in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski (Routledge, 2021), pages 167-179
"What Is a Thing?", Metaphilosophy 50 (2019): 649-669
“Structure, Intentionality and the Given”, in The Philosophy of Perception and Observation: Proceedings of the 40th International Wittgenstein Symposium, edited by Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau and Friedrich Stadler (De Gruyter, 2019), pages 95-118
“Each Thing Is Fundamental (Against Hylomorphism and Hierarchical Structure)”, American Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2019): 289-301
“Knowing Things in Themselves: Mind, Brentano and Acquaintance”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 94 (special issue) (2017): 332-358
“What Is Time?”, Manuscrito 40 (special issue) (2017): 43-65
“Intentionality and Realism”, Acta Analytica 30 (2015): 219-237
“Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency”, in Freedom and the Self: Essays in the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Columbia University Press, 2015)
“Becoming: Temporal, Absolute and Atemporal”, in Debates in the Metaphysics of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander (Bloomsbury Press, 2014)
“On Simple Facts”, Res Philosophica 91 (2014): 287-313
“An Absolute Principle of Truthmaking”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 88 (2013): 1-31
“Consequentialism and the World in Time”, Ratio 26 (2013): 212-224
“Is There a Right to Respect?”, Utilitas 24 (2012): 533-555
“Temporary Intrinsics and Relativization”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2010): 64-77
“Conceivability and Epistemic Possibility”, Erkenntnis 67 (2007): 387-399
“A Defense of Transient Presentism”, American Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2007): 191-212
--Reprinted in L. Nathan Oaklander and Ernâni Magalhães, eds., Presentism: Essential Readings (Lexington Books, 2010)
--Reprinted in L. Nathan Oaklander, ed., The Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge, 2008)
“Passage, Becoming and the Nature of Temporal Reality”, Philosophia 36 (2007): 1-21
“Conceivability, Imagination and Modal Knowledge”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007): 364-380
“Williamson’s Anti-Luminosity Argument” (with Anthony Brueckner), Philosophical Studies 110 (2002): 285-293
"A Quandary of Wokeness", Journal of Controversial Ideas 2(1) (2022): 1-5
"There Is Nothing to Identity", Synthese 199 (2021): 7321-7337
"The Epistemic Idleness of Conceivability", in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski (Routledge, 2021), pages 167-179
"What Is a Thing?", Metaphilosophy 50 (2019): 649-669
“Structure, Intentionality and the Given”, in The Philosophy of Perception and Observation: Proceedings of the 40th International Wittgenstein Symposium, edited by Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau and Friedrich Stadler (De Gruyter, 2019), pages 95-118
“Each Thing Is Fundamental (Against Hylomorphism and Hierarchical Structure)”, American Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2019): 289-301
“Knowing Things in Themselves: Mind, Brentano and Acquaintance”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 94 (special issue) (2017): 332-358
“What Is Time?”, Manuscrito 40 (special issue) (2017): 43-65
“Intentionality and Realism”, Acta Analytica 30 (2015): 219-237
“Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency”, in Freedom and the Self: Essays in the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Columbia University Press, 2015)
“Becoming: Temporal, Absolute and Atemporal”, in Debates in the Metaphysics of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander (Bloomsbury Press, 2014)
“On Simple Facts”, Res Philosophica 91 (2014): 287-313
“An Absolute Principle of Truthmaking”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 88 (2013): 1-31
“Consequentialism and the World in Time”, Ratio 26 (2013): 212-224
“Is There a Right to Respect?”, Utilitas 24 (2012): 533-555
“Temporary Intrinsics and Relativization”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2010): 64-77
“Conceivability and Epistemic Possibility”, Erkenntnis 67 (2007): 387-399
“A Defense of Transient Presentism”, American Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2007): 191-212
--Reprinted in L. Nathan Oaklander and Ernâni Magalhães, eds., Presentism: Essential Readings (Lexington Books, 2010)
--Reprinted in L. Nathan Oaklander, ed., The Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge, 2008)
“Passage, Becoming and the Nature of Temporal Reality”, Philosophia 36 (2007): 1-21
“Conceivability, Imagination and Modal Knowledge”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007): 364-380
“Williamson’s Anti-Luminosity Argument” (with Anthony Brueckner), Philosophical Studies 110 (2002): 285-293
For general audiences:
Making public philosophy
https://www.oxfordpublicphilosophy.com/blog/ppt-making-philosophy
Acknowledge the truth of your confusion: it's helpful (with Jeremy Bendik-Keymer)
https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/04/29/truth-of-confusion/
Why questions (good and bad) matter
https://theconversation.com/why-questions-good-and-bad-matter-147412
Making public philosophy
https://www.oxfordpublicphilosophy.com/blog/ppt-making-philosophy
Acknowledge the truth of your confusion: it's helpful (with Jeremy Bendik-Keymer)
https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/04/29/truth-of-confusion/
Why questions (good and bad) matter
https://theconversation.com/why-questions-good-and-bad-matter-147412
Grants
• Grant award, PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) (recipient of
$1,000 grant in support of TH!NK, a program that introduces philosophical thought and discourse to 5th-grade students in local public schools) (March 2023)
• Grant awards, Marc Sanders Foundation (recipient of four awards, totaling $32,700, to support TH!NK, a program that introduces philosophical thought and discourse to adolescents in local public schools) (April 2020, April 2019, April 2018, March 2017)
• Fellowship award, Lise Meitner Programme FWF (Austrian Science Fund) (to support a year of research in Salzburg from September 2015-September 2016)
• UCI ADVANCE Spirit Grant for Inclusive Excellence (to found a program to introduce children in elementary schools in Orange County, CA to philosophical thought and discourse, December 2014)
• Fellowship award, Scholar-in-Residence Program Borchard Foundation, Center on International Education (to support a term of research in Paris during the fall of 2012)
Link to this profile
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5558
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Last updated
02/16/2024
02/16/2024